Oath, called in the Annals, the facred Oath of the Order Wof the Garter ; during which time he ought to ftandbe^tween the two Knights-Companions who brought him W’thither, as at the Installation of Prince Henry, i J ac . I,and when the Earl of Shrewsbury was inftalled, 34 £/,v p'A’tis obferved, that the Senior Commifiioner firft entered the 4 ^lower row of Stalls; but 31 ffewryVIII. at the Inftalla-tion of the Lord Ruffel, and others, the Junior Affiftant 0went up firft. The Knight eledt being thus placed, theRegifter of the Order ftanding before them, but below f 01in the Choir, reads the Oath ; for it is part of his Duty (t ofto adminifter the fame : And in this folemn Ceremony, ^the New Teftament, whereon the Oath is taken, gene, j in trally opened in fome Place of the Gofpels, is indifferently n(ii*held by one of the three inferior Officers of the Order, 4 toor fometimes the Regifter hath held it, as at the Inftal- iiii«lation of the Earl of Derby, 16 Eli%. the Earl of Jutland,and Lord Cebbam, 16 Eli%. At other times the Garter i)hath held it, as 5 E'is{. when the Earl of Northumberland *5teltook his Oath ; and 10 Car. 1 . at the Inftallation of the amtEarl of Moreton : But when the Earl of Shrewsbury was Jj, inSworn, 34 Eli$. theUlher of the Black Rod performed •;(>this Office.

Whilft the Oath is adminiftring, the eled Knight holds y a l this righc Hand on the Holy Evangelifts ; and when theRegifter hath pronounced the Words, he immediately ^Relponfes, I will, fo help m e God, and then takes off his L r U (Hand reverently, killing the Book ; and by this Ceremony .yiy ^feals his Obligation to the Statutes of this moft Noble ^Order. The Ceremony ufed when P bilip, King of Ca-Jlile and Leon, took the Oath, which was done in the jChapter-Houfe at Windfor, zz Henry VII. he laid his ^Hand on the Canon, under which was placed the Bookof Statutes of the Order by the Prelate, to whom it was ^delivered by the Regifter, and having repeated the. Wordsof the Oath, and reverently killed all thole things bywhich he Swore, he took a Pen from the Prelate's Hand,and Signed the Oath he had taken, and deliver’d It to the *Sovereign then prefcnt. i;

The Form of the ancient Oath appointed by the Statutes ^ Bof Inftitution, to be taken by a Knight-Subje<S> was : ■very Ihorr, but comprehenfive: That be fhould weand faithfully obferve, to the utmoft of his Power, “H t e ^