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The History Of the most Noble Order of the Garter : Wherein is set forth An Account of the Town Castle, Chapel, and College of Windsor; with their several Officers ; The Foundation of the Order by King Edward III. ; With the Statutes, and Annals at large, as they have been altered and amended ; An Account of the Habits, Ensigns and Officers of the Order ... To which is prefix'd, A Discourse of Knighthood in General, and the several Orders extant in Europe
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Statutes of the Order ; and this was all the Oath taken bythe firft Founders, and to which they alfb affixed theirSeals j and fo it continued without alteration or addition,till towards the End of King Edward IV's Reign ■ andthen, at a Chapter held at the King’s Wardrobe in London,it was decreed, That all the Knights-Companions thenalive, and all fuch as (hould afterwards be admitted intothe Order, fliould be obliged to fubjoin the Words fol-lowing : That they vtou'd aid, fupport, and defend, with alltheir Power, the Royal College of St. George, within theCaftle of PVindfor, as well in its Poffefftons , as all etherthings whatfoever ; which being drawn in form, was en-ter’d in the Black Book; but has fince receiv’d manyalterations; And there is an inftance, i Eli%. when theOath has been difpenfed with ; as by the Duke of Nor-folk., a °d others; in regard the Rites and Ceremonies ofReligion were then altered, and no new form of an Oathfettled, fo that they only obliged themfelves by Promifeto obferve fuch Statutes and Orders as fhculd be decreedin the next Council of the Order, which was foon afterfettled, and recorded in the Red Book of the Order, andis the Oath taken by a Knight-Subjed at this Day.

Tom being Chofen to be one of the Honourable Companytf this moft Hoble Order of the Garter, /had Promife andSwear, by the Holy Essangelifts, by you here touched, that,wittingly or widingly, you fhall not breal> any Statute ofthe [aid Order, or any Articles in them contained ; thefume being agreeable, and not repugnant to the Laws ofAlmighty God, and the Laws of this Realm, as far forthas to you belongeth and appertaineth : So help you God, andthis Holy fVord.

As foon as the Knight eled hath taken the Oath, he4s led to his appointed Stall, through the Entrance nextbeneath it, and there placed before it. In the Inteiim,Barter advancing into the lower row of Stalls, to thePlace where the eled Knight flood when he took theOath, prefents from thence the Mantle, Collar, andwok of Statute?; to thofe who led him, who inveft theKnight eled firft with the Mantle, by putting it on hisShoulders. There are fotne Examples where the eledKnight hath been invefted before he went up to his Stall,

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