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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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bis Stall. But ’tis obfervable, that when the Sovereign’s KLieutenant remained in the Chapter-Houfe, while theelecft Knight proceeded to his Inftallation, the Ufherofthe Black-Rod flayed behind to attend the Lieutenant • $,\

and as foon as the Inveftiture with the Collar was over* r jthe Lieutenant proceeded to the Choir in the Rear, and . 0 |the new inftalled Knight in Place according to his Stall r (as in the cafe of the Lord Ruffel, and others, 31 Hen. VlILand the Marquifs of Dorfet, and others, 1 Edw.\ I. The * * 1Proceeding having entered the Choir, and the Lieutenantand Knights-Companions taken their Seats, then the ufual fVCeremonies, the Service of the Church began. ‘5

But when the Inftallation was performed by Commif.lloners, the Cellar of the Order was laid on the Culhicn * lf£Iwith the Mantle, and born before the eledl Knight to his ,Stall, where, after his Inveftiture with the Mantle and IkWHood, he receiv’d Inveftiture with the Collar alfo, ofwhich there are feveral Examples in the time of Phil, andMar. and Queen Eli^. In like manner, at all Initiationslince, where the Sovereign has been prefent, the ancient ^(jaflom of returning to the Chapter-Houfe being laid afide, ^ 0!r:3the Knights-Companions, who led the eledt Knights to 3S t [, etheir Stalls, did there invert: them with their Collars alfo;as the Earl of Rutland, Sir George Villars, and the Vif- snr(!£count Lijle, 14 Jac. I. and the Earl of Suffolk, 4 Car. I. ,; !|]£C(and hath been thus obferved at all Inftallauons fince, the ;, re gSovereign prefent.

So foon as the Inveftiture with the Mantle, Hood, and 5,^Collar is over, thofe appointed deliver the Book of.Sta-tutes to the new invefted Knight, which was obferved to ^the Earls of Shrewsbury and Cumberland, 34 fidp. the Earlof Rutland, Sir George Villars, and the Vifcount Li fit, ^14 Jac. I. and fo generally to all eledk Knights tince.

This Book the Knight is to keep lafe in his own Cuftody,v for his InftrucSfion in the Laws and Ceremonies of this ' 'moft Noble Order. They likewife give him the BlackVelvet Cap adorned with Plumes of white Feathers, andthis in particular was obferved to be the laft Ceremony u 1performed at the Inftallation of King Charles II. J 1

All things relating to the full Inveftiture being ended, j®there remains only to compleat this great Ceremony, theXnfta'iation it felf, which is performed in the manner fop

Lowing. The new invefted Knight {landing before ‘ J l

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