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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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changed their Places in the proceeding to the fgvetal ] t pftallacions, one of them always going jingle before; as atthe Inftailation of the Earls of EJfex and brmend, andSir Cbrijlopher Hatton, 30 El if. when the Earl of Way.cefier, the Lords Hunfdon and Grey, were Commiffioners :And if the Lieutenant had four Afliftants affigned him ?which was neceflary when many Knights were to be in-ftalled, the order of their Inftailation hath been as fol-lows.

Firft, Two of theScnior Knights-Affiftantsconducfted theSenior eledh Knight to his Inftailation, and the other twoAfliftants proceeded with the fec.ond eleeft Knight ; theformer then took the third eledt Knight, and fo alternatelychanged till all were inftalled : As at the Inftailation ofEancis, Duke de Montmorency, and others, 14 E/zp, Andthe like manner of alternate change is obferved if fourCommiffioners be conftituted, as at the Inftailation ofFrederick., King of Denmark., and John, Prince Palatineof the Rhine, 25 E,li\. where the King’s Proxy was con-ducted into the Choir between the’ Earl of Leicefter andthe Lord Hunfdon, the two Senior Commiffioners ; andthe Prince, between the Earl of Huntington and the LordCharles Howard, the two Junior Commiffioners.

But feme have been of Opinion, that the Commiffionersnamed to this Employment, ought not to divide the Duty,and part of them to Inftal one, and part the other, andby fuch an alternative to difpatch the Ceremony, as ipformer Cafes; but all jointly aifift at each Inftailation:Of which Opinion there is an Inftance at the Inftailationof the Earl of Salisbury, and the Vifcount Bindon, t,Jac.l,where the Earl having beep brought mto ihe Choir, in-verted and inftalled by the Earls of Nottingham and Suf-folk., the two Senior Commiffioners, the other two Com-miifioners who were left behind in the Chapter-Houfe,to conduct the Vifcount to his Stall, remembring that allfour were joint Commiffioners, apprehended that the Earlwas not legally inftalled, becaule they, as Co-partners inthe CommiJlion, had not affifted ; and this Opinion beingdebated, preyajlcd fo far, that it was agreed to be impartedto the Earl of Salisbury, who lubmitted to defeend intothe lower Seats before his Stall, and there all four Com-Bulfioners gave hijn his Oath again, then led him to h,is' '• Stall,

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