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gut this Method was not only new, but different fromformer Practice, as in all the cafes before recited ; andbefides, where the Sovereign hath authorized his Lieu-tenant to perform this Ceremony, and appointed fome ofthe Knights-Companions to affift, they, and not theLieutenant, have done the pury belonging to Inftallation,that part of it of invefting with the Collar in the Chapter-Houie, the whole Duty at the Inftallation of PrinceHenry excepted. And *cts to be farther obferved, that theforegoing cafe of the joint Affiftance in the Inftallation ofthe Earl of Salisbury , was thought fo little JSfiential, orworthy of becoming a Precedent, that at the very nextFeaft, when the Earls of Dunbar and Montgomery? wereinftalled, 6 J#c. I. and four Commiffioners appointed, thetwo Senior inftalled the Earl of Dunbar, and the twoJunior the Earl of Montgomery 5 and fo again, 10 Car. I.by the Earls of Danby and Moreton. But laftly, if the So-vereign be prefenr, and confequently the Knights-Com-panions perform this Ceremony, then there is generally fomany of them as can go through the whole, withoutchanging, after the manner ufed when done by CommiC.lionersor Affift ants; in which cafe the two Senior Knights-Companions defeend from their Stalls, and paffing thro’the Choir to the Chaprer-Houfe with the Proceeding be-fore them, condudl to his Inftallation the eldeft eletffcKnight; and having performed that whole Ceremony, re-turn and take their Stalls, and fo the reft in due Order ;as was pracftifed at the Inftallation of Prince Henry, andothers, i Jac.l. and of the Earl of Jutland, i^jacA.and at the grand Feaft of Sr. George, 13 Car. II. but herethe feparate proceeding with each Angle Knight to andfrom the Chapter Houfe, taking too much time, and theDay being far fpent in the Ceremonies of the Dukes ofOrmond and Buckingham ; the Sovereign ordered, thatwith the next Proceeding, the reft of the eleift Knights,being eight, befides two Proxies, (hould all be introducedat once ; fo that each of them being placed before hisStall,' took the Oath, receiv’d his Inveftiture, and wasled up to his Stall, and took Pofleffion of it by folemn In-flation.

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