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and though it was agreed on in a Chapter, 3 Edward VL fThat the IQiigbts eleB might, from thenceforth, he inftailed by .Commijfion without a Feaft • yet after his Reign, we find 'the old cuftom of a Fealt at this Solemnity reftored.

If the Sovereign appoint the Inftallation to be when the 'Feaft of St. George is alfo celebrated, and is himfeif per.fonaiiy prefent, the Feaft is then kept at the Sovereign's jCharge; and if in fuch cafe he conftitute a Lieutenant !then the Inftallation Dinner is kept at the Charge of theLieutenant; and is ulually prepared in fome of the Sove- ,reign’s Lodgings in the Caftle, but feldom in St. George'sHall; as was done by the Earl of Arundel, at the Inltal-lanon of the Earl of Shrevsbury, and the Lord Hunfdon, 3 Efej,But when the Inftallation is kept at any other time of theYear, than that of St George’s Feaft, then the new inftai-led Knights are at all the Expence; who generally havebad the Dinner prepared in the Dean’s Lodgings; how-ever, be it where it will, the Sovereign, or his Lieute-nant, Commiffioners, or Affiftants, together with thenew inftalled Knights, proceed thither in full Robes;which is obferved in the Inftallation of 3 'Eli%. above, tobe according to the ancient Cuftom. At the Inftallation,31 Henry VIII. the Sovereign’s Lieutenant walked alone,after him his two Affiftants, and laftly the new inftalledKnights.

The Lieutenant’s Place at the Table is fomewhat on theleft Hand the Cloath of Stare, there fat the EarJ of Arun-del, 3 Eli%. but the other four Knights-Companions, histwo Affiftants, and the two new inftalled Knights, fattoward the Table’s End on both Sides, for that they couldnot well fit all on a fide. But of late Years, as at theInftallation, 5 Car. I. a Queftion arofe, whether the Lieu-tenant or Commiffioners fliould fit at Dinner in theirHabits, fince the Power given them feemed to expire■when the Knights were eletfted ; (though unanitnoufly al-lowed the new inftalled Knights ought to do fo,) and like-wife Precedents quoted, as 2.9 Henry VIII. at the Inftal-lation of the Lord Cromwell, where the Knights put offtheir Habits, and dined in their ordinary Apparel; and foof the Earl of Ryttland, and the Lord Cohhant, %6 Eli$■where the Commiffioners did the fame, and the new in-ftalled Knights kept on only rheir Surcoats: But whatfollowed on this Debate is nor mention’d ; but the gene-ral