Sword, (for there is no mention of the Banner till a fwards,) and place it over his Stall. ter '

CAP. XIV.

The Signification of Election to Strangers.

Within what time , and in what manner, Certificateis made of their Election.

5 i, T"N regard that Strangers eled, are for the moftI part Sovereign Princes, whofe Affairs obligedthem to abide in their own Dominions, andvery rarely permitted them to receive Perfonal Inftallation,it was thought fit to allow them feveral Privileges, by theFounder of this moft Noble Order, and principally, thatof giving previous and timely Notice of their Eledions,and convenient time of confederation for Acceptance;affording Inveftiture in their own Countries, and permit-ting their Installations to be performed at Wind]or by theirProxies or Deputies.

It was therefore by the Statutes ordained : That whenany fuch fhould be cholen into the Order, they (hould betcertified of their Eledions by the Sovereign ; and belides,that, at his Charge, the Garter fhould be fent over to them,with the Mantle and Statutes of the Order, Sealed withthe common Seal; fo that they might have notice, atieaft within four Months from the time of Eledion, to theend they might advife and determine with themfelves,from the Tenor cf the Statutes, whether they would re-ceive the Honour of this moft Noble Order ,

In Purfuance of thefe Diredions, it became cu{ternaryfor the Sovereign, when he fent his Letters, to fend alfo,and that by way of fclemn Embaffy, the Habit andEnfigns or the Order, with a Book of the Statutes ; and incale the Eledion were accepted, Inveftiture might be re-ceived before the return of tfce Perfons, by whom the