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vant attend the Embafly, he (wearing his Coat) proceedsbefore him, bearing part of the faid Habit.

Garter vefted in his rich Coac of his Sovereign’s Armsalfo (but at the Inveftiture of the Duke of Wirtemberg,he wore his Robe of Crimfon Satten, as did Clarencettxat the Inveftiture of the French King, Henry III.) bearingon a Cufhion the Garter, and Collar of the Order, with thegreat Geotge, the Book of Statutes, and the Commifiion ofLegation.

Laftly, The Lord Ambaffador, or chief in the Embafly,who, if a. Knight-Comp anion, proceedeth'in his compleatHabit.

If any O'her Knight-Companion is prefent, he alfo wearshis whole Habit of the Order, as did the Conftable ofFrance, at the Inveftiture of the French King, Henry II.The faid Conftable alfo pair'd in the Proceeding with theSovereign’s Ambaffador.

In going up to the Sovereign’s State,, they all makethree Reverences, and drawing near, the AmbaffadorsServants fall off on either fide for the Herald to pals upto the Table, fet before the Sovereign’s State ; whereon(with a fingle ReverenceJ he lays the Robes.

Then Garter draws near the Table alfo, and with alikeReverence towards the Sovereign’s State defofues theEnjigns of the Order.

The Lord Ambaffador follows, and makes his Reve-rence towards the Sovereign’s State, and after turning tothe Stranger eletft, and doing him Reverence, be (or fomeother fit Perfon) delivers himfelf in a (hort, but grave, andlearned Oration ; “ in which he not only fets forth the“ Praifes of the illuftrious Order , and of the King the Set'“ vereign, but alfo the Virtues, the memorable and“ praife-worthy Aftions of the eleeft Stranger, to whomu the Habit and Enfigns of the Order are lent: Neither“ are his Anceftors (if any of them have attain’d the“ Honour of this Order,) paft over in Silence, that thereby“ his Heart (already breathing impatience and defire,) may“ be fo much the more inflamed with an Earneftnefs to“ obtain the Honour and Favour of this fo great a Dig-s ‘ nity.

“ He adds befides, that the Sovereign having well“ weigh’d thefe and the like things in his Mind, andu maturely advis’d thereof with his Knights-Compenions,

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