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« ^ey were perfwaded and well fatisfied in t'nemfelves,« t0 nominate and chufe him before others; to the end“ that he might both himl'elf be honoured by the Choice“ of fuch a.Perfon, and alfo thereby give an increafe and“ addition of Luftre to thofe renowned Actions and Vir-“ rues, which already were a chief Ornament to him.

“ Laftiy, He points towards the Enfigns of the Order ',“ which he declares to have been fent by the Sovereign,“ out of great Love, and lingular Affedion, to dignify“ him therewith, as to a Perlon to whom he wilh’d as“ well and honourably as tp any other Prince whatfoever,“ and withall intreats him kindly to accept thereof, and“ wear them in remembrance of the Sovereign and his“ Order.

This or the like Oration being ended, the Ambafladorsprefent their Commiffion of Legation to the eled Stranger,who delivers it to his Secretary, and he pubhckly Reads

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At the before-mentioned Inveftiture of the French King,Hmrj II. the Bilhop of Ely, one of the Commiilioners ofthe Legation, made the Speech, to which the Cardinal ofUrrain returned Anfwer in the faid King’s behalf, withall thankful Acknowledgments of the Honour of theOrder.

Afcer the Commiffion is read, Garter prefents the Oathfairly Written, which is adminiftred to the eled Stran-ger, where, if any Exceptions were before made and ad-mitted, they muft be rehears’d, as we find it direded inthe inftrudions given for the Inveftiture of James V. Kingof Scotland. The Ceremony of the Oath being fimlh’d,Garter takes from off the Culhion the Garter, and havingkifs’d it, prefents it to the Lord AmbafTador, who kneel-ing down, puts it with all Reverence on the Stranger’sleft Leg, being affifted by Garter , who pronounces thefeWords of Signification.

Ad laudem atque honorem Omnipotent is Dei, interne =Htx Matris ejus, & Santii Gcorgii Martyr is ; cinge tibi-am tuam hoc infigni Subligaculo , circumferens in augmentturn honoris tui, (3 in fignum ac memoriam illttfirifilmsOrdinis, mtfquam cbliviotii daturus, aut omijfurus, qu:d %to monens • ut valeas, inquam & velis in jufio hello ,quod [slum inibis, flare firmiter , agcre fortiter, (3 feli -otter omnino vincere.

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