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When the folemn Service is finifti’d, the Stranger defendsagain from his Stall, and with the Proceeding before him'returns in the fame Order he came td the Room, wherehe received his Inveftiture.

It's obfervable, that the Emperor Maximilian, out ofq. compliance with the Proteftant Religion, caufed, on theDay of his Inveftiture, ill Prayers to Saints incenfing, andother Matters and Ceremonies not ufed by the Churchof England, to be wholly omitted it the Service in hisChappel.

At thefe great Solemnities, the irivefted Strangers haveHeretofore held moft magnificent Feafts, but of late theyare not fo much in Ufe : And when Dinner was ready;they proceeded thither in their whole Habit, which theywore all Dinner time.

At the Inveftiture of Chrijlian IV. King of Denmnrkj'Anno i Jac. I. the Sovereign's Stiles arid Tides of Ho-nour were proclaimed thrice, (before they fat down toDinner,) and the faid King’s twice 3 but when Mauriceand Henry, Princes of Orange, received Inveftiture, theStiles were proclaimed immediately after they were in-verted, and in the fame Room, the Ceremony being per-form’d te^both in the Afternoon.

At the Feaft made by Maximilian I.. (King of the Re-mans.) Sir Charles Somerset, and Sir 'Thomas TVriotheJley,fent on the Embaffy, was admitted to his Table, and laton his left Hand .- On the Day of Inveftiture of Don Fer-dinand, Prince of Spain, Arch-Duke of Aujhia, the LordMorley, and Sir William Hu [fey, fat on his right Hand atDinner, and Dr Lee, and the faid Sir Thomas FVriothejky,on his left ; thefe four being join’d in the Commifiion ofLegation.

At a Feaft on the like Occafion by the French King,tiemy II. he admitted to his Table (befide the Marquifsof Northampton, the principal Perfon in the Legation,) [hebefore-mentioned Conftable of France ; and all three fatin their full Robes of the Garter, which thef put not oiltill after Dinner. The Cardinal of Lorrain fac alfoattheKing’s Table, but it was on the other fide.

When the Inveftiture was performed in the Afternoon,then was che Grand Dinner turn’d into a Supper; as itwas at the Inveftiture of Maximilian the Emperor, andof the French Kings ; but when Henry, Ptince of

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