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hood before he took upon him the Enfigrts of the Ordeiin his King’s behalf; to which he made Anfwer, thathe appeared here, not in his own, but in the Name ofthe King of Denmark^ j'and that fuch a degree of Honourwas unufuai in his own Country, (being Born in Pome-rania,) and therefore humbly delired that he might beexcus’d from the Honour; upon which the Sovereignwas pleas'd to difpence with him, and forthwith the faidDeputy (but no Knight,) was admitted to take the Stallaflign’d to the faid King his Principal.

His Letters of Procuration-

§ 3. The Authority wherewith an eledt Stranger inivefts his Proxy, which ought to pafs under his Hand andSeal, do generally contain thefe Particulars.

Firft, He premifeth the Sovereign’s Eledtion of him intothe Order of the Garter, and his receipt of the Habitand Enfigns thereof, then takes notice of the Obligationthe Statutes of the Order put upon him, for fending aProxy to take Potfeflion of his Stall, in regard the Dig-nity whereunto he is advanc’d in his own Country, willnot permit him to repair Perfonally to Windfor ; and be-ing not only dcfirous that the^Eledlion and InveftitureIhould obtain its due effedt, but to fulfil, as far as in himlies, the Injunctions of the Statutes, in what concerns th’eaffuming of his Stall, and taking the Oath appointed ; lietherefore Ordains, Authorifes, and Deputes, a Perfonfitly qualified, (named' in the Deputation,) his fufficientPtoBor, and fpecial Deputy , to appear at the CaftleofPPindfir in his behalf and in his Name, at the next So-lemnity that Ihould be held there, to fupply his room,and receive Poflefiion of the Stall aflign’d him, accordingto the ufual Form ; and in all refpebts to perform tholeCeremonies and Things in his behalf due and accuftom’d,or Ihould appear to belong any way to the Splendor orOrnament of the Order: As alfo to take the accuftomedOath with thofe Qualifications, and in that Form as hadbeen (or fhould be) agreed on ; and further, to fulfil allother things which he Ihould think neceffary to be per-form’d on this Occafion, or whatfoever thing might requirea more fpecial Command, than was contain’d in the Let-

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