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tains the Authority wherewith the Proxy i-s impower'dand is penn’d with like Words. : ’
The Letters of notice to the Commiflioners.
The Warrants for removing of Stalls, and for theStrangers Atchievements, are all to be obtain’d by theChancellor of the Order, under the Sovereign’s Sign Ma;nual, to which rhe Signet of the Order is to be affixt.
The Strangers Atchievements (as mention’d in theWarrant,) are to be provided at the Sovereign’s Charge;namely,his Helm, Crcfl, Mantling*,and Sword, together witha Banner of his Arms and Quartering! ; and thefe theProcttor is enjoin’d to bring along with turn to Windfor.
Sometimes a Warrant hath been directed to the Matterof the Wardrobe, to provide but fome parr of thefe At-,chicvements; ar.d another V/arrant to the Lord Treafu-rer of England, to deliver Garter Money to provide theother part; in each of which, the particulars relating toeither are enumerated; for fo were the Warrants drawnUp for the Atchievements of the French King, Henry II.At other times direction hath been to the Matter of theWardrobe, to deliver ro Garter the whole, who thereuponputs the Charge upon Account. " -
Sometimes particular Warrants have been directed to.the Matter of th c Wardrobe, to deliver feveral Parcels ofthe Materials, for the making up thefe Atchievements;as were thole Warrants, to deliver the Sovereign’s Em-broiderer, and to Garter , fo much Velvet, Cloth of Gold,&'c. for making the great Banner, and other the Ac-,chicvements of Charles IX. and Henry III. French Kings.
Ir aifo appears that Garter hath fomedmes laid outtheMoney for all, or part of the Atchievements, and then de-livered his Bill of disburfements into rhe Wardrobe ; as ismanifeft from thofe Bills for the Atchievements of Frede-rick, II. King of Denmark, in Count Palatine of the Rfrine,and the Duke of Hoijlcin.
Befides the Atchievements, fome ether things ufed atrhe Solemnity are hommonly'included in the foreiaid War-rants ; ihe Mantle of the Order is net prepared at the So-vereign’s Charge, fqr the Statutes of Inftitudon appoint theProxy to bring’ one with him, not tnat the Sovereign-fhou'd provide ir, having done that before, at rhe Lega-tion with the whole Habit ; nor is it found in the Rolls or§ooks of the Sovereign’s great Wardrobe , that any Ac-
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