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Tis obferved, that the Proxies of Strangers have notalways gone in the Proceeding, but fometimes ftaid at theirLodging, till the Commiflioners were ready to fend forthem to the Cbapter-Houfe. As at the Inftallation ofCharles IX. King of France, 8 E!i%. the Commiffionetsmeeting, they, and the three inferior Officers of the Or.tier, robed themfelves, and then went to the Proxieslodging, and having juft conferr d with him, took leave,and proceeded to the Chapter-Houfe, whence they fentout Garter to the Proxy, with invitation to come to them,who was prefently condu&ed by Garter to the Chapttr-Houfe Door, where the two Senior Commiflioners re-ceiv'd him between them. ■
Sometimes the Proxies have paft privately to the Eaft-Ifle of St. George’s Chappel, and there reded, before theSovereign and Knights-Companions went into the Chapter -Houfe, or proceeded into' the Choir, without enteringthereinto tor fc did the Earl of Cleveland, and the Mar-quifs of J Dorfet, Proxies to Guftavus Adolphus, King ofSweden, and Henry, Pdr.ce of Orange, 4 Car . I. The likeMethod was obierved by the Earl of Dover, Proxy toCharles, Prince Palatine, 9 Car. I. and by Sir GeorgeCartaret, Prcxyto Cbrijlian, Prince of Denmark., 15 Crfr.li.fo alfo of the Earls of Carlijle and Wtnchelfea, Proxies toCharles, King of Sweden, and John George, Prince Eiedort>f Saxony, 0.3 Car. II.
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$ 9. When the Proceeding hath arrived at the Chapter-Houfe Door, the Sovereign, .and Kjiights-Companions, of ^a, bthe Lieutenant, &c. with the Officers of the Order beforethem, enter to hold their Cordultation ; the Stranger’s r..,,Proxy being firft requeued to ftay without, nil his Depu-Cation, or Letters of Procuration are read, to the endthey may undei hand the cfteift thereof. kitj
To this purpofe we find it directed, by an ancient Hand,. ^that where any Knight is inftalled by his Deputy, be ought ^to ftay without the Vcftry, or Chapter-lloufe Door, till he :be introduced by two Kjiights-Companions : So the LordPaget, one of the Commiflioners for Infta’lation of the ^Duke of Savoy, when the Proceeding was come to the A 1
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