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1 "The Eaft-lfle, behind the High Altar, is the ufual Placefor Proxies to ftay, till they are called into the Chapter,as it is alio for the Deputies of lyuigbts-Subjtcls, whereChairs and Culhions are prepared for this occafiori.

The firft thing done after the Chapter is opened, isreading the Commiffion for lnftallatian, by the Fggijlcr ofthe Order, (but if the Sovereign be prefenr, no CommiRpon ilfues,) and next, the I.ecters of Procuration j this be-?ing the molt ufual and proper Place for this CeremonyHowever, at the Injlallatioti of the French King, Fntn~cis I. by a very unufual compliance, the Commiifionerswent from the Chapter-Houfe, after they had called in andinvefted the Earl of Oxford, with has. Surcoat and Hood,to the Deans Houfe, where the ProQor was lodg’d, andin a great Chamber there, (hewed him the Sovereign’sCommiffion, and in it the Authority for admitting himinto the Stall of his Eord and Mailer: Upon which theProctor prelented them with his Procuration, which im~powered him to rake Pofleffion of it, and to perform whatCeremonies related ro it ; which Inftrument the Regijlerread before them. This being done, they all proceededto the Chappel ; where entering, they waved their returnto the Chapter-Houfe, and palfed direiflly into the Choir.

After feme time of Confultation in the Chapter-Houfe,the Proxy is fent for in thither by Garter , who conductshim to the Chapter-Floufe Door, and his Reception therepy the Commiffioners is after the fame manner as isufed to the Knight elect, or to his Proxy : But whetherhe ought to enter the Chapter-Houfe, or be admitted anyfarther than the Door, or Porch thereof, and to pals thenceimmediately into the Choir, hath been fome Queftion -becaufe the Practice feems to have been fometimes oneway, fometimes another.

All that we find to prohibit his Entrance therein, isan Expreffion in the fliorc Ceremonial of Inftallation ofStrangers by Proxy, entered in the B!ackyBool{ ; where itfays-.-rThat the Mantle is to be laid on the Proctor’s rightShoulder, in the Porch of the Chapter-Houfe, becaufe he isnot to enter into it.

And there are two Inftances where the Mantle was deli-vered to the Proctor at the Chaffer-Houfe Door; from.1 whence