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whence feme may infer, that the Pra&ice of thofe Timeswas alfo agreeable to the aforelaid diredhon; namely,'that of the Proctor of the French King, Francis I. inHen. VIII. where Garter flood at the Chapter-Houfe Doorwith the Mantle, and as the Proceeding paffed by, pre-'lented it to the two Senior Knight s-Companions, whoplaced it upon the Proctor’s right Arm ; and fo of the Pro-ctor of Emanuel, Duke of Savoy, i and z Phil, and Mar.who entered not into the Chapter-Houfe, but had theMantle difeuffed at the Door. "•

But thefe Inftances, if duly weighed, cannot properly;or with any Advantage, fcealledged to prove the Afferdon -becaute the Affairs relating to both, receiv’d difpatch inthe Proctors Lodging a little before, and where the Proctorhimfelf was prefenr, where the meeting of the Commif-fioners and Prodtor cannot be deemed lefs than a Chapter ,tho* not held in the Chapter-Houfe, from the Tranfadionsthat paffed there, vi\. producing the Sovereign's Warrant,and the Proctors Iriftrument of Deputation, which wereboth read before them by the Regijler, and the Proctoraccordingly admitted, which being finifhed, nothing re’a-ting to the prefent purpofe required their paffing into theChapter-Houfe, or remained to be done till they came intothe Choir.

But the general Pradtice runs ftrong on the contraryfide ; for we find that the Proctor for Charles IX. King ofFrance, 8 Eli%. was met at the Chapter-Houfe Doer, bythe Earls of Suffex and Leicejler, who took him in thitherbetween them, where, after the Regifter had read, as wellthe Sovereign’s Commiffion for Initallation, as his LettersOf Procuration, and the Commiffioners had admitted himDeputy for the laid King, they all came forth, and laid hisPrincipal’s Mantle on his right Arm and Shoulder, theTrain whereof was born by the Earl of Southampton , af-fitted by the Lprd Herbert of Cardiff.

Again it is remarkable, 25 Elig. that Garter conductedthe Proxy of Frederick II. King of Denmark, [, to the Chap-ter-Half c, and at that Place the Earl of Leicejler, and theLord Hunfdon, received and led him in : So alfo wasChnjl a-, ] Vth’s Proxy led (hither, by the Earls of Nottin-gham ai d Doifet. And in fac. I. Lodoxvick, , Count NaJfaU,PtoHlofxo Maurice, Prince of Orange, was called into theChapter-Houfe, and there lefr, while the Sovereign, and

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