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Houfe Door, and entrance into it, is the Qu eft ion ’• be,caufe there are Inftances in both, but the latter is moftWarrantable by the Statutes and general Practice.

The Article in flenry VUIth’s Statutes being much moredear in deferibing and explaining the Ceremonies of In.f.aUation , than any of the former ; (the particulars of'which in every Point feems to be excellently regulated,)having mentioned the Sovereign, or his Deputies, layingthe Mantle on the Proxies Arm) it immediately followsas the very next thing to be performed in cour fe of time;That afterwards he floall be led by two Ifni gits, from theChapter-Ho life Door to the Stall, and there being, Jhnllmake his Oath, and he inftalled$ it gives no Account oflaying the Mantle on the Arm of the Proctor at the in-ftant of Inflallation in the Choir, that being directed tobe done before. It is alfo recorded in the Blacf-Bosk,where this Ceremony is more fully treated ; That Garterpoa.!l take the Mantle upon his Arms, and deliver it toboth the Knights-Commiffioners.dni that they (according tothe Tenour of the Statutes,) /hall lay it on the Proctor’sright Shoulder, in the Porch of the Chapter-Houfe.

Befides, the ancient ufage of receiving the Mantle inthe Chapter-Houfe, or at the Chapter-Hcufe Door, eitherbefcre > or in the Proceeding to the Choir,' of which manyinftances may be given, there are feveral modern inftanceswhere the Mantle was born to the Choir, (and fomecimesthe Codar of the Order with ir,) not by the Proctor, but byGarter, before him, and delivered in his Principal’s Stall <

as in the Proceeding of the Proxy for the Duke of Wir-

tembergh, Anno 2 fac, I, w'hen, after he had taken theOath, and was led into the Duke’s Stall, (not before) wasthe Robe laid on his Arm ; and fo was it done in manymore InftaUations ; which manner hath fo far prevail’d asto be the continu’d Practice, Garter carrying the Mantleon a Culhion before the Proctors into the Choir, and layingit (after they have taken their Oaths.) on their Arms infuch manner, that the Crops of St. George may be con-fpicuous.

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