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The History Of the most Noble Order of the Garter : Wherein is set forth An Account of the Town Castle, Chapel, and College of Windsor; with their several Officers ; The Foundation of the Order by King Edward III. ; With the Statutes, and Annals at large, as they have been altered and amended ; An Account of the Habits, Ensigns and Officers of the Order ... To which is prefix'd, A Discourse of Knighthood in General, and the several Orders extant in Europe
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(omf anted and led by two Knights-Companions of the Order,yrow #/fef Door of the Chapter-Houfe, to the Stall affigned tojjis Principal ; agreeable to which, is that Paflage in theBlucf-Boof j That as foon as the two Knights have placedthe Mantle on his Arm, they /hall take him between them,and conduit him to the Stall of his Lord ; and thus affiftedhave all Proxies proceeded to the Choir.

Since the Cuftom of receiving the Collar in the Chapter-Houfe was laid afide, the Sovereign, (or his Lieutenant,)with the Knights-Companions , (fo foon as the Mantle is de-livered the ProBor, or (as of late) that he hath been ad-mitted according to the purport of his Deputation,) pro-ceed to the Choir, leaving the Proxy behind them in theChapter-Houfe, and after they have taken their Stalls, theSovereign directs two of the Knights-Companions to de-fcend; who taking the Alms-Knights, Officers of Arms,and the three inferior Officers of the Order before them,pafs to the Chapter-Houfe, and bring thence the Proxy tohis Inflallation. In this Proceeding the Proxy goes Bare-headed, as did the Earl of Dover, ProBor to Charles, PrincePalatine of the Rhine, and Sir George Cartaret , ProBor tothe Prince of Denmark ^ Anno i 5 Car. II,

The Ceremonies of Inflallation:

§ n. When the Proceeding hath entred the Choir, andpaid the accuftomed Reverences, both towards the Altarand the Sovereign’s Stall, and the Alms-Knights, Officersof Arms and of the Order, taken their ufual Stations ; the[ two Commiffioners ( Kjiights-Ajflftants or Knights-Com-'' fmiens,) and ProBor make their Reverences together, and| then they conduct him into the lower Stalls diredliy be-. fore the Stall appointed for his Principal, the forefaid Offifart of the Order (landing below in the Choir : If there bemore than two Commiffioners, then the two Senior con-duit him as before, while the reft of the Commiffionerstake their Station below in the Choir, before their pro-per Stalls, and there (lay till the Inflallation be finiih’d,and the like do the Lieutenants-Affiflants, except the twoSenior that are imployed in the Ceremony.

The Proxy thus introduced into the lower Stalls, (landsthere while the Regifler pronounceth the Oath of the

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