The exceptions that were allow’d the Arch-Duke of‘tiuftria , when he took the Oath at his Inveftiture at No-Lemberg, Anno i 5 Hen. VIII. were as follow.

Not to wear the Garter and Collar but at feme certaintithes in the Year, at his own pltafu're.

That if he were not in Place convenient to go to hearMtfs on St. Gcorge’j Day, he floeuld caufe a fne(l to fay itin bis prefence. ,

Not to be obliged, if lufied in weighty Affairs, to wear thebarter, Collar, or whole Habit of the Order, on St. George'iDay, longer than during divine Service ; neverthelefs he pro-mi fed, if he could hot than wear it for a whole Day toge-ther, he would Willingly wear it on Jorile other folemn Daywithin the compafs of the Year.

Of another nature were the exceptions which Francis IfKing of prance, procured to be admitted into the Oathtaker! by his Proflor, Anno l<y Hen „ VIII. vi%. To obfervethe Statutes of the Order of the Garter fo far as theywere confflent With, and not contrary or prejudicial to theStatutes of the Order of St. Michael, , and other Orderswhich his Principal had before takyn df other Princes.

, Such like exceptions have been generally allowed toKings and Sovereign Princes but as to the Proxies offuch Strangers, not Sovereign Princes; but Suhjedls, tlieForm of their Oath is ufually framed (by the indulgenceof the Sovereign,) With jtfft limitations, not only to theirobligation of the Statutes of any other Order they had ac-cepted, or any Oath formerly taken, but lometimej to theFidelity and Allegiance which they owe their SovereignLord and Prince.

. After the Oath hath been adminiftred to a Stranger’sProxy, (with fuch or the like exceptions before fer down,)the two Kyiigbts-Commiffioners pals up with him into thehigher Row of Stalls, and fo to that affign’d to his Prin-cipal, where being arrived, they take the Mantle fromGarter, add lay it upon the ProBor’s left Arm, with theEfcutcheon of St, George uppermoft, according to an Or-der in a Chapter he;d, Anno 23 Car SI. which was to bea Standing Rule for the future, a; d is now obferv’d.

,, In the Adi and Ceremony of InJlaSatioti, the Commif-jloners who firft conducted the Proxy into the Choir, jointlyEmbrace, him; then the Proxy makes his double Reverence,’Stld the CommlTtoners, according to the Cuftom of

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