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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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Injlallations, fe: him down in his Principal’s Stall, wheffehe hath ufed to remain daring Divine Service; but bythe aforefaid Order in Chapter, Anno 25 Car. II. the Properare prohibited fitting in their Stalls, but dire&ed to handbefore them uncovered, with their Mantles on their rightArms, until Divine Service be ended.

The two Knights (between whom the Proxy proceededto InJlaHation,) defcend into the Choir, and hand beforetheir own Stalls, and after a while, firft the Senior Com-miffioners, and then the other, afcend into them withulual Reverences, and then Divine Service begins.

The Proctor's Offering-

§ 12. The ProElor having receiv’d PofTeffion of hisPrincipal’s Stall, flays in the Choir, and performs the fol-lowing Ceremonies, the chief of which is the Offeringof Gold and Silver, according to the Degree and Seniorityof his Principal's Stall, in cafe the Injlallation be in theMorning; but if it be celebrated when St. George's Feaft isheld by the Sovereign’s Lieutenant, the Proxy ought not toOffer till the Lieutenant hath firft Offered for the Sove-reign ; and the Lieutenant alfo Offereth for himfelf beforethe PrcSor, if his Stall be higher than the Stranger’s, forwhom the Proctor is inftalled.

The Proctor in Offering doth it with all the Ceremonyas if his Lord were prefent; when the Knight s-Compa-nions defcend from their Stalls, (which Ceremony beginswith the Junior Knight,) he alio defcends in his turn, andplaceth himfelf below in the Choir before the Stall of hisPrincipal, and if he have an oppofite Knight-Companion,he joins bnnielf to him, and proceeds towards the Altarto the Offering, with the Officers of Arms before him;bur if no Knight-Companion be oppofice, he then proceedsalone, having his Train born, and a Kjiight-Companion,or fosne other great Perfcnage, fuitable to his Degree, at-tending on his left Hand, to give him the Offering, whichhe Offers kneeling on a Cufhion, and after him the reftof the Knights-Companions piefent Offer, every one ac-cording to the Seniority of their Stalls.

After the Offering, the Procter taking his way by thelaft-end of the Stalls, returns back to the Stall of his Prin-cipal,

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