or their Proems for them, did always bellow pat-dml,.__.u„ r-%rue™. „ . r “' v “ ar Jr

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Awards' on the College, the Officers of the Order and of ■ WjjZs the A!ms-K«igkts, and lome others who attended 'J»le Solemnity, and m particular Garter had anciently be- *ftowed on him a rich Gown, to wear at the time of I„ f1 !°„ . „ L„ r of } ace he has been pretented with feme■SJTSJ^SUfc Vto. The, atto w,« «.

CAP. XVIII.

Of the Grand Feaft of the Order. ^

The Grand Feafi appointed to be celebrated Annu ,- . ^ally on St. George;’.r Day. J‘ c J tlli

{ 1. "S^Y the Statutes of hijlitutftn, its ordain'd,That|j a folemn Feftival ihould be Annually celebrated,

- on the * 3 d Day of April, or Sc. Gene's %i 0in Honour of the Patron of the Order, as is obferved u/ a jj 0 ,other military Orders, eredfed fince this of the Garter,*! ^to which this fee ms to give Rules of holding their Fefti- ^vals on the Anniverfary of their Patrons. Thus Philip,Duke of Burgundy, on his creating the Order of the Gulden'llFleece, taking Sr. Andrew for its Patron, appoured theFeftival on St. Andrew’s Day. Lewis XI. King of France,appointed Michaelmas Day for holding the Feaft of then ,,Order of St. Michael „ And fo the Feftival of the Duke of ^ 0Savoys Order of the Annunciade, on Lady Day. The Dukeof Bourbons Order of the Knights of our Lady, on the ,*Conception of our Lady (8th December ;) and other in* bf?"ftances might like wife be given if it were riecelfary.

‘Th e Anniverfary of St. George fixed by the Clmrch,to the twenty third of April.

§ 2. That the 23d of April was the Day whereon S;* J'Konj

gejf-s given to them by their Proctors,' and in generaftoThe if if 1greateft part of thofe that gave their Attendance. fi, ® ,

beral to the Officers of Arms, as appears by feveral Lar-

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George