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whereby this was involved among many other Saints baysthen prohibited to be kept, as not being found among thejfeafts then Eftabliih’d ; it was confidered, that a Provifoand Allowance fliould be entered in the aforefaid Adb f orthe Celebration of this Feaft, particularly by the Knights-Companions ; which Adi, though it fuffered a Repeal byQueen Mary, yet ftands in force at this Day, being re-vived by King James 1 . his repealing that Statute ofi Mar. Cap. i.

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§ 7. Bht the moll fatal Blow given to the growingHonour of the Caftie of iVindfor, was a Decree in Chap-ter held 9 Eli%. with the confent of the Kjughts-Companionsthen prefent, vi%.

T hat if on the Vigil and Day of St. George, the Feaftwas nn held at Windfor, according to the ttfual Cufiom, itftoould neverthelcfs be fufficient, if the Obfervation thereofwere kgpt at the farhe Place where the Sovereign fhould thenhappen to be, where alfo the reft of the Knights-Companionswere obliged to be prefent ; no left than if the Feaft had beenheld at Windfor.

And fo fevere was the latter part of this Decree againftthe fiouriihing condition of that Place, that it commandedaJfoj

Thai no ether Solemnity, under the notioH of St. George;Feaft, Jkould thenceforth be celebrated at Windfor, exceptupon occafion of the Inftallation of feme Uluftrious Perfin,and then alfo, not without exprefs leave of the Sovereign.

And to fay truth, this Statute was but too ftri&ly ob-ferved during her Reign ; for we meet blit with one Feaftof St. George held there, till 1 Jac. I. (unlefs we mi-flake the Feafts of Inftallation for chofe of St. George,} butthen the Sovereign, who was yet in Scotland, lent hisComrniffion, dated 5 April, to the Earl of Nottingham, hisLieutenant, to prorogue the Feftival to the 3d July fol-lowing, and after conftituted him to hold the Feaft; whichwas performed the 2, 3 and 4 Days..of the laid Month,with all Pomp and Ceremony. The King himfe f, beingthen at iVindfor, was prevented from being prefent byfome occafion not mentioned,

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