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Companion of ottr in'ft Noble Order, for the more convenient:}of his Inftallation, rve'have thought fit to defer the Fe aft ofSt. George, &c.

Buc in the Commiflions of Prorogation of the GrandFeaft, a r ,th February, 19 Car. 1. the Place appointed forCelebration is omitted, which defedi we find in the above-mentioned Precedent alfo ; yet afterwards that materialpart came to be incerted, and firft of all in that Commif-lion of the 26th February 14 Car. I. where the Place, be-ing the City of Torf, is put into the Body of the Com-miflion. And when the Civil V^ar drew on, and the So-vereign could not well afcertain any Place, then theGrand Feaft was appointed to be kept at any fuch Place,as on a nearer view fhould feem convenient, afterwards itvaried fomething, and came to be inferred thus—--Where-foever we Jkall then be ; or thus, at fuch Places as we [halltimely appoint.

The moft ordinary courfe, preparatory to the ifluingfuch Commiflions or Prorogation, has been by the Sove-reign's Declaration in Chapter, or otherwife the fignifi-cation of his Pleafure to the Chancellor of the Order atany other time, who thereupon drew up the Commiflion, -and prefenced it to the Sovereign for his Sign Manual,And then affixed thereto the Great Seal of the Order. Batwhere the Chancellor was not at hand to receive the So-vereign’s Commands, in this cafe it was conveyed to himlay fome other Hand, with Command to Summon theKnight s-Ccrnpanions and Officers accordingly. For fo itwas done to Sir Francis W indeban f, Kt. Secretary of State;by his Letter to Sir Thomas [{owe, 13 Car. I. for Proro-gation of the Grand Feaft.

And as all the preceeding Adjournments of the GrandFeaft have been either Decreed in Chapter, or dirrdieefimmediately from the Sovereign; fo there is a Precedentwhere the Lieutenant has been impowered to Proroguethe fame, yet to the Time and Place appointed by theSovereign, and inferted in the Ccmmiflior. of Lieutenancy:And this was in a Commiflion, 1 $ac. I. dire&ed toCharles , Earl of Nottingham*,

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