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if was thought- moft neceffary to provide large paperpfcutcheons; wherein were Marlhalled the Arnes andQaarterings of the Sovereign, and each Knight-Ccmpanion,ic Metal and Colour, encompaffed with a Garter ; andthereon Crowns, Caps, or Coronets, peculiar to eachDignity, with their Stiles and Titles fairly printed under,neath, (but withour Crefts or Supported,) to be fet on theback fide of their Scabs, on the Eve of the Feaft : Butthe Sovereign’s Arms were impaled with thofeof St, G'eorge,pver which an Imperial Crown was placed, and thefe (indefedt of the Platts and Banners, fet over their Sralls, inthe Choir of St. Gorges Chappel ac Wind for,) did lervefor Directions for the ffiigbti-Companiom , that by theview of them they might the more readily and certainlyknow their proper Stalls,

We have not met with apy Memorial of this ufage,that reacheth highep than Anno 11 Hen. VII. when theSovereign,, holding the Day of Sc. George at Cambridge,King’s College Chappel was furmfhed with Efcutcheons ofthe Knights Companions Arms ; but to (hew the ufe wasancient, there is this Note put into the Memorial, £as wasYearly accuftomed,] Anno %% Hen. VIII, the Sovereignbeing wiWindfr on the Eve of Sc. George, appointed ihpService of the Church to be celebrated in his Chappel,in the upper Quadrangle of Pftnd/er Cajlie ; and therebeing prefenc with him thirteen K«ights-Ccmp4nicns, eachof them had let oyer their Heads an Efcucchecn of they.Arms.

This manner the Stalls were afterwards folemnly Efia-bliih'd, and enlarged to abfent Knight=, by an Order ofChapter held at Greenwich, Anno 3 Edw. VI. whereinthe Sovereign and Knignts-Companions agreed, that fromthenceforth every Stall, upon St. George’s Eve, fhouldbare an Efcutcheon of the Arms of them which are ab-fent, as well as chafe that were prefent, at their feveralCofts and Charges.

But this cannot be underftood of the Stalls fituate inthe Chappel of St. George at iVindfcr ; for bgfides, thatwe have met with no ancient Account of any fuch Cuftotnin that Place, we. End a Memorial, rather implying thecontrary ; when Queen Elizabeth, in the Imh Year of her9,eign, held the Feaft of Sc. George upon its proper Day,at H 7 indfqr Cajlie; Namely, that there was no Efcnu

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