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and the Place, where the Sovereign and }<jiigits~Com-panions are cn meet.

As to the firft, although Sc. George’s Day (or fuch otherDay as the Sovereign ihall pleafe to nominate and appointby Prorogation in lieu thereof,) be the Principal andGrand Day of the Feaft, yet the Eve of that Day doesthe Feaft take Commencement, and determines not tillthe third Day following ; the whole Solemnity takingtip three Days incltifively.

And this is clear from feveral Articles of the Statutes,wherein the courfe of the Ceremonies to be obferv’d atthe Grand Solemnity are fee down ; whether obferved,on the Eve, the Feaft-Day, or the Morrow after: Andthefe three Days together did the Sovereign hold theGrand Feaft, whether they perfonally celebrated the fame,or deputed other of the Kftights-Citnpanions to that Em-ploy ment, the caufe of the Commiflions of DeputationJimitting their Power either in general, during the time ofthe Feaft ; or in particular, upon the Day of St. George,..the Day, and that following, vi%. the laft Day of theFeaft. In like manner, when in fucceeding Times, Com-millions ot Prorogation of the Grand Feaft were madeule of, we find the three Days continuance of theFeaft to be particularly mentioned in the Body of'thofe Commiflions: Namely, the Day wherein, by fuch-Appointment, the Feaft was to begin, the Grand Day itfeif, and the Day whereon it ended.

The Directions given in the Statutes, for the Order andCouric of this Solemnity, to begin with the Eve, runthus : Every Year upen St. George's Eve, (hall be an Af-fembly, or Meeting of all the Kjdghts-Companicns of theOrder, at Hdndfor Caftie, fftc. and the fame is pofitivelyet join’d by all the other Bodies of the Statutes.

And as the Grand Feaft is generally faid to Commence inVigiiia Semcli Georgii, or as it is otherwife exprelt in thel{, in Vigiiia in future celebratis, or, VigiliisDivi Georgii, or in Vigiiia Fefti. So has the time of thisproceeding Day feveral other Denominations given itin the lame R>:gift:r, Vcjper ante Diem SanBi Georgii ;in Vcfperiis Gcorgianis, in Vefperiis Fefti, in Vefperiis Com-mitionan ; and at other times, pridie Divi Georgii, pridieGeorgian .e Solemritatis, pridie Fefi, pridie feriarum DiviGeorgii, and lornetimes per vigiiia, and laftly in plait*

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