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where alike; as for inftance, che form of Proceeding,the manner of holding Chapters, the Ceremony of Of-fering Gold and Silver, S hearing of Officers, and fuchlike: But others there are, which arc preciiely local andparticular, as the Prebends and Alms-lQngbts going inthe Proceeding, the Offering up of Atchievements, Qc.to PVindfor only.

Since the withdrawing the Grand Feaft from PI y hi If or,fome of the Officers of Arms, curious in the Obferva-tinn of thefe Solemnities, performed in other Places, haveafforded us great Plenty of Memorials, relating to die ce-remonious Part thereof, while the fame was continuedat PVindfor ; and therefore, when the true Place where theInftance lies, fhaU be alfo cited, the Reader is not to con-clude that the Precedent urged doth not full enough ar>fwer the Purpofe, nnlefs it had been likewife fetchedfrom Wndfor. But that in this cafe, the Ceremony orExample is fuch, as is peculiar to the Feaft, not the Place,and ought to be obferved without alteration ar any Place,where the Sovereign fhaU keep the Grand Feafh

Of fetting the Proceeding in Order.

§ 2. In T.mes raff, the Vfnight s-Compamons appearedat the Grand Feaft, attended with a numerous Train ofServants and other Dependents; bur the Feaft having re^-moved from Plindfor to other Places, much of this anci-ent Splendor was laid alide ; yet upon King James.l. Ac-ceffion to the Crown, (omewbac of this Glory began rorevive; for we find it entered upon the Regifter, in thefourth of his Reign ; That the ancient Cuftom, which for fomeTears had been intermitted, wherein, At the Solemnity ofthis Peaft, al! the Knights-Companions were wont to gs at-tended , each with a targe Train, was recalled and broughtbarf into ufe.

But this heighth of Gallantry and Splendor in the Num-ber of Attendants, and richnefs of their Apparel, withinten Years grew up to fuch Excefs, or rather Exorbitancy,that it required a reftraint; wherefore the Sovereign, bythe unanimous Advice of the Kjiigkts-Ccmp antons , Decreed,and Commanded, That every one of the ivnights-Ccmpa--fltons of the Order, fioruld have to attend upon ais Pc.! a