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at the yearly Solemnisation of the Feafi of the Order, fiftyFerfons, and no more : The reafon whereof we find elle.where noied tc» be, for faring of Charge, and avoiding ofEmulation. But in the beginning of King Charles I.Reign, of ever Blefifcd Memory, the gallantry of Attend-ants began again to jncreafe and Augment; infomuchthat at the Grand Feaft held at White-Hall, the aid, 23d,and 24th of Aprfil, Anno 8 Car. I. we find it obferved,that the Kjiights-Comf aniens came forth attended, eachwith a Train of Servants very richly clad.

But to return and enter upon the .Proceeding, to the endthe Servants and Attendants of the .ffnights Companionsmay be exactly Marfnnlied, the Uflier of the Hall (whofeDuty it is to rank them) ought to call fer a Lift from Gar-ter, of fuch Kfnigbts-Ccmpanions as are to be prefeiit atthe Grand Feaft, noted with their feveral Places in the.Proceeding, for his better Directions in afligning the At-tendants their due Places, the Order whereof is thus,-: Firft,the Junior Knights-Attendants proceed one before ano-ther, on rhe left Hand, upon whofe right Hand the fe-cond eideft Knights-Attendants go in equal Rank withthem, for this we oblerve to have been the general rule;where the Kfiights-Companions Proceed iri pairs, their At-tendants go together; thofe belonging to the Senior Knightsof the two, on the right Hand, and to the Junior upontheir left; but the Order is otherwile, where any of theKyuglts-Corr.pamcns proceed fii g'e and alone, (which of-ten falls out, as fhall be noted in its due Place,) for thenthe Attendants belonging to that fir.gle Knight go rwoand two, on .both fides the Way, oppofite one again!!the other.

But when the Grand Feaft is Celebrated at White'Hall, there the KJiights-Compinions Attendants are Mar-shalled by the laid Udier, on both fides the Paffage, fremthe outward Door of the Guard Chamber, down into thePla!!, taking tip all the Room as far as the old Chappel;and bccaule here they do not proceed, in regard of theftorrncfs of the Prccdjionai way, but only make a Hand,for the Procccdi g to rafs through them, they are rackedin a way different front that ufe'd at tVindjor ; nereithe-,ieis relating more cfpecialiy to the Order obferved bytheir Mnfters; Which Method) in the Sovereign's Pro-ceeding to the Chappel, at the bdoreaientioned Feaft»" " :' held