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The History Of the most Noble Order of the Garter : Wherein is set forth An Account of the Town Castle, Chapel, and College of Windsor; with their several Officers ; The Foundation of the Order by King Edward III. ; With the Statutes, and Annals at large, as they have been altered and amended ; An Account of the Habits, Ensigns and Officers of the Order ... To which is prefix'd, A Discourse of Knighthood in General, and the several Orders extant in Europe
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him who is then prefent j fo alfo where any of the Heiraids are wanting, his next "Junior afcendeth into hisPlace; whereby it fometimcs falls out, that the SeniorPurjuivant is joined to the left Hand of the Junior Herald:And through their defedts and abfence, the Number ofthe Officers of Arms be odd, then (with this difference inthe forelaid rule obferved among the Alms-Kjiights,) theyoungeft Purfuivant goeth tingle by himfelf.

Touching the right of Precedency, between the Offi-cers of Arms, and Prebends of the College, in Proceedingbefore the Sovereign and Kjiights-Companions, we findthere hath been heretofore not only fotne Queftion ftart-ed, but the Place contended for; infomuch, that at theInftallarion of the Earls of Shrewsbury and Cumberland,Anno 34 Eli%. the Prebends took Place, and upon the 2,4thof May, Anno 39 Elis;, at the Inftallation of Thomas, LordHoward of iValden, and others, the Prebends again en-deavoured to pals between the Officers of Arms, and Of.licers of the Order ; but Charles, Lord Howard of Effin-gham, then Lieutenant to the Sovereign, delivered hisOpinion on the behalf of the Officers of Arms againft thePrebends.

Yet did not this fo fettle the 0>der of Precedency, orquiet the Prebends, but that the Contention again brokeour, Anno 1 Jac. I, at the Inftallation of the Earls of Pe»i-breok., Man, Southampton, and Duke of Lenox ; (whichhappened cn the ninth, not fecond of July, in the forefaidYear,) even to fuch a heighrh, that the Prebends, Pur-fuivants, and Heralds, contended in the Proceeding} butthe Controverfy was on the next Adorning compofed, bythe Lord Admiral, (then the Sovereign’s Lieutenant,) theLord Treafurcr, and the Earl of Hfrcefter ; and the Orderin Proceeding thus fettled : firft, That the Alms-Kjiightsffiould go feremeft, the Purftivants next, then the Pre-bends, and then the Heralds and Kings of Arms j and thisOrder in Proceeding was afterwards obferved, on the21 May, Anno 4 Jac. I, at the Inftallation of the Earl ofSalisbury, and Vifcount Bindon; as alfo the 19 .May, Anno6 . of the fame King, at the Inftallation of the Earls ofDunbar, and Montgomery.

Howfceit, Anno 9 Jac. I. and fo afterwards, we do notfind the Purfuivants mentioned in the Proceeding, by par-ticular Name, nor otherwife, than in this following Or-.. / ". der,

 
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