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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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der, vi%- Alms-Knights, Prebends, Heralds, 8cc. _but it maybe preformed that ihe Purfuivants, then joined again inBody with the Heralds, (though for fome Years before di-vided from them, by the incerpofition of the Prebends,)as well as the Provincial Kings, and all of them under theTitle of Heralds, and fometimes Officers of Arms.

And though at the Grand Feaft held by Prorogation, onSunday the 14th of September, in the faid fifteenth Yearof King James, it is noted, that the Prince (being thenthe Sovereign’s Lieutenant,) proceeded to Morning Ser-vice on the Feaft Day, with the Alms-Knights, Heralds,Prebends, and Officers of the Order before him ; fromwhich manner of Expreffion, it may perchance be lup-pofed, that the Heralds went at that time next after theAlms-Knights, and before the Prebends-, nevertheless, elle-where we find them, on the Eve of the aforefaid Feaft,ranked in this following Order.

The Alms-Knights.

The Prebends.

The Officers of Arms.’

The Knights of the Order, &e.

And doubtlefs, they proceeded in the fame Order to theChappel, on the next Morning, notwithftarding what isbefore faid to the contrary, thole Expreilions being inter-woven with the general Account given of the Ceremoniesof the whole Feftival, and more fubjedt to miftake, wherethe relation of the Proceeding is carried on in a continuedDifcourfe, than were ranked (as is before exhibited,) inparticular Lines, and in the Order and Form of a Pro-ceeding. Befides, we no where meet with any Order orDecree, nulling the forefaid Determination, made Anno1 Jae. I. which placeth the Prebends before the He-ralds. Finally, to give an end to the Difputesin this Point,we find, that upon the Eve of this Feaft, held at H r indfir,the 23, 24, and 25 of November, Anno 1 Car.J. the Pre-bends proceeded next before the Purfuivants. and thePurfuivants immediately before the Heralds and ProvincialKings; that is to fay, all the Officers of Arms (exceptG^ter, whofe Place is elfewhere,) proceeded in one en-tire Body together, which Order we find to be the famein all Proceedings after, that w 7 e have met with, and was

 
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