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for though it. be recorded, that upon the Eve of the GrandFeaft held at iVindfor, Anna 7 Hen. V. the Ifnights-Com-panions went in Order to the Chapter-Hou/e and Choir -yet this being expreft but in general terms, how it oughtto be undeiltooa, will more fully appear, from the par-ticular Directions given for the Order of the Kjtigbts-Companions Proceeding in „Kmg Henry VIII’s Statutes;where the Law directs each Kfiiffiet-Companion to proceedalone, at fuch time as his Fellow (who poffeffeih the Stalloppofite unto him) is ablent, but the Order of fuchProceeding will by a Scheme be made more evident.

The Troceeding of the K nigh ts-Com pa n ions,/ w-c/ch?on the Eve of St. George, to the Clofet q: .White-Hall, Anao 3 Eliz.

The Lord Tlur.flon.

The Lord [{obert Dudley.The Lord Loughborotv.The Earl of Sujfex.Void.

The Marqu.fs of North,The Lord Clynton.

Void.

Void.

The Vifcount Mount ague.The Earl of Sh ewsbury.The Lord H-voard of Effing.The Earl of iVcjimoiland.Void.

The Duke of Norfolk ;.

The Eatl of Pembroci

Thus four Ffyiights-Companiens proceeded alone, in re-gard the Stalls oppofite to them were void, the three firltbeing abfenr, and the lalt void by the Death of the Earlof Huntington ■ and to avoid all dilputes in relation toPrecedency, Ku g Henry \ III. Decreed, in the fixteenthYear of his Reign ; That each Knight-Companion fhotildtake Place, in Procejfim, Station, or fitting at the Table;thence forward, as he had his Seat or Stall in the Choir, and,not according to the Degree of his Birth or Condition, unlefsthe Sovereign was picafed that any fhould be made Choice of.,according to the N bility of his Family, to fit at the end ofhis own Tabic, or perform any other thing by the by.

The Proceeding among the Officers of the Order dif-fereth from all before fpoken of; for, being five in NutmLer, the three inferior Officers (when all prefenr,] Marchin a breaft, and (of later Times,) the Ryyg'fter in the middle,' : ' i ; i Garter