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Garter on his right Hand, and the Vfher of the BUckrttod fjton his left. v ir #

After thefe three Officers, the two fuperior proceed &together, the Prelate on the Right, and the Chancellor on Cthe left; and after, the Officers of the Order fellow the 'VSword, which is carried immediately before the Sovereign AIn the beginning of Queen Elizabeth’s Reign, it was bbrnby fome of the Barons, but of larer Times it hath been .conferr’d on Perfors of higher Rank, as Anno 4 Car. I. Aon the Earl of Dover ; Anno 9 Car. I. on the Earl of Danby ^and Anno 13 Car. II. on the Lord Vifcount Mordant , then ' t'Conftable of the Caftle of Windfor ; and at this Time ’tis ^ r!ufually born by none under the De gree of an Earl.

The Sovereign’s Place in the Proceeding, notandum ! ■quod fuperior Ordinis tempore Procejfionis in di8a CaptHatranfibit retro totam Sociarum Comitivam ; which though i®" 011the Statute mentions here to be performed at the GrandProceffion, yet it refers to all thole times the Sovereign ^proceeds to, or from, no lefs than within the ChappelIn ancient Time, the Sovereign (if he were at PP’indfir, tocelebrate the Grand Feaft,) proceeded to the Chappel in :'jPerfon, as well on the Eve, as on the Feaft Day. QueenElizabeth being the firft who went not to the Chappei on isf f0Cthe Eve of the Feaft, unlefs we except King Hem? VI. On Stwho, by reafon of Sicknefs, was neceffitated to make aDeputy in his ftead ; The aforelaid Gmiilion of Queen APkElizabeth , was firft occafioned through Indifpofition of :TrainHealth, though (lie afterwards, without that neceffity, did iiasonot comply, as in the 18,25,19, and 31 Years ot her :kteReign, which gave occafion to King James to make De- soi Sputies at thofe three Grand Feafts he Celebrated at Wind- totoibfor ; and the like did King Charles I. in the firft Year of 2 Lothis Reign; but in the fourth Year of his Reign, the an- tujaacient Cuftom (for many Years intermitted.) was reftored, nWand the Sovereign (making no Lieutenant,) proceeded to tie leftthe Chappel, not only on that Eve, but always obferved It ftit afterwards, as d:d King Charles II. in all the Grand niswlFeafts he be ! d, and is now obferved.

It will be neceffaty to take notice, that the Proceeding ^begins from the Prefcncc Chamber, call'd in the Statutesthe Great Chamber ; a Scheme whereof, on the Eve of ; tlBrhe Grand Feaft, i§ here exhibited.

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