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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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and Totnb-Houfe ; and thence into the Chapter-Houfe, Si-tuate on the North Eaft Corner of St. George’s Chappcl.

Buc the Sovereign hath lometimes thought fit to wavethis publick procelfional way, and pafs along the privateway, which leads from the King’s Privy Chamber, downthe Stairs into the Terrace, vi%. through that ftately Walklying on the North fide of the Caftle, and entring againat a Door, heretofore made through a part of the CaftleWall into one of the Canons Lodgings, adjoining to Win-chefter Tower, (now made up) went thence through theCloifters, proceeding in the Order before (hewed.

We (hall dole this Head, with obferving, that thoughthe Proceedings to the Chapter-Houfe or Chappel, on theEve of the Feaft, have moil commonly been on Foot ;yet have they been alfo on Horfe-back, on extraordinaryOccafions, as Anno 3 Hen. VII. at which Time feveralAmbafladors being arrived here from Foreign Kingsand Princes, they and many of the Nobility of this King-dom, with the King’s Council, the two Archbiihops, theBilhops of Lincoln and Ely, and the Chief juftice of theKing’s Bench, repaired alfo thither; and on the Eve, theSovereign, accompanied with the Knights-Companions, rodefrom the upper Quadrangle down to the College. TheQueen and the King’s Mother rode in a Chair, coveredwith rich Cloth of Gold, drawn by fix Couriers finelyHarnafs’d, and twenty one Ladies, habited in CrimfonVelvet, rode on white Palfries : Sir linger Cotton, Mafterof the Queen’s Horle, led her Horfe of State, whereonwas a S ddle'of Cloth of Gold, and three Crowns ofSilver gilt; as foon as they alighted, the Sovereign andKnights-Comp miens proceeded to the Chapter-Houfe , andthence to E'ening Song, which ended, they return’d inthe Order they came.

King Henry VIII. in the eleventh Year of his Reign,at three a Clock in the Afternoon, with all the Knights-Companions, in the Habit of the Order, proceeded fromthe Prele ce Chamber in H^indfor-Cafile, till they cameto the Quadrangle, where they rook their Horfes, androde acco cing to their Stalls, not according to theirEftate, next before the K’ng, and thence rode to themicdle Door of the Chappel, and there alighted, and pro-ceeded 'virhout the Choir to the Chapter-Houfe 1 there areocher Examples, buc thele may fuffice.

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