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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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George's Day, obtain’d Licence from the Sovereign to de-part out of the Choir j and came no more abroad chat Day,nor during the Fealt, As alfo another in the Duke ofLenox, Anno i 5 Car. I. The Deputy Chancellor having , byCommand of the Sovereign, and in difcharge of the Duty ofhit Office ; who being forc’d to go back to London, byreafon of the aforefaid Dutchefs of Richmond’s Death, hadhis Excufe, and the Sovereign’s Licence for departure.

We are next to confider Excufes, which, though fent indue time, yet on Debate in Chapter were fufpended ra-ther than allow’d i to which Head maybe referr'd chatCafe of feveral of the Kjiights-Companions, who wereMembers of the Lord’s Houfe in the long Parliament.For Anno 18 Car. I. the Deputy Chancellor having, bythe Command of the Sovereign, and in difcharge of theDuty of his Office, fent to each of them a Summons,for their Attendance at the Celebration of the GrandFeaft, to be held for the preceeding Year at Torl ^; andnotice thereof being given to the Houfe of Lords, theyimmediately made the enfuing Order.

Die Martis 22 Maii, 1641.

PPhereas the Lord Chamberlain of bis Majejly's Houjhould,and fome other Lords of Parliament, Kjiights of the Garter,have been Summoned to give their Attendance, and repairinto the City of York, for the Celebration of St. George tF eajl j who acquainting this Houfe with the Summons afore -pud, it is this Day ordered by the Lords in Parliament, thatthey attend the weighty Affairs of the Kingdom di/cuffed inParliament, whereunto they are obliged by his Majejly'sWrit, and the Law of the Land.

Jo. Browne, Cleric. Parliament.

Whereupon the faid Kjiights-Companions, before the Da) sappointed by Prorogation tor holding the Feaft, fent theirpetitionary Letters of Excufe to the Deputy Chancellor,wherein they profefs’d their defire and readinefs to at-tend, in Obedience of the faid Summons ; neverthelefspleaded the forefaid Order for the Ground of their ftay inLondon, and therefore defined him to obtain for them theSovereign’s Difpenfation ; On producing the faid Lettersin Chapter, the Sovereign would not at that time either ad-

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