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Hour of Tierce, that is, the beginning of the firft Vefpers .Secondly, At the beginning of the Morning Service on theFeaft Day. Thirdly, At the beginning of the fecond Vef.pers. Fourthly, During the whole Feaft. And, Fifthly,at tie Grand Feaft next following.
For the firft, admitting any Kjiight-Companion hath fail-ed of meeting and attending on the Sovereign at the Hourof Tierce, and thereupon buffered the Punifhment of Non-admittance into the Chapter-Houfe, and deprivation ofVote ; neverthelefs if at the riling of the faid Chapter,he be not ready to proceed with the Sovereign, and' other the Kjiights-Companions, into the Choir, to the be-ginning of the firft Vefpers ; he ought not only to bufferthe former, but this additional Penalty, that he fhall notprefume to Enter into his Stall at that time, but tarry inthat part of the Choir, where the Taper-bearers are wontto ftand ; neverthelefs before his own Stall, until the holyOffices be ended ; and the Law of the Order is the famein King Henry V’s, and King Henry VIII’s Statutes, onlyrender the Place for the Delinquent Knight to ftand in, tobe before the Stalls in the Choirifters Places ; and nowhow the Penalty hath been inflidted, upon breach of theLaw in this particular, we (hall fee by the followingInftances.
At the Grand Feaft celebrated at Ppindfor, An. 21 H. VII.when it feems the Lord Kildare, Sir Gilbert Talbot, andSir Richard Goulford, came late to the Chappel, we findthis Memorandum fixe to their Names ; they flood with-out, (before their Stalls) by the Sovereign’s Permiflion, orrather Command : But yet this is not all the Punithmencwhich hath been inflidted upon the Knights-Comfanionslotthis Offence; (though it be all that is fet down in theforefaid Article,) for Anno 25 Hen. VI, upon rhe Eve ofSt. George, the Marquifs of Dorfet not coming to the firftVefpers, and being convidled of his late coming, was pro-hibited joining in rhe Nomination then made, for theEledlion of the King of Portugal, into the room of theDuke of Gloucefler.
Offenders in the fecond and third Cafe, being fuch asnegledl to come before rhe beginning of the high Mafs, orthe fecond Vefpers, called alfo the Vefpers on St. George’sDay, have the like Punifhment with the former afifignedthem, throughout all the Bodies of the Statutes j vi^.
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