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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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Exdufion from their Stalls, and Station in the ChoiriftersRange.

Anno i Hen. VI. We obferve the Lord Willoughby no-ted to be abfent upon the Eve of the Grand Feaft, butprefent on the Day; and confequently he incurred nofurther Penance than what his abfence on the Eve drewOn him ; the Earl of Derby, Anno 18 Eli%. coming too lateto the firft Morning Service on the Feaft Day, did forTome fhort time undergo the fame Penance, but foon af-ter, upon Difpenfation from the Lieutenant, went up tohis Stall.

There are feveral other Inftancesjand befides the aforefaidDefaults, he is likewife to Undergo the fame Penalties,when the Grand Feaft is prorogued, or celebrated at anyOther Place than W^indfor,

But if he offend in all, and have no reafonable or al-lowable Excule for his abfence, he is then prohibited en-tering his Stall at the next Feaft, and to pay ten Pounds,to be employed towards the Ornaments of the College jand fomedmes the former Penance has been inflkfted forlate coming to Divine Service.

The fourth degree of Offence is yet greater than any,and the variety of Penances are heightened. If a Knight-Companion (hall negleCt coming to the Grand Feaft, andhave no allowable reafon ; he (hall not at the Feaft heldthe ehfuing Year be permitted to enter his own Stall,but ftand below it; he (hall walk alone by himfelf be-fore three Crcffes, which, in ancient time, were born inthe Grand Prccefficn : When the Grand Proceffion re-turns to the Choir, he (hall ftand in the Place aforelaid,rill the time of the Offertory ; he (hall Offer laft by him-felf, and then humbly approach the Stall of the Sove-reign, or his Deputy, and there defire Abfolution. Butthere is no Inftance that thefe Rigours were put in Ex-ecution, though many have offended in this kind.

Laftly, The Statutes enjoin ; That Where a JC night.Companion remains within the Kingdom, and lhall beGuilty of an Omiffion two Years together, he ought tobe fo Jong interdicted his Stall, till he have offered ajewel at St. George’s Altar, to the Value of twenty Marks;ahd thenceforward every Year in which he fhall be guiltyof the (ante Omiffion, the Penalty to be doubled, till he?.s pardotled: The moft ■ memorable Cafe in the Profe*

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