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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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fent them thereof: But neither the Lieutenant, nor Af- Vflftants, can be Chofen two Years together, except the i# 1 "Sovereign (hould pleafe to be prefect at the Day or Feaft • 0$and after it was Decreed, 13 and 14 Hen. VlJI. that foa 1this Indulgence fhculd extend to the term of three Years. V'Laftly, We obferve that this Officer always held the f|mds 1Feaft at his peculiar Coft and Charge ; and gave liberalRewards to Garter, and for his Efcutcheons, as alfo to the to 1Officers of Arms, Gentlemen-Ulhers, Alms-Knights, and Jjtarto all the feveral Waiters and Attendants employed in the a offCeremony.

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The Ceremonies relating to the firfi Vefpers.

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§ 6. The firfi: Chapter held on the Eve of St. Georgebeing finifhed, the Sovereign and Kjiights-Companms i!*^immediately proceed from the Chapter-Houfe to the Ckir, «eof twto hear Vefpers. The Officers of Arms, Prebends, andAlms-Knights, having attended in the North-Ifle of theChappel, do now put themfelves in Rank, and continue stfote hithe Proceeding from the Chapter-Houfe Door, along thelaid North-Ifle, to the Weft Door of the Choir ; in likemanner as they did from the Prefence Chamber, to the fcfeJ Chapter-Houfe : The Organs then beginning to play, and tlecomf/i

fo continue till Vefpers begin. IVhentl

When the Alms-Knights arrive at the Weft-Door, they liistotliifirft enter in a whole Body, while the reft of the Pro- damesceeding makes a fhort ftand, and pafs forward near the Jltlepaimiddle of the Choir, where they make a joint and low sipainiObeyfance ; next, all turning about by the left Hand, iiae beirjto the Sovereign’s Seat; then ftill turning from the right, dome,to the left Hand, they afcend the Haut Pas’s, even tothe Rails fet before the Altar-, and forthwith divide them- su;GirAfelves, flanking on each fide, the funiors neareft the Rails,

This done, the Prebends enter in a Bcdy alfo, andhaving made the like Obeyfances in the middle of theChoir, divide themfelves, and take their Seats; which, byKing Henry VIIl’s Statutes, are appointed in the lower 5,^'range of Seats, between, but not in, the Stalls of theKfiights-Companions. While the Prebends are enteringtheir Seats, the Purfuivants, Heralds, and Provincial ^Kings of Arms, in a Body, likewilf enter the Choir-,

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