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in the Sovereign’s Prefence ; but on the Eve of the Feaft,io Car. i. it was ordered in Chapter , That they (hould beat their Choice, to keep the Feaft privately by themfelves,or fit uncovered where the Sovereign dined. Whereupon,from that rime, they forbore fitting in the Hall, or whereelfe the Sovereign and Knights-Companions fat. It like-wife appears, that the Officers of Arms did anciently fitin St. George's Hall, at a Table joined to that, at whichthe Officers of the Order fat.

Before the Entrance of the Sovereign’s fecond Courfe,he ftands up and drinks to the Kjiights-Companions, (andfo it is remembred to be done by Phil, and Mar.) theyftanding all the while uncovered, till they have ail pledgedhim : Which done, the Officers of Arms make themfelvesready, at the lower end of the Hall, to proceed up in thefollowing Qrder>.

Garter.

Clarenceux and Norroy.

Heralds two and two.

Purfuivants two and two.

And fo altogether make their Reverence to the Sove-reign, and proceed near the fide of the Knights Table, nilthey come to the middle of the Hall, where, after anotherReverence made, they go ftill forward; and when Garterhas palled about two Yards beyond the Knights Tab e,and come near the Haut Pas afcending the Sovereign’sState, they make the like Reverence again jointly. ThenGarter with a loud and audible Voice cries Largefs thncqthough anciently but twice.

Upon Garter s beginning to cry Largefs, all the Kjiights-Companions, unlefs Kings and great Pnnces, if anv beprefent, ftand up uncovered, till he has made an end $(which Cuftom, it feems, 7 Car. I. had been dtfcontinuedfor fome time.) Then Garter proceeds, ana Proclaims theSovereign’s Stiles and Titles of Honour, hrtt in Latin ,after in French, and laftly in Englifh ; he and the Officersof Arms making a Reverence between ; and at the endjoin altogether in crying Largefs thrice,and then all makeReverence together.

Hereupon, fometimes the Treafurerof the Houfhold(’kc* the Sovereign’s Largefs, which is ten Poundsjn Gold,

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