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into Garters Hat ; and this is afterwards divided

about three Yards backward, keeping their Faces towards / tthe Sovereign, and there make a Reverence, and f 0 afecond, and thence retire cut of the Hall to Dinner.

This Ceremony ended, the Sovereign’s fecond Cotirfcis brought up ; firft the Serjeants at Arms, next the Trea- ' ftffffurer and Comptroller of the Heulhold, next the Sewer *then the Gentlemen-Penfioners, bearing the Meffes; then ^t-he Cofferer and Matter of the Houfhold, the two Ckrks ^of the Green-Cloth, the two Clerks Comptrollers, and (*> jiaftly the two Clerks of the Kitchin, habited in theirGowns, and their Caps in their Hands. And after theSovereign's Tablets compleatly furniihed, the fecond Courteis ferved up to the Knights Table by the Yeomen of theGuard, in Such Order as was the firft. toll!® 1

But where any Knight-Companim happens to be in- Itasteflailed at this Grand Feaft, and is prefent at Dinner, iPfFthen Garter, and the Officers of Arms, proceed in Order, «nthe(after they have proclaimed the Sovereign’s Stile,) from it of ithe lower end of the Hall, till they come before the newinftalied Knight’s Mefs, and there Garter cries Largefsonce, and Proclaims his Stile in Englifh only ; and then tta Cretires to Dinner. iilro Sn;

In the laft Place comes in the Banquet, brought tothe Sovereign’s Table by the Pensioner?, in the fame Or-, $der as the Melfes ; (only in Place of the Clerk of the ^Kitchin, the Chief Clerk of the Spicery waits,) and theBanquet for the Kjiigbts-Companions, by the Yeomen of ^the Guard.

Dinner being ended, the Knights-Cempamont rife firft,find having waflsed, place themfelves a little below the tiiithiState, in their ulual Order, ar.d make their Reverences to tttpjthe Sovereign. After which, the Sovereign hears Grace nhiolaid by the Prelate, then Water is brought in theufual Muteway, and the Sovereign wafhes: Which done, the Knights fiTabl:making again due Reverence to the Sovereign, he puts offhis Cap, andfalutes them, and then rroceeds as ufnally tothe Prefence Chamber, with the Knights and Officers ofthe Order before him, Cc.

the Officers of Arms, according to Cuftom. But23 C<ir. II. the Blacky Rod pur the Largefs into (Hat. This being finifhed, all the Officers of Arm

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