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In like manner does the Sovereign’s Lieutenant pro-ceed from the Pretence to the Hall, or fuch other Roomwhere the Dinner is prepared, only his Place at the Tableis a little on the left Hand the Cloth of State, or at theend of the Table : And after Dinner, he returns to thePrefence in the fame Order as the Sovereign does.

The Ceremonies belonging to the fecond Vefpers.

§ 8. The ufual time for Proceeding to the Chapter-Eoufe, hath ufually been about four a Clock in the After-noon, but fometimes not before five, by reafon of thelength of the Dinner. The Proceeding is as at other times;and when the Sovereign and Knights have made a Caval-cadeof it on the Eve, or on the Feaft Day, the fame hasbeen obferved at the Proceeding to the fecond Vefpers.

It has been cuftomary to hold a Chapter before the fe-cond Vefpers, for the regulation of the Affairs of the Order,When the fecond Vefpers are ended, the Proceeding pc.ff.jsout of the Choir in the very fame Order as at the firftVefpers ; but Anno 15 Car. I. it happening to be late erethe fecond Vefpers ended, the Sovereign did not go to thePrefence Chamber, but proceeded diredtly to the greatHall to Supper by Torch Light. •

Of the Supper on the Evening of the Feafi Day.

§ 9. It has not been frequently known, that the So-vereign hath fupped pubiicklv in St. George' s Hail on theFeaft Day; bur when it happens, as 14 Car. I. the pro-'ceeding thither, and return, are in all retpedfs pcrfo r medss at the Supper on the Eve. And if the Sovereign’s Lieu-tenant hath on this Night fupDed publickly, then it was inthe Prefence Chamber, where he fat alcr.e at the Sove-reign’s Table, as at other rimes.

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