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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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mediately after the Offertory : But after Queen Elizabethhad removed the Feaft of Sh George from Windfor t hi<-Solemnity was frequently difpatched in one Day, beforethey went out of the Choir j and the ancient Rule, as tothe time, being thus broke, was never after reftored, butgenerally performed the very fame Morning wherein theeledt Knights were inftalled : And though the Day wisthus changed, yet the Ceremony it felf was not performedtill after the Inftallation was finilhed, that Solemnity havingalways the Precedency, till 9 Jac. I. when he obfervinghow incongruous it (eemed, to inftal a new Knight beforehis Predeceffor had been fully difcharged of his Stallsgave Order for Offering the Atchievements of Sir HenryLea, the Lord Scroop , and others, before the Inftalmentof the eledt Knights.

Not long after, it was thought convenient to performthis Ceremony on the Eve of the Fealt, presently afterthe firft Vefpers began ; and next to proceed with the In-ftaliations; whereby, as much as poflible, the Stalls of theKnights-Comp ante ns might be fupplied, in all the reft ofthe Solemnities of the Feaft. But if at any time, any ofthe new eledt Knights were introduced into the Choir,before the Offering of the Atchievements began, theywere appointed to ltand there under the Stalls defigned forthem till that Ceremony was finilhed.

Thus ic continued from the faid 9 Jac. I. till the 15Car. II. when ic was performed at the time anciently ac-cuftomed for it; the Prince of Denmark., and the Dukeof Monmouth, being both inftalled before the firft Vefpersbegan, and the Atchievements of the defuntft Knights notoffered till the Morrow after the Feaft Day.

As to the Manner and Order of this Ceretnony, amongother Inftiturions of King Henry V. it is appointed, T hatas often as, through the vacancy of any Stall, the Sword’,Helms, with the rejl of the defunEl Knights, ought to heoffered, the Sword of the deceafed Knight ftoall be firft offered,being carried up to the High Altar by two of the Kmghts-Companions, and afterwards the Helm, with the Creft andMantlings, by two other Koights-Companions 5 and thisOffering is to be made for them, in the Order they wereir/ftal'ed, not as they died.

But of the Offering of a defundt Knights Banner, wefind no exprefs mention till 18 Hen. VII. at which time

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