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again to the fame ufes. And Jikewile, becaufe it belongsto Garter to provide Atchievements for new inftailedKnights, he ufually hath compounded with the Dean andCanons for the defund Knight’s Atchievements.

Of depofitittg the deceafed Knights Mantles in theChapter-Houle.

^ 4. In 9 Eli%. there parted a Decree, That the Knights-Companions fkculd be bound by their Oaths, to take care, bytheir lajl Will, that after their Deceafe, all their Orna-ments, which they had receiv’d , fhould be refiored, the Robesto the College, and the Jewels to the King that gave them.Sir Chrijtopher Hattcn complied with the Decree, and fenthis Mantle accordingly ; but that of Sir Henry Lea, beingleft to the difpcfal of others, and not fent to the College,happened at length to come into the Hands of Brokers, andwas openly expofed to Sale in Long-lane, to the greatdishonour of the Order.

This Decree was in after times but flackly obferved,and therefore in a Chapter held at PVindfor, 4 Car. I. theKnights were admonifhed, That when the Sovereign fhouldvouchfafe to beflow the Mantle of the Order, the Kjiightfhould tal{e care at his Death, to have it fent to the Chapptlat Windfor, according to the Statutes. But this takinglittle Effed, the Sovereign thought fit to reifore vigorouflythe Law in this particular, by a Decree in Chapter, 13Car. I. which obliged all Knights-Ccmpanions, receivingthe Enligns of the Order from the Sovereign, to takecare, according to the tenor of their Oaths, that thefe,together with the Book of Statutes, fhould be reftoredin the Hands of the Sovereign, after their Deaths ; anda Command was therewithal given, That certain Books,Mantles, and Surcoats, then lying at White-Hall, fbnu dbe delivered to the Regifter of the Order, to be latd up atWindfor, in honourable Memory of thefe to whom they be-longed.

In Observation of thefe Decrees, where the Habit andLnfigns of the Order were either wholly, or in parr, bc-ftowed by the Sovereign, Order was taken, at the De-Ceafe of fuch Kyiights-Companions, to fend for them inagain. As at a Chapter held 15 Car. 1 . the Garter andK k a Georgs