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APPENDIX.

The Statutes of In/litution of the moflISloble Order of the Garter, as theywere reform’d and explain’d by JfingHenry VIII.

W Hereas the mooft famous, mooft happieft, andvi&orious Prynce Edwarde, the thirde of thatName, his Noble Progenitour fometyme Kvngof England and of Fraunce, and Lord of Irland, &c. Totli onnoure of Almighti God, and of the Blefied and Im-maculate Virgyn Marie, and the Bieffed Martir SairtteGeorge, Patron of the right Noble Roialme of England ;and of Saynt Edxvarde, Kyng and Confeflour ; To theexaltation of the holy Faith Catholique, ordeyned, eita-blifhed, created, and founded within the Caftel of Wpi~defire, a Company of twenty fix Noble and Worth!Knyghtes, for to be of the laid mooft Noble Orure ofSaynt George, named the Carrier, and for the honourablecontinuance, augmentation, and interteyning of the fmieaThe feid mooft vi&orious Kyng did devyfe and inftimtedivers honorable Eftaturs, and laudable Ordinances, forto be obferved and kept by the Cobrethren and Con-freres, Knyghtes and Compaynons of the f.tid mooft No-ble Ordre ; amonge the which Eftatutis been cerccynedoubtis and ambiguities, which to be more playnly de-clared, interpreted and extended, it is thought right ne-celfary and expedient, and that certeyne other new Or-dinances and Articles be to the Laid Statutes added .ridadjoyned. Wherefore the faid mooft excellent and victo-rious Prynce Henry VIII. Kyng of England and of Fraunce,Defenfor of the Faith, and Lord of Irland, and Sove-rayne of the faid mooft Noble Order; and for the rightN n fingular