Angular Love, good Zeal, ardent and intier Affedti onthat his Royall Majeftie hath and bearith to the faid mooftNoble Order, and to the Eftate of Chivalrie and Knyght-hood, and for the honorable contynuance and encreafingthe fame. And alfo at the hmuble requefte and inftantedefire of the Knyghts and Companyons of the faid NobleOrder, and by their Advyfe, Councell and Affent, thetwenty third Day of April, in the Year of Grace MDXXII;and of his mooft Noble Reign the eighth Year, made in-terpretacion and declaration of the Obfcurities, Doubtis,and Ambiguities, of the faid Eftatutes, Ordinances, In.tetpreracions, Declarations, Reformations, with theiradditions aforefaid, after the trew intencion of them,fhall be from henceforth obferved, kept and enfued by theSoverayne, and the Knyghtes Confreres and Companyonsof the faid Noble Order, in manner and fonrme following.

I. Firfte, It is ordened and accorded, That the Kyngand his Heires and Succeffors, Kyugs of England, (hall befor everm >re Soveraynes of the faide mooft Noble Orderand amiable Companye of Saynt George, named the Gartier,to the which Soverayn, and to his Heires and Succeffours,(hall appertcine the Declaration, Solution, Determinacion,Interpretacion, Reformacion, and difpofition of all Caufes,concernyng and tcrwchyng any thing of Obfcuritie otDowbte conteyned in the Statutes of the faid mooft NobleOrder.

II. Item, It is accorded, That none (hall be ele&ed andcholen for to be Fellow or Companyon of the faid mooftNoble Order, except that he be a Gentilman of Blood,and that he be a Knyghte, and without reproche. Andthat the Knyghtes of the faid Noble Order, from henf-forth, (hall not Name any Petfon in their Election to beFelow or Ccmpanycn of the faid Noble.Order, in whomthei (hail thynke or ext ern in their Confcience to haveSpotte of Reproche. And as towchyng the Declaracion ofa Gentilman of Bkode, it is declared and determined thathe (hali be defcended of three decentis of No'-Ieift, thatis to fay, of Name and of Arms, both of his Father’s fide,and alfo of his Morher’s fide. And as towchyng or con-cernyng any manner of reproche, forafmoche as there bedivers and many fundry Poyncis of reproche, there (hall behere declared but three Poyntes of them oonly, as it i*declared in manner and tourme folowyng.