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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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Poynt, and Article to Article, and (hall make the (aidOthe to the Soverayne of the {aid Ordre, or his Depuriein fweryng and promifyng upon the Holye Gofpellis, forto kepe them and entertayne them withoute any fraude ordelacion. And upon this he (hall touche the Boke andkyffe the Croffe.

Item, This done, the faid Knyght foo Cholen, withdue Reverence, fliall receyve the Garter; the whiche theSoverayne or his Deputye shall put it aboute his left Leg,in faying thefe Words: Sir, The lovyng Companyeof the Ordre of the Garter hath receyved you theyr Bro- ther, Lover, and Felow ; and in token and knowlege of this, they gyve you and prefent you this prefent Garter; the whiche God wyll that you receyve and were from hensforth to his Praife and Pleafure, and to the Exaltacion and Honor of the faid Noble Order, and of your felf.

XXVIII. Item, It is agreed, That in cafe that the So-verayne be out of the Contrey, to the whiche he cannotin propre Parfon do that shall appertayne to the Stalla-tion ; he may gvye Powre and Audiorite, by his Lettersof Commiffion, to two of the Felows, or to dyverfe, forto exercife it in his Name.

XXIX. Item, It is agreed,That a common Seal, a Sig-net of the Arms of the Ordre be made, the which shallreft in the cuftodi and kepyng of the Chanceler of theOrdre, or of fuch a Knyghte and Felow of the faid Or-dre as shall pleafe the Soverayne to name and afligne;and if he that (hall have the Seales in kepyng or cuftodi,shulde departe or goo forth for any caufe twenty Milesfar re from the Soverayne, then he shall deliver the faidSeals to the Soverayne, or to fuch Knyghte of the Ordre,hr to any other Parfon that it shall pleafe the faid Sove-rayne for to ordeyne and appoynte 5 to the entent that atno tyme the faid Seals be out of the prefence of the feidSoverayne, he beyng within his Realme; and if he beowte of his Realme, the Signet shall lufiice for to Sealall fuche A dies and Wrytynges touchyng the faid Ordre,that there may be concluded and made.

XXX. Item, It is agreed, That every Felow of the faidOrdre, from hensforth, shall have the Statutis of the faidOrdre firft collcdled and overfene by the Regifter, andafter that fealed with the common Seal aforelaid : And .

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