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INTRODUCTION.

Honourable and Reverend Dr. Hobart, Dean of Windsor; andthe Author consequently feels that he has additional cause tobe dissatisfied with that gentleman’s conduct towards him.His application for leave to inspect those Registers was refusedby Dr. Hobart, because he was not, he said, justified, in per-mitting them to be consulted; yet, it now appears that he hadafforded to another writer on the Order the fullest access toall the manuscripts in question.

Difficulties have arisen as to the best mode of presentingthe new matter; but it seemed most advisable to introduceall that relates to the Foundation of the Order into this Sup-plement to the Introduction, inserting at the same time otherfacts particularly deserving of attention; to write anew thehistory of the Fraternity during part of the reign of KingEdward the Third, and under King Richard the Second, KingHenry the Fourth, and King Henry the Fifth; 1 to reprintthe Catalogue of the Knights and Officers ; 2 and to insert aChronological List of all the Ladies who are recorded to havebelonged to the Society, (the names of some of whom haveonly now been discovered 3 ); to give references to all suchWardrobe Accounts since the year 1340, as have been examined,

1 The cancelled pages of the text are those beginning with page 39, and ending withpage 66, and pages 91 to 94, all of which are distinguished from the former cancels bythe letter in the lower corner.

2 As it was necessary, in consequence of the discovery of Records, to cancel a fewpages of these Lists, it was thought better to reprint the whole Catalogue, so as to intro-duce all other corrections, and thus to render it the most full and accurate List of the Knightsof the Garter yet published. Where a discrepancy is found between the text, after p. 66,(except from p. 91 to p. 94,) and the Lists, the statements in the latter are to be preferred.

3 Some variations will be found between the Catalogue and the Account of the Ladiesof the Fraternity in pp.484—504, but the statements in the Catalogue are the most accurate.

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