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Duke of Norfolk, and the Earls of Peterborough and Rochester were Installedon the 22nd of that month. 1 Another vacancy having occurred by the death ofthe Earl of Arlington, Lewis de Duras Earl of Feversham p , Lieutenant-Generalof the Army, who had commanded the troops sent to suppress the Duke ofMonmouth’s rebellion, was Elected and Invested on the 31st of July; and hewas Installed on the 25th of August. 2 By the death of the Duke of Buckinghamon the 10th of April 1687, 3 a Stall became vacant; and on the 26th of the samemonth a Chapter was held at Whitehall, when Robert Spencer Earl of Sun-derland 1 ’, Lord President of the Council and Secretary of State, was Knighted,Elected, and Invested. 4 * Sir William Dugdale, Garter, having died on the10th of February 1685, he was succeeded by Sir Thomas St. George, whowas sworn and Invested, as Garter, in that Chapter. 3 The Earl of Sunderlandwas Installed on the 23rd of May following his Election, by the Duke ofGrafton and the Earl of Feversham. 6

Three vacancies having occurred in 1688 by the deaths of the Marquess ofBrandenburg, and the Dukes of Ormond and Albemarle, a Chapter was held onthe 28th of September in that year, when James Fitz James Duke of Berwick,the King’s natural son, and James Butler Duke of Ormond were Electedand Invested. The Duke of Berwick’s Election was soon after declared void,and the Duke of Ormond was not Installed until the next reign.

Parliament having declared that King James the Second had abdicated thethrone 7 on the 11th of December 1688, he was succeeded by his daughter thePrincess Mary, and her husband the Prince of Orange, on the 13th ofFebruary 1689, under the Title of

1 London Gazette, No. 2054. Ashmole says in his Diary, “21st July 1685, I went to Windsorto the Installation of the Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Peterborough, and Lord Treasurer,” p. 372; andon the “ 24th August, I went to Windsor to the Installation of the Earl of Feversham.” Ibid. TwoStalls became vacant in 1685 by the deaths of Prince Charles of the Rhine, and the Earl of Arlington,and another by the attainder of the Duke of Monmouth.

p The Plates of their Arms are in Saint George’s Chapel.

2 London Gazette, No. 2056, 2063. Garter’s Register. Additional MS. 6280, f. 169. >

3 London Gazette, April 25, 1687. 4 Ibid. No. 2237. ,

3 Garter’s Register. 6 London Gazette, No. 2245.

7 King James, however, neither acquiesced in those proceedings, nor abandoned his title of King of

England; and he, as well as his son, frequently exercised the powers they attributed to themselves, as

Sovereign of the Order of the Garter, by conferring its Ensigns upon the most faithful and distinguishedof their adherents. His eldest son Prince James, who was proclaimed King of England at Paris in