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ib. n ; minute account of the celebration of the Feastof the Order at York on Saint George’s day 1486,104, 105 ; letter from the King to Lord TreasurerDynham 14th May 1487, directing the Feast to beobserved at Windsor, 106; robes issued to Compa-nions in 1487, xviii; ceremonial of the Feast heldthere 27th April 1488, 106-111; additions made tothe Statutes on that occasion relative to the keepingof the Journals and Statutes of the Order, 111;Elections, Installations and Deaths of Knights be-tween November 1488 and July 1489, 112; furtherElections, including the Emperor Maximilian, ArthurPrince of Wales, and Alphonso Duke of Calabria;Installations and Deaths between January 1489 andApril 1493, 112; chasm of six years in the Register,112; Deaths, Elections and Installations during theinterval, 114; robes issued to Knights in 1494,xviii; Chapter held at Westminster on Saint George’sDay 1499, 114; list of Knights who were then Com-panions, but the time of whose Election is not ascer-tained, 114; Saint George’s Day kept at Hertfordin 1500 ; agreement made by treaty 24th April 1.502,that the Emperor Maximilian and Philip Archduke ofAustria should be admitted into the Order of theGarter, and the King, and Henry Prince of Wales,into that of the Golden Fleece, 115; Commissionersappointed to Invest the Emperor, 116; his refusal toaccept the Order, having been previously Invested andtaken the oath ; many apparent anomalies in the His-tory of the Order explained by this proceeding, 116 ;list of the Knights and state of the Order in May1503, 117; earliest notice of the Collar of the Garterin July 1502, 118 n ; Deaths, Elections and Instal-lations of Knights between May 1504 and May 1506,118; account of the Installation of Philip Archdukeof Austria in February 1506, one of the most remark-able in the History of the Order, 119 ; the Sovereignrequested by the Companions in Chapter held 10th May1507, to appoint anew Registrar, and to command theBlack Book to be renewed ; the Archduke Charles ofAustria elected 20th December 1508 ; the Collar, andGeorge of the Order instituted by Henry the Seventh;the title of “ Knight of the Garter” first added to theStyle of the Companions in public Instruments duringhis reign; an Image of Saint George bequeathed byhim to be placed upon the high altar of Windsor Col-lege at all solemn Feasts of the Order, 120 ; his death,121 .

Hexry the Eighth, 10th Sovereign of the Order,121 : the Statutes of the Order remodelled by hiscommand : attention paid by him to the interests ofthe Order; Elections and Installations in May 1509;the Knights of the Order classed with Lords in anAct of Parliament passed in that year, 121 ; proceed-ings in Chapter held at Greenwich in 1510 ; KnightsElected between 1510 and 1514, 122 ; proceedingsin Chapter held in 1516, wherein regulations weremade respecting the conduct of the Companions andtheir contributions towards the completion of theChurch 123; Chapter held at Greenwich 23rd April1517 when the King first indicated his design to alterthe Statutes, ib. ; Elections in 1518, ib. ; the obsequiesof the Emperor Maximilian attended by the Sovereignand Knightsof the Order in 1519, 123; Chapter heldat Richmond in March 1519, when a regulation wasmade for wearing the Robes, 124; account of the

Ceremonial observed on the celebration of the Feaston that occasion, 124-129; observations on the Sta-tutes by which the Order was governed previous tothe reign of Henry the Eighth, 129 ; abstract of theStatutes enacted in May 1519, 129-132; account ofthe observance of the Feast in 1519, 132 ; Ordinancemade in April 1521 for wearing the Image of SaintGeorge by the Knights ; the Celebration of the Feastpostponed in consequence of the execution of theDuke of Buckingham, 133; Ferdinand Archduke ofAustria elected on Saint George’s Day 1522, ib .;Copy of the Statutes then made and which now governthe Order, 134-156; remarks on the language inwhich they w T ere written, 134 n ; a Chapter held 19thJune 1522, attended by the Emperor Charles the Fifth ;elections in 1523, 156 ; elections in a Chapter held atBeaulieu on Saint George’s Day 1524, 157 ; Decreemade that the Knights should take their places inprocession, and sit at table in the order of their Stalls,ib. ; elections on Saint George’s Day 1525, ib. ; cir-cumstance showing how strictly the Statutes wereadhered to on that occasion, ib. ; other Elections inthat year, 157 ; Elections and Investitures in 1526,158; complaints made by the Poor Knights referredto the Lord Chancellor as Visitor of the College,158 ; decree made in a Chapter at Greenwich on SaintGeorge’s Day 1527, that the King’s Lieutenant atthe Feast of Windsor and his assistants might beexcused from attending there in the following year,159; the Black Rod to be carried before the Sove-reign or his deputy on Saint George’s Day at everyFestival at Windsor, and to be present in all Chap-ters, 159; the Orders of the Garter and Saint Michaelproposed to be exchanged between the King and Fran-cis the First in 1527, 159, 160 ; list of the Knights inthe Order of their Stalls in 1528, 161 w ; ceremonialof their respective Investitures, and importance at-tached to the Order of the Garter by Francis, ib ; noelections for four years ; number of Chaplains appointedfor Knights of the Garter by Act of Parliament in1529, 161 ; the Orders of the Garter and SaintMichael conferred by the King and Francis the Firstof France on two noblemen of France and England inOctober 1532, 162; the proceedings at Boulogne areremarkable events in the Annals of the Order, ib. ;proceedings in a Chapter held at Calais 28th October1532, 162 ; Elections and Investitures, 162 ; state-ment of Hall respecting this Chapter, and observationsthereon, 163 n ; description of paintings representingthe Sovereign and Companions assembled in Chapterby Dr. Aldridge, ib. ; exception made in a SumptuaryLaw in 1532, with respect to the use of the colour ofpurple in the mantles of the Order, 163; James theFifth of Scotland, the first Scottish Monarch whoreceived the Order, 164; Installed by proxy; arrange-ment made with respect to his Stall, 164 ; account ofthe Election of Sir Nicholas Carew at Greenwich in1536, 165; and of the Election of Henry Clifford Earlof Cumberland in April, and of Thomas Lord Cromwellin August 1537, 165; the article of the Statutes re-quiring the qualification of gentility of birth dispensedwith for the first time in favour of the latter, 166 ; JohnLord Russell, Sir Thomas Cheyney, and Sir WilliamKingston elected in April 1539, ib. ; Election of Tho-mas Lord Audley of Walden, and Sir Anthony Brownein 1540 ; remarks on the Scrutiny on that occasion,and on the non-admission of Prince Edward into the

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