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Order, ] 67 ; decision of a Chapter respecting theblotting out of the names of Knights convicted oftreason from the Records of the Order, 167 ; regula-tion made respecting the old funeral Rites withMasses for the dead, and the fees payable on suchoccasions by the Knights according to their respectiveranks, 168 ; Election of Edward Earl of Hertford,Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, Sir John Gage, and SirAnthony Winkfield in 1541, 168; of John ViscountL’lsle, William Paulet, Lord Saint John, William LordParr, Sir John Wallop in 1543, and of the Earl ofArundel, Sir Anthony Saint Leger, Thomas LordWriothesley, and Francis Earl of Shrewsbury in 1544;death of Henry VIII., 169.

Edward the Sixth, 11th Sovereign of the Order,169; not previously a Knight of the Order, ib .;important alterations made in the Constitution of theOrder during his reign ; Henry Marquess of Dorset,Edward Stanley Earl of Derby, Sir Thomas Seymourelected in Chapter held in 1547, 170; the Duke ofNorfolk and the Earl of Surrey degraded for treason;proceedings at the Annual Feast in May 1547; anordinance made in 1548 for abolishing certain rites inthe Order, 171 ; letter from the Lords of the Councilupon the subject, 171, n ; Francis Earl of Hun-tingdon, and George Lord Cobham elected in 1549,and permitted to be Installed by Commission “ withoutFeasts ;” Commissioners appointed to revise the Sta-tutes ; and decrees made for placing of the Armsof the Knights in their temporary Stalls, and theprivileges of the Heralds, 172; Lord la Warr andSir William Herbert elected; agreement made inChapter in 1550, that the Statutes should be reformed,but nothing done therein until they were entirelyremodelled in March 1553, 173 ; account of the alter-ations made, and notices of various copies of the newStatutes, 174, 175; proviso contained in the Actpassed in 1551, “ for the keeping of Holydays andFasting Days,” for the celebration of the Feast of theOrder; Henry the Second King of France, and LordClinton elected ; Knights of the Order appointed torevise the Statutes, and a decree made as to the dis-tribution of the money received on the decease of anyKnight of the Order, 176 ; Commissioners appointedfor the Investiture of the French Monarch; LordDarcy of Chich elected in 1551 ; Lord Paget degraded,and the Earl of Westmorland elected in 1552, 177;a Chapter held in 1553, when an entire new Code ofStatutes was agreed upon, 178 ; notice of the varia-tions from and additions to the previous Statutes, 179-181 ; death of King Edward the Sixth, 182.

Queen Mary, 12th Sovereign of the Order; the Orderimmediately restored to the condition in which it wasleft by Henry the Eighth, 182 ; three vacancies inthe Order produced by the attainder of the Duke ofNorthumberland, the Marquess of Northampton, andSir Andrew Dudley; such of the Queen’s adherentsas had been expelled from their Stalls, restored tothem, 182 ; decree made in a Chapter held in 1553,that the Laws made by King Edward the Sixth shouldbe abrogated, 182; the Duke of Norfolk and LordPaget restored and reinvested, 183; Prince Philip,afterwards King of Spain, and the Earl of Sussexelected in 1554, 183 ; ceremonial of the Investiture ofthe Prince, 183 ; list of the Knights at the Queen’s

accession, 183 n; remarks on the anomalous positionof King Philip, as Joint Sovereign, in the Order, 184 ;decrees made for the abolition of such Acts and decreesas were at variance with the ancient Statutes of theOrder, and respecting the Admonition to be given tothe members on their admission and Installation, 184 ;the Duke of Savoy and Lord Howard of Effinghamelected, 185; ordinance made respecting the cognizanceto be worn by the Chancellor of the Order, 185;Viscount Montagu elected in 1555, 185; decree madein 1556 for wearing of the Hoods by the Knights,ib.; the Earl of Sussex, Lord Grey of Wilton, andSir Robert Rochester, elected in 1557, ib. ; Sir Ed-ward Hastings elected in 1558, 185; decree maderelative to the Mantles to be worn by the Officers ofthe Order, 186 ; death of Queen Mary, 186.

Queen Elizabeth, 13th Sovereign of the Order, 186;remarkable that she did not revive the Statute madeby Edward the Sixth ; list of the then existing Knightsof the Order, ib. n ; proceedings in the first Chapterheld by her in 1559, 187 ; ordinance made by whichsuch Gentlemen as had been convicted of treason, buthad afterwards been pardoned and restored in blood,were rendered eligible for re-election into the Order,187; the Duke of Norfolk, the Earl of Rutland,elected, and the Marquess of Northampton re-electedinto the Order, 187 ; extraordinary oath taken bythem on their Installation, 187 ; Commission issuedin 1560 for revision of the Statutes, 188; the Dukeof Holstein elected, ib. ; the Garter returned byPhilip King of Spain, 188; but not accepted, 189;ceremonial of the Election of the Earl of Shrewsburyand Lord Hunsdon, at the Anniversary of the Orderin 1561, 189; decree made in 1562, as to wearing“ the Collar of the Order upon Solemn Feasts,” 189;nominations taken from the Knights Companions to beentered in the annals, although no election be made atthe time, 190 ; the Earls of Northumberland and War-wick elected in 1563, 190; Election and Investitureof Charles the Ninth King of France, and of the Earlof Bedford, and Sir Henry Sidney in 1564, 191 ;eulogy of the Earl of Bedford, by George Peele, ib. n ;ordinance made in 1565 to remedy the inconvenienceoccasioned by the frequent translations of Stalls, 192 ;the King of France Installed by proxy in 1566, 192 ;and decree made respecting the Badges of GarterKing of Arms, and the Usher of the Order, 192 ; theEmperor Maximilian the Second elected, and a Statutemade in 1567 which abolished the celebration of theAnnual Feast of Windsor, 192; the Companionsbound to provide by their Wills for the restoration oftheir Insignia after their decease, 193; the Earl ofNorthumberland degraded in 1569, and the Earls ofWorcester and Pembroke elected in 1570, 193; theprecedency of the Companions settled in 1571, 194;the Duke of Montmorency, Viscount Hereford, LordBurghley, Lord Grey of Wilton, and Lord Chandoselected in 1572, 194 ; names of the Knights as theywere Installed at the Feast of the Order in that year,195»; the Earls of Derby and Pembroke elected in1574, and Henry the Third King of France, andLord Howard of Effingham in 1575, 196; the Empe-ror Rudolph the Second, and Frederick the SecondKingof Denmark elected in 1578, 196 ; John CasimirPrince Elector Palatine Elected and Invested by theQueen, in 1580, 197; no elections made in 1581,