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ORDER OF THE GARTER.

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1582, and 1583, 197; verses written in 1582 byWilliam Tash on the mottoes of the Queen and six-teen Knights of the, inscribed to the Earl of Bedford,and ornamented with the arms of each Knight, em-blazoned within the Garter, xxix; the Anniversaryof the Order observed with great ceremony at Shrews-bury in 1581, and at Ludlow in 1582, 198; theBishop of Winchester admitted as Prelate, and theEarl of Rutland, Lord Cobham, and Lord Scrope ofBolton, elected in 1584, 198; unwillingness of theQueen to fill up vacancies in the Order, 198 ; theFeast in 1586 observed with great magnificence bythe Earl of Leicester at Utrecht, 198 ; refusal of theQueen to attend the Chapter in 1587, because she wasnot attired in the Mantle of the Order, 199 ; SirAmias Paulet admitted as Chancellor, and the Earlsof Essex and Ormond, and Sir Christopher Hattonelected in 1588, 199; respect shown for the Institu-tion by the Earl of Leicester in his will, 199; theEarl of Sussex and Lord Buckhurst elected in 1589,and the achievements of three deceased Companionsoffered, 200; King James the Sixth of Scotland, andKing Henry the Fourth of France and Navarre,elected in 1590, 200 ; the former never Invested orInstalled until he became Sovereign of the Order, 201;ambassadors appointed to invest the French Monarch,201; no elections made in 1591, 201 ; the Earls ofShrewsbury and Cumberland elected in 1592, 201;ceremonial of their Investiture by the Queen, 202 ;list of the Knights existing at that time, ib. n ; pro-ceedings in the Chapter in 1593, 202 : the Earls ofNorthumberland and Worcester, Lord Borough, LordSheffield, and Sir Francis Knollys elected, 203 ; theirInvestiture commemorated in verse by George Peele,204 et seq. n ; no elections in 1594, 1595, and 1596,205; Officers of the Order appointed in 1595 and1596, 207 ; Frederick Duke of Wurtemberg, LordHoward of Walden, Lord Hunsdon, Lord Mountjoy,and Sir Henry Lee, elected in 1597, 207, 208 ; Offi-cers appointed, but no election made in 1598, 208;the Anniversary not kept with the usual pomp in 1599,in consequence of the Rebellion in Ireland, 208 ; theEarl of Sussex, Lord Cobham, and Lord Scrope ofBolton, elected, 209 ; reluctance of the Queen to con-fer the Order in 1600, ib. ; the Earl of Derby, andLord Burghley, elected in 1601, ib. ; death of theQueen, 209.

James the First, 14th Sovereign of the Order, 209;who then first became de facto a member of theOrder, 210 ; list of the then existing Knights, ib. n ;anecdote respecting the Proclamation, 210 ; the An-nual Feast prorogued until the King’s arrival in Eng-land, 211; Prince Henry (afterwards Prince of Wales)and Christian the Fourth King of Denmark elected by“ acclamation,” 212 ; other Elections and Investitures ;ambassadors sent in 1603 to invest the King of Den-mark, and the Duke of Wurtemberg, 212; LordCobham degraded for treason, ib. ; disputes betweenthe Heralds and Prebends of Windsor respecting theirprecedency, ib. n ; Elections, Investitures, and In-stallations between April 1604, and May 1606, 213 ;unusual circumstances attending the Installation ofRobert Cecil Earl of Salisbury, and Thomas HowardViscount Bindon, ib. n ; elections on Saint George’sDay 1608, 214; election of Charles Duke of York(afterwards King Charles the First) and Robert Carr

Viscount Rochester at the Anniversary in 1611, andceremonial of their Installation, 214 ; Commissionersappointed in 1611 to reform the Statutes, 215; electionof the Prince of Orange and the Palsg*rave Count Pa-latine of the Rhine in 1613, 215; letter containingparticulars of the Installation of those Princes ; anec-dote of the Prince of Orange on his admission into theOrder, 215, 216; Thomas Erskine Viscount Fentonand William Lord Knollys elected in 1616, 216;account of their procession to Windsor on their In-stallation ; surprise created by the Election of SirGeorge Villiers (afterwards Duke of Buckingham) andFrancis Earl of Rutland in April 1616,217 ; ViscountL’lsle elected, 217 ; debate in Chapter relative to thedegradation of the Earl of Somerset, and decisionthereupon, 218; the Feast not celebrated in 1616until 13th September; kept with more than usualmagnificence in 1618, but postponed in 1619 on ac-count of the Queen’s death, and illness of the King,218; Commissioners appointed on 26th April 1618 toinquire into the State of the Order, and to reportthereon, 219 ; new articles in the Statutes submittedto the Sovereign in May 1622, 220 ; decrees made in1618 as to the number of the retinue of Knights Electon the Cavalcades from London to Windsor, and thepresentation of plate by future Companions to theAltar of Saint George’s Chapel, 220 ; decrees madein 1622 respecting an alteration in the colour of theRibband, and that all things concerning the Ordershould pass under the Seal of the Order only, 221 ;James 2nd Marquess of Hamilton elected by acclama-tion in 1623, 221 ; the King’s pleasure to be takenas to the attendance of the Knights Companions uponthe Sovereign immediately on the death of a memberof the Order, or whether such attendance be deferreduntil the ensuing Feast, 222; a decree made in 1623directing the Register to compile a Book containingforms of the Solemnities, Ceremonials, and processionsused at the Feast of Saint George, and another forhastening the Installations of Knights Elect, 223;Elections and Installations in 1624, ib. ; death of KingJames the First, 223.

Charles the First, 15th Sovereign of the Order,223 ; his anxiety for the Honour and Renown of theOrder, 224; elections in August 1625, ib. ; decreemade in 1626 respecting the Ensigns of the Orderand observations thereupon, 224, 225 ; list of theCompanions in December 1625, in the order of theirStalls, 225 n ; elections, including the King of Sweden,and the Prince of Orange, made in April 1627, 226 ;doubts entertained as to the acceptance of the Orderby the former, 226 ; date of their respective Installa-tions, 227; decree made in 1629 respecting thePrecedency of the Chancellor of the Order, 227 ;elections in 1630, 228 ; Commission issued in Octo-ber 1630, for a more complete reformation of theStatutes, 228; elections in 1633, 229; list of theCompanions in October 1632, ib. n; debate aboutsetting apart an annual sum of £1000 for the useof the Order, 220 ; the Earl of Northumberlandelected in 1635, ib. ; the Feast of the Order postponedfrom April 1636 to April 1637, ib. ; petitions presentedto the Sovereign for reformation of and additions tothe Statutes, 230 ; decrees made in a Chapter heldon 19th April 1637, respecting the conveyance of theOrdertoStranger Princes by Garter, and the attendance

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