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of the Companions on the Sovereign on the Feast ofSaint George, 230, 231; the arrears due for obits,and the revenues of the Institution, 232 ; a new Com-mission issued in May 1637 for the purpose “ ofhearing, propounding, and debating whatsoever shouldbe presented, or the Commissioners should, conduci-ble to the honour and perfect establishment of theOrder,” 233 ; the conduct of the Commissioners cen-sured by the then Chancellor of the Order, ib. n;declaration of the King at the Annual Feast in 1637,that “ he would receive no man into the Order beforehis son Charles, (Prince Charles afterwards KingCharles the Second)his Election, and the ceremonialof his Investiture in May 1638, 234; remarks made inChapter held in October 1639, on the inconvenienceof the Article of the Statutes imposing penalties on theKnights if they came near Windsor Castle without offer-ing, 235; the Feast not held in 1640 in consequenceof the dissentions between the King and the Parlia-ment, 235 ; proceedings in a Chapter held in February1641, when it was debated whether the Feast w'hichhad been postponed from time to time until the 2nd or3rd of March should, in consequence of the nearapproach of Lent, be held on those days, and whetherif no Feast were kept this year, it would be anyblemish to the honour of the Order, and it w T as re-solved for the causes assigned that the Feast shouldbe held on the days appointed in the last prorogation,235; the Anniversary of the Order not again cele-brated during this reign, 236; difficulty of inducing theCompanions to leave their Parliamentary duties forthe Ceremonials of the Order, 236; dispensation ofthe Statutes issued on the elections of James Duke ofYork and Prince Rupert, 236; no Chapters held be-tween 1641 and 1645 in consequence of the disturbedstate of the country, 237 ; decree passed in a Chapterheld at Oxford in January 1645, that the Duke ofYork and Prince Rupert should enjoy all the rightsand privileges of the Order, though they had not beenInstalled, 237 ; William of Nassau Prince of Orange,and the Duke of Espernon elected in March 1645,238; proposition then made that “ it might become acustom for the Sovereign to declare before handwhether he would elect any foreign Prince,” 238 ;decree respecting the Badge of the Chancellor of theOrder, 239; list of the Companions in 1649, 239 ;death of King Charles the First, 239.
Charles the Second, 16th Sovereign of the Order,exercised his powers, although an exile, by nomi-nating Companions; nominations made at SaintGermain en Laye in September 1649, 240; a letteraddressed to the Marquess of Ormond who had beennominated, containing interesting statements con-cerning the Order, 241 ; further nominations madeby the King at Jersey in January 1650, 242; petitionpreferred to the King at Breda in April 1650, byGarter King of Arms, asserting his right to be sentwith the Order to Foreign as well as to his Majesty’ssubjects, 243; death of the Marquess of Montrose,243; proceedings relating to dignities in 1652, 244;no Knight of the Garter or Knight of the Bath made bythe Protect or, although those Orders were never for-mally abolished, 245; the Garter conferred by the Kingupon George Digby Earl of Bristol, Henry Duke ofGloucester, and the Prince of Tarento, in January,
and upon William Prince of Orange in April 1653,245 ; election of Frederic Duke of Prussia in January1654, 246 ; and of the Marquess of Claremont d’ An-trague in February 1658, 246 : no other notice of theOrder between the years 1654 and 1660, 246; resto-ration of the King, 247 ; list of the Companions of theOrder in May 1660, 247 n; a Chapter of the Orderheld 26th May, at the Abbey of Saint Augustine,Canterbury, for the Election of General Monk andAdmiral Edward Montagu, 247 ; ceremonial of theInvestiture of the latter, 247 n ; other elections in thatyear, 248 ; measures adopted early in 1661 for re-storing the Order to its proper condition, by filling upthe vacant offices, and installing the numerous Knightswho had been elected since the Civil Wars, 248; decreemade in Chapter 14th January “ that the subjects ofForeign Princes should be Installed by their proxiesas well as the Princes themselves,” 248 ; electionsmade in 1661, 249; Lord Clarendon’s account ofthe reasons which induced him to decline the Garter,249, 250 ; Feast of Saint George held at Windsorfor the Installation of twelve Knights Elect, 251 ;decree made that there should be copies of theRegister, one in Latin to remain with the Registrar atWindsor, and the other in English to be kept atWhitehall, 251 ; list of the Companions in the orderof their Stalls on 10th April 1661, ib. n; attemptmade in April 1661 to reform the Statutes, 252 ;decree made respecting the Under Habits of the Order,252 ; Christian Prince Royal of Denmark elected inNovember 1662, 252 ; ensign of the Order stampedon the coin, 252; regulation made in January 1663,respecting the Precedence of Princes Strangers; theDuke of Monmouth elected, 253 ; decree made thatthe direction of the Ceremonies belonged solely toGarter, ib. ; no Chapter held in 1664, 1665, and1666, 253 ; Changes in the Order during the Interval,ib. ; Feast of Saint George held in 1667, ib; anec-dote related by Pepys about wearing of the Robes bythe King and Companions during the whole day, 254 ;Charles the Eleventh, King of Sweden, and JohnGeorge the Second, Elector of Saxony, elected inJune 1668, ib. ; the Investiture of the King ofSweden delayed from unwillingness on the part ofthe Swedish Government to allow the Stall of theKing of England to be placed on the right hand ofhis Swedish Majesty, 254; the right of the Bishopsof Salisbury to the Chancellorship of the Order esta-blished in 1669 after a long controversy, 254 ; propo-sition made by the Duke of York that all the Knightsof the Order, as well Princes of the blood, SovereignPrinces, and other the King’s subjects, might succeedeach other according to their respective admissions,and Garter’s Report, 255; decree made thereupon ;deaths and re-elections in 1669 and 1670, 2 56: theKing’s consent refused to the request of the Duke ofAlbemarle for permission to wear the Insignia of theOrder without waiting to be Installed, 257; decreerelative to placing the Hatchments of Knights Elect,257 ; Installations and Offerings on the Feast of SaintGeorge, 257 ; precedence claimed by the King of Den-mark over the King of Sweden, 257; proceedingsthereupon, and adjustment of the controversy, 258 ;Elections, Investitures, and Installations in 1672, 259 ;decree respecting the Arms of the Bishop of SalisburyChancellor of the Order, 260; deaths and elections