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in 1673 and 1674, 261; no further proceedings re-specting the Order during the ensuing three years;deaths and elections in 1677, 261; permission refusedto the Duke of Newcastle to wear the Star and Mantlebefore his Installation, 262 ; dispute whether the Officeof Garter was in the gift of the Crown or of the EarlMarshal, 262 ; deaths and elections in 1680 and 1681,262; decree made in November 1682 respecting themode of wearing the Ribband and lesser George, 263 ;deaths, Elections, and Investitures in 1684, 263;death of King Charles the Second, 264.

James the Second, 17th Sovereign of the Order,264; list of the Knights Companions existing on hisaccession 6th February 1685, 264 n; the Badgesnow worn by the Prelate and Registrar instituted byhim, 264; Henry Howard Duke of Norfolk elected,ib. ; peculiarity attending his Investiture, 265: de-cree made 18th June 1685, relative to the Badges ofthe Chancellor, Garter, and Usher of the Order, 265 ;deaths, Elections, and Installations from 1685 to 1688,266 ; abdication of James the Second, 267.

William and Mary, 18th Sovereign of the Order,the second and last time the Sovereignty of thisCountry was vested in two persons, 267 ; no otherproceedings during their Sovereignty relative to theOrder, than elections to vacant Stalls, ib.; list ofelections in April 1689; the election of the Duke ofBerwick declared to be void, he not having come to beinstalled within one year after his election, 267 ;Frederick Marquess of Brandenburg (the first King ofPrussia) elected in January 1690, 267 ; the address ofMr. Johnstone by whom he was Invested, on thatoccasion, 268 n; other elections from 1690 to 1694,268 ; scheme of the Stalls at Windsor on 5th June1694, 269 n; death of Queen Mary, when KingWilliam the Third became sole Sovereign; elec-tion and investiture of the Elector, afterwards KingGeorge the First, 270; deaths, Elections, and Instal-lations, 269-271 ; death of King William, 271.

Queen Anne, 19th Sovereign of the Order, 271 ; thefirst female Sovereign of the Order, who habituallywore the Garter and Ribband; remarks on the En-signs, and the times when worn by other femaleSovereigns; allusion to Queen Anne as representedin her pictures, 271; vacant Stalls filled in 1701 and1702, 271 ; crowned on Saint George’s day, 271 ;Garter commanded to prepare a Ceremonial for futureInvestitures, the Queen having observed several dis-putes and questions at that of Lord Godolphin in 1704,272 ; scheme according to which Garter was directedto transpose the Stalls at the Installation of LordGodolphin, 273 n ; George Prince of Brunswick(afterwards King George the Second) elected, 273 ;a new Great Seal and Signet of the Order made, ib. ;Commissioners appointed to invest the Electoral Prince,273; ceremonial of his Investiture, 273, 274 ; Gartercommanded to remove from the Sovereign’s Stall theGreat Banner and other Achievements placed there onher assuming the Stall as Sovereign, and to replacethem with the Banner of the Royal Arms as settled atthe Union, 274; deaths, Elections, and Installationsfrom 1709 to 1713, 274, 275; remarkable that QueenAnne never conferred the Order upon the Emperor

nor on any of the other Sovereigns with whom shewas confederated, 275; revival of the Order of theThistle, 275; her death, 275.

George the First, 20th Sovereign of the Order;list of the Companions on his accession, 276 n ; elec-tions between October 1714 and July 1716, 276;elections from March 1718 to November 1719, 277 ;elections between March 1721 and May 1726, 278;the Garter conferred on no foreign Prince duringthis reign, 279 ; death of King George the First, 279.

George the Second, 21st Sovereign of the Order,14th June 1727 ; list of the then existing Knights,279 n; elections made between May 1730 and Feb-ruary 1738,280 ; elections made between March 1741and April 1745, 281 ; altered the colour of the Rib-band, 281 ; elections on 22nd June 1749, 282 ; war-rant issued 30th June 1749, for an alteration in theform of the oath previously taken by the Companions,283; elections between March 1752 and August1759,283, 284; account of the Investiture of PrinceFerdinand of Brunswick Lunenburg on 16th of Octo-ber 1759,285, 286; elections on 4th February 1760;death of King George the Second, 287.

George the Third, 22nd Sovereign of the Order,on the 25th of October 1760; list of the thenexisting Companions, 287 n ; elections between May1762 and December 1765, 288 ; elections betweenDecember 1767 and February 1771, 289; elec-tion without the presence of the proper number ofKnights, 289 ; elections between June 1771 and April1782, 290 ; Warrant dated 31st May 1786, directingthat the sons of the Sovereign, being Knights Com-panions of the Order should not be considered asincluded in the original number of twenty-five, andremarks thereon, 291-293 ; elections on 2nd June1786, in conformity with the provisions of the newStatute, 293 ; list of the members of whom the Orderconsisted when the Statute was made, 293, n ; elec-tions between April 1788 and June 1793, 294; elec-tions between May 1794 and March 1799, 295;dispensation granted on the 28th and 29th May 1801to twenty-three Knights Elect who had not beenInstalled, granting them the same privileges as if theceremony had taken place, 296 ; elections between 3rdJune 1801 and 25th November 1803, 296; ordinancemade 10th January 1805, whereby all descendants ofKing George the Second became eligible for electionwithout becoming part of the twenty-five Companions,297 ; remarks on the erroneous declaration in thatordinance that the Prince of Wales “ is a constituentpart of the Institution,” 297-299 ; Knights elected onthe 17th of January 1805, 300; list of the Knightsof the Garter on the 10th of January 1805, 300 n;Statute for regulating the Stalls, 301 ; elections be-tween the 17th May 1805, and 3rd March 1810,when the Prince of Wales was appointed Regent ofthe United Kingdom, 301, 302.

The Regency, no election made by the Prince Regent,although four Stalls became vacant, until all restraintupon his authority had ceased, 303; elections betweenthe 26th March 1812, and that of the Duke of Wel-lington, on the 4th March 1813, 303; Statute for