ORDER OF THE GARTER.

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Precedents of Livery of the Order, the first notice of theRegistrar’s habit found in the, 452.

Prelate of the Order, the, 427-434; the Badgestill worn by the, instituted by James the Second,264; petition made by the, 18th June 1685, to theSovereign, for a badge to be assigned to him and hissuccessors, 265; description of the Badge grantedto him, 265 n ; his duties, and emoluments, 366,424,435, 449 ; receives no fees, 390 ; his precedence asregulated by Statute 31 Hen. VIII. 431; earliestinstance of the habit having been granted to the, wasin 1363, 432; his robes described, 432; Mantle ofthe, described, 434; his Badge described and repre-sented, ib; instances of his duties having been per-formed by Deputy, 467 ; vide Officers of the Order.

Prerogative, an arbitrary exercise of the Royal, relativeto Lord Paget never been subsequently made a prece-dent, 427.

Princes, Foreign, number of masses to be sung for, aslimited by the Statutes of 1522,148 ; strangers, allowedunder the Statutes of 1522, “ to receive their habitwholly within the Chapter House, as it hath been usedand accustomed in times past, for shortening of time,”150; regulation made under the Statutes of 1522, asto the translation of the Stalls of, in accordance withthe pleasure of the Sovereign, 151; amount to be paidby, for alms deeds under the Statutes of 1522, 151 ;and under Ordinance made in May 1539, 168; theadmonition given to, to be administered to every Knightand subject of this Realm on his first admission andinstallation into the Order,, 184; regulation made onSaint George’s Day 1611, that they should be thence-forth installed in the,, puisne place, 214; the nomi-nation of, vested in the Sovereign, 226; debate madeon Saint George’s Day 1634, relative to the payment,of the expense of legations to, 230 ; the right ofcarrying the Insignia of the Order to, decided 19thApril 1637 to pertain to Garter, 231; propositionmade 2nd March 1645, whether the Sovereign woulddeclare before hand whether he would elect any andwhom, 238 ; the right of Garter King of Arms, toconvey the Insignia of the Order of the Garter to,asserted by Sir Edward Walker in April 1650, 243;the subjects of, directed by ordinance made in 1661,to be installed by their proxies as well as the Princesthemselves, 248; the precedence of, to be regulatedunder decree made 10th January 1663, according tothe seniority of their Elections and Installations, 253 ;the Order not conferred upon any temp. George I.279; the precedent of dispensing with a Chapter,declaring them to be “ elected,” instead of grantingpower to a Chapter has been followed on every subse-quent occasion since 1815, under certain restrictions,314; restraint imposed by Charles the Second in 1663,on their frequent removal from one Stall to another377 ; fees payable by, 389; vide Proxy.

Prince of Wales, a Stall reserved for the, in 1459, 86;none created from 1509 to 1603, 299; erroneouslyconsidered a constituent part of the Order until de-clared so in 1805, and remarks thereon, 297.

Prince’s Stall, by whom filled between 1500 and 1670,xlviii; now vacant, 337*

Princes of the Blood Royal, decree made 2nd February1805, as to the regulation of their Stalls, 301, 377 ;altered in August 1840, 337*

Printing, first discovery of the art of, 85 n ; vide Booksand Mentz.

Procession, the, of the Sovereign and Knights Compa-nions at the Feast of Saint George, designed by MarcusGerard, and set forth in the 20th year of QueenElizabeth (1578), by Thomas Daws sometimes RougeCroix Poursuivant at Arms, 1578, 197; notice ofother Plates, representing, 257 n, 381 n; on the In-stallation of Henry Prince of Wales in 1603, 381; ofKnights Elect to Windsor, ordinance made in 1616relative to, 379, 381 n ; that of 1805 the last, ib;ceremonial of the, on the Grand Feast, 397-402, 406.

Prodigality, formerly declared a sufficient cause for ex-pulsion from the Order, but never carried into effect,427.

Pronunciation, the bare act of, by the Sovereign suffi-cient for the Election of a Companion, 368.

Prorogation of the Feast of the Order, power of, in-vested in the Sovereign by the Statutes of 1522, 138.

Protection, letters of, granted 22nd May, 5 Hen. V. toGuyenne King of Arms, 457.

Protector of the Order, Saint George the, vide SaintGeorge.

Provincial Kings of Arms, their oaths and precedence,387, 425.

Provost of the Order, the Usher so designated in theStatutes of 1553, 181, 465.

Proxy, appointed by letter in 1418, 61; alterationmade in the Statutes with respect to Installation by,in 1419, 62, 64; the Election of John the Second,King of Portugal, considered void, in September 1482,in consequence of a, not having been sent to takepossession of his Stall, 99 ; the Election of the Em-peror Maximilian, about October 1489, deemed voidin consequence of his not having sent a, to take pos-session of his Stall, 113; the Election of a Companionconsidered void unless the Stall be taken possession ofby a, within a reasonable time, 117; Companions ofthe Order never permitted to vote by, 365; of theKing of Denmark allowed in 3 Jac. I. to act for hisSovereign, although not Knighted, 386 n ; Installationby, always performed by Foreign Princes, extendedby Henry the Fifth to his own subjects, and by decreeof Charles the Second, to the Subjects of ForeignPrinces as well as to the Princes themselves, 387;must be a Knight, and of unblemished reputation,ib; his place in procession to the Chapter, ib.

Purple, the use of the colour of, confined by a sumptuarylaw in 1532, to the King and Queen, the King’smother, children, brothers, sisters, uncles, and aunts,but an exception made for the Mantles of the Orderof the Garter, 163, vide Mantle.

Purse, description of the, wherein the Seals of the Orderare carried, 448.

Qualifications, of candidates for election into the Order365.

Quarterings, in the Arms, of fifteen Knights of the Garterin the early part of the reign of Queen Elizabethrepresented in Harleian MS., 332, 193 n ; of KnightsCompanions, not inserted in their Stall Plates untilthe commencement of the reign of Henry the Fifth,421; granted by the King to a Knight-elect who hadno other Arms than his paternal Coat, 422.

Reading, oaks cut in the wood near, for the Round Tableat Windsor, 9 n.

Register of the Order, commencement of, 60; chasmin the, between 1432 and 1435, 73; petition made