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Scotland, and Saint Patrick of Ireland, 24 ; his Armsthe Badge, and the invocation of his Name the war-cry of the soldiers of England, 24, li*; the Orderplaced under the protection of Saint George the PatronSaint of England, and has therefore borne the title ofthe “ Order or Saint George” as well as of theGarter, 23 ; his heart presented to the College ofWindsor by the Emperor Sigismund, 83 re; repre-sentation of him in an illuminated copy of Henry theSixth’s Statutes of the Order, ib ; subscription madeby the Companions in 1458, for the erection of anequestrian image of, 85 ; bones of one of his legspresented to King Henry the Seventh by the Cardinalof Rouen, publicly exhibited on Saint George’s day1505, in the Cathedral of St. Paul’s, London, 118;a great Image of, bequeathed by King Henry theSeventh to Windsor College, 120; his Image, howto be worn by the Companions, 132, 156; his Crossstamped on the new silver coinage in 1662, 252 ; des-cribed as the Patron and Protector of the Order, 354 ;price of an Image of, bought by King Henry theSixth, 354 re; vide Arms, Garter, George, and Ladies;Feast, the, of, general account of the Ceremoniesobserved on holding, 394—419; the Supper onthe Eve, 402; the Order of the Ceremonies on theFeast day, 403; the Grand Procession, 406; theOffering of Gold and Silver, 409 ; the Dinner onthe Feast day, 412; the second Vespers, 415; theSupper on the evening of the Feast day, 416; thelast day of the Feast, 416—419 ; alteration made in1421, with respect to the solemnization of the Feastof, 63 : description of the Feast of, held at Baynard’sCastle in London, in 1505, 350 ; regulations in 1522for the celebration of the Feast of, 138, 140, 142;again in January 1551, 174, 176; account of thecelebration of the Feast in 1561, 189 ; Statute madein 1567, which had the effect of abolishing the cele-bration of the Feast of, at Windsor, 192; the Re-gistrar directed, in 1623, to compose a book whereinshould be transcribed the form and manner of all theSolemnities to be used on the Feast of Saint George,223; discussion in 1641, relative to the prorogationof the Feast until the ensuing year, 235; the Feastnot celebrated in the reign of Charles the First afterthe year 1641, 236; notice of the Feast of in 1667,xlvii; Offerings made at his Altar in the Chapel atWindsor in 1353, 24 re; Sovereigns of Englandcrowned on, 179 re; vide Ludlow, Shrewsbury Sta-tutes, Registrar, Utrecht, Windsor, Westminster, etpassim.

Saint Germain-en-Laye, near Paris, Companions nomi-nated at, by the Sovereign in 1649, 240.

Saint James’ Palace, Chapters held at, 6th July 1704,272; on 16th October 1714, 276; on 20th March1741,280; on 24th April 1745, 281 ; on 2nd June1786, 293; on 26th July 1830, 323; on 27th May1831, 325; on 14th July 1837, 332.

Saint Michael of France, the Order of, 133 re; Henrythe Eighth elected into in 1527, 157; Edward theSixth elected into, 176 n; the Dukes of Norfolk andSuffolk elected into, 162; conferred in 1566 uponthe Duke of Norfolk and the Earl of Leicester,192.

Saint Michael and Saint George, the Order of, foundedon 27th April 1819, 322.

Saint Patrick, the Order of, instituted on 5th February1783, 291.

Sans changer, the motto of the House of Stanley,242 re ; verses on, xxxvi.

Scotland, Knights and Esquires of, invited to attend theFeast of Saint George at Windsor in 1344, 4; am-bassadors received from the King of, in England in1488, 107; natives of, when first elected into theOrder, 508.

Scrutinies of Elections, the, first extant for a Chapterheld 12th May 1445, 78; doubt entertained as tothe necessity of registering, when no election wasmade, 190; copy of the earliest now extant, 367 re;vide Elections.

Seal of the Order 469, 470, known to have existedin 1353, 24; a Privy Signet for the King’s use to behung behind the, 64, 65; entrusted to the Bishop ofSalisbury as the first Chancellor of the Order in 1475,96 ; a common Seal of the Arms of the Order, provisionfor the custody of, 153 ; the documents to be passedunder, enumerated, 230; to be kept in a purse ofblue velvet embroidered with the Sovereign’s Arms,231; a new one made in 1706, 273; vide Arms,Garter, and Signet.

Seal, of the College of Windsor described, 15 re.

Servants of the Sovereign’s household, list of the feespayable to, 393.

Sextons of the College of Windsor, fees payable to, atInstallations, as fixed in 1447, 389 re.

Shrewsbury, the Feast of Saint George held at, in 1581,198.

Siege, of Boulogne, 115; vide Orleans, Rouen, Tournay,and Terouenne.

Signet of the Order, to be made for the King’s usewhen abroad, 64, 65 ; provision for the custody ofthe, 153 ; all letters concerning the Order to be sealedwith the, 230; a new one made in 1706, 273; videSeals.

Slough, notice of, temp. Henry the Eighth, 124.

Smithfield, tournament at, proclaimed in', October 1390,46; described, 48.

Solebay, engagement between the English and DutchFleets near, in May 1672, 259.

Southampton, visit made to, by Henry the Seventh toinspect six Galleys then lying there, 106; Philip,afterwards King of Spain, invested at, 183.

Sovereign of the Order, the King of England and hisheirs to be, for ever, 136; amount of alms to be paidby the, 151 ; empowered to officiate by Deputy, 153 ;vide Garter, Princes and Statutes.

Spices, presented to King Henry the Seventh, by theCaptains of vessels lying at Southampton in 1488, 107.

Stalls, the, considered void, in consequence of proxiesnot having been sent for Installation, 99, 113, 117;to be prepared by Companions not attending the Feastof the Order wheresoever they may happen to be,139; of a Companion neglecting to attend the Feast,not to be entered by him until he had done penance,142; of a deceased Knight to be occupied by hissuccessor of whatsoever rank he may be, 150 ; trans-lation of, to be made by special licence of the Sove-reign, and he to have power to make a general trans-lation of all the Stalls once in his lifetime, 151; orderof, in 1528, 161 re; a general transposition of, madein 1535, 164; the Arms of the Companions to beplaced in the temporary Stalls erected, when the Feastwas held elsewhere than at Windsor, 172; regulationmade in 1562 to remedy the inconvenience caused byfrequent translations of, 192; as occupied in Decem-

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