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preventing the constituent number of Twenty-fiveKnights Companions being again exceeded, 325; of28th June 1831, declaring that the lineal descendantsof King George the First might be elected, withoutforming part of the constituent number of Compa-nions, 326; of 17th September 1833, for alteringthe designation of the “ Poor Knights of Windsor,”to that of “ Military Knights of Windsor,” 327 ;of 10th September 1834, for enforcing the ancientusage of sending the Mantle of deceased Com-panions to the College of Saint George, 327; of25th February 1837, for transferring the office ofChancellor from the Bishop of Salisbury to the Bishopof Oxford, 329; of 14th July 1837, for the electionof the Prince of Leiningen, 332; of 24th March,1838, for the restoration of the Insignia of the Orderto the Crown on the decease of the Companions, 333;of 16th July 1838, for the election of the reigningDuke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, 333; of 16th De-cember 1839, for the Election of Prince Albert, 336* ;of the 31st August 1840, for regulating the Stalls,337*; notice of the earliest existing transcript ofthose of Henry the Fifth, 64 n ; variations between aFrench contemporary copy, and the alterations abovenoticed, 65 ; petition from the Dean of Saint George’sChapel, praying for an alteration in, with respect tothe corporate appellation of the College, 72; des-cription of the illuminations in a copy of King Henrythe Fifth’s, 83 n; of the Order, considered to havebeen violated by the Companions who neglected toattend the Feast on 24th April 1493, 113; stipulationwith respect to the observance of, by the Arch-DukePhilip of Austria, Duke of Burgundy, and KingHenry the Seventh, by treaty concluded 24th April1502, 115; directions given by King Henry theEighth to the Companions of the Order, to attend himon the Feast of Saint George 1518, for the purpose ofmaking alterations in the, 123 ; allusion made to acopy of, belonging to Edward Stanley, Lord Mont-eagle, who was elected in 1514, 128 n; doubt as tothe language in which the Statutes of 1522 were ori-ginally written, and description of numerous MS.copies still existing, 134 n, 135»; circumstanceshowing how strictly they were adhered to, 157; des-cription of copy sent to King Francis the First in1527, 160»; cost of the Book of, sent to KingJames the Fifth of Scotland, 165 n ; Commissionersappointed in 1549 to peruse and make alterations inthe, 172; order issued in 1550, for the reformation of,173 ; description of the copy formerly belonging to SirWilliam Herbert, 174; reference to, and remarks onthe variations in other copies of, 175 n; commissionersagain appointed in 1551 to revise, 176; those ofKing Edward the Sixth not revived by Queen Eliza-beth, 186; commission issued in April 1560, forrevision of, 188; notice of the copy which be-longed to George and Gilbert Earls of Shrewsbury,202 n ; Commissioners appointed in, 1616, to reform,218 ; Commission issued for the reformation of, 6thOctober 1630, 228 ; petitions presented to the Sove-reign in April 1637, for reformation of, and additionsto, 230; new Commission issued in May 1637,directed to seventeen of the Knights, authorizing them“ to meet and consult of any matter concerning theStatutes and Honour of the Order,” 232; remarksmade in 1639, on the inconvenience of the seventeentharticle of, 235 ; question propounded by the Sove-

reign as to his power to dispense with the Statute forholding the Feast, resolved in the aflirmative, 236;a dispensation issued in 1642, id; another attemptto reform them, in April 1661, 252; incongruity of,and other remarks on the present Statutes, 513, Iv* ;various attempts made to reform them, 513, 514;suggestions respecting them, 514.

Stockholm, Charles the Eleventh, King of Sweden, in-vested at, 251.

Stoke, the Battle of, 112.

Strangers, vide Princes Foreign.

Strelitz, the Duke of Mecklenburg invested at, in 1763,288.

Style, the, of “ Knight,” or “ Companion of the Order,”the custom of adding to the titles of the Knights ofthe Order, apparently commenced about the year1484, xli*^ and repeated in 1492, 120.

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

Suivez Raison, the motto of Viscount Montacute, verseson, xxxi. .

Sumptuary Law, passed in 1532, 163.

Supporters to the Arms, of fifteen Knights of the Garter,temp. Elizabeth, 193 n.

Surcoat, the, 343-346, one of the original Habits ofthe Order, 335; its various denominations, 343;colour of the, both in ancient and modern times, 344,346 ; described in the wardrobe accounts of 37 Edw.Ill, 344 n ; powdered with Garters made for the Kingin 1348, 12, 13 n, vi-viii.; vide Habits and Ensigns.

Swords, of Edward the Third, Thomas Ufford, 2ndEarl of Suffolk, and Sir Thomas Banestre, preservedin Saint George’s Chapel, Windsor, 8 Rich. II. 41 n ;of deceased Companions, regulation made in 1421,respecting the offering of, 64; of Henry the Fifthdeposited in Saint George’s Chapel, 67 ; of the Dukeof Somerset offered 1445, 77 n; of the King of Por-tugal in 1482, not offered in consequence of the So-vereign not having been certified of his death, 98 ;sent by the Pope to King Edward the Fourth, onSaint George’s Day 1482, 98; fees to be paid onplacing them over the Stall of a Knight of the Order,79 ; of Companions deceased to be offered, 118 ; nowworn by the Companions described, 348; vide Achieve-ments and Ceremonials.

Tashe, William, his Verses on the Motto of the Queenand of several of the Knights of the Garter in 1582,xxix-xxxviii.

Terouenne, the siege of, 169.

Thetford, visited by King James the First in 1616, 217.

Thistle, Order of the, revived in December 1703, 275.

Tichfield Abbey, King Henry the Sixth married, and aChapter of the Order held at, in 1445, 77.

Tierce, the ecclesiastical hour of, 97.

Titles of Honour granted by the King since the 4th Jan-uary 1641, 1642, declared by Act in February 1652,to be null and void, 244.

Toga, the Mantle of the Order, sometimes so called,339.

Tomb, of Edward the Fourth, directed by Chapter heldat Eltham in 1516, to be erected on the spot wherehis corpse was interred, 123.

Tournament, in Smithfield, 46; described, 48.

Tournay, siege of, 169.

Tower, Garter’s, proceedings respecting, xlix.