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forty shillings from every Baron, or his peer; one hundred shillings from everyEarl, or his peer; and ten pounds from every Duke, or his peer, severally, onthe same account.” 6 About Christmas 1449, Edmond and Jasper Tudor, theKing’s uterine brothers, two sons of the Earl of Salisbury, and three otherpersons, were made Knights of the Bath at Greenwich. 7

At the Coronation of King Edward the Fourth, his brothers, the Dukes ofClarence and Gloucester, the sons and heirs apparent of the Duke of Norfolk,and of the Earl of Arundel, and twenty-eight other persons, were made Knightsof the Bath; and a contemporary Chronicler states, that “ on the 26th ofJanuary, the King removed from Shene; rode straight unto the Tower ofLondon and rested there all night, whereas on the morrow, he made thirty-twoKnights of the Bath, the which day at afternoon, departing from the Tower, inlike good order as they came thither, these thirty-two new Knights precedingimmediately before the King in their gowns and hoods, and tokens of whitesilk upon their shoulders, as is accustomed at the Bath, and so in this goodlyorder he was brought to Westminster, whereas on the morrow being St. Peter’sday and Sunday, he was solemnly Crowned.” 8 Several Knights of the Bathwere made at the Coronation of the Queen in 1464, four of whom were citizensof London. 9 By a Statute passed in 1468, prohibiting the giving of Liveries,it was provided, that it should not extend to any Livery given at the King’s orQueen’s Coronation, the Installation of a Bishop, the creation, or marriage ofany Lord or Lady of estate, or “ at the making of any Knights of the Bath.” 10The next creation was in 1475, when the Prince of Wales and Duke of York,the two sons of King Edward the Fourth, received the honours of Chivalry,on which occasion the King’s nephew, the young Earl of Lincoln, the Queen’stwo sons, Thomas Marquis of Dorset, and Lord Richard Grey, the Earls ofShrewsbury and Wiltshire, and many other of the young Nobility, togetherwith the Chief Justice of the King’s Bench, and the learned Judge Lyttelton,were made Knights of the Bath, 11 The Marquis of Dorset is said to haveworn his Robe of Marquess above that of his Knighthood, “ and he began theTable of Knights in St. Edward’s Chamber, and gave to the Officers of Arms

6 Rot. Patent. 25 Hen. VI. p. 2. m. 5.—Anstis, Appendix, No. xliv. 7 William of Worcester

p. 475. 8 Fragment at the end of Sprot’s Chronicle, ed. Hearne.—Anstis, Appendix, No. xlvii/

9 Ibid, and Anstis, Appendix, No. xlviii. 10 Stat. 8 Edw. IV. c. 2.

11 Contemporary MS. penes Anstis, Appendix, No. li.