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ancient houses coming, being no Knights of this his Realm, to take the Order ofKnighthood, and to repair unto the Tower of London the twenty-second day ofJune, and that day to serve the King of his dinner, and they that shall be madeKnights to bear dishes unto the King that said day, in token that they shallnever bear none after that day, and to be made Knights of the Bath, in theTower of London, the twenty-third day of June next coming, called the evenof his Coronation, and that all manner things that belongeth to so great atriumph may be done honourably and orderly disposed, whose names dothfollow in order, as they were made. 7 The order of the creations of the Knightsof the Bath to be understand by the Heralds, and to be conveyed. That done,the King at his pleasure may go unto his dinner, and that day it hath beenaccustomed, such noble persons, as are then made Knights of the Bath, inorder as they were made, to sit in the hall at one board, if it may be, or at twoboards, and there to be served honourably, and their Squires to attend them.” 8

At the Coronation of Queen Anne Boleyn, in May 1533, the Marquess ofDorset, the Earl of Derby, the sons and heirs apparent of the Earls of Cumber-land, Sussex and Huntingdon, the Lords Monteagle and Yaux, and ten otherpersons, were made Knights of the Bath; 9 but it does not appear that anyother creations took place in that reign. It has been already observed, 1 thatKing Henry the Eighth did not confer the Garter upon his son, PrinceEdward; but it must certainly have been intended to admit him to the honoursof Knighthood, because his Robes as a Knight of the Bath were actuallyprepared. 2 He was not, however, Knighted until after his Accession to theThrone.

From want of time, the ancient ceremonies were omitted when Knights werecreated, at the Coronation of King Edward the Sixth, but forty persons, amongwhom were the young Duke of Suffolk, and his brother Lord Charles Brandon,the Earl of Hertford, eldest son of the Protector, the Earls of Oxford andOrmond, seven Barons, the eldest sons of the Lords Scrope and Windsor, SirFrancis Russell, Sir Henry Seymour, Sir George Yernon, Sir Edmond Moly-neux, a Serjeant-at-Law, Sir Christopher Barker, Garter King of Arms, and a

7 See their names in the Appendix.

8 Anstis, Appendix, No. lxii. from a MS. in the College of Arms.

9 Ibid. No. Exili. Harl. MS. 41. 1 History of the Order of the Garter, p. 167.

2 Anstis, Appendix, No. lxiv.