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manded to record their Pedigrees and Coats of Arms in the College of Arms,paying therefore the accustomed Fees, which entries the Genealogist was totranscribe and enter in the Books of the Order, receiving for the same, fromevery Knight and Esquire 6s. 8 d. for the first Descent or Generation in suchPedigrees, and for every additional Descent 5s., and for entering the Arms ofa Knight <£1. 10s. (which were the usual Fees paid by the Crown when it dis-charged the expences incurred by the Investiture of any Knight-Elect) and forentering the Arms of each Esquire, 15s. 8 On the 13th of July 1820, the fol-lowing Statute was issued:

“ GEORGE R.

‘ George the Fourth, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of‘ Great Britain and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and Sovereign of the‘ Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, to all to whom these presents£ shall come, Greeting: Whereas in and by the Statutes of Our said Order it is‘ provided that We the Sovereign thereof shall have the power of adding to the‘ same from time to time, and of explaining any particular therein, tfs to Us shall‘ seem expedient; all which additions and explanations, under Our Sign‘ Manual, are to be taken as part and parcel of the Statutes of Our said Order:

‘ And whereas in and by a certain Royal Ordinance and Declaration, bearing‘ date the second day of January in the year One thousand eight hundred and‘ fifteen, 9 Our Royal Father, of blessed memory, Sovereign of the said Most‘ Honourable Military Order, did ordain and declare that the then Knights£ Companions of the said Order should thenceforward be, and be styled, Knights£ Grand Crosses of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, and form£ the First and Principal Class of the whole Order, augmented, constituted, and£ divided into three several Classes, as Our said late Royal Father did thereby‘ direct and appoint; and that the said Knights Grand Crosses, and the Knights£ Grand Crosses to be thereafter nominated, should be subject to the same rules£ and ordinances, to which the Knights Companions of the said Order had£ theretofore been subject, and should have, hold, and enjoy all and singular the£ rights, privileges, immunities and advantages, which the Knights Companions£ of the said Order had heretofore held and enjoyed by virtue of the Statutes£ thereof: And whereas, we have been informed that doubts have arisen as to£ the liability of the Knights Grand Crosses, and Extra Knights Grand Crosses,

8 Vide p. 105, antea.

9 Vide p. 126, antea.