ABafub Anno triceßmo octavo H E N R I C I OB avi 435

pus pnderiptum aderat non minori cum diligentia quam imperata erantperagebantur.

Quoniam trìgefimo ottavo Anno Régni Henrici Ottavi Arigli#, Francia',

&c Hibernia Regis victoriofiftìmi, fidei defènlôris,

dies ille Parafceves, quo Dominus nöfter JefusChriftus pro generis humani lai u te Cruci affixus eft, die n vicefimo tertioMenfis Aprilis contingebat, qui quidem dies Divo etiam Georgia lacer 'effefolet ; Ceremoniæ°illæ, quæ in Dei honorem ac Sancii Georgii memo-riam haberi folitæ font, in Menfis Mati diem tertium prorogantur. Adpriores igitur ejus diei velperas Rege apiid Grenewichiam agente, prælènti-»bus Domino Rußeil, Domino St. John, Domino Tho. Cheyney, DominoAnthonio Brown, Domino Johanne Gage, Domino Anthonio Wingefelde,Domino Anthonio Sayntleger, & Domino Wryothefiey nobililfimi OrdinisGarterii Equitibus, quoniam Rex iple folenriiis lacris commode adelfè nori P* 29%poterat ; Dominum Rußell leered Sigilli Regii Cuftodem (ut per literas àMajeftate Regià in id datas dilucidius apparet) locum lirnm tenentem con-ftituit: Sub pofteriores ejus diei vefperas ad aftuetam Equitum infigniunlnomenclaturam in hunc modum procedebant.

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which, when the appointed Time came, was done with as much Exacfnefsas was enjoined.

Forafmuch as in the thirty eighth Tear of the Reign of Henry the Eighth,the mofi victorious King of England, France and Ireland, Defender of theFaith, the Day of our Lord Jefus Chrifi’s Crucifixion for the Salvation of Man-hind, happened on the n twenty third of April, which was alfo St. Georg esDay, the Ceremonies which were wont to he ufed in Honour of God and Me-mory of St. George, were put off to the third of May. At the firfi Fejperstherefore of that Day, the King being at Greenw ich and having with himLord Ruffell, Lord St. John, Sir Thomas Cheyney, Sir Anthony Brown,Sir John Gage, S/r Anthony Wingfeld, Sir Anthony Saintleger, and LordWriothelly Knights cf the mofi noble Order of the Garter, lecaufe the Kinghimfelf could not conveniently be prefent at the facred Solemnities, he appointedthe Lord Ruffell Keeper of the Privy Seal {as appears more fully by the KingsLetters to that Purpofe) his Deputy. At the latter Fejpèrs of that Day, theyproceeded to the ufual giving in the Karnes of eminent Knights after thisManner.

n In the Partition Book of the Heralds ‘tis entred f lemnity ms kept on Low Sunday after Eafter Day tSt. George’s Day falling on Good*Fryday, the So- j (which then was upon 3 May.)

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