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exeuntes more virorum Ecclefiallicomm humiliter inclinando* Altaris fâ-cramento deferent* ut fèmper edam alias in recefiu. Turn per chorumlini præcedent, ad domum confultoriam, fi terciarum hora, vel alia fue-rit, in qua celebrandum fit Concilium. Supremus autem fèmper eos or-dine fequetur. Sin alias eum contingat abefle, fimiliter ab eo deputatus*poflremus incedet. Mox confcenfis equis Supremum illinc cæteri præ-ibunt* ad locum per Statuta fignatum. Si vero Celebritas inflet, quot-annis obfervanda : pullatis a prandio campanis quoties ex More conve-nerit, fimilibus indumentis & eodem inceflu redibunt ad Vefperas* & re- P* 308.'liquas poflridie ac perendie Ceremonias. Hymnus autem Divæ VirginisMaria dum canitur in Vefperis* & poll Evangelii le&ionem fblennibuscircum Aram prius impletis, Prælatus Ordinis vel qui geret vices ejus* &

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inde exeant finguli de Stallis fuis per gradus chori humiliando fe quilibetad Altare more virorum Ecclefiallicomm qualibet vice qua fic recedunt.Hæc communiter in privatis accefhbus Regiis juxta rei exigentiam obfer-vari debent per medium Chori procedentes ufcp ad locum capituli pro ca-pitulo celebrando hora Terciarum, Superior Ordinis poliremo ficut inomni proceffione eos infèquente* & confèquenter in ejus abfentia id idemfaciente ejus Deputato* quibus peradis afcenfis equis fuis procedant morefolito inducentes .Superiorem in locum per Statutum limitatum.

Hac obfervanda funt in Vigilia & folennitate feßi Sancii Georgii fpecialiter.

Et pofl prandium pulfàtis interim campanis vicibus necefîàriis èodemordine redeant ad primas vefperas feflivius celebrandas induti Liberata Or-dinis anni pracedentis qua ultra noBem illam uti non folebant -, Veruntamen in-fìgnia Ordinis Garteri Liberata pradiBa videlicet Garteria ad ornamenta capellacollegii antediBi refervari folebat ab antiquo. Infuper dum Pars Mag-nificat cantatur a choro* peradis folempniis circa altare principaleper Prælatum Ordinis feu per gerentem pro tempore vices fuas & per

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to the Manner of Ecclefiafiicks humbly bowing [pay] Deference to the Sacra-ment of the Altar, as alfo always at other Times of their going out [of theirStalls] Then they fiali proceed through the Choir two [and two] to the Chapter-houfe, if it be the Hour of Tierce or any other Hour * in which a Chapter isto be held, But the Sovereign fiali always follow them * [being the laß in theProceßon] and if he fiould happen to be abfent [the Perfori] to be deputed byhim fiali go laß , and prefently after [the Companions] having mounted theirHorfes fiali preceed the Sovereign to the Place appointed by the Statutes.

But when the Feafi approaches which is to be yearly kept, after Dinner theBells being rung , as is cußomary as often as this Affembly is held [the Com-panions] being robed in the like Veßments, and proceeding in the fame Method *fiali return to the [firß] Vefpers, and to the remaining Ceremonies of the nextDay and the following one. But while the Hymn of the Blejfed Virgin [theMagnificat] is fingmg in the Vefpers, and after the reading the Gofpel , the So-lemnities about the Altar being firfl performed, the Prelate of the Order, or his

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