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& animi (iugulare deceleri um a Supremo miflà pronunciabit, uri eifdenihonoretur, ut cui tam bene atque honorifice quam Principi cuivis altericuperet, & idcirco qualiacunq-, forent æqui bonique confidere, & gratahabere rogitaret, & ut in fui memoriam atque Ordinis uti vellet.

Ubi peroratum fuerit, CommiJffionem fuam ei, ad quem mittuntur,tradent, quæ fiibinde legi ac pronunciali debet. Tunc Oratorum quiEcclefiafticus fuerit, juxta vim Statutorum, ad quæ vinciri debet, jura- P- 3 10mentum expofcat, quod & in formam debitam ipfe præftabit. Forma veroalibi in loco fublequitur.

Juramento fic accepto, fi quis Oratorum hujus Ordinis extiterit, autalioqui nobiliflimus eorum, modo quo poterit honorabiliore, tybiæ illiuspræluftre fubligaculum inducet, interim Ecclefiallico, vel fi defit, aliomagis ad id idoneo dicente.

Ad laudem atque honorem omnipotentis Dei, intemeratæ Matris ejus,

& Sanóti Georgi Martyris cinge tybiam tuam hoc infigni Subligaculo, cir-cumferens in honorem tui, & in fignum, ac memoriam illuftrifiimi Or-dinis, nulquam oblivioni daturus, aut omifliirus, quod eo moneris, utvaleas, inquam, & velis in judo bello, quod fidum inibis, liare firmi-ter, agere fortiter, & feliciter omnino vincere.

Idem inde nobilis purpuream Togam illum induet eo dicente, quiprius.

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the Enfigns are to he brought forth , ‘which he (hall declare 'were fent by theSovereign out of the great Love and fingular AffeBion of his Hearty that hemight be honoured with them y as being a Prince to whom he wified as welland honorably as to any other whatever, and therefore entreats him kindly toaccept them in good Party and ufe them in Remembrance of him and his Order.

The Speech being ended, they Jhall deliver their Commifßon to him to whomthey are fent, which ought to be read aloud , one of the Emhafadors being anEccleßaßick, ßatt earneßly require the Oath according to the Tenour of theStatutes which he ought to obferve, which he fiali take in due Form, whichfollows hereafter in its proper Place.

The Oath being thus taken, if either of the Embaffadors be [ a Companion ]of this Order, otherwife the moß noble of them, fiali tie about his Leg themoß noble Garter in the moß honourable Manner, the Eccleßaßick, or tf nofuch one \in the Embaßy ] another moß ft for this Purpofe faying.

To the Laud and Honour of Almighty God, his immaculate Mother andSt. George the Martyr, tie your Leg with this noble Garter, wearing it foryour Honour, and in Token and Remembrance of this moß noble Order, neverforgetting or omitting, that thereby you be admonified, and be enabled andwilling in all jufi War, which you fiali engage in, to ßandßrmly, aB valiantlyand happily to conquer throughly.

Then the fame Nobleman fiali put on him the Purple Sur coat, another asbefore faying.

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