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APPENDICES.

Tua, quando in federn fuam introducendus Windeforum adveniet, menfeac die con ftitutis, quemadmodum òc Equites ante folebant habere : Ethæ noflræ iiteræ tibi tutelares erunt femper inpoflerum. N. Sub Sigillonoflro menfe ac die.

In vigilia celebritatis, amictu feu liverata (quam vocant) Ordinis annifuperioris ad vefperas induentur, quâ ultra nodem illam uti non (ole-bant, fed hujufcemodi Ordinis infìgnia atq-, ornamenta in ufiim Collegiifolebant afTervari.

Forma litevarum quœ remittuntur a celebrantibus.

N Overint univerfi per præfêntes literas nos Priorem Sc Conventumordinis fratrum N. mandato ac munere præclaro illuftriflìmi Do*mini noftri Regis Henrici Ottavi, noftri omniumq; Chrifti pauperum be-nefadoris precipui quadringentas miflas, quinque cereis in Exequiis &:mifla aliis folemniore honorifice accenfis, pro anima piæ memoriæ mag-nifici Domini N. nuper defundi celebraffe. Sigillum noftrum commune.

Rex invidiffimus Hernicus OBavus Anno regni fui fexto decimo flatuit, utjuxta quod per Statutorum articulos ante declararat, atq; explanarat, Equi-tes omnes, prout in Choro (edes habebant, fic & incederent, flarent, atq;

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•will line that Veßment, for (as tis called) his Livery, when he ßall come toWindfor to be introduced into his Stall on the Month and Day appointed, asthe Knights heretofore ufed to have : And tfefe our Letters fiali for ever here-after defend you. N. Under our Seal the Day and Tear.

In the Eve of the Feßival [the Companions ] fiali be robed in the Habit orLivery (as they call it) of the Order of the former Tear at the Vefpers , whichthey are not accuflomed to ufe after that Night, but thofe Enßgns and Orna-ments of the Order ufed to be kept for the Ufe of the College.

The Form of the Letters which are tranfmitted from thofe that celebrate[Mafîès for the deceafed Companions.]

.y' NOW all Perfons by thefe prefent Letters that we the Prior and Con-

vent of the Freres N. have celebrated at the Command and fingular •Reward of our moß illußrious Lord our King Henry the Eighth, a principalBenefaBor to us, and all the Poor of Chriß , four hundred Majfes, five Torchesbeen honourably lighted in the Exequies and Mafs, for the Soul of the magnificentLord N. lately deceafed of pious Memory. Our Common Seal.

The moß invincible King Henry the Eighth, in the fixteenth Tear of hisReign decreed, that according as he had before declared and explained the Ar-ticles of the Statutes ,» all the Knights, as they fiali have their Stalls in theChoir, fo they fljould go [in Proceßons , ] fand, andfit at the Table, and not ac-cording to the Honour of their Births or [Titles] of their Efiates, utilefs per-haps