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choofe to a£t after a Männer difägreeable to his ownTemper, and to that of his foreign Subjeds.

II. This Creation of Knighthood, it may be fartherobferved, was, at the Time of folemnizing a Mar-riage; and the Degree of Knighthood of the Bath hathbeen fince frequentJy conferred on the like Occafions.This Ceremony was perfbrmed upon one of the higheftPeftivals of the Year, tha Day of Pentecoß • in theChoice of which, it is not improbable, King Henrywas rather determined fbr doing (lieh an Ad of Grace,fince himfelfhad beenKnighted on that r Anniverfaryin the Year 1084.

III. A confiderable Number of young Gentlemen,by whom Geoffrey was attended, were/knighted withhim 5 and, conformable to that. Pradice, the fimeUfage hath been retained in fubfequent Creations.

IV. It may very reafonably be concluded, that inthe free and familiär Converfition which the Kinghad with this young Candidate, he miglit himfelf de-fcend to inftrud him in the Nature, and Duties ofthe Degree with which he was preparing to honour him;

r Mat. Paris, p. u. Numb. "JO.

/ Thus in Mr. Selden’r Copy, in his Titles of Honour, p- 640. Ejüs veroconfodales qui cum eo militi* fufcipienda muuus expeäabant, univerii byffoSc purpura innovantur.

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