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that Gentlemen under Age, who were to be advanced totheKnighthood of the Bathy had Letters Miflive, from theCrown,, immediately direded to them, or to their Guar-dians, requiring them to receive that Degree upon fo-lemn Occafions: And confequenrly, it feems, no Mi-nor was under any Engagement to receive it, by Virtueof any Mandate diredted to the Sheriff. For, as tothis Writ of 34 Edward I, now under Confideration,it may be proper to advertife, that it is only a Pro-clamation of Favour or Indulgence, inviting fuchPerfons, who were not already Knights, <c qui milites“ non funt, & milites ejfe 'voluerinty ” and were defirousto receive Knighthood, that they might appear to ac-cept that Degree ; and not a Proclamation, by Way ofCommand, or ftridt authoritative Compulfion to thofe,who were under any Engagement by Tenure to beKnighted, or elfe might be fined; in which Cafe, theClaufe was <f omnesy qui milites ejfe debent 3 & non fünf ’all fuch, who ought to be Knights, and are not fo j andthe Sheriff is not here diredfed, or empowered perfo-nally to fiimmon, or to return the Names of any Per-fons ; which are the Terms ufed in the Form of theWrits, that command Perfons, obliged by Virtue oftheir Tenures, to take Knighthood upon them : It ishighly probable, that in regard to the ready and loyalZeal of thofe, who, for the Kings Service and Plea-fure, made a voluntary Tender of themfelves, to ac-cept Knighthood on tliis Occafion, and did not accept

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