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共 49 段- AND tho’ the Word _Miles_ signified at first any legally inr
- § 3. THE Institutions of the latter Sort were after a while
- THIS is the principal Order in _Spain_, and had its Title of
- IN Times of extraordinary Danger, and great Battles, they we
- TOOK its Original from _Lewis_ of _France_, to honour the Co
- WAS erected in the City of _Anjou_, 1464. or according to th
- About the 34th of _Ed._ III. it is presumed the most conside
- THE Canons are particularly oblig’d to pray for the Sovereig
- To these Thirteen Alms-Knights, _temp. Car._ I. Five more we
- THUS stood the Lands accounted for till the Settlement made
- BY the Symbols of this Garter the Knights are reminded, with
- 16. JOURNYING near _Windsor_, in Honour of the Place, unless
- KING _Charles_ I. design’d and endeavour’d the most compleat
- ANOTHER antique Instance is that Escutcheon, _Sable, Three O
- IN King _Richard_ II’s Reign, the little Garters that adorne
- AT what Time the Collar of SS’_s_ came into _England_ is not
- THE Prelate is the first and primier Officer, and in the Fou
- AT the first Erection of this Office, the Chancellor had no
- IN succeeding times the Sovereign thought fit to augment thi
- But of later Date, this formal Way of Summons by Letter, hat
- AND it is further manifest, by the Scrutiny there inserted,
- AND besides those Examples which shew the Nominations have b
- The 2d Point to treat on is, That no one is qualified for El
- And in like manner, _Anno_ 15 _Charles_ I. when the Chancell
- Within a few Days after Prince _Rupert_ was elected into thi
- And as the Statute was carefully observed, with reference to
- From hence it is evident, that these elect Knights were inst
- Custom and Peace contributed to make the Cavalcades more glo
- If the Installation be dispatched by Commissioners, then the
- The Form of the ancient Oath appointed by the Statutes of In
- _Of setting up the Knight’s Atchievements._
- It does not appear that King _Hen._ VIII. or any of his Succ
- There is also to be provided a large purple Velvet Cushion,
- _The Installation of a Stranger by Proxy._
- All that we find to prohibit his Entrance therein, is an Exp
- Next, the _Register_ and _Garter_ claim both Droits and Fees
- § 10. Though the Prorogations of the Grand Feast have been o
- This Decree was confirm’d, _Anno_ 6 _Car._ I. the Dean and C
- And doubtless, they proceeded in the same Order to the Chapp
- And as the _Knights-Companions_ have been often excus’d for
- Next, the five Officers of the _Order_ follow, who ascending
- The Sovereign being come to the upper _Haut Pas_ kneels, at
- This Decree is still in full force, and we shall only furthe
- There is nothing on this farther observable, than what relat
- _Quarterly first and fourth Or, three Pales Gules_, the Arms
- _Comme son Frere_, No. 281. but without the _Estoil_.
- _Sable, a Lyon rampant Argent, on a Canton of the second, St
- VIII. _Item_, That every one on Saynt _George_’s Even, that
- XXV. _Item_, It ys agreed, That every Knight within the Yere