for his own and the Princes expeditions During the Minority of this King there were several Matches proposed for him though none took but the last and first his Father designed to marry him to the Lady Margaret Daughter of William Earl of Hanow Holland Zeland and Lord of Frisia who being in the third degree of Consanguinity a Letter was dispatched to the Pope dated the 10. of December in the 12. year of his Fathers Reign for obtaining his Dispensation because of their nearness of blood Secondly with the Lady Sibilla Daughter to Robert Earl of Hanow and Zeland Lord of Frisia as appears from a like Letter to the Pope dated the 2. of November in the following year Thirdly with the Daughter of Iames King of Arragon for which affair were commissionated Alexander Archbishop of Dublin Edmund Earl of Kent King Edward the Second's Brother and William de Weston Canon of Lincoln Doctor of Laws the Commission bore Teste the 30. of March an 17. E. 2. It appears by the Kings Letters of the 16. of February following that her name was Iolant and King Iames her Father stiled Rex Aragoniae Valenciae Corsâ—ae Comes Barch Sanctae Rom. Ecclesiae Vexillarius Admirallus Capitaneus Generalis to whom the King then also sent Sir Edmund Bacon Sir Robert Thorpe Mr. Iohn Heldesley Canon of Chester to proceed further in this matter Fourthly with the Lady Alonar Sister to Alphonsus King of Spain to which purpose Iohn Stoner William de Berne Lord of Lescune William de Weston Canon of Lincolne and Peter de Galicano Canon of Roan were impowered by a Commission dated the 6. of April an 18. E. 2. as also to treat and conclude a marriage between the said King Alphonsus and Elianor King Edward's Sister Besides these the King of Portugal sent Ambassadors over hither to propose a marriage between this Prince and his Daughter to whom the King by Letter dated the 15. of April an 19. E. 2. directed thus Magnifico Principi Domino Alfonso Dei gratiâ Portugaliae Algarbiae Regi illustri amico suo charissimo acquainting him with the Treaty of marriage begun between his Son and the King of Spain's Sister and that because of neerness of blood he had dispatcht a Letter to the Pope for his Dispensation that he had received no account as then of the issue of that Affair that his Son was gone into France to do Homage for the Dukedom of Aquitaine during all which it was not fit for him to begin any new Treaty but if that succeeded not he would then confer with his Ambassador in this particular But last of all in the following year the Queen and Duke having left France went to the Earl of Henault's Court where a Contract past between him and one of the Earls Daughters and not long after his Coronation the marriage was consummate in reference to which R. Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield was constituted the King's Ambassador to contract either espousals or marriage in the King's Name with Philippa that Earls Daughter who forthwith took his Journey to Valenciens and the Popes Dispensation being gained she was there married to King Edward by Proxie By this Lady he was Father to 7 Sons all except two that dyed young men of great renown in that Age namely Edward Prince of Wales and Guyenne signally famous all over Europe and commonly called the Black Prince William of Hatfield Lyonell of Antwerp Duke of Clarence and Earl of Vlster Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster and Aquitaine King of Castile and Leon Edmund of Langley Earl of Cambridge and Duke of York William of Windesor and Thomas of Woodstock Earl of Buckingham and Duke of Gloucester His Daughters were five Isabell Wife to Ingelram de Coucy Earl of Bedford Ioan married by Proxie to Peter eldest Son to Alphonsus King of Castile and Leon but died in her journey thither Blanch died young Mary Wife to Iohn Montford Duke of Britagne and Margaret Wife to Iohn de Hastings Earl of Penbroke Besides these he had a natural Son named Nicholas who was Abbot of Westminster and lies buried in Westminster before the Altar of St. Blase His Queen fell sick at Windesor Castle and there dyed before him viz. on the day of the Assumption of our blessed Lady an 43. E. 3. whose Exequies and Interment he caused to be solemnized with great magnificence He himself dyed the 21. of June at his Mannor of Shene in Surrey after he had reigned 50 years 4 Months and 28 days and lies interred on the South side of St. Edward's Chappel in Westminster Abbey under a stately Monument having thereon his Portraicture at full length SECT III. Some account of the first 25 Knights-Companions 1. Edward Prince of Wales THis Noble and Valiant Prince was born at Woodstock the 15. of Iune An. Dom. 1330. at ten a Clock in the Morning in the Scheme of whose Nativity found among the Collections of that famous Mathematician Mr. Thomas Allen of Gloucester-Hall in Oxford the 9. degree of Virgo ascends the 3. of Gemini culminates and the Planets are thus posited gr ♄ in 16 ♌ ♃ in 12 ♠♂ in 11 ♉ ☉ in 1 ♋ ♀ in 19 ♊ ☿ in 18 ♊ ♃ in 10 ♊ â— in 22 ♋ â— in 22 ♑ â™ in 19 ♌ So welcome to his Father was the News of his Birth that he granted to Tho. Priour who brought it 40 Marks per annum out of his Exchequer for life until he should setle on him Lands to that annual value Afterwards he gave to Ioane de Oxenford this Prince's Nurse 10 l. per annum out of his Exchequer during her life until he or his Heirs should setle that yearly value in Lands or Rents upon her And the next day a yearly Pension of 10 Marks out of his Exchequer also for life on Matilda Plumpton Bersatrix or Rocker to this young Prince till Lands of that value were in like manner provided for her Before he was three years old the King intended to make some considerable provision for him though he had before made him an annual allowance for the expences of his House and several Gifts did by his Charter dated 18. May in the 7. year of his Reign grant to him by the Title of Edward his most dear and eldest Son the County of Chester the Castles of Chester Beston Rothelan and Flynt and all his Lands there as also the Cantred and Land of Englefield with their appurtenances to him and his Heirs Kings of England together with all Knights Fees Advowsons Liberties Royalties and all other things belonging to the said Country Castles Lands and Cantreds aswell in England as in Wales and the Marches thereof as fully and under the same conditions as himself received them before he was King And thence forward he had the Title of Earl of Chester added to his
them the substance of those of the Garter and being of later Institution cannot but be acknowledged Copies from this Original so we here think it requisite to exhibit the manner of Investiture with the Habit and Ensigns of the Order of St. Michael of our King Edward the Sixth Thomas Duke of Norfolk and Robert Earl of Leicester to the end the Reader may also observe that the order of our Ceremonies used at the Investiture of a Knight-Companion of the Garter is also the Precedent to theirs of St. Michael The manner of receiving the Order of Saint Mychaell by King Edward the Sixth FIrst the King's Majesty to be in his Privy Chamber accompanied with his Noble-men and all them of the Order of the Garter to have their Collars about their necks and the French King's Ambassador to enter with the Order and so after his obeysance the proposition to be given and after the proposition done the King's Majesty must put off his uppermost garment the Ambassador shall invest him with the Robes of that and afterwards when the King is full invested then all the Noblemen to proceed afore the King and the Ambassadors which be in Commission to go afore the King with the Noble-men in order to the Chappel and after them the two French Lords then the King of Arms then the Sword then the King's Majesty himself then the Lord Chamberlain and the Vice-Chamberlain to bear the train of the Robes and in this order to proceed to the Chappel and the King to go into his Stall and the other into their Stalls and at the Offering time the King's Majesty to Offer and the greatest man about the King to give the King his Offring and then the two other to offer according to their Estates when the King is in his Stall and when all the Service is done they to proceed in like order as they came to the Chappel to the place appointed for Dinner and none to sit at the King's Board but only the two Knights which be of the same Order of France and after Dinner the King's Majesty to put off his Robes and to near such Apparel as shall please his Majesty Note the King's Majesty when he passeth by the French King's Stall is to make but only a beck with his head Add hereunto That King Edward the Sixth observed the Anniversary of St. Michael after the same manner and order as Strangers were long before obliged to do that of St. George and caused his Arms surrounded with the Order of St. Michael to be set up in his Chappel at Hampton Court each michaelmas-Michaelmas-day after his acceptation of that Order during his life The order and manner of furnishing the Chappel at the Queen's Palace of Westminster against Thursday the 24. of January 1565. Anno. 8. Eliz. Reginae that the Duke of Norfolk and Earl of Leicester received the Order of Saint Michael there ITem the said Chappel both before and behind the Stalls to the ground was hanged with rich Arras and the upper part from the Table of Administration to the Stalls hanged with like Stuff which said Table was richly garnished with Plate and Iewels as followeth First to the wall was set in a row five gilt Bâ—sins and afore them another row and in the middle a gilt Cross between two greâ—t gilt Cups covered garnished with Stone a Ship or Ark likewise garnished a Fountain of Mother of Pearl and a pair of gilt Candlesticks afore that another row in the middle whereof was set a rich Bason and Ewer gilt railed over with Gold between two great Mawdlyn Cups with Covers two great Leywres two Cruâ—ts and a Pax all gilt and over the said Table on the wall upon the Arras was fastned a fronte of Cloth of silver embroidered with Angels of Gold and before the said Table to the ground a front of the same suit The Dean's Stall was garnished with Cushens and a rich Cloth of Estate whereon was set within a black Table the Arms of the French King within his own Order under a Crown Imperial the ground palee of 6. Blue White and Orange Tawney without any style Then on the same side over the 6. Stall on the Arras hanged a like Table with the Arms within the Order Crest and Supporters of the Deputy Mounsâ—eur Remboilliet with a Cushen before him the Table palee of six Ar. and Sa. the Arms Sab. a Saulter Ar. the Crest a Lyon couchant Ar. collored Or his supporters two Woodmen with Clubs in their hands the great end downward and under his Style written viz. Messier Iaques D'angennes Seigneur de Remboilliet Chivaler de L'ordre du Roy Capitaine des Cinquantes hommes des Armes de ses Ordonnances On the other side on the Arras over the eight Stall hanged a little Table palee of six Ar. and Gu. with the Arms within that Order of the Duke of Norfolk under a Dukes Crown with no Crest nor Supporters but his Style De treshault puissant tresnoble Prince Thomas Dac de Norfolk Conte Marishall D'angleterre Seigneur de Mowbrey Segrave de Brews Chivaler de tresnoble Ordre de la Jarritier aussi du tresnoble Ordre de St. Michell On the third Stall beneath on the same side hanged a like Table Palee of six Or Az. with the Arms in that Order of the Earle of Leicester under an Earls Crown without Crest or Supporters but his Style Du tresnoble puissant Seigneur Robert Conte de Leicester Baron de Denbeigh Chivaler du tres-noble c. Grand Escuyer de la Royne nostre Souveraigne On the ground before the Duke and Earls Stall stood two Chairs with Cushens for them to sit on if they pleased till they took their Stalls And about the Stalls on the South side was set a Chair Carpet and Cushen where the Embassador Leger sate all the Ceremony time And below afore the Deputy's Stall was set a Form covered with a Carpet for Monsieur Doze alias St. Michell to sit on And above that on either side were Tables and Forms for the Gentlemen and Children of the Chappel The receiving of the said Order of St. Michaell Thursday the 24. of January Anno 8. Reg. Elizab. ITem about 10. of the Clock the said day the Embassador Leger with Mounsieur Remboilliet the French King's Deputy together with the other Lords and Gentlemen accompanied with certain English Gentlemen came to the Court at the Queen's Palace of Westminster where at the Gate they were met by the Earl of Warwick and others and conveyed up to the Queen 's great Closset whither after a while came the Duke of Norfolk and Earl of Leicester And for that the said Duke and Deputy had not till then seen either other they then embraced each other and then communed a while And then the said Deputy left the same Lords there and he with Mounsieur Doze alias St. Michaell Mr. Garter and others went down through the Chappel into
Stilo Novo I made my self ready to deliver the Garter and about 10 of the Clock went to Court conducted by a Gentleman sent of purpose when I came there I found all things ready as I had designed and presently the Elector came and set himself under the Cloth of State a Table standing by him whereon to lay the Garter c. Then I presently retired into another Chamber and put on my Coat of Arms having laid on a Velvet Cushen his Cloak the Garter George and his Majesty's Letter which was again delivered me as I had proposed to be then publickly read so having made my three Reverences I approached near his Electoral Highness and then laid down the Cushen and applied my self by way of introduction in the French Tongue to give an account of my Employment and therein again delivered to his Highness his Majesty's Letter which he re-delivered me Then having finished my introduction I read openly his Majesty's Letter which done I again delivered it to him and kneeled down and put on the Garter then the George and lastly the Cloak and so proceeded with the rest of my Harrangue which done the Elector in few words returned humble thanks to his Majesty for the great honor he had done him in making him Companion of so Noble and worthy an Order and was likewise pleased to give me thanks for the pains I had taken in bringing it unto him so I made my Reverences and departed to put off my Coat During the time of exercising my Function I saw him very well pleased with it and after all the Company present being his Council and Servants congratulated his admission Presently after his Highness came forth to Dinner with the accustomed company and as formerly he drank to me his Majesty's Health afterwards the Duke of Zimerne began his Highness Health to me and her Majesty of Bohemia's Health and the Electresses passing Dinner was ended so being weary I went not into the Elector's Chamber but returned to my Lodging where I had not been long but the Elector accompanied with the Duke of Zimerne and most of his Court came to the Escure to see his Horses so I presently went down to wait upon his Highness who used me with high civility causing me to put on my Hat for by the way at home I never saw him covered at first I saw his Stables full of excellent Horses at least 30 of several breeds for the Great Saddle thence he went up Stairs the Stable being a quadrangle well built and the Rooms above divided into six or eight Rooms all full of Carbines Pistols Swords rich Armour c. of divers fashions and richness and the two last of very rich Saddles of all fashions and Furniture for Horses many of them set with Turquoises Rubies Emeralds c. and one set with Diamonds which done his Highness took his Coach and departed That Evening I had a Supper at my Lodging as formerly and the Mr. de la Lane grand Esquire came to me from his Highness telling me he had order if I pleased to wait upon me to shew me the Fort at Spanda and likewise that at Castrein 10 Miles off I excused the last as being far off and would take the opportunity of seeing the other at my return Fryday I went to Court again and then I delivered his Highness the Copy of my Speech and told him I had no more to do now but to attend his Commands resolving to depart about the middle of the week following The next day being Saturday I dined at Court as formerly The following day being Easter-day I went early to the Court and waited on the Elector to the Church which by a Gallery is joined to the Court I had the honor immediately to precede his Highness leading his Mother and to have a stool set me in his Cloâ—â— whiâ—â—â—â— at the lower end opposite to the Altar above his Chamberlain next the young Prince of Zimerne there I heard the Service and Sermon which ended the Elector anâ— all the Company went down to receive the Sacrament leaving me in the Closâ—t wâ—tâ— tâ—o Lutheran Gentlemen to bear me company all being done we returned in tâ—â— sâ—â—â— order we came to Church and went immediately to Dinner which was serveâ— up as formerly but the number of Dishes of all sorts surpassing other days yet there pâ—st only his Majesty's health and the Elector's at that time That Evening I suppeâ—â—t Court where the entertainment was agreeable to the former Monday after Dinner I represented to his Highness that having obeyed his Majesty in delivering the Order I had no more to do but to beseech his Highness 〈◊〉 to depart on Thursday and therefore prayed him to honor me with his Commâ—â—â—â— on Wednesday which he granted though at Dinner he proposed to me to go and see his strong Fort at Castrin 10 Dutch Miles thence but I excused it saying I would satisfie my self seeing that at Spanda two Miles in my way back which is of great strength both by art and situation The next day being Wednesday I sent to have audience to take my leave of his Highness in the Morning but I was put off till after Supper Yet I waited on his Highness to Dinner and after Dinner I waited upon the old Electress the Duke of Zimerne and his Lady and Children and the Princess Katherine and had Letters from most of them to the Queen of Bohemia and Princess Louisa with as great testimonies from them of their affection and good wishes to his Majesty and resâ—ect and thanks to my self as was imaginable After Supper that Evening I took my 〈◊〉 of his Electoral Highness who with all respect delivered me his Letter to his Majesty and then with extraordinary civility he dismissed me After that although the â—lectress had taken Phisick that day I had audience of her who gave me her Letter to the Queen of Bohemia and when I desired one to her Mother she told me she had written by the Post and so I returned to my Lodging The next morning being Thursday Monâ—â—eur le Cane Captain of his Highness Guard and Master of his Horse brought me a Present of 100 pieces of Gold weighing each 5 Daiats which were coined of purpose for me uâ—ing much Complement from the Elector his Master in the delivery and then presently by his Highness Order he brought me out of Town in one of his Highness Coaches there being two other Gentlemen with him and first he shewed me the place of casting Ordinance where there were newly cast two great whole Cannons and a very large Mortar-piece then through a very large Park we came to Spanda where at the entry of the Fort I was saluted with three pieces of Cannon and met by theâ— Governor who shewed me all the strength and provisions thereof which are in all kinds very great both of Brâ—ss Ordinanâ—e and Arms. After that I was very well entertained at Dinner by the Governor and
for Ioyous mayess thou bee To see thy Kyng so florethe in Dignetye This Realme a Seaforte stoode in greate Iupardie When that Noble Prince deceased King Edward Which in his Dayes gate honore full nobly After his decesse nighe hand all was marr'd Eich Regione this Land dispised mischefe when they hard Wherefore Rejoyse for joyous mayst thou be To see thy Kynge so floreth in high dignetye Fraunce Spayne Scoteland and Britanny Flanders also Three of them present keepinge thy Noble Feaste Of St. George in Windsor Ambassadors comying more Eich of them in honore bothe the more and the lesse Seeking thie grace to have thie Noble begesse Wherefore now Rejoise and joyous maisse thou be To see thy Kynge so florishing in dignetye O Knightly Ordere clothed in Robes with Gartere The Queen's grace and thy Mother clothed in the same The Nobles of thie Realme Riche in araye Aftere Lords Knights and Ladyes unto thy greate same Now shall all Embassadors know thie Noble Name By thy Feaste Royal nowe joyeous mayest thou be To see thie King so florishinge in dignety Here this day St. George Patron of this Place Honored with the Gartere these of Chevalrye Chaplenes synging processyon keeping the same With Archbushopes and Bushopes beseene nobly Much people presente to see the King Henrye Wherefore now St. George all we pray to thee To keepe our Soberaine in his dignetye At the Grand Feast held at Windesor an 4. Car. 1. the Queen her Ladies attending was conducted into St. George's Hall a little before the Soveraign's Stiles were proclaimed to see the Soveraign and Knights-Companions sit at Dinner At the Feast there celebrated by the present Soveraign in the 15. year of his Reign the Soveraign's Stiles were not proclaimed as many times heretofore until the second Course was set upon the Table but it was by the Soveraign's special direction because he expected the Queens coming into the Hall to see the state and glory of the Feast who staying something long and the second Course being already brought to the lower end of the Hall and the Soveraign seeing it stand there gave command it should be set upon the Table but that the proclaiming of his Stiles should be yet forborn Immediately after the Queen attended with her Ladies entred St. George's Hall and passing up the middle came to the Soveraign's Table where she was seated on his right hand Hereupon Garter accompanied by his Fellow Officers of Arms proceeded up the Hall and with usual Ceremonies proclaimed the Soveraign's Stiles in Latine French and English In like manner when the Duke of York was Installed at the Grand Feast an 13. Car. 2. his Dutchess desirous to see the order and grandeur of it was brought into the Hall assoon as the Soveraign and Knights-Companions were set and passing to the upper end of the Table where the Duke sat she stood on his left hand all Dinner while And it appears to be no new thing that the Queens of England have been desirous to behold the magnificence of this solemn Feast since we also find it recorded an 11. H. 8. that a little while before the second Course was carried in Queen Katherine and her Ladies came to the Gallery at the end of the Hall which was nobly prepared for her to see the honorable Services and Ceremonies there performed But besides the Queens of England the Ambassadors of Foreign Kings and States have counted it an honor to have view of this Grand Feast and amongst others we find the French Ambassador was an 15. Iac. R. conducted into the Banquetting-house at Whitehall by Sir Iohn Fenet then Assistant Master of the Ceremonies about the middle of Dinner where he placed himself at the left hand of the Soveraign and having staid there about an hour he descended to the Knights-Companions Table and there saluted the Prince and the rest of the Knights of the Order as he passed along before them and so departed At the Grand Feast kept at Whitehall an 19. Iac. R. to the sight of which the Polonian Ambassador Osalinskie Count Palatine of Sindomerskie having received an invitation he went about the middle of Dinner to see and salute the Soveraign the Prince and Knights-Companions as they sat at the Table and thence retired into the Council Chamber where he and the Arch Dukes Agent Van Mab had been before treated The next following year on the 22. of May which was the day assigned for holding the Grand Feast at Whitehall the Prince being the Soveraign's Lieutenant supplied his place in the Banquetting house at the Table whither Don Carlos de Coloma the Spanish Ambassador and Philip a second Son to the Lantgrave of Hesse sent hither on a negotiation of his Father were conducted the Spanish Ambassador standing at his Highness right hand and the young Lant-grave at his left most part of the Dinner An. 3. Car. 1. the Ambassador of Denmark Paul Rosenkrantz and Ioachimi and Monsieur Catz the Ambassadors and Deputies of the States were conducted altogether in the time of the second Course to the Soveraign's Table and there presented themselves at that side next the Soveraign's left hand and after passed down along before the Knights-Companions with their respects bestowed personally on each Knight as they deemed fitting and then returned by the way they entred But in this last instance where there were more Ambassadors than one and from several Princes a Question arose whether they were to perform this Ceremony of seeing the Feast and presenting themselves at the Dinner singly and alone or jointly and together insomuch that the Danish Ambassador was of the mind to perform it by himself which course was approved by the Lord Chamberlain But the States Ambassador Ioachimi telling him that he and the French Ambassador had been joint spectators at a Feast two or three years before at which time he was employed a Commissioner hither the Ambassador of Denmark came in along with the others Lastly for we would not be over tedious with Instances when the Grand Feast was held at Whitehall an 19. Car. 2. the Swedish Ambassador had not only a place assigned him in the Choire at the North side of the Altar to behold the Solemnities on the Feast day in the Chappel and when the Grand Procession passed into the Court he also went out at the little door on the North side of the Chappel up to the Greencloth Chamber whence he had a fair prospect of it and thence returned to behold the Ceremonies of the Offring But when the Soveraign was at Dinner he entred the Banquetting-house from the Privy Gallery and passing to the Soveraign's Table stood there on the left hand of the Queen thence he went to salute the Knights-Companions at their Table beginning with his Highness the Duke of York and at all these places was attended by Sir Charles Cotterell Master of the Ceremonies In
Homage of the Dutchy of Britagne and Earldom and Country of Flanders and all other demands that King Edward made or might make to the King of France for what cause soever except such things as by the said Treaty ought to be delivered to him and his Heirs It was also agreed that the King of France should be brought to Calais within three weeks after Midsummer following and should pay for his Ransom three Millions of Escuts of Gold two of which should be worth one Noble English And that there should be paid to King Edward 600000 Escuts of Gold within four Months accounting from the time of the King of France's arrival at Calais and within one year ensuing 400000 Escuts more and from that year every year following 400000 Escuts till the said three Millions were paid And it after appears in the same Roll that King Edward had received 400000 Escuts part of the first 600000 the 24. of October 1360. and for payment of the other 200000 he gave time till Christmas and Lady-day following Furthermore that certain of the Nobility of France aswel of those who were made Prisoners at Poictiers as others should remain Hostages in England for the King of France namely Lewis Earl of Anjou Iohn Earl of Poictiers both Sons to King Iohn the Duke of Orliens his Brother the Duke of Burbon the Earl of Bloys or his Brother the Earl of Alanson or the Lord Peter of Alanson his Brother the Earls of St. Pol Harecourt Pontieu Valentynois Brene Vandemont and Forest the Viscount Beaumont the Lords of Cousy Fienles Preaux St. Venaunt and Garenciers the Dauphin of Auvergne the Lords of Hangest and Montmorency Sir William of Craon Sir Lewis of Harecourt and Sir Iohn Ligny And the Names of the Prisoners were these Lord Philip of France the Earls of Eu Longuevil Pontieu Tankarvile Ieigny Sanceurre Dampmartin Ventadour Salebruche D'auceurre and Vendosme the Lords of Craon and Deruale the Marshal Dodenham and the Lord Daubyny Besides these the King of France was obliged to deliver at Calais within three Months after he departed thence in further pledge for the accomplishment of this Treaty four Persons of Paris two of each of the Towns here named to wit St. Omer Aras Amyens Beauves Lisle Douay Tournay Reyms Chaalons Troies Chartres Thoulouse Lyons Orliens Compeigne Rouen Caen Tours and Bourges and these to be of the most sufficient and best Burgesses of these Towns It was moreover agreed That the King of France and his Heirs Kings of France should quit the Alliances they had with the Scots and never give to that King Kingdom or Subjects present or to come any aid or assistance against the King of England his Heirs or Successors his Realm or Subjects nor make any alliance with the Scots in time to come against the King and Realm of England And the like Article was agreed to by the King of England in reference to his Alliance with the Flemmings There were divers other particulars agreed to on the behalf of both Kings and set down in this Treaty of Peace which we designing brevity do omit but these are the main and principal to our present purpose All things thus finished King Edward immediately left France and landed at Rye the 18. of May following in the Evening and thence the next day came to Westminster And shortly a Writ issued to Sir Iohn Beauchamp then Constable of Dover forthwith to arrest and fit up a sufficient number of Ships to carry over King Iohn and his Family to Calais within the time agreed on and whither he was conducted the 8. of Iuly after The 9. of October King Edward followed where the foresaid Treaty with some few alterations was there ratified and confirmed by Oath of both Kings and several Instruments relating to the full accomplishment of the several Articles thereof were drawn up and sealed with the Great Seals of both Kings all bearing date at Calais the 24. day of October an Dom. 1360. Here also were the Renunciations on either side both absolute and conditional to all the Towns Castles Countries c. to the Resort and Soveraignty c. comprehended in the Articles of Peace drawn up sworn to and sealed at the same time but not exchanged because the King of France was as yet in Calais and Prisoner to King Edward and the Towns c. not as yet delivered But it was then nevertheless agreed and promised that they should be surrendred to the special Deputies on both sides by Midsummer following if it might be and the Renunciations sent at the Assumption of our Lady next ensuing to the Church of the Augustine Fryars at Bruges to be delivered to those Deputed to receive them Or if they were not surrendred till Alhollantide after then the Renunciations were to be delivered in the said Church on St. Andrews day following at which time and place both Kings engaged to send thither and cause to be delivered to the Deputies on both sides theirs and their eldest Sons Renunciations likewise but if they were not accordingly mutually delivered then not any thing agreed on was to take effect But it seems things were not made ready against Midsummer the first of the appointed times for compleating these matters for the 15. of November following King Edward constituted Sir Thomas Vnedale Knight and Thomas de Dunclent Licenciate in the Laws his Agents whom he sent to Bruges with power to make request to the King of France for the effectual accomplishment of all things concluded on as aforesaid and to require that He and his Son should make the Renunciations and Transports according to all the foresaid Agreements made at Calais and upon reception of which he was thereby enabled to give Acquittance in King Edwards name But there was another Instrument dated at Calais the said 24. of Oct. 1360. whereby King Edward was obliged to deliver up to the French King on this side Candlemas an 35. E. 3. the Castles and Fortresses which he held in other parts of France than in those surrendred to him by the French King viz. as they are written in the Record In Champaigne and in Brie Bursant and Ioinville upon the Marn Bourt in Champaigne Ochie Sye upon the Seine the Mote de Triesreine Brugelemens and all other Fortresses taken in these Countries In Nivernois Cornallour Gueillons Anlesy Villers and Mont Epny In Anceurrois and Burgoigne Regennes Legny Malecorne and the Mote de Chauloye In Aurelenoys and Gastinoys The New Castle upon Loire and Mereau au Boys and all other Fortresses in Orlenois in Gastinois in Messien in Beause and in Wenguesin le Francois Within a month following the County of Ponthieu was to be surrendred to King Edward or else Hostages King Edward was also to deliver up the New Castle in Tynerois Beaumont le Choistif Nogent le Rotron and the Ferte de Ville Nevill and all other Fortresses in France and in the Country of Perche and
yearly collected and put into their hands for that use and purpose in manner following They send their Agents yearly abroad chiefly to Algiers and Fess to return them an account of the age quality and number of those who are in Captivity and upon consideration had thereof order them to contract for their redemption the general course being to ransom the religious persons first next the Laiety and among them the young and such as appear most likely to do service before others Few dye in Spain who bequeath not some Legacy to this Order which greatly encreafeth its Revenue and here though she was no Benefactress to this Order nor left her Legacy to be disposed of by that Fraternity most deservedly may be recorded of our Nation the illustrious Lady Alice Dutchess Dudley created into that Dignity by his late Majesty of ever blessed memory King Charles the First by Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England bearing date at Oxford the 23. of May in the twentieth year of his Reign who dyed the 22. day of Ianuary in the year of our Lord 1668 9. being the 90. year of her age and bequeathed by her last Will and Testament one hundred pounds per annum for ever to be imployed for redemption of Captives of the English Nation Knights of the Rosary in Toledo 27. Roderick Arch-Bishop of Toledo in Spain seeing the Country sore oppressed by the Moors called the Nobless of the City together and propounded the great necessity of their appearance and assistance in its defence and extirpation of the Moors whereto they being unanimously inclined he gave beginning to this Order of the Rosary into which entred many of the Nobless This Order had Statutes which chiefly obliged them to the defence of the Catholick Religion to fight against the Moors and to say continually a Rosary of our blessed Lady Our Author finds not that it had been approved by any of the Popes but conceives the Arch-Bishop being Metropolitan of Spain was of sufficient power to give it approbation besides he framed the Statutes for the Knights and prescribed to them the Rule of living to wit that of St. Dominick The Ensign of this Order was the Figure of our Lady of the Rosary upon a Cross Flory quarterly Argent and Sable Knights of St. Mary the Glorious in Italy 28. The Author of this Institution was Bartolemeo de Vincenza of the Order of Friers Preachers or Dominicans afterwards made Bishop of that City a man that did much both in word and example and the end he chiefly design'd was to procure peace to the Cities of Italy then much disquieted by Civil Wars among the Princes thereof This Order received Institution anno Dom. 1233. a year famous and renowned in that Age for very great piety and therefore called generalis devotionis Annus It was approved and confirmed by Pope Vrban the Fourth anno 1262. and the Rule of St. Dominick prescribed to the Knights who are obliged to take into their care and protection Widows and Orphans and use their endeavour to beget concord among such as are at variance The Habit is a White Tunick or Cassock and a Mantle of Russet Colour but there is some difference among those that mention the Badge Sansovin and Maurolico say they wore before their breasts a purple Cross patee bordered with Gold Gothofridus saith it is a purple Cross patee with two Stars in chief but Marquez gives it an Octogonal Cross like that of Malta and four Stars to wit one at every side thereof The manner of giving the Habit and making Profession is with the Ceremony used by the Knights of Malta The Knights profess Obedience to their Great Master and conjugal Chastity but are forbid to wear Spurs or Bridles of Gold They are commonly called Cavaleri de Madona and reside at Bolonia Modena and other Cities of Italy and because they have no Monasteries but dwell in their own Houses together with their Wives and Children at ease and in plenty they were called Fratres Gaudentes or Hilares The Order of Knights of St. James in Portugal 29. We have not met with any who make mention of this Order as distinct from that of St. Iames in Galicia save only I. Mich. Marquez but such as rather take it to have been sometime a member thereof and that the Knights of St. Iames in Galicia who had anciently Commanderies in Portugal were only exempted from obedience and subjection to their Great Master and not received upon the account of a new Institution for so much doth Andrew Favin affirm but Ios. Micheli from Portugal Writers reports the contrary and gives this further account of the Order to wit That the troubles the Moors gave daily to Portugal and the great zeal of their Kings seeing their Subjects so exceedingly opprest by them was such that they endeavoured by all means to cut off those mischiefs and to secure and quiet the Consines of their Kingdom Among whom King Don Denys the Sixth moved with a like tender regard towards his People did in the year of our Lord 1310. institute this Order of St. Iames under whose protection he became victorious in divers Battels against the Moors and at length quieted his Kingdom by the assistance of these Knights And it was not long after the Institution e're this Order flourished through the favour of those Priviledges bestowed on it by the Founder It received approbation first from Pope Nicholas the Fourth after from Pope Celestine the Fifth and again from other of his Successors The Knights profess conjugal Chastity Hospitality and Obedience and none are admitted before they make proof of their Gentility by blood The Ensign of this Order is a Red Sword formed like that of St. Iames in Galicia the Habit White only the difference between them lies in a little Twist of Gold which these of Portugal draw about their Sword At the Town of Alcasar de Sul was the principal Convent of this Order first seated afterward removed to Palmela where it yet continues and whiles Portugal remained under the Crown of Spain and the Administration of this Order under that King it was no less illustrious than whilst their own Kings governed The Statutes are much the same with those of St. Iames in Galicia so also is the manner of giving the Habit Benediction and Profession The Order of our Lady and of St. George of Montesa in Valentia 30. This Order did succeed into the Lands and Possessions of the Knights Templars in Valentia as the Knights Hospitalars did into those of the Templars in France Italy and other places For after the Templars were dissolved Iames the Second King of Aragon and Valentia refused to grant their Revenues lying in his Kingdom to the Order of St. Iohn of Ierusalem as other Princes had done nevertheless within few years sent an Embassy
more than one Order at a time if it be of a religious Constitution and whensoever he obtains leave to change that Order he cannot be received into another without relinquishing the former Ordo Disciplinarum in Austria 32. Bohemia saith Micheli finding it self very much endangered by Turks and Hereticks the Kings thereof instituted this Order to suppress or at least to keep them under and to secure the Confines of that Kingdom But I suppose this Author means Austria in regard it appears immediately before to have been conferr'd by the Dukes of that Country The Collar of the Order had a White Eagle hanging thereat This and the former Order together with that of the Dragon in Hungary are said to have flourished in Germany in the Reigns of the Emperors Sigismund and Albert. Ordo de la Scama in Castile 33. This Order received Institution from Iohn the Second King of Castile about the year of our Lord 1420. to perswade and stir up his Nobility to fight against the Moors For he being overcharged with War designed this Order chiefly to awaken their courage for the defence of his and their own Estates which afterwards upon all occasions they performed so well and gave so great demonstrations of their Valour that in a short time the Moors were vanquished What their symbol or Ensign was or the reason of the Title de la Scama hapned to be so far worn out that Hieronymus Romanus who wrote the life of this King Iohn professeth he knew not what was meant or intended by it though he had been very diligent in the search thereof Yet Ios. Micheli informs us that their Ensign was a Cross composed of Scales of Fishes which does plainly enough demonstrate it to be derived from the Latin word Squama from whence comes the Spanish word Scama that signifies the Scale of a Fish Some that speak of this Order say nothing as to its beginning being ignorant of the Founder but it is generally believed to be Instituted by the foresaid King Iohn in whose time it flourished insomuch as there were few of his Nobility but were also Knights thereof The duty to which they were obliged was to defend the Kingdom of Castile against the Moors and to dye in defence of the Christian Faith besides which upon every occasion when the King went out to War they march'd before him Their Priviledges were given them by King Iohn as also Statutes and Rules to be governed by Upon whose death the splendor of this Order was eclipsed as many times it hath fared with other Foundations in the like case the Successors wanting the zeal and love for their continuance equal to that of the Founders for their Institution The Order of Knights of the Golden Fleece in Flanders 34. Philip the Second Duke of Burgundy of the second and last Line issuing out of the House of France surnamed the Good instituted this Order under the Title of the Golden Fleece in memory of the great Revenues he raised by the traffick of Woolls with the Low Countries Some will have it erected in commemoration of valiant Gideon who with 300 men vanquished a numerous Army of Midianites Or else according to others the Founder followed the example of Iason and his Argonautes whose Expedition to Colchus against Actes he perhaps might intend to imitate by a Voyage into Syria against the Turk Whatsoever the occasion was 't is certain from the preamble of the Statutes of Institution that this Duke out of the perfect love he bore to the noble estate of Knighthood founded this Order to the glory of the Almighty Creator and Redeemer in reverence of the Virgin Mary and honor of St. Andrew the Apostle and Martyr whom he made Patron thereunto to the advancement of the holy Faith the service of the Catholick Church and promoting of Virtue For the maintaining and upholding of which and for the increase of honor and fair renown no less than the correction of Vice several good orders set down in the Institution are appointed to be observed at the Chapter held on the last day of every Annual Feast of the Order The day of Institution was the 10. of Ianuary anno Dom. 1429. on which very day the Founder solemnized his Marriage with Elizabeth Daughter to Iohn King of Portugal in the City of Bruges in Flanders The number of Knights first chosen were 24. beside the Duke Chief and Supream who reserved to himself the nomination of six more at the next Chapter But Charles the Fifth anno 1516. encreased them to fifty And though the Founder at first resolved upon the Feast of St. Andrew annually for holding the solemnities of the Order nevertheless in consideration of the shortness of the days at that time of the year and how troublesome it would prove especially to aged Knights who lived at great distance to take a Journey in so cold a season it was afterwards ordained that the Grand Feast and General Assembly should be kept from three years to three years on the first of May in such place as the Sovereign of the Order should beforehand give competent notice of As to the Habit it was at first ordained that at the Grand Solemnity the Knights should wear three different Mantles to wit the first day of the Feast of Scarlet Cloth richly embroidered about the lower end with Flints struck into sparks of Fire and Fleeces with Chaperons of the same and the same day after Dinner to proceed to Vespers in Mantles of Black and black Chaperons The day following the Knights were to hear the grand Mass of our Lady clad as should seem good to themselves But Duke Charles Son to the Founder appointed them Mantles of White Damask for that days Ceremony and changed their Cloth Mantles into Velvet The great Collar is composed of double Fusils interwoven of equal bigness in form of the Letter B. with Flint-stones seeming to strike fire and sparkles of fire between them at the end whereof doth hang the resemblance of a Fleece of Gold enamelled in its proper Colours These Fusils are placed back to back two and two together thereby representing the Letter B both ways intending to signifie Bourgoigne they are also intermingled with Flint-stones in reference to the Arms of the ancient Kings of Bourgoigne but it was the devise of the Founder to ingirt them with sparkles and flames of fire To the Flint Paradine in his Heroical Devises ascribes this Motto Ante Ferit quam Flamma micet and to the Fleece this Pretium non vile laboris The Iewel is ordinarily worn in a double Chainet or Males of Gold linked together at convenient distances between which runs a small Red Ribbon and so is Philip the Fourth King of Spain representeâ— wearing his Jewel in a Picture at full length hanging in his Majesty's Gallery at Whitehall or otherwise it is worn
should receive from the Proctor his Principal 's Helm and Sword for we find no mention of the Banner till afterwards and place them over his Stall CHAP. XIV THE Signification of Election TO Strangers SECT I. Within what time and in what manner Certificate is made of their Election FOrasmuch as Strangers Elect are for the most part Emperors Kings or Soveraign Princes the necessity of whose affairs obliged them to abide in their own Dominions and seldom or rarely permitted them to receive a Personal Installation in the Colledge of the Order therefore several Priviledges 〈◊〉 thought fit by the wisdom of the Founder of this most Noble Order to 〈…〉 and established in their favour as principally the giving them honâ—◠〈…〉 of their Elections allowing convenient time of consideration for Acceptance affording to them Investiture in their own Countries and permitting their Installations to be performed at Windesor by Substitutes or Deputies It was therefore by the Statutes of the Institution Ordained That when any such were chosen into the Order they should be certified of their Elections by the Soveraign and besides that at his charge the Garter should be sent over to them with the Mantle and Statutes of the Order sealed with the Common Seal And this to be done with all convenient speed so that they might have notice thereof at least within four moneths from the time of Election to the end they might advise and determine with themselves from consideration had of the tenor of the Statutes whether they would receive or refuse the honor of this most Noble Order In pursuance of these directions it became customary for the Soveraign together with his Letters to the Elect Stranger giving signification of his Election to send and that by way of solemn Embassy the Habit and Ensigns of the Order as also a Book of the Statutes and in case the Election were accepted then the Elect Stranger might receive Investiture before the return of the persons by whom the Habit was sent And this is manifest from the direction given upon the Election of Edward King of Portugal Son of King Iohn and of the Lady Philippa Daughter to Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster at the Feast of St. George celebrated at Windesor the 8. day of May an 13. H. 6. to wit That because the Election then but newly transacted was not known to the said King it seemed good to the Chapter that he should be speedily certified thereof And that Garter King of Arms should be sent over to him to signifie his Election and upon his acceptation thereof to present him with the Garter and Habit of the Order as also with the Book of Statutes which he was likewise appointed to carry over with him And it may be presumed that a Certificate of Election was sent to the Duke of Vrbin within the time limited by the Statutes since it appears that being Elected the 18. of August an 14. E. 4. all things were fitted for his Installation against the following St. George's Feast at which he was Installed And upon the Election of the King of Portugal an 22. E. 4. the Register observes that notice was sâ—nt to him of his Election within the appointed time The purport of which Letters certifying a Stranger 's Election may be understood and known from that which King Edward the Sixth sent to the French King Henry the Second whereby briefly for his eminent Nobleness and Virtues and to augment and improve the brotherly amity and fair correspondency between them He had in Chapter with the consent of the Knights-Companions Chosen and Elected him into the number of the Society of the Garter and therefore thought good to acquaint him therewith desiring also the said King to give him and the Society the honor of consenting to and accepting of the Election forasmuch as he should thereby perform that which would be very acceptable and grateful to him as he should more fully understand by the Ambassadors who were preparing for their journey to Invest him with the Habit. The right of bearing these Letters signifying Election and returning the Stranger 's answer belongs to Garter being confirmed to him by the Constitutions appertaining to his Office We see before that the Certificate of Election was ordained to be dispatcht within four months from the time of Election Nevertheless to afford the Soveraign more liberty where the nature of the Affair required it King Henry the Eighth added this necessary Clause to the foresaid Article That where the Soveraign had any great or high impediment He should defer certifying the Election till a more opportune or convenient time But in this particular we observe that like liberty had been taken in times preceeding though no provision by Statute was made for it before as namely by King Henry the Sixth in the case of Frederick the Third Eâ—peror of Germany who having been Elected an 35. of the said King had not Letters sent him to signifie his Election until the following year It likewise appears that Letters to the same effect were then also dispatcht to the King of Aragon the Duke of Brunswick and King of Poland who had been Elected eight years before And yet we find it recorded that the Habit and Ensigns of the Order were sent by special Ambassadors to all three an 34. H. 6. viz. two years before but perhaps this ought to be understood of their being but then designed and ordered to be sent and upon second thoughts might be stopped or if they were sent might miscarry by some accident for if they had arrived at these Princes Courts it would have been needless to send other Letters to give notice of their Election two years after But to clear this doubt we after find a second mention of sending the Habit and Ensigns of the Order to the King of Poland an 37. H. 6. by which it is sufficiently apparent that the first Embassy took no effect In the foresaid Memorial entred in the Black-Book of the Order and placed under the 34. year of King Henry the Sixth touching the King of Aragon King of Poland and Duke of Brunswick we suppose the King of Aragon is mistaken for the King of Portugal Elected an 25. H. 6. Since the Registrum Chartaceum calls him King of Portugal and both authorities agree in sending over Mr. Fetiplaâ—e with the Garter and Mantle though the Black-Book doth not distinguish as doth the other to which he was sent It may much rather be presumed that Mr. Fetiplace was sent on this Legation to the King of Portugal not Aragon since Beatrix the natural Daughter of Iohn King of Portuâ—â—l was his Mother and he by this relation and being in those times a Courtier in King Henry the Sixth's Court might the sooner obtain the honor of this Employment And there is in the Registrum Chartaceum another particular co-relative
began my Iourney and arrived at Hamborough the Monday following being the 23. I stayed there from Monday till Thursday in the Evening and then I departed with the Messenger of Berlin On Monday morning I came to Spanda a good Town where there is the strongest Fort I ever saw of four Bulwarks environed by the River Sprey and a Morass towards Berlin from which place the Elector hath caused the Wood to be felled that he might see this Fort from his Castle at Berlin At 11 of the Clock that day I arrived at Berlin here I lodged my self in the Burgomasters house a good Inn and that Afternoon sent for one Mr. Roe an English-man but an old Servant of the Electors Family to him in general I made my self known and desired his advice for my addresses he presently went and acquainted the Electors Marshal with my Arrival who presently informed the Elector and so I had answer if I sent to the Marshal the next day at 10 of the Clock I should understand his Highness pleasure accordingly I sent and the Marshall returned me answer that at 11 his Highness would send a Gentleman to conduct me to the Court and accordingly there came his Carver in one of his Highness Coaches to conducâ— me thither where when I was arrived I was brought through two or three Rooms the Guards standing in order in the first and Gentlemen in the rest by the Gentleman to the Electors Anti-Chamber there his Chamberlain received me and brought me into his Highness â—ed-chamber to whom I presented my self in the best posture I could and briefly gave him an Accompt of my Employment and delivered him his Majesty's Letter which he presently opened and read and in few words of great respect acknowledged his Majesty's favour After that I delivered him her Majesty the Queen of Bohemia's Letter which he received with great demonstration of affection and then returned to discourse with me about the time and manner of receiving the Order Hereupon I having prepared a Paper of all things necessary that so I might do my best for his Majesty's honor and service I presented it unto his Highness which he presently gave to Monsieur Scurein one of the chief of his Council and the only person besides his Chamberlain then present to read which he did and it gave the Elector so full satisfaction as he proposed to receive the Order the next day being Wednesday but I being weary and besides other particulars being to be advised I put it off till Thursday so I took my leave of his Highness for that instant and the Surintendant being Hofmaster to the Electrix brought me to her Apartment to wait upon her to whom I likewise delivered her Majesty's Letter she received me with great favour and told me her Mother had given her notice of my coming so after some questions of the young Prince of Orange the Princes Royal c. I took my leave and was conducted into his Highness Dining-Room where the Dinner being on the Table he presently appeared leading his Mother who with her Brother the Palatine of Zimerne his Lady with a Son and Daughter came to this Court few days before The old Electress seeing me present with high civility seemed as if I should apply my self unto her hereupon I briefly told her that I was assured had her Majesty the Queen of Bohemia known I should have found her there I should have had the honor to have brought her Letters from her Majesty which she took in good part so she placed her self with her Sister-in-Law her Daughter-in-Law the young Electress her Sister the Princess Katherine and the young Princess of Zimerne on the outside of the Table in the interim the Elector the Duke of Zimerne and his Son washed the Chamberlain giving the Towel then the Gentleman gave water to the Ladies so they took their places at a long Table at the end sat the Dutchess of Zimerne and the old Electress on the inside of the Table the Electress the Princess Katherine and the young Princess of Zimerne on the outside sate the Duke of Zimerne then the Elector then stood the Carver and below sat the young Prince of Zimerne and below him the Chamberlain opposite to the young Prince and next to his Sister I was placed beneath me the Master of the House to the Old Electress and then at the end sate the Electors Master of his Horse and another The Table was excellently served having at the first course 20 Dishes of gilt Plate covered with Silver and the Plates the same so was the second course and at the third the Banquet was served in in as many standing scalloped Cups gilt At the second course the Elector began to me his Majesty's Health and a while after the Duke of Zimerne the Queen of Bohemia's and these were all the Healths past at the Table so as to my great joy instead of drinking after the German mode I rose from Table thirsty Dinner being done his Highness and the Ladies returned into her Highness Chamber in the interim I stayed in the Dining-Room where the Marshal came and told me his Highness had given order I should be lodged neer the Court at his Stables and should have a Coach to wait upon me to come to Court that Evening and so constantly while I stayed I excused the first at least till the next day and the last for that time and so returned to my Lodging The next day after Dinner I went into the Electress Room with the Elector and presently the old Electress applied her self to entertain me and did so neer an hour Then I took my leave of her and the Elector for that time and was brought by one of his Gentlemen to my new Lodging at the Stables where after a large half pace at the top of a Stair I was brought into my Stove hung with good Arras at the upper end were two large round Tables the one covered with a Carpet of Crimson Velvet fringed with Gold the other of Cloth of Gold on which stood a great Silver Bason and Ewer out of that Room I went into my Bed-Chamber hung with silk Hangings the Bed was of Cloth of Gold Damask and the Counterpart of riâ—h Cloth of Gold and Chaâ—rs of Crimson Velvet towards Evening I was sent to to know whether I would sup at the Court or there I desired the last at my Lodging in regard I was to deliver the Garter the next day So in the Evening Wax Candles were brought me in great Silver Candlesticks and Wine and Beer in two great standing gilt Cups and then eight or ten Dishes of meat in Silver Dishes and the Table being covered with rich Damask Linen the meat was brought by six or eight Footmen and a Page of the Electors to wait upon me towards the end of Supper five or six Plates of Sweet-meats were set on the Table and so the Supper ended The next morning being Thursday the 3. of April
Montmorency 40 Crowns Frederick Prince Palatine 13 l. 6 s. 8 d. And not only to Garter and Officers of Arms but likewise to several others did the Proctors bestow Gratuities as doth appear from what Monsieur de Tercelin Proctor to Francis the First of France gave an 19. H. 8. To Garter for his Gown 60 Crowns To the Black-Rod 6 Crowns Officers of Arms 60 Crowns Gentlemen-Vshers Guard and other of the Chamber 20 Crowns Master of the Houshold and other Officers of the Houshold 30 Crowns The two Sextons 2 Crowns Choristers 3 Crowns Vicars and Clarks 6 Crowns Vergers of the Colledge 8 Nobles Besides it is evident from a Bill of particulars which Prince Henry of Nassau Brother to Maurice Prince of Orange paid to Sir William Seagar that the Alms-Knights Trumpets Drums Fifes and Musicians received Gratuities also upon the foresaid account CHAP. XVIII OF THE Grand Feast OF THE Order SECT I. The Grand Feast appointed to be annually celebrated on St. George's day AT the Institution of this most Noble Order it was Ordained That its high and solemn Festival commonly called St. George's Feast should be annually celebrated on the 23. day of April or Saint George's day in honor of that Saint made choice of for its peculiar Patron And it is very observable that the Founders of several other Military Orders whose Institutions bear later date than this of the Garter setled also the Anniversary of their Festivals upon the Feast-day of their Patrons Thus Philip Duke of Burgundy upon his erection of the Order of the Golden Fleece making choice of St. Andrew for its Patron ordained the Grant Festival to be kept on St. Andrew's day The like did Lewis the Eleventh of France in appointing Michaelmas day for holding the Feast of the Order of St. Michael So also the Solemnities of the Duke of Savoy's Order of the Annunciade are annually held upon our Lady-day in Lent And the Festival of the Duke of Burbons Order of Knights of our Lady on the day of the Conception of our Lady being the 8. of December in which kind more instances might be produced were it needful Since then the Founders of Knightly Orders have generally appointed the celebration of their Solemnities on the days set apart by the Church for commemoration of those particular Saints whom they had pitched upon for Patrons it will not be besides our subject to enquire upon what grounds those days were advanced into Festivals for the honoring such Saints The Church saith Durand celebrates the Feasts of Saints for several causes first by way of return of thanks to them for keeping a continual Feast for us forasmuch as there is joy among the Angels and holy Souls in regard of onâ— penitent sinner Secondly because in honoring them we are highly concerned our selves their cause of Festivity being indeed ours for charity makes all things common A third reason he will have to be that we may the better engage them to intercede for us Fourthly in imitation of them since by their examples we are the better incited to imitate their virtues Fifthly for confirmation and advancement of our hopes seeing mortal men like our selves advanced to that height of glory whereupon we have the less cause to despair of the like since the hand of the Lord is no way shortned Sixthly for the honor of the Divine Majesty because in them we honor and exalt God himself who sanctified and glorified them Seventhly that upon the contemplation of their beauty and felicity men may be weaned from their sins and learn to contemn worldly things But the eighth and principal for our present purpose is because the keeping of the Anniversary Feasts of Saints brings their actions and examples the better to our memory for our profit and edification not that they stand in need of our Prayers being themselves perfectly happy but that we should give thanks and honor to God for them Nor hath it been the practice only of later Ages but even of the primitive Christians also to make Anniversary Commemorations of deceased Martyrs as appears from Rodolph Hospinian who saith That the ancient Christians as they had an affectionate care and respect to the Saints and Martyrs while they were yet in the flesh so neither were they unmindful of them after their decease for on those days whereon by suffring Martyrdom they were deprived of this life they meeting at their Sepulchres celebrated their memorials and this they did not only once but every year namely as often as that day came about whereon they suffred But to resume the prosecution of our present discourse the next thing to be considered is the Day whereon the Patron of this most Noble Order suffered Martyrdom and which was thereupon designed to be his Anniversary Festival SECT II. The Anniversary of St. George fixed by the Church unto the 23. of April THat the 23. day of April was the day whereon St. George suffred Martyrdom by beheading appears from the Greek Hexamiter before his Commemoration among other Testimonies given us in that most elaborate Work the Titles of Honor. Therefore on that very day both the Greek and Latine Church from ancient time appointed and observed the Natalis Sancti Georgii Martyris in commemoration of the Passion of that famous and victorious Martyr as may be seen in the ancientest Martyrologies remembred both by our learned Selden and Doctor Heylin And on this day also was the Natalis of St. George observed by our Predecessors the Saxons as appears by the old Saxon Martyrologie remaining now in Benet Colledge in Cambridge whence may be also collected the estimation Saint George had gained even in the Saxon times But that we may the better understand the acception of this word Natalis and Natalitium in the matter of Martyrology Durand tells us That Natalis or Natalitium is said to be the departure of Saints out of this life as being then born to God and a state of Glory by a Nativity tending to eternal life By which it plainly appears that in the Saints Calender the day of their Martyrdom or death hath been accounted their true Natalis their Nativity or Birth-day rather than that generally so accounted namely the time of their first coming into the world And with this the forecited Hospinian agrees affirming That the Chritians of the primitive Church appointed not the days of Martyrs Nativities to be celebrated as the Ethnicks used but those of their death or suffring To which effect he cites St. Ambrose and a little after adds that those days whereon Martyrs resolutely underwent death for Christ's sake they used to call their Genethlia their Natalia or Natalitia by the testimony of Origen and Tertullian And this kind of second birth is also known by several other names as Festum transitus so called Because their souls departing from their bodies pasâ— through divers and unknown places through the aiery
or Stone-Gallery do twelve Gentlemen of the Privy-Chamber attend with a rich Canopy of Cloth of Gold who when the Soveraign approacheth receive him under it and bear it over his head until he arrivâ— at the Choire Door of St. George's Chappel and this Canopy is carried over the Soveraign only in the Morning of the Feast Day not in the Afternoon nor on the Eve nor the Day after the Feast The Processional way to the Chappel is the same they traversed on the Eve if the Soveraign and Knights-Companions march to the Chapter-House first for anciently it was the Custom to hold a Chapter in the Morning of the Feast Day either before Mattins and sometimes when Mattins was finished before the Grand Procession set â—orward This course received interruption in Queen Elizabeths time during which no Chapter was held in the Morning but in the 26. 31. 38. years of her Reign and then only for admitting of some of the Officers of the Order But the time of holding this Chapter was restored by King Charls the First who several times held it before the first Service began as in the 5. 14. 15. Years of his Reign But if no Chapter be at this time held then as soon as the Proceeding comes near to the Chappel instead of entring the passage between the East end of the Chappel and King Henry the Eighth's Tomb-House as it doth on the Eve because the Soveraign goes first to the Chapter-House it proceedeth straight on to the South Door of the Chappel and thence into the Choire Yet the present Soveraign An. 15. of his Reign appointed the whole Proceeding to pass by the said South Door along the Southside of the Chappel and then to enter in at the West Door which was then and since so observed When the Alms-Knights are come to the West Door of the Choire they enter and pass up above the steps to the Altar in the very same manner and Order as is at large described and mentioned to be observed upon the entry of the Proceeding into the Choire on the Eve of the Feast Then do the Prebends take their Seats and The Officers of Arms pass to the Haut Pas's of the Altar After this the Knights-Companions proceed and stand before their Stalls The Officers of the Order before their Forms and The Soveraign ascends his Royal Seat as also The Knights-Companions their Stalls Then the Prelate conducted by the Serjeant of the Vestry goes up to the Altar The Officers of Arms descend into the Choire and lastly The Alms-Knights retire to their Seats All which being done the Prelate begins the Morning Service wherein he proceeds according to the order prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer save only that the first Lesson being made proper to the Festival is taken out of the 44 Chapter of Ecclesiasticus This solemn Proceeding to the Chappel in the Morning of the Feast day is and hath been most usually performed on Foot nevertheless sometimes heretofore the Soveraign and Knights-Companions have proceeded on Horseback to enlarge the state and gallantry of the show For it is remembred that an 16. E. 4. the Feast of St. George being then celebrated at Windesor the Soveraign and Knights-Companions rode to the Chappel on Horseback to hear Mass that morning and with them also rode the Queen the Lady Elizabeth the King's Daughter and the Dutchess of Suffolk the King's Sister the Lady Marchioness Mountague the Marchioness Dorset and divers other Ladies in Gowns embroidered with Garters concerning which Habit we have already spoken So also an 3. H. 7. on the Morning of the feast-Feast-day did the Soveraign and Knights-Companions proceed on Horseback to Matins with equal splendor or rather more glorious than on the Eve to the first Vespers For the Knights-Companions were vested in Surcoats of White Cloth embroidered with Garters the Livery of the new year the Kings Courser was trapped with a Trapper of St. George of white Cloth of Gold and the Lord Berners bare the King's Sword his Courser being trapped with St. Edward's Arms. This Proceeding was augmented by the presence of the Queen and the Kings Mother attended with a splendid Train of Ladies and others that waited on them themselves being attired in the Livery of the Order and their Horses most richly accoutred with Foot-Cloths Trappings and all other Furniture correspondant in like State as on the Eve Again in the 20 year of the same Soveraign who then held the Feast of St. George at Baynards Castle in London he proceeded on Horseback to St. Paul's Church in like order as on the Evening before where he heard Matins And King Henry the Eighth at the Feast held at Windesor in the 11. year of his Reign rode with the Knights-Companions about eight a Clock in the morning down to the Colledge to hear Mattins in like manner as on the Eve and alighted at the South door of the Chappel The like did King Philip an 1. 2. Ph. Mar. And Queen Elizabeth in the sixth year of her Reign proceeded also on Horseback to the Morning Service in her whole Habit of the Order Lastly an 6. Eliz. the Soveraign in the whole Habit of the Order the French Ambassador riding neer her and all the Knights-Companions with the Officers of the Order and Officers of Arms proceeded on Horseback to the Chappel on the Morning of the Feast-day And in like manner did the Soveraign's Lieutenant at the same Feast ride to the first and second Vespers and to the Morning Service the day after the Feast It was a Custom begun by Queen Elizabeth and used when she celebrated the Feast of St. George either at Whitehall or Greenwich for the Soveraign's Lieutenant and the Knights-Companions in full Robes attended with the Officers of the Order and of Arms to meet in the Presence-Chamber about 9 a Clock in the Morning of the Feast day and thence to proceed as they did the Evening before through the Guard-Chamber down into the Great Hall and thence into the Chappel where they took their Stalls as on the Eve after which Morning Prayer according to the order established in the Church of England was begun and continued so far as the Letany and this was called the first Service which done they all descended from their Stalls in the accustomed order and proceeded back to the Presence in the same manner and by the same way as they went to the Chappel and there waited the coming of the Soveraign before whom they proceeded a second time to the Choire where the Letany and Grand Procession begun called the second Service at which the Soveraign was usually present but never at the first Service And the first memorial that we have met with of this double proceeding to the Chappel in the Morning of the Feast-day is recorded in
of Chartain and of Drouais And then all the County of Montsort to be surrendred to King Edward within a Month after Or otherwise Hostages In Berry and Bourbonoys The Fortresses of Brisansoys of St. Torete le Priague also Chabries Espunell Beamein Briance Masbres the Abbey of Diverlaks Thos Bruyll Ameron Vierson Mausey Bourseront the Roche Tnay Blotueres Villers Montempny Beauuoirs Beau Ien Voderon In Tourrayne Lisle Bouchart the Roche of Fowsey Piry Milieres Roulet Piergu Veres de Desrubay the Pleyssers Dinone Langere Osem Palnau and all other Fortresses in the party of Auvergne of Bourbonoys d' Amascon of Lyon of Berry and of Touraine And within a Month after the French King was to deliver up the Country of Angoulesmois or Hostages In Normandy Anjou and Mayne The Fortresses de Donefront in Passais Neuim Mirebel upon the Loyre the Toures de Villers Saintwast the Brois Demaine Conde upon Noire and another Fortress thereby called Messe Tynchebray Annillers the new Boure the Ferte freswel the Roche Doryvall the Morle Racul the Tower of St. Christopher Villerais Husron Honnesfleth Trisenay the Vicount of Plessoys Buret la Rouche dire le Port Ioulein la Flesche Willie Viez Passavant Roussailes And within one Month the French King was to surrender Santes and the County of Santoigne or Hostages And all the Fortresses in Pierregort Coursin and Agenoys For the surrender of all which the King made forth Commissions to several persons bearing date as aforesaid at Calais The two Kings then also made a League for them their Heirs and Successors of perpetual friendship and alliance to become faithful friends to assist each other against all persons whatsoever except the Pope and the Emperor and moreover made a solemn Renunciation to all Wars against each other their Heirs and Successors Realms and Subjects to both which League and Renunciation their eldest and other Sons signed and divers of the Nobility on both sides were sworn A Proclamation then also issued from King Edward directed to Thomas Holland Earl of Kent and all other Captains of Towns c. held for the King in France to give notice to all places within their Command of this Peace and final accord made as aforesaid All things relating to this Peace being thus concluded and the French Hostages arrived at Calais King Edward entertained King Iohn at a great Supper in the Castle where the Kings Sons the Duke of Lancaster and other of the chief Nobility of England served the Kings bare-headed and when Supper was ended both Kings took leave of each other The next morning King Iohn and his Attendants went a foot on pilgrimage to our Lady of Bouloigne the Prince of Wales and his Brothers accompanied him thither where in the Church of our Lady they all made their Offerings and thence went to the Abby and having taken leave of King Iohn they returned to Calais the next day Soon after King Edward the Prince and French Hostages took shipping for England where they arrived on the Eve of the Feast of All-Saints The Peace thus setled endured all the life of King Iohn who took all possible care to have it entirely preserved and himself ever after kept good correspondence with King Edward to whom he gave all evidence of affection and love insomuch that about the end of the year 1363. he came into England only upon a visit to King Edward After his landing he rode first to Eltham and there dined with the King 24. Ian. 37. E. 3. and thence that afternoon to the Savoy in the Strand where he lodged and was entertained with all possible kindness but about the beginning of March following he fell sick and dyed the 8. of April an 38. E. 3. for whose death the King appointed solemn obsequies in divers places and conducted his Body out of England with a Royal magnificence About these times the Reputation of the King grew so great that several foreign Kings and Princes came hither to his Court either to visit him or congratulate his Victories or to obtain his assistance and relief and these were the foresaid King Iohn Peter King of Cyprus and David King of Scots an 37. E. 3. as also Wuldemer King of Denmark and Albert Duke of Bavaria his Letters of safe Conduct being dated the 6. of Dec. and to continue in force till Mid-summer after But Charles King Iohns Son and Successor who had sworn to and sealed the Treaty at Chartres was soon perswaded to violate the Peace though with great artifice he dissembled his intentions for some time For though he readily gave ear to the Complaints of some of the discontented Nobility of Gascoigne who quitting their Homage to the Prince fled to Paris and complained to him as their Supreme Lord of the Fouage imposed on that Country by the Prince pretending that King Iohn had not power to release them of their Homage to the Crown of France or deliver over their Country to the King of England Yet he forbore laying hold on this occasion at least for one year after their complaint But then all of a sudden King Edward not suspecting any fraud but thinking himself sufficiently secured by the Treaty of Peace made at Britagne the French King sent him a defiance and by the time it was thought to be delivered Guy Earl of St. Paul one of the French Hostages who had slipt out of the Kingdom without taking leave as had also the Duke of Anjou and some others of them and Sir Hugh de Castilion entred Ponthieu with an Army and were received into Abeville afterwards took St. Valery and Crotoy and immediately all Ponthieu revolted Hereupon the King assembled a Parliament at Westminster and about the end of May the Lords and Commons declared That whereas the French King had broke the foresaid Peace in not delivering the Countries nor paying the monies agreed on there and had usurped the Resort and Superiority which ought to appertain to the King of England and his Heirs in the Lands surrendred to him by the foresaid agreement by summoning the Prince and some of the Nobility of the Kings Allies to answer certain Appeals at Paris and surprised and taken divers Castles c. in Ponthieu and Gascoigne and was setting forth a Fleet to invade England contrary to his Oath and the form of the Peace therefore with their whole consent it was agreed That the King should resume the name of King of England and France as he had done before the Peace and for the future so call himself in his Letters and under his Seals Hereupon on Monday being St. Barnaby's day there were several new Seals provided in one of which was inscribed Edwardus Rex Angliae Franciae c. and in another Edwardus Rex Franciae Angliae c. Shortly after he sent an Army under the Command of the Earls of Cambridge and Penbroke into Aquitain who landing
At that time Tho. Douvedale was the Dukes Lieutenant in that Dukedom to whom command was given dated the 5. of August preceding to deliver up all things in his custody there and belonging to the King to such as the King had appointed to receive them in like manner as they were formerly delivered up to the Earl by Sir Thomas Holland late Captain there In the Expedition made by the King into France in the 33. year of his Reign this Duke was sent before to Calais with 400 Spears and 2000 Archers where being arrived he took with him those Lords of the Empire and other Commanders who there waited the Kings coming to Calais and marched to St. Omars Cambray and other places wasting all the Country as he passed until he heard of the arrival of the King and then returned to Calais This Voyage with the King into France was the last Martial Employment this Great Duke undertook and as he had manifested to the World the wisdom and valour of a great Commander and succeeded happily in Martial Affairs so was he no Enemy to Peace but as ready to lay hold of it on fair and honorable terms as he was forward to draw his Sword in defence of the Kings honor and right And this was most evident at the Treaty of Bretagne neer Chartres where though the King was very unwilling to accept of a Peace upon terms offered by the French yet moved by the perswasive Arguments of this worthy Duke he condescended thereunto It was also upon his motion both to the King and King Iohn of France that the Truce made at Rennes between Charles de Bloys and the Earl of Montfort which was to expire the first of May was enlarged to Midsummer following in hopes of a final Peace to be by that time made between them He married Isabel Daughter of Henry Lord Beaumont Cousin-german to Queen Isabel Wife to King Edward the Second and by her had two Daughters and Heirs Mand his eldest Daughter was Wife first to Ralph Son of Ralph Earl of Stafford and next to William Duke of Bavaria Earl of Henault Holand and Zeland Lord of Frisland stiled also Earl of Leicester and Blanch the youngest to Iohn of Gaunt created Duke of Lancaster an 36. E. 3. His Will was made in his Castle at Leicester the 15. of March 1360. in which he is stiled Duke of Lancaster Earl of Derby Lincolne and Leicester Steward of England Lord of Bergerac and Beaufort and by which he appoints his Body to be interred in the Collegiate Church of our Lady at Leicester where his Father was buried He dyed within few days after viz. on Tuesday next before Easter an 35. E. 3. and was buried at Leicester according to the appointment of his Will 4. Thomas Beauchamp Earl of Warwick THis noble Earl was eldest Son to Guy Earl of Warwick and Alice Sister and Heir of Robert Toney He was born in Warwick Castle and had to his Godfathers Thomas Earl of Lancaster Henry his Brother and Thomas de Warington Prior of Kenilworth On New-years day in the second year of King Edward the Third he was made Knight though then within age and the 20. of February following having made his Homage had Livery of his Fathers Lands In the fifth year of the same King the Government of the Isles of Gernsey Sark and Aureney was conferred on him About two years after he attended King Edward the Third in that famous and successful Expedition against the Scots and in Christmas Holy-days an 8. E. 3. he and the Earl of Oxford were sent with Edward King of Scots to secure Carlisle and defend the West Marches of England who with some Forces raised in Lancashire Westmerland and Cumberland entred Scotland about Twelvetide wasted Gallaway and returned to Carlisle He attended the King again into Scotland an 9. E. 3. when King Edward by Carlisle and Edward King of Scots from Berwick entred again that Kingdom after which he was one of those Noblemen to whose trust the King committed the Guardianship of the Marches The following year he and other of the Nobility of England entred Scotland about Whitsontide and passed as far as St. Iohns Town which they fortified and in this Kingdom he remained all the year About the beginning of Sept. an 11. E. 3. he again entred Scotland with an Army by Berwick whilst the Lords Wake and Clifford entred by Carlisle and within two days both their Forces united whereupon they wasted Tividale Moseteidale and Nidesdale whilst Anthony Lord Lucy wasted Gallaway but not being able to prosecute their Voyage by reason of the great Rains they returned within twelve days to Carlisle and so much to the satisfaction of the King did he behave himself in this Expedition that the 19. of March following he made Letters obligatory to him for 500 Marks as a gift to be paid him at Michaelmas following When the King undertook his first Expedition into France an 13. E. 3. by the way of Flanders he likewise attended him thither and had Command of a Wing in the field pitch'd between Vyronsos and Flamengery in which among others were the Earl of Penbroke the Lords Berkley and Moulton He went over with the King into Flanders when by the way that memorable Naval fight hapned before Sluce where the King obtained a signal Victory against the French and was one of the Commissioners nominated at the Treaty agreed on at the Siege of Tournay to be sent to Arras in order to a further Treaty where after 15 days debate nothing was agreed on but the Surrender of the County of Poictou seized on by the French King the preceding year and a prolongation of the Truce for two years An. 16. E. 3. he was one of the Commissioners nominated to treat with the Kings Allies in Brabant and Flanders about his designed Expedition into France in which he after attended the King with 80 men at Arms 1 Banneret 18 Knights 60 Esquires and 100 Archers on Horse-back for whose passage a Writ issued to Iohn de Montgomery Admiral of the Fleet Westward to provide Ships At Nantes in Bretagne to which the King had laid Siege he behaved himself so gallantly upon a Sally made by the Town that they were forced to retreat with great loss Not long after his return into England he marcht into Scotland with Henry of Lancaster Earl of Derby to raise the Siege laid against Louhmaban Castle whereof the Earl of Northampton was Governor and when he came back was imployed with the said Earl of Derby and some others to the Pope to treat about King Edwards right to the Crown of France which produced nothing but an enlargement of the Truce The following year he was constituted Marshall of England during pleasure In that great Expedition
agreed that the pour Knyghtes shall have their Mantells of Scarlett and a scuchion of th' armes of Saynt George withoute a Garter XVII Item it is agreed that every Knyght of the sayd Company shall leave his Mantyll within the said College for any sodayne chaunses that myght happen for to kepe holde and observe all suche Ordinances Preceptes and commaundements whiche may be advysed in Chaptre by the sayd Soverayne The whiche Soverayne by the consent and agrement of vi Knightes of the said Order may at all tymes and places at his pleasure sommon and make to be kepte Chaptre for all suche causes as it shall please to the said Soverayne to name towching the said Order XVIII Item it is agreed that if it fortune that any of the said Company shulde come within ii myle of the Castell that he shall goo in if he may for the honor oâ— the place if he be nott busyed or lett by some juste cause and that he take his Mantell before he entre within the said Chappell And alsoo that he entre not in but he have his Mantyll upon tym And the Canons there beyng present for that tyme shall come to receyve hym and devotly shall bring hym into the said Chappell and if it be in tyme of Masse he shall tary and heâ—re Masse in the honor of God and of St. George and if it be at afternone he shall come in in manner abovesaid And there shall be said by the Canons De profundiâ— for all Cristen sowles and there shall offer and retourne unto his stall And yf any of the said Company ride thorowgh the Lowne and wyll not offre as it is agreed that upon his obedience for every tyme that he faileth he shall goo one myle on fote from the said Chappel unto the said place in honor of Saynt George And also for every tyme that he shall so fayle he shall gyve a grote for his Offrynge The whiche distaunce for to com nygh unto the seid Castell is two myles allonly and no more XIX Item it is accorded the xxxii yere of our Soveraign Lorde Kyng Henry the Eight by the grace of God Kyng of England and of Fraunce Defensor of the Faith Lord of Irland c. upon Seynt George's day the xxiii day of Aprill at a Chapter holden at the Paleys of Westminster by the Soveraign and the Companyons of the said Noble Order then there assembled That as sone as the deth of any of the Company of the saide Order shall be certeynly knowen every of the rest beyng no strangiers shall accordyng to the rates of their Degrees hereafter specified immediately upon a demaunde to be made for the same by the Register and the Dean or one of them to be by one of them employed in Aulmes deeds as in mendyng of High wayes or suche other works of charite as the Kyngs Majestie from tyme to tyme shall lymite and appoynte the severall somes of Money â—nâ—yng Furst the Souveraign viii l. vi â— viii d. A Kyng of another Realme vi l. xiii â— iv d. The Prince v l. xvi s. viii d. A Duke v l. A Marquess iii l. xv s. An Erie l s. A Visconte xli s. viii d. A Baron xxxiii s. iv d. A Bacheler Knyght xvi s. viii d. Of all which somes thus to be receyvyd the said Dean and Regester or eyther of them shall yerely at the Chapiter present his accompte to the Kyngs Majestie with â—is true and just declaration of the dysbursyng agayne and defraying of the same In that cause the partie whose Porcyen shall apere to be unpayde shall in the name of a Payne adde unto his former dutye another thirde parte of the same and so for every yere that he shall be behynde to pay a thredde parte more than he shuld paye if he shuld satisfye his ordinary accordyng to the rate before expressed And if the Dean or Register or any of them shall not at every suche Chapiter present the Certificate of the Receipts and Payments in fourme aforesâ—id whereby the same may apere to the Souverayn and Companyons of the Order then preâ—ent or at the leest he in whome the defawlt shall rest shall in the name of a payne contente and paye immemediatlâ— to bee employed abowte like purpose as afore the some of xâ— for every suche defaulte XX. Item it is agreed that if eny of the said Companye die that the Soverayne or his Deputie after that they shall have certification of his deth shall be bounde for to send and gyve knowledge by ther Letters to all the Felowship of the said Ordre beyng within England for to come and be with the said Soverayne or his Deputie in what place soever it be where it shall please hym to assigne convenyently within vi wekys after the certification of the death or decease of the said Knyght The which allsoo assembled or at the lest vi with the Soverayne or his Deputie abovesaid every of them that there shall be present come to the election shall name ix of the worthiest and sufficient Knyghtes withoute Reprosse that he shall knowe subjectes to the said Soverayne or others so be that they holde no contrary partie or be agaynst hym That is to witt three Dukes iii. Marquess Erles or of greater astate iii. Barons or banerettis and iii. Bachelers The whiche denominations the chief prelate of the said Order shall wryte Chat is to witt the Byshop of Wynchester for the tyme beyng or in his absence the Chaunceler or the Dean or Register or the mooste auncient Recidencer of the said College in their absence and the denomination soo done by all or vi at the leest by hym that have written shall bee shewed to the seid Soverayne or to his Deputie that then shall chose of them that be named be that shall have the moost voyces and also he that the Soverayne shall exteme to be moost honorable to the sayde Order and moost profitable to his Crowne and to his Realme And if there be any Knyght of the said Order that doth fayle for to come to the said Election if he be not lett by a juste cause and that the said cause of his excuse shewed under his seal of armes be founde by the Soverayne or his Deputie to be juste and reasonable then his excuse to be accepted and allowed and that if his cause be not juste and that he come not to the seremonies above-named it is agreed that he shall pay to the Warden of the College for to synge for hym that is departed xx s. sterling and at his nexte comyng to the Chaptre he shall be before the Soverayne or his Deputie and the company and shall knele upon the grounde in the myddes of the Chaptre untyll the tyme that he be reconsiled by the Soverayne or his Deputie and the said Companye XXI Item it is agreed that if any Knyght of the said Company shulde departe and another is chosen and electe he shall have
Chapter held at York the twentieth day of April in the eighteenth year of our Reign elected and chosen Companions of our said most Noble Order but by reason of the succeeding distractions and Râ—â—ellions in this our Kingdom their Installations at our said Castle of Windesor could not according to the Statutes aforesaid be celebrated and performed by reason the same hath been ever sithence and still is in the possession of the Rebels Know ye that we as Soveraign of the said most Noble Order unto whom the power of dispensing with any of the said Statutes is reserved have thought fit to dispence in regard the not performance of the Statutes hath not been by the default of these elected Knights and by these presents do accordingly dispence with the Installations of our aforesaid Son and Nephew both for time and place when and where those Installations are and ought to be made willing and ordaining that they and either of them shall by virtue of this our Dispensation at all times hereafter be held reputed and taken to be Companions of our said most Noble Order And shall have possess and enjoy all manner of Titles places preheminencies Votes Ornaments and Priviledges of the same as if they or either of them had been formally and actually installed at our said Castle of Windesor any Law Statute or Ordinâ—â—ce made to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Provided always and we do hâ—râ—by declare that our said most dear Son and our entirely beloved Nephew shall notwithstanding these our Letters of Dispensation first take the Oath usually taken by the Knights at thâ—â—r Installation and hereafter act and perform all such Rights and Ceremonies as are accustomed at the Installations of the Companions of our said most Noble Order of the Garter when it shall be thought fit and pâ—ssible for them to perform the same at our Castle of Windesor aforesaid And that this our Dispensation made upon such most weighty and urgent necessities shall not be drawn into consequence or example in time to come Given under the Great Seal of our Order and our hand first superscribed thereunto at our Palace at Oxford this seventeenth of January in the twentieth year of our Reign 1644. NUM XVI A Dispensation for want of a full number of Knights to constitute a Chapter of Election and their entring the Chapter without Mantles Palmer's large Iournal Charles R. CHARLES by the Grace of God c. Soveraign of the most Noble Order of the Garter To all the Knights and Companions of our most Noble Order Greeting Whereas we have determined upon the death of divers of our Knights and vacancy of their Stalls to hâ—ld a Chapter of Election here in our city of York and because there are not now attending on our person a sufficient number of 6 Knights and being now in our Army they have not their Mantles ready in which case by the ancient Statutes of our Order there could be no Election nor any Knight ought to enter into the Chapter so without our Royal Dispensation We of our supream power and authority as Soveraign of our Order do by these our Letters dispence with both the said Statutes of want of Number and entring the Chapter without Mantles and do hereby give leave to all our Knights attending our presence to hold a Chapter of Election by giving their Votes according to Custom in other Scruteniâ—s Given under the Great Seal of our Order the 12. of September in the sixteenth year of our Reign 1640. NUM XVII A Dispensation for the not appearing of the Knights with their Robes at the three Chapters held before the 15. of April 1661. and want of a competent and usual Number of Knights Ex Collect. E. W. G. Charles R. WHereas by the ancient and evermore observed Statutes of the most Noble Order of the Garter it is expresly provided that no less than the Number of six Knights or Companions of the same besides the Soveraign or his Lieutenant should make up a compleat Chapter and that none of the said Knights and Companions should enter into the said Chapter without having on their long Mantles or upper Robes of the Order We having designed the 15.16 and 17. days of April next for the Instalment of divers Elect Knights in the place of the deceased and for the celebration of the Feast of St. George at our Castle of Windesor upon which occasion and for the resolving upon sundry preparatories to the same being to deliberate with the ancient Knights of the Order who are neither in number sufficient to make up a Chapter or all of them provided with Robes by reason of the late troubles to supply both defects both in the present and other subsequent Chapters which we may have occasion to assemble before the said Instalment and Festival We as Soveraign of the said Order have and do dispence with the Statutes of it as to those particulars and are graciously pleased that those two defects notwithstanding the aforesaid present and ensuing Chapters shall be as legal and of as much force and validity as if the number of the Companions required by the Statutes were full and compleat and the Companions that do or are to compose them had their Mantles or upper Robes on them Given under our Signet of the Order at Whitehall the 29. day of March 1661. NUM XVIII A Letter signifying Election and a Summons to receive Investiture with the Garter and George MS. penes W. le N. Cl. RIght trusty and well beloved we greet you well Ascertaining you that in consideration as well of your approved truth and fidelity as also of your couragious and valiant acts of Knighthood with other your probable merits experientially known in sundry parties and behalf We with the Companions of the Noble Order of the Garter assembled at Election holden this day within this our Mannor of Greenwich have elected and chosen you amongst others to be one of the Companions of the said Order as your said merits condignly require And therefore we will that with convenient diligence upon the sight thereof ye address you unto our presence to receive such things as to the said Order appertaineth Given under our Signet at the Mannor of Greenwich the 24. day of April NUM XIX A Letter signifying Election sent with the Garter and George MS. 4. penes Arthur Com. Anglesey p. 131. b. RIght trusty and well-beloved we greet you well giving you to understand that in consideration as well of your approved fidelity in the service of Us and our Realm at all times shewed and for the increase of Honor and Virtue in you We with the Companions of our Noble Order of the Garter assembled at the Election holden the 24. day of April last past within our Palace at Westminster have Elected and Chosen you among others to be one of the Companions of our said Order as your merits condignly do require Wherefore we have sent unto you by our trusty and
Walter Devereux Lord Ferrers into the said Ordre and receive his Othe and install him but also further to do therein as to the Statutes and laudable usages of the said Noble Order it appertaineth And these our Letters shall be your sufficient warrant and discharge in that behalf Yeven undre our Seale of our said Gartier at our Castell of Windesore the xxi day of August the xv year of our Reign NUM XXVII Another Ex Collect. I. V. Elizabeth R. ELIZABETH by the Grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland and Soveraign of the most Noble Order of the Garter To our right trustly and right well-beloved Câ—zen and Counsellor Francis Earl of Bâ—dford and to our right trusty and right well-beloved Anthony Viscount Mountague Companions â—f our Noble Order of the Garter Forasâ—uâ—h as we for divers reasonable causes cannot be present at our Castell of Windesor on the 19. of June next ensuing where we have determined to have installed our right trusty and right well-beloved Cozens William Earl of Worcester and Henry Earl of Huntingdon as Knights of ouâ— said Order of the Garter We therefâ—re by these presents name constitute appoint and ordain you to be our Deputies giving you full power and authority to admit and install our said Cozens of Worcester and Huntingdon and to do and accomplish every thing which thereunto belongeth and hath been accustomed for the due admittance and installing of the said Earls of Worcester and Huntingdon willing and commanding by the tenor hereof all and every the Companions and Officers of the said Order to be to you in the executing of this our authority obeying and attending as shall appertain Given under the Seal of our saâ—d Order at our honor of Hampton-Court the 12. of June 1570. in the 12. year of our Reign NUM XXVIII Another Ex ipso Autogr. Aerar Coll. Wind. Charles R. CHARLES by the Grace of God King of Great Britain France and Ireland Defender of the Faith and Soveraign of the most Noble Order of the Garter To our right trusty and right well well-beloved Cosens and Councellors William Earl of Salisbury and Henry Earl of Holland Knights and Companions of our said Order Greeting Whereas we with you and others the Knights and Companions of our said Order assembled in a Chapter holden at our Palace of Westminster the 24. day of April being the morrow after the day of St. George last past did elect and chuse our right trusty and right well-beloved Cousen Algernon Earle of Northumberland to be a Knight and Companion of our said Order And whereas we have appointed the 13. day of this present Month of May for the time of his Installation at Windesor We do therefore let you know that we have named and assigned you the said Earls of Salisbury and Holland and by these presents do name assign and appoint you two to be Commissioners for the Inâ—tallation of our said Cousin the Earl of Northumberland as aforesaid And accordingly we do hereby give unto you full power and authority not only to accept and admit him into our said Order and to take his Oath but also to do and accomplish whatsoever else is needful to be done for his full Installation according to the Statutes Rules and Customs of our said Order For which purpose it is our pleasure that you make your repair to our Castle of Windesor so as you may be there on Wednesday at night being the 13. of this present May to the end that you may then proceed to the said Installation according to this our Commission Given under the Seal of our said Order at our Palace of Westminster the 11. day of May 1635. and in the 11. year of our Raign NUM XXIX Another Ex Collect. W. le N. Cl. PHilip and Mary c. To our right trusty and right well-beloved Cosen the Earl of Huntington and to our right trusty and well-beloved the Lord Clynton Companions and Knights of the Noble Order of the Garter Greeting Forasmuch as we with other Companions of the said Noble Order assembled at a Chapter holden at our Honour of Hampton Court the 24. of April last past have elected and chosen our right trusty and right well-beloved the Viscount Mountague to be Knight and Companion of the said Noble Order We therefore will and by the presents authorise and license you not only to accept and admit the said Viscount Mountague into the said Order and to receive his Oath and install him accordingly but also further to do therein as to the Statutes and laudable Customs of the said Noble Order appertaineth And these our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant and discharge in this behalf Yeoven under the Seal of our said Order the 12. of October the 2. and 3. year of our Raigns NUM XXX A Letter of Summons to the Commissioners appointed for Installation Ex Collect. I. V. By the Queen RIght trusty and well-beloved we greet you well and whereas we have appointed you together with our right trusty and right well-beloved Cosen and Councellor the Earl of Lincoln to be in Commission for the Installation in our Castle of Windesor of our right trusty and right well-beloved Cosens Henry Earl of Derby and Henry Earl of Penbroke being lately chosen Knights of our Order of the Garter We have thought it good not only to give you knowledge hereof by these our Letters but also to require you to make your repair to our said Castle of Windesor so as you may be there on Wednesday the 19. day of this Moneth to the end that upon Thursday the 20. day of this present Moneth of May they may proceed to their Installations accordingly Yeven under our Signet at our Palais of Westminster the 17. day of May in the 16. year of our Reign To our right trusty and well-beloved the Viscount Mountague one of the Companions of our Order The like Letter mutatis mutandis was under the same date directed to the Earl of Lincoln joined in Commission with him NUM XXXI A Letter of Summons to an Elect-Knight for his repair to Windesor to be Installed Ex ipso Autogr. Charles R. RIght trusty and well-beloved Cousen We greet you well Whereas in consideration of your approved fidelity and extraordinary services performed by you for us We lately elected and chose you to be one of the Companions of our most Noble Order of the Garter and in token thereof did send unto you the George and Ribband part of the Ensigns of our said Order and having at a Chapter held at White-hall the 14. day of January last past appointed to celebrate the Feast of St. George at our Castle of Windesor upon the 15.16 and 17. days of April next ensuing We do hereby require you to make your repair to our Castle of Windesor so as you be there on Monday the 15. of April next by Noon that in the Afternoon of the said day you may proceed to your Installation according
Whereas we have appointed our well-beloved Servants Robert Cook alias Clarenceux one of the Kings at Arms and Robert Glover alias Somerset one of our Heralds at Arms to pass at this present into France with our right trusty and right well-beloved Cousin the Earl of Derby by us sent in special Ambassade to our good Brother and Cousin the French King for certain our affairs of importance and have been contented to allow unto the said Clarenceux for his Dyets ten shillings by the day and ten shillings more by the day in Reward And to the said Somerset five shillings by the day for his Dyets and five shillings more by the day in Reward We will and command you of our Treasury at the Receipt of our said Exchequer not only to pay or cause to be paid unto the said Clarenceux and Somerset and to either of them or their assigns their said several Dyets and Rewards from the 17. day of January in this present 27. year of our Reign until they return to our presence but also to advance unto them presently imprest out of their said several Dyets and Rewards before-hand the sum of one hundred pounds viz. to Clarenceux one hundred Marks and to Somerset xxxiii l. vis viii d. And further to pay unto them hereafter all such sums of Money as they shall signifie unto you by their several Bills subscribed with their several hands to have been by them severally disbursed for the Charges of their posting and transportation in this their Iourney And these our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant and discharge in this behalf Given under our Privy Seal at our Mannor of Grenewiche the 28. day of January in the seven and twentieth year of our Reign NUM XCIII A Warrant for like Allowances to Garter Ex Collect. E. W. G. James R. JAmes by the Grace of God c. To our Commissioners for the Office of High Treasurer of England Greeting Whereas We do send over to Prince Maurice of Nassau our Servant William Segar Esq Garter King of Arms to carry the George and Garter to the said Prince We have assigned to him for his Charges an allowance of 30 s. by the day whereof we will and command you of our Treasure in the Receipt of our Exchequer to pay or cause to be paid to the said Garter oâ— his Assigns the said allowance of 30 s. by the day to begin from the 24. day of this Month of December and to continue to the day of his return to our presence And our further pleasure is that you advance unto him by way of imprest the sum of fifty pounds to be defalked upon his said entertainment And these our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant and discharge in this behalf Given under our Privy Seal at our Palace of Westminster the 26. day of December in the 10. year of our Reign of England France and Ireland and of Scotland the six and fortieth NUM XCIV Another Ex Collect. W. le N. Cl. ORder is taken this 15. of May 1627. by virtue of his Majesty's Letters of Privy Seal dated the 8. of the same that you deliver and pay of such his Majesty's Treasure as remaineth in your charge unto Sir William Seagar Knight alias Garter Principal King of Arms employed by his Majesty's Commandment for the carrying over the Order of the Garter to his Majesty's entirely beloved Cousin Henry Prince of Orange the sum of threescore pounds by advance upon his allowance of xv s. per diem for his Dyet and xv s. per diem by way of Reward to be afterwards defalked upon his said Dyet and Reward And these together with his acquittance shall be your discharge herein Marlburgh Rich. Weston NUM XCV A Privy Seal for Allowances of Entertainment and extraordinary expences to Richmond Herald Ex ipso Autographo CHarles the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To the Commissioners of our Treasury now being and to the Treasurer under Treasurer and Commissioners of our Treasury for the time being Greeting Whereas we have appointed our trusty and well-beloved Henry St. George Esq Richmond Herald to attend our right trusty and right well-beloved Cousin and Councellor Charles Earl of Carlitle our Ambassador extraordinary into Sweden there to perform the Ceremonies at the delivering of the Garter unto our good Brother the King of Sweden And have also thought fit to allow unto him 30 s. by the day for his entertainment during the service to commence from the day of the said Earl of Carlitle's departure from and be continued till his return into our presence inclusive Our will and pleasure therefore â—s and we do hereby authorise and require you out of such our Treasury as now is on which hereafter shall be and remain in the Receipt of our Exchequer to pay or cause to be paid unto the said Henry St. George or his Assigns the said allowance of 30 s. by the day advancing unto him the sum of 250 l. to be accounted and adjusted at his return according to the rate of 30 s. by the day And you are also to pay unto him or his Assigns such extraordinary expences in that service as one of our Principal Secretaries of State shall approve of And these our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant and discharge in this behalf Given under our Privy Seal at our Palace of Westminster the 30. day of November iâ— the xx year of our Reign NUM XCVI A Privy Seal for Allowances of constant entertainment and extraordinary expences to Somerset Herald Ex ipso Autogr. CHarles the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To the Commissioners of our Treasury Treasurer and under-Treasurer of our Exchequer now and for the time being Greeting Whereas we have employed our trusty and well-beloved Sir Thomas Higgons Knight to go in quality of our Envoy Extraordinary to the Elector of Saxony and to carry with him the Order of the Garter to that Prince Our will and pleasure therefore is and we do hereby require and authorise you out of such our Treasure as now is or hereafter shall be remaining in the Receipt of our Exchequer to pay or cause to be paid unto the said Sir Thomas Higgons or his Assigns the sum of three pounds by the day of lawful Money of England for his entertainment in the service aforesaid to commence from the day of his departure from our presence and that you advance and pay unto him the said Sir Thomas Higgons or his Assigns in part and upon account of the said Allowance the sum of 300 l. of like lawful English Money And our further will and pleasure is and we do hereby likewise authorise and require you out of such our Treasure as aforesaid to pay or cause to be paid unto Thomas St. George Esq Somerset Herald at Arms whom we have also employed
entirely beloved Cousin the said Duke of Savoy Prince of Piemont c. and to install him in the lieu of the said Duke but also further to do therein as to the Statutes and laudable usages of the said Noble Order as touching a Proctor it appertaineth And in semblable wise we will authorise and license you to admit accept and install our said right trusty and right well-beloved Counsellor the Lord William Howard of Essingham high Admiral of England and further to do for his installing as to the Statutes of the said Noble Order it belongeth And these our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant and discharge in this behalf Given under the Seal of our Garter at our Palace of Westminster the 29. day of January in the first and second year of our Reign 1554. NUM CXXVII Another for the Installation of the French King Charles the Ninth Ex eod Collect. ELizabeth by the grace of God c. To our right trusty and right well-beloved Cousin the Earl of Sussex our right trusty and right well-beloved Cousin and Counsellor the Earl of Leicester Master of our Horse our right trusty and well-beloved the Viscount Mountague with our right trusty and well-beloved the Lord Clynton our high Admiral of England Knights and Companions of our Noble Order of the Garter Greeting Forasmuch as We with other the Companions of the said Noble Order assembled did lately elect and chuse our dearest and most entirely beloved Brother the French King to be Knight and Companion of our said Noble Order and forasmuch as our said dear Brother cannot for divers causes conveniently repair to our collegiate Chappel within our Castle of Windesore and for that cause hath 〈◊〉 a right noble personage the Lord Rambouilliet one of his ordinary Chamberlains Knight of the Order of Saint Michaell and Captain of fifty ordinary men of Arms sufficiently authorised as his Deputy and Procurer to be installed in his name and to receive his Oath and to perform all other such things and Ceremonies for him as to the Statutes and Ordinances of the said Order be requisite and appertains We therefore in consideration of the premisses will and by these presents give unto you full power and authority not only to accept and admit the said Procurer but also further to do therein as to the Statutes and laudable usages of the said Noble Order as touching a Procurer it doth appertain And these our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant and discharge in this behalf Given under the Seal of our Order at our Palace of Westminster the 14. day of January in the 8. year of our Reign NUM CXXVIII Letters of notice to the Commissioners appointed to Install the Duke of Holstein by his Proxie Collect. A. V. W. By the Queen RIght trusty and well-beloved We greet you well and whereas we have appointed you together with our right trusty and well-beloved the Lord Hastings of Loughborow to be in Commission for the Instalment in our Castle of Windesor of our dearest and most entirely beloved Cousin the Duke of Holstein by his Procurer the Viscount Hereford being lately chosen to be one of the Fellowship and Companions of our Order of the Garter We have thought it good not only to give you knowledge hereof by these our Letters but also to require you to make your repair to our said Castle of Windesor so as you may be there on Saturday the 14. day of this moneth to the end that upon Sunday next the 15. day of this present Moneth of December he may proceed to the Installation of him by his Procurer accordingly Given under our Signet at our Palace of Westminster the 12. day of December in the third Year of our Reign To our right trusty and well-beloved the Lord Pagit of Beaudesert one of the Companious of our Order The like Letter was directed to the Lord Loughborow the other Commissioner appointed for this Installation NUM CXXIX Letters of notice to the Commissioners for Installation of the French King Charles the Ninth Ex eod Collect. By the Queen RIght trusty and right well-beloved Cousin we greet you well And whereas we have appointed you with others the Companions of the most Noble Order of the Garter to be in Commission for the Installation in our Castle of Windesor of our dearest and most entirely beloved Brother the French King by his Procurer the Lord Rambouillet being lately chosen to be one of the Fellowship and Companions of our Order of the Garter We have thought it good not only to give you knowledge hereof by these our Letters but also to require you to make your repair to our said Castle of Windesor so as you may be there on Tuesday next the 15. day of this present Moneth of January to the end that on Wednesday he may proceed to his Installation accordingly Given under our Signet at our Palace of Westminster the day of January in the eight year of our Reign To our right trusty and right well-beloved Cousin the Earl of Sussex one of the Companions of our Order The like Letter to the Earl of Leicester Viscount Mountague and Lord Clinton NUM CXXX A Warrant for materials for the Banner of the French King Henry the Second Ex Collect. E. W. G. By the King Edward WE will and command you that unto our trusty and well-beloved Servant Sir Gilbert Dethick Knight aliàs Garter King at Arms ye deliver or cause to be delivered upon sight hereof without delay three yards of Cloth of Gold two yards of Cloth of Gold Tissue and 16 yards of Blue Velvet which shall be for the Banner for the Mantles of the Helmet and the lyning of the same for the Installation of Henry the French King and that you content and pay for the Stuff workmanship and the embroidering of the said Banner And these our Letters c. Given under our Signet at our Mannor of Greenwich the 10. of May in the fifth year of our Reign To our trusty and well-beloved Counsellor Sir Rauf Sadleyere Knight Master of our Great Wardrobe or to his Deputy there NUM CXXXI A Warrant to deliver Garter money to provide the Atchievements of the said King Ex Collect. W. le N. Cl. THE King's Majesty's pleasure is that of such his Treasure as remains in your custody to his Majesty's use ye deliver unto Sir Gilbert Dethick Knight alias Garter King at Arms for the provision of an Helm garnished with fine Gold a Crown of Copper gilt an arming Sword and Girdle to the same and a Plate of metal with the Arms of the French King engraven which are for the Installation of the King's Majesty's good Brother Henry the French King the sum of twenty pounds and these our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant in that behalf From Greenwiche the 11. of May 1551. Your loving friends E. Somerset J. Bedford E. Clinton W. Herbert W. Cecil J. Warwick W. Northt W. Paget J. Gate NUM CXXXII A Warrant
we are pleased and content to accept your reasonable excuse in this behalf And by these presents do pardon you for your absence from the said Feast at this present any Statute of our said Order to the contrary notwithstanding Yeoven under our Signet of our Order at our Palace of Westminster the day of April 1575. in the 17. year of our Reign To our right trusty and right well-beloved Cousin Henry Earl of Huntington President of our Council in the City of York Knight and Companion of our most Noble Order of the Garter NUM CLXVI Another Ex Lib. Collect. W. le N. Cl. f. 54. Charles R. RIght trusty and right well-beloved Cousin We greet you well Forasmuch as you by reason of your indisposition of health cannot be present to attend our person on the days by prorogation for this year appointed for celebrating the Feast of our most Noble Order of the Garter that is to say the 26.27 and 28. days of this moneth of April We let you understand that We are pleased to excuse your absence and by these presents do pardon remit and dispence with any fault you may incur thereby And do give you license to be absent at those days from the said Feast for this year any Article or Statute of our said Order to the contrary notwithstanding Given under the Seal of our said Order at our Palace of Westminster the 23. day of April in the second year of the Reign of Great Britain c. To our right trusty and right well-beloved Cousin Thomas Earl of Arundel and Surrey Earl Marshal of England and Knight and Companion of our most Noble Order of the Garter NUM CLXVII Another Inter Praesident Tho. Rowe Eq. Aur. nuper hujus Ordinis Cancellar Charles R. RIght trusty and right well-beloved Cousin We greet you well Whereas we have for divers causes prorogued the celebration of the Feast of St. George for this present year to the 17.18 and 19. days of April next following whereof according to the Customs and Rules of our most Noble Order of the Garter you have had notice and summons for your attendance upon those days from our Chancellor notwithstanding we are pleased to excuse your absence and by these presents do dispence therewith and pardon and remit any default you may thereby inincur and do give you license to be absent at those days from the said Feast for this prâ—sent year observing in your own House the Solemnities appointed by the Canons of the Order any Statute or Article thereof to the contrary notwithstanding Given under the Signet of our Order at our Palace of Westminster the 24. day of February in the 12. year of our Reign NUM CLXVIII A Warrant for a Privy Seal to pay Garter for Scutcheons used on Saint George's day Ex Autogr. pen. Iohan. Vincent gen TRusty and well-beloved We greet you well and will and command you that under our Privy Seal being in your Custody ye cause our Letters to be made forth unto the Treasurer and Chamberlains of our Exchequer in form following We will and command you that unto our trusty and well-beloved Servant Garter Principal King of Arms ye pay or cause to be paid in ready money upon the sight hereof without delay the sum of 6 l. 1 s. 8 d. for 23 Scutcheons by him provided for the Knights of our Order on Saint George's day last in the first and second years of our Reign whereof 4. for Princes at 6 s. 8 d. the piece and the rest at 5 s. the piece and also that ye content and pay more unto the said Garter the sum of 6 l. 11 s. 8 d. for 25. Scutcheons by him provided and set up at our Mannor of St. James in the second and third years of our Reign for the furniture of the Stalls in our said Chappel at the rate aforesaid and these our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant and discharge NUM CLXIX A Privy Seal to pay Garter 7 l. per annum for Scutcheons of Arms set up on St. George's Eve Collect. W. le N. Cl. ELizabeth by the grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To the Treasurer and Chamberlains of our Exchequer greeting We will and command you forthwith upon the sight hereof of such our Treasure as remaineth in your Custody you content and pay or cause to be contented and paid to our trusty and well-beloved Servant Sir Gilbert Dethick Knight alias Garter principal King of Arms the sum of 21 l. for Scutcheons of Arms of the Knights of our Order set up in our Chappel within our Palace of Westminster as wel on St. George's Even in the year of our Lord God 1579. as on St. George's Even in the year of our Lord God 1580. and also on St. George's Even last past and also henceforth during his life to allow him yearly 7 l. to be paid on St. George's day accordingly And these our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant and discharge in that behalf Given under our Privy Seal at our Mannor of Greenwich the 7. day of July in the 23. year of our Reign NUM CLXX Another Ex Autogr. penes Wil. Knight CHARLES by the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To the Treasurer and Under-Treasurer of our Exchequer for the time being and that hereafter shall be Greeting Whereas our late dear Father King James of happy memory deceased by Warrant under his Privy Seal bearing date the second day of July in the sixth year of his Reign of England c. did give order for the payment unto William Seagar alias Garter Knight now principal King of Arms and to any other principal King of Arms for the time being upon every Saint George Even of the sum of seven pounds for Escotcheons of Arms of the Knights of the Order of the Garter to be set up in the Chappel at Whitehall or any other place where the said Feast should happen to be solemnized on every St. George's Even and Day as by the said Warrant more at large appeareth We minding the continuance of the said yearly allowance do hereby will and command you to cause payment to be made out of such our Treasure as now is or hereafter shall be in the receipt of our said Exchequer of the said yearly allowance of seven pounds unto the said Sir William Seager alias Garter Knight now our principal King of Arms and to any other our principal King of Arms for the time being upon every St. George's Even for the Scutchions of Arms of the Knights of our Order of the Garter to be by him or them set up in our Chappel at Whitehall or any other place where the said Feast shall happen to be solemnized every St. George's Even and day And to continue the payment thereof yearly until you shall receive other directions from us to the contrary The first payment thereof to begin