at Windesor an 11. H. 8. for it carries the date of 29. of May in that same year on which day that memorable Chapter was held for Reforming and Explaining the Statutes of the Order Hoods were anciently worn for defence of the Head against the inconveniences of weather c. but in later times Caps and Hats have supplied their place How they were then worn and sat upon the Head may be observed in that Plate which exhibits the Portraictures of the first Founders of the Order standing compleatly robed As also with some variety of fashion in succeeding times in the Pictures of William Beauchamp Lord Bergaveny Richard Earl of Warwick Humfry Earl of Stafford and Iohn Duke of Norfolk Yet is not the Hood quite laid aside since still kept hanging down the back almost like a Pilgrims Hat as if put in hopes being so ready at hand that it may again be restored to its former use This Hood was Ordained and is yet retained as part of the Habit of this most Noble Order And though neither it nor the Surcoat is remembred in the Statutes of Institution or in either of its Exemplars nor doth King Henry the Fifth's take notice of it yet is it of equal antiquity with the rest of the Habit as appears from several places before cited out of the Rolls of the great Wardrobe and Henry the Eighth's Statutes have made special observation of it as part of the Habit for there the Mantle Surcoat Hood and Collar are called the whole Habit of the Order Nay before this time mention is made of it in the Black Book anno 22. H. 7. where at the Investiture of Philip King of Casâ—ile the Mantle Kirtle Hood and Collar are exprest to be the whole Habit wherewith he was invested The form of this part of the Habit is perfectly described in the Plate at the beginning of this Chapter It was heretofore and now is generally made of the same materials with the Surcoat and consequently of the same Colour Moreover it was anciently trim'd and garnished with a proportion of little embroidered Garters lined with Cloth of a different colour and such as would best set off to view but now with Taffaty as is the Lining of the Surcoat of all which mention is made in those authorities cited before and relating to the Surcoat As to the Cap which in use and place succeeded the Hood we shall briefly say thus much That it hath been and yet is made of Black Velvet lin'd with Taffaty but the fashion hath several times varied for in the Reign of King Henry the Eighth the Cap was flat as appears in a Proceeding of that Soveraign and the Knights-Companions fairly limned in the Black Book of the Order In Queen Elizabeth's time it was a little raised in the head as may be seen in another Proceeding in her Reign which hereafter follows But in King Iames his Reign they were much more high crown'd and the present fashion is shewn in our before mentioned Plate This Cap hath been usually adorned with Plumes of white Feathers and Sprigs and bound about with a Band set thick with Diamonds so was that Cap provided for the Installation of the present Soveraign And sometimes the Brims have been tackt up with a large and costly Jewel It seems the custom of wearing Caps and Feathers at the grand Solemnities of the Order had for some time about the beginning of King Iames his Reign been neglected and thereupon in a Chapter held the 13. of April an 10. Iac. Regis this laudable usage was re-established To all these may be fitly added the Cross of the Order encompassed with a Garter which by King Charles the First was Ordained to be worn upon the left side of the Soveraign's and Knights-Companions Cloaks Coats and Cassocks when they did not wear their Robes The Order for which we shall here insert Charles R. WHereas the Robes concerning the Order first having the same ordinary use which Cloaks have at this time and now are worn only at the Feast of St. George Installing of Knights and holding of Chapters so that the Arms of the Garter not being daily worn thereon may be thought an omission whereby the Order doth receive some diminution of honor contrary to the intention of the Founder King Charles out of his princely desire by all due means to advance the honor of the said Noble Order at a Chapter holden at his Palace of Westminster on the 27. day of April in the 2. year of his Reign of Great Britain the same day being by Prorogation appointed for the day and Feast of St. George for that year His Majesty with eleven Knights of the Order viz. Edward Earl of Worcester Lord Privy Seal Robert Earl of Sussex William Earl of Pembroke Lord Chamberlain of his Majesties House Philip Earl of Montgomery Francis Earl of Rutland George Duke of Buckingham Lord high Admiral of England William Earl of Salisbury James Earl of Carlisle Edward Earl of Dorset Henry Earl of Holland Captain of his Majesties Guard and Thomas Earl of Berkshire hath Ordered and and Ordained That the Knights and Companions of the Order and the Prelate and Chancellor of the same shall after three months next ofter the date before mentioned of the said Order wear upon the left part of their Cloaks Coats and Riding Cassocks at all times when they shall not wear their Robes and in all Places and Assemblies an Escotcheon of the Arms of St. George that is to say a Cross within a Garter not enriched with Pearls or Stones that the wearing thereof may be a testimony apert to the World of the honor they hold from the said most Noble Order Instituted and Ordained for persons of the highest honor and greatest worth And it seems it was not long after e're the Glory or Star as it is usually called having certain beams of Silver that spread in form of a Cross was introduced and added thereunto in imitation as is thought of the French who after that manner wore the chief Ensign of the Order of the Holy Ghost being the resemblance of a Dove irradiated with such like beams And whereas some allow this Symbol of the Holy Ghost to be properly enough surrounded with a Glory like as are the representations of the Heads of our Saviour and his Apostles by a general consent among Painters yet censure it altogether improper for a Garter to be so adorned let them consider that King Edward the Fourth encompassed his White Rose with the like Glory whereof both the Stone-work and Wood-work of St. George's Chappel in Windesor Castle afford divers instances and then there will be found something of Precedent for it long before Institution of the Order of the Holy Ghost as also of its application to other no less than sacred things But this King assumed this Devise upon the Sun's appearance like three Suns which suddenly united together into one immediately
of the possession thereof by the Rebels and no other memory but your Election and this Commission remains upon Record But his Soveraign Majesty is so desirous to invest you and the Prince his Son in the full priviledges of the said Order and society that assoon as a competent number of Knights can be assembled to make a Chapter his Majesty determines to consult of a course how the Instalment at Windesor may if possibly it can be dispensed with that rather than you should be deprived longer of the full enjoyment of all rights of Installation his Majesty is fully determined to make ordinary rules of Ceremony and Order to give place to extraordinary Examples of merit and fidelity already so amply performed by your Highness to his Crown and dignity which is the sum of what his Majesty hath commanded me to present unto your Highness which he desires you to take in good part till the rest can be performed At the ending of this Speech Sir Iames Palmer presented the Commission to the Prince who gave this Majesty many humble thanks for this gracious Message and acknowledged his Majesties favours far beyond his desert but promised he would study to be more worthy by his actions than in return of words with many thanks to the Chancellor and the other Officers of the Order for their pains whereupon they took their leave and the Chancellor went immediately to his Majesty and rendered him an account of this Employment SECT V. The Manner of a Knight's Investiture IN ancient time it was part of the Ceremony belonging to the Investiture with the Garter of an Elect-Knight whether a Stranger or Knight Subject to give him an Oath which we find called The Oath in such cases accustomed to be taken and was to this effect that the Knight should well and faithfully keep and observe so far as God should enable him all that was contained in the Statutes of the Order But we find not of late that the taking such an Oath at performing this Ceremony hath been imposed upon any but Foreign Princes of which anon It is also observable that an 4. H. 6. a particular Commission issued to the Earls of Warwick Salisbury and Suffolk with power to any two or one of them to receive this Oath from Sir Iohn Fastols upon his Investiture And this was besides the Oath which his Proctor was afterwards to take at Installation as is manifest out of the Letters of Procuration whereby the said Sir Iohn Fastols gave to his Procter license to take on his behalf such Oath as should be required at the time of his Installation As to the Ceremony and manner of Investing a Knight-Elect with the Garter and George albeit we have discourst thereof before we nevertheless think it necessary to subjoin two or three considerable Instances as most proper to this place When Philip Prince of Spain an 1. Mariae had these Ensigns of the Order sent him the Soveraign joined Garter King of Arms with the Earl of Arundel to perform the Investiture who upon notice of his arrival on the Coast of England set forward on their journey to Southampton where on Friday the 20. of Iuly they took Water and meeting the Prince before he landed entred his Barge and gave him notice of his Election in a short speech which being ended Garter having the Garter in his hand kissed it and so presented it to the Earl who forthwith fastned it about the Princes Leg in like manner Garter presented the Earl with the George hanging at a Chain of Gold who put it also about the Princes neck The Ceremony of Investiture being thus performed the Prince came on shore at Southampton and on the uppermost stair there were ready attending his landing the Marques of Winchester Lord high Treasurer of England with divers other Lords the Prince gave the Lord Williams his White Staff and made him Lord Chamberlain of his Houshold and Sir Anthony Brown Master of his Horse presented him from the Queen a Horse with a Footcloth of Crimson Velvet richly embroidered with Gold and Pearls having the Bridle and all other Furniture sutable whereon he rode to the Cathedral and after Prayers to the Lodgings prepared for him Touching Garter's Investiture of the Earl of Warwich at Newhaven in France the first of May an 5. Eliz. it was as followeth First Garter repairing to the Earls Lodgings put on his Mantle in the next Chamber to the Earls and thence proceeded into the Earls Chamber where having made three Reverences he buckled the Garter about his left leg and next put on the George and Ribband about his neck reading to the Earl the words of Signification appointed to be pronounced at the Investiture which done Garter retired into the Room where he had put on his Mantle and there disrobed himself and so the Ceremony ended And it seems to have been a custom about these times for the Nobility and others the Allyes or Friends to the Elect-Knight to send unto him by Garter several Garters and Georges as tokens of congratulation for the Honor he was at this time to receive which so soon as the Investiture was finished and Garter returned from putting off his Robe he delivered unto him with the particular services and respects of those his Friends who had so bestowed them for such we find to have been sent by Garter and presented to the aforesaid Earl of Warwick at New-haven and to the Lord Scroop at Carlisle an 26. Eliz. At Garter's return to Court he is obliged to deliver an account to the Soveraign how he hath discharged his employment and therewith by special directions from the Elect-Knight also present the highest thanks he can express as well to the Soveraign as the rest of the Knights-Companions for honoring him with a reception into so illustrious an Order We shall close this Section with a brief account of the Investiture of his Highness the late Duke of Gloucester at the Hague on Easter-day in the morning being the 14. day of April 1653. in reference to which Ceremony there was provided 1. A Garter with the Motto to be tyed about his left Leg. 2. A George in a Ribband to put about his Neck 3. An embroidered Cross of St. George within a Garter and Star to be sowed on the left shoulder of the Dukes Cloak 4. A Velvet Cushion whereon the Ensigns and Ornaments of the Order as also the Letter signifying his Election were to be laid Moreover for the honor of the Order and his said Highness Sir Edward Walker Garter humbly proposed as followeth That he might be assisted by two or four Knights in performing his duty That his Highness the Duke might receive the Ensigns of the Order in the Presence Chamber of the Princess Royal or in his own accompanied with the Queen of Bohemia her Highness Royal and some other persons of Honor and Quality That his
the ranks of Honor thus setled â—ere the Fees of Installation to the Colledge from Knight-Companions of these Degrees proportioned for shortly after the precedency so granted and setled to the said Viscount Beaumont his latter Patent bearing date the 12. of March an 23. H. 6. the Soveraign with the unanimous consent of the Knights-Companions at the Feast of St. George held at Windesor the 12. of May following Decreed That a Marquess forasmuch as his Degree of Honor was above an Earl and intermediate between him and a Duke should therefore contribute more than an Earl Now the sum for an Earl being as appears above set at 10 Marks the Marquess was by this Decree obliged to pay 33 s. 4 d. more than the Earl viz. in toto 8 l. 6 s. 8 d. And for the same reason also was a Viscount enjoined to give the proportion of â—6 s. 8 d. more than a Baron and so his whole Fee amounted to 5 l. 16 s. 8 d. The Installation Fees of these two Degrees being thus added to the former were with them confirmed by King Henry the Eighth's Statutes And though in all the Bodies of the Statutes the Soveraign of the Order is charged with payment of Fees to the Colledge no less than the rest of the Knights-Companions yet is it to be understood only of those Soveraigns who were not before the assumption of their Stall elected into this Order for we see in the case of King Henry the Sixth the first Soveraign that had not before his being so been elected a Knight-Companion there past an order in Chapter an 1. H. 6. for payment of his Fees upon assuming his Stall according to the appointment of the Statute The case also of the Lord Weston is here observable who although at the time of his Installation the 5. of October an 6. Car. 1. he was seated in no higher a rank of Nobility than the Degree of a Baron yet being then by an honorary Title Lord Treasurer of England did for the honor of his Office not only pay as much as an Earl ought by the Statutes but in all other customary Fees and Duties bare a proportion to that Dignity But the matter of Installation Fees being by several Petitions represented to the Soveraign and Knights-Companions in Chapter since the present Soveraign's happy return was referred to the standing Committee of Knights-Companions to make enquiry and take into their examination all the pretentions and demands thereunto in relation to which much time having been spent in a diligent and full examination thereof through the zealous endeavours and continual sollicitations of the Register out of respect to his Successors the Colledge and Choire of Windesor so also of Garter on behalf of his Successors the Officers of Arms and other the Soveraign's Officers and Servants claiming Installation Fees and due consideration had of the reasons and proofs to justifie the same as also to the reasonableness and equity of the whole matter Finally a Report was made the 5. of March an 22. Car. 2. by the Duke of Ormond the Earls of Sandwich and Manchester whereby such Installation Fees were thought reasonable and requisite to be paid by the Knights-Companions as were contained in an annexed Schedule ascertaining the sums proportioned according to the Dignities and Degrees of the Knights-Companions which both Report and Schedule being afterwards read over and approved by the Soveraign part of it containing the Fees due to the Dean and Canons Choire and Alms-Knights of Windesor the Register Garter Black-Rod and Officers of Arms were commanded to be entred upon the Register of the Order in perpetuam rei memoriam to prevent all future questions and controversies that might otherwise arise the other part wherein was set down the Fees payable to the rest of the Soveraign's Servants was appointed to be only signed in Garter's Bills with all the other Fees as they became due In this Decree the Installation Fees made payable to the Dean and Canoni are these  l. s. d. A Stranger-King 20 00 00 A Stranger-Prince 10 00 00 The Prince of Wales 20 00 00 A Duke 10 00 00 A Marquess 08 06 08 An Earl 06 13 04 A Viscount 05 16 08 A Baron 05 00 00 A Knight-Batchellor 03 06 08 These Fees ought to be paid at the time of the Knights Installation whether Personal or by Proxie so also for a Stranger and as to the practice it hath been thus to pay them by the hands of some one of the Knights-Companions Servants so soon as the Ceremonies of Installation were ended and in truth that which quickned their care herein was the strict injunction repeated in all the Bodies of the Statutes which do expresly prohibit the setting up of their Atchievements till payment be made That anciently the Alms-Knights shared in the Fees paid to the Colledge is manifest from the Statutes of Institution the use for which they were given being therein exprest to be towards relief of the Alms-Knights no less than the Canons and so say the succeeding bodies of the Statutes Howbeit since their re-establishment by Queen Elizabeth upon a new Constitution they have received Installation Fees apart from those paid to the Colledge which by the foresaid Establishment of Installation Fees an 22. Car. 2. are made equal and alike to those thereby payable to the Dean and Canons The Choire of Windesor under which not only the Vicars but the Vergers Choristers Sextons and Bell-Ringers are comprehended reap some benefit by the Installation of a Knight and have in all times been thought deserving of Fees among others who performed service at these Solemnities Hereupon were they taken into the Establishment made an 22. Car. 2. which has setled on them these following Fees viz.  l. s. d. A Stranger-King 16 00 00 A Stranger-Prince 08 10 00 A Prince of Wales 16 00 00 A Duke 08 10 00 A Marquess 06 15 00 An Earl 05 10 00 A Viscount 04 00 00 A Baron 04 00 00 A Knight-Batchellor 03 00 00 SECT II. Fees due to the Register Garter Black-Rod and Officers of Arms. IN the rank of those Officers to whom Installation Fees are due stands first the Register who by the Constitutions of his Office is to have of every Knight-Companion 13 s. 4 d. in money and a Robe After that Doctor Matthew Wren had enjoyed this Office for some few years and supposing himself defrauded by the concealment of part of his Fees he petitioned the Soveraign that the Fee anciently due to his place might be restored and setled with the allowance of a Robe or composition for it from the new installed Knight the grounds of which address were set forth in the following Petition To the Kings's most sacred Majesty Soveraign of the most Noble Order of the Garter The humble Petition of Matthew Wren Register of the said Order Sheweth
Bartholomew Burghersh le fitz So also an 23. E. 3. Two years after the Duke of Lancaster being made Admiral he went to Sea in the Fleet Afterwards he went with the Prince of Wales into Gascoigne and an 32. E. 3. into Bretagne These were the Expeditions this noble Knight made which sufficiently denote his being continually employed abroad in the Kings service He died 28. of Iune an 49. E. 3. leaving Edward Pavely his Son and Heir SECT IV. A Catalogue of their Successors with Scutcheons of their Arms. KNights elected in the following part of the Reign of King Edward the Third as the Stalls became void 27. Richard of Bordeaux afterwards King of England of that name the Second 28. Lyonel of Antwerp Earl of Vlster and Duke of Clarence 29. Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster after created Duke of Aquitaine 30. Edmund of Langley Earl of Cambridge after Duke of York 31. Iohn de Montford Duke of Bretagne and Earl of Richmond 32. Humfry Bohun Earl of Hereford and Constable of England 33. William Bohun Earl of Northampton 34. Iohn Hastings Earl of Penbroke 35. Thomas Beauchamp Earl of Warwick 36. Richard Fitz Alan Earl of Arundel and Surrey 37. Robert Vfford Earl of Suffolk 38. Hugh Stafford Earl of Stafford 39. Ingleram de Coucy Earl of Bedford 40. Guiscard d' Angolesme Earl of Huntingdon 41. Edward Spencer Lord Spencer 42. William Latimer Lord Latimer 43. Reynold Cobham Lord Cobham of Sterborough 44. Iohn Nevil Lord Nevil of Raby 45. Ralph Basset Lord Basset of Drayton 46. Sir Walter Manny Bannert 47. Sir William Fitz Waren Knight 48. Sir Thomas Vfford Knight 49. Sir Thomas Felton Knight 50. Sir Franc Van Hall Knight 51. Sir Fulk Fitz Waren Knight 52. Sir Allan Boxhull Knight 53. Sir Richard Pemburge Knight 54. Sir Thomas Vtreight Knight 55. Sir Thomas Banester Knight 56. Sir Richard de la Vache Knight 57. Sir Guy de Bryan Knight Knights Elected in the Reign of King Richard the Second 58. Thomas of Woodstock Earl of Buckingham after Duke of Gloucester 59. Henry of Lancaster Earl of Derby afterward King of England of that Name the Fourth 60. William Duke of Gelderland 61. William of Bavaris Earl of Ostrevant after Earl of Holland Henault and Zeland 62. Thomas Holland Earl of Kent after Duke of Surrey 63. Iohn Holland Earl of Huntingdon after Duke of Exceter 64. Thomas Mowbray Earl of Nottingham after Duke of Norfolk 65. Edward Earl of Rutland after Duke of Albemarle 66. Michael de la Poole Earl of Suffolk 67. William Scrope Lord Scrope after Earl of Wiltshire and Lord Treasurer of England 68. William Beauchamp Lord Bergaveny 69. Iohn Beaumont Lord Beaumont 70. William Willoughby Lord Willoughby 71. Richard Grey Lord Grey 72. Sir Nicholas Sarnesfield Knight 73. Sir Philip de la Vache Knight 74. Sir Robert Knolls Knight 75. Sir Simon Burley Knight 76. Sir Iohn de Evereux Banneret 77. Sir â—ryan Stapleton Knight 78. Sir Richard Burley Knight 79. Sir Peter Courtney Knight 80. Sir Iohn Burley Knight 81. Sir Iohn Bourchier Knight 82. Sir Thomas Granston Knight 83. Sir Lewis Clifford Knight 84. Sir Robert Dunstavill Knight 85. Sir Robert de Namur Knight Knights Elected in the Reign of King Henry the Fourth 86. Henry Prince of Wales after King of England of that Name the Fifth 87. Thomas of Lancaster Earl of Albemarle and Duke of Clarence 88. Iohn Earl of Kendal and Duke of Bedford after Regent of France 89. Humfry Earl of Penbroke and Duke of Gloucester 90. Thomas Beauford Earl of Dorset and after Duke of Exceter 91. Robert Count Palatine Duke of Bavaria after Emperor of Germany 92. Iohn Beauford Earl of Somerset and Marquess of Dorset 93. Thomas Fitz Alan Earl of Arundel 94. Edmund Stafford Earl of Stafford 95. Edmund Holland Earl of Kent 96. Ralph Nevil Earl of Westmerland 97. Gilbert Roos Lord Roos 98. Gilbert Talbot Lord Talbot 99. Iohn Lovell Lord Lovell 100. Hugh Burnell Lord Burnell 101. Thomas Morley Lord Morley 102. Edward Charleton Lord Powis 103. Sir Iohn Cornwall Knight after Lord Fanhope 104. Sir William Arundel Knight 105. Sir Iohn Stanly Knight 106. Sir Robert de Vmfrevill Knight 107. Sir Thomas Rampston Knight 108. Sir Thomas Erpingham Knight 109. Sir Iohn Sulbie Knight 110. Sir Sandich de Trane Knight Hitherto we have ranked the Knights of this most Noble Order as they are placed in other Catalogues and according to their greatest Dignities because the certain years of their Elections cannot be found but these that follow are marshalled in an exact series of their Elections Knights Elected in the Reign of King Henry the Fifth 111. Sir Iohn Dabrichcourt Knight 112. Richard Vere Earl of Oxford 113. Thomas Camoys Lord Camoys 114. Sir Symon Felbryge Knight 115. Sir William Harington Knight 116. Iohn Holland Earl of Huntingdon 117. Sigismund Emperor of Germany 118. Duke of Briga 119. Sir Iohn Blount Knight 120. Sir Iohn Robessart Knight 121. Sir William Philip Knight after Lord Bardolf 122. Iohn King of Portugal 123. Ericus King of Denmark 124. Richard â—â—auchamp Earl of Warwick after Lieutenant General and Govenor in France and Normandy 125. Thomas Montacute Earl of Salisbury 126. Robert Willoughby Lord Willoughby 127. Henry Fitz-Hugh Lord Fitz-Hugh 128. Sir Iohn Grey Knight Earl of Tankervile 129. Hugh Stafford Lord Bourchier 130. Iohn Mowbray Lord Mowbray Earl Marshal 131. William de la Poole Earl of Suffolk after Marquess and Duke of Suffolk 132. Iohn Clifford Lord Clifford 133. Sir Lewis Robessart Knight after Lord Bourchier 134. Sir Heer Tank Clux Knight 135. Sir Walter Hungerford Knight after Lord Hungerford and Lord Treasurer of England 136. Philip Duke of Burgundy Knights Elected in the Reign of King Henry the Sixth 137. Iohn Talbot Lord Talbot after Earl of Shrewsbury 138. Thomas Scales Lord Scales 139. Sir Iohn Fastolf Knight 140. Peter Duke of Conimbero third Son of Iohn the First King of Portugal 141. Humfrey Stafford Earl of Stafford after Created Duke of Buckingham 142. Sir Iohn Ratclyff Knight 143. Iohn Fitz-Alan Earl of Arundell 144. Richard Duke of York the Kings Lieutenant in France and Normandy 145. Edward King of Portugall 146. Edmund Beaufort Earl of Moriton after Earl of Dorset and Duke of Somerset 147. Sir Iohn Grey Knight 148. Richard Nevil Earl of Salisbury after Lord Chancellor of England 149. William Nevil Lord Fauconbridge after Earl of Kent 150. Albert Emperor of Germany 151. Iohn Beaufort Earl of Somerset after Duke of Somerset and Earl of Kendall 152. Ralph Butler Lord Sudeley after Lord Treasurer of England 153. Henry Duke of Viseo fourth Son of Iohn the First King of Portugal 154. Iohn Beaumont Viscount Beaumont after High Constable of England 155. Gaston de Foix Earl of Longevile and Benanges Captan de Buch. 156. Iohn de Foix Earl of Kendall 157. Iohn Beauchamp Lord Beauchamp of Powik and after Lord Treasurer of England 158. Alphonsus the Fifth King of Portugal
159. Albro Vasques d' Almada Earl of Averence in Normandy 160. Thomas Hoo Lord Hoo. 161. Sir Francis Surien Knight 162. Alphonsus King of Aragon 163. Casimire the Fourth King of Poland 164. William Duke of Brunswick 165. Richard Widvile Lord Rivers after Created Earl Rivers 166. Iohn Mowbray Duke of Norfolk 167. Henry Bourchier Viscount Bourchier after Lord Treasurer of England and Earl of Essex 168. Sir Philip Wentworth Knight 169. Sir Edward Hall Knight 170. Frederick the Third Emperor of Germany 171. Iohn Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury 172. Lionell Wells Lord Wells 173. Thomas Stanley Lord Stanley 174. Edward Prince of Wales 175. Iaspar Earl of Penbroke after Duke of Bedford 176. Iames Butler Earl of Wiltshire 177. Iohn Sutton Lord Dudley 178. Iohn Bourchier Lord Berners 179. Richard Nevil Earl of Warwick 180. William Bonvill Lord Bonvill 181. Iohn Wenlock Lord Wenlock 182. Sir Thomas Kyriell Knight Knights Elected in the Reign of King Edward the Fourth 183. George Duke of Clarence 184. Sir William Chamberlayne Knight 185. Iohn Typtoft Earl of Worcester after High Constable of England 186. Iohn Nevel Lord Montague after Earl of Northumberland and Marquess Montague 187. William Herbert Lord Herbert after Earl of Penbroke 188. William Hastings Lord Hastings 189. Iohn Scrope Lord Scrope 190. Sir Iohn Astley Knight 191. Ferdinand King of Naples Son of Alphonsus King of Aragon 192. Francis Sfortia Duke of Milan 193. Iames Douglas Earl of Douglas 194. Galeard Lord Duras 195. Sir Robert Harcourt Knight 196. Anthony Widvile Lord Scales and Nucelles after Earl Rivers 197. Richard Duke of Gloucester after King of England of that name the Third 198. Lord Mountgryson of Apulia 199. Iohn Mowbray Duke of Norfolk 200. Iohn de la Poole Duke of Suffolk 201. William Fitz-Alan Earl of Arundell 202. Iohn Stafford Earl of Wiltshire 203. Iohn Howard Lord Howard after Duke of Norfolk 204. Walter Ferrars Lord Ferrars of Chartley. 205. Walter Blount Lord Mountjoy 206. Charles Duke of Burgundy 207. Henry Stafford Duke of Buckingham after Constable of England 208. Thomas Fitz-Alan Lord Matrevers after Earl of Arundel 209. Sir William Parr 210. Frederick Duke of Vrbin 211. Henry Percy Earl of Northumberland 212. Edward Prince of Wales 213. Richard Duke of York second Son to King Edward the Fourth 214. Thomas Grey Earl of Huntingdon and Marquess Dorset 215. Sir Thomas Montgomery Knight 216. Ferdinand King of Castile 217. Hercules Duke of Ferara 218. Iohn King of Portugal Son to Alphonsus the Fifth Knights Elected in the Reign of King Richard the Third 219. Sir Iohn Coniers Knight 220. Thomas Howard Earl of Surrey after Lord Treasurer of England and Duke of Norfolk 221. Francis Viscount Lovell 222. Sir Richard Ratcliff Knight 223. Sir Thomas Burgh Knight after Lord Burgh 224. Thomas Stanley Lord Stanley after Earl of Derby 225. Sir Richard Tunstall Knight Knights Elected in the Reign of King Henry the Seventh 226. Iohn Vere Earl of Oxford 227. Sir Giles d' Aubeny Knight after Lord d' Aubeny 228. Thomas Fitz-Alan Earl of Arundel 229. George Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury 230. Iohn Wells Viscount Wells 231. George Stanley Lord Strange 232. Sir Edward Wydevile Knight Banneret 233. Iohn Dynham Lord Dynham Lord Treasurer of England 234. Maximilian the First Emperor of Germany 235. Sir Iohn Savage Knight 236. Sir William Stanley Knight Lord Chamberlain 237. Sir Iohn Cheney Knight Baneret 238. Alphonsus Duke of Calabria 239. Arthur Prince of Wales 240. Thomas Grey Marquess Dorset 241. Henry Percy Earl of Northumberland 242. Henry Bourchier Earl of Essex 243. Sir Charles Somerset Knight Baneret after Earl of Worcester 244. Robert Willoughby Lord Brook 245. Sir Edward Poynings Knight 246. Sir Gilbert Talbot Knight Baneret 247. Sir Richard Poole Knight 248. Edward Stafford Duke of Buckingham 249. Henry Duke of York second Son to King Henry the Seventh after King of England of that name the Eighth 250. Edward Courtney Earl of Devonshire 251. Sir Richard Guildford Knight Baneret 252. Sir Edmund de la Poole Earl of Suffolke 253. Sir Thomas Lovel Knight Baneret 254. Sir Reginald Bray Knight Baneret 255. Iohn King of Denmark 256. Guido Vbaldo Duke of Vrbin 257. Gerald Fitz Gerald Earl of Kildare 258. Henry Stafford Lord Stafford after Earl of Wiltshire 259. Richard Grey Earl of Kent 260. Sir Rys ap Thomas Knight Baneret 261. Philip King of Castile 262. Sir Thomas Brandon Knight Baneret 263. Charles Arch-Duke of Austria Prince of Spaines after Emperor of Germany Knights Elected in the Reign of King Henry the Eighth 264. Thomas Darcy Lord Darcy 265. Edward Sutton Lord Dudley 266. Emanuel King of Portugal 267. Thomas Howard Lord Howard eldest Son to Thomas Duke of Norfolk 268. Thomas West Lord la Ware 269. Sir Henry Marney Knight after Lord Marney 270. George Nevil Lord Abergaveny 271. Sir Edward Howard Knight second Son to Thomas Duke of Norfolk 272. Sir Charles Brandon after Duke of Suffolk 273. Iulian de Medices Brother to Pope Leo the Tenth 274. Edward Stanley Lord Mounteagle 275. Thomas Dacres Lord Dacres of Gyllesland 276. Sir William Sandes Knight after Lord Sandes 277. Henry Courtney Earl of Devonshire and after Marquess of Exceter 278. Ferdinand Prince and Infant of Spain Arch-Duke of Austria after Emperor of Germany 279. Sir Richard Wingfield Knight 280. Sir Thomas Bullen Knight after Viscount Rochford and Earl of Wiltshire and Ormond 281. Walter d'Euereux Lord Ferrars of Chartley after Viscount Hereford 282. Arthur Plantaginet Viscount Lisle 283. Robert Radcliff Viscount Fitz Walter after Earl of Sussex 284. William Fitz-Alan Earl of Arundel 285. Thomas Mannors Lord Roos after Earl of Rutland 286. Henry Fitz Roy after Earl of Nottingham and Duke of Richmond and Somerset 287. Ralph Nevil Earl of Westmerland 288. William Blount Lord Montjoy 289. Sir William Fitz Williams Knight after Earl of Southampton 290. Sir Henry Guildford Knight 291. Francis the French King 292. Iohn Vere Earl of Oxford 293. Henry Percy Earl of Northumberland 294. Anne Duke of Montmorency 295. Philip Chabot Earl of Newblanche 296. Iames the Fifth King of Scotland 297. Sir Nicholas Carew Knight 298. Henry Clifford Earl of Cumberland 299. Thomas Cromwell Lord Cromwell after Earl of Essex 300. Iohn Russell Lord Russell after Earl of Bedford 301. Sir Thomas Cheney Knight 302. Sir William Kingston Knight 303. Thomas Audley Lord Audley of Walden Lord Chancellor of England 304. Sir Anthony Browne Knight 305. Edward Seymour Earl of Hertford after Duke of Somerset 306. Henry Howard Earl of Surrey 307. Sir Iohn Gage Knight 308. Sir Anthony Wingfield Knight 309. Iohn Sutton Viscount Lisle after Earl of Warwick and Duke of Northumberland 310. William Paulet Lord St. Iohn of Basing after Earl of Wiltshire and Marquess of Winchester 311. William Parr Lord Parr of Kendall after Earl of Essex and Marquess of Northampton 312. Sir Iohn Wallop Knight 313. Henry Fitz-Alen Earl of Arundell 314. Sir Anthony St. Leger Knight 315. Francis Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury 316.
455. Frederick William Prince Elector of the Empire Marquess of Brandenburg 456. Iohn Gaspar Ferdinand de Marchin Count de Gravil 457. Sir George Monck Knight after Duke of Albemarle 458. Sir Edward Mountague Knight after Earl of Sandwich 459. William Seymour Marquess of Hertford after Duke of Somerset 460. Aubrie de Vere Earl of Oxford 461. Charles Stewart Duke of Richmond and Lenox 362. Mountague Barty Earl of Lindsey 363. Edward Mountague Earl of Manchester 464. William Wentworth Earl of Strafford 465. Christierne Prince of Denmark since King of Denmark 466. Iames Scot Duke of Monmouth and Bucclugh 467. Iames Stewart Duke of Cambridge 468. Charles the Eleventh King of Sweden Goths and Vandales 469. Iohn George the Second Duke of Saxony Iuliers Cleves and Monts and Prince Elector of the Empire 470. Christopher Monck Duke of Albemarle 471. Iohn Maitland Duke of Lauderdale To close up all here follows a Catalogue of the Officers of this most Noble Order Prelates of the Order William de Edyngton Bishop of Winchester Lord Treasurer and after Lord Chancellor of England William de Wykham Bishop of Winchester Lord Chancellor of England Henry Beaufort Bishop of Winchester Priest Cardinal of St. Eusebius and Lord Chancellor of England William de Waynfleet Bishop of Winchester and Lord Chancellor of England Peter Courtney Bishop of Winchester Thomas Langton Bishop of Winchester Richard Fox Bishop of Winchester and Lord Privy Seal Thomas Wolsey Bishop of Winchester Priest Cardinal of St. Cecily and Lord Chancellor of England Stephen Gardiner Bishop of Winchester Iohn Poynet Bishop of Winchester Stephen Gardiner restored and made Lord Chancellor of Englanâ— Iohn White Bishop of Winchester Robert Honne Bishop of Winchester Iohn Watson Bishop of Winchester Thomas Cooper Bishop of Winchester William Wyâ—ham Bishop of Winchester William Day Bishop of Winchester Thomas Bilson Bishop of Winchester Iames Mountague Bishop of Winchester Lancelot Andrews Bishop of Winchester Richard Neyle Bishop of Winchester Walter Curle Bishop of Winchester Brian Duppa Bishop of Winchester â—eorge Morley Bishop of Winchester Chancellors of the Order Richard Beauchamp Bishop of Salisbury and Dean of Windesor Lionel Woodeville Bishop of Salisbury Thomas Langton Bishop of Salisbury Iohn Blyth Bishop of Salisbury Henry Dean Bishop of Salisbury Edmund Audeley Bishop of Salisbury Sir William Cecil Principal Secretary of State Sir William Peters Principal Secretary of State Sir Thomas Smith Principal Secretary of State Sir Francis Walsingham Principal Secretary of State Sir Amyas Paulet Privy Counsellor Sir Iohn Woollee Secretary for the Latine Tongue Sir Edward Dyer Sir Iohn Herbert Principal Secretary of State Sir George More Sir Francis Crane Sir Thomas Rowe Sir Iames Palmer Sir Henry de Vic Baronet Seth Ward Bishop of Salisbury Registers of the Order â—â— Iohn Coringham Canon of Windesor Iohn Deepden Canon of Windesor Iames Goldwell Canon of Windesor and Secretary of State Oliver King Canon of Windesor Secretary to Prince Henry Son of King Henry the Sixth to King Edward the Fourth to King Edward the Fifth and King Henry the Seventh Richard Nix Canon of Windesor Christopher Vrswick Dean of Windesor Thomas Wolsey the Kings Almoner William Atwater Canon of Windesor after Bishop of Lincolne Nicholas West Dean of Windesor Iohn Vesâ—y Dean of Windesor Richard Sydnor Canon of Windesor Robert Aldridge Canon of Windesor Owen Oglethorp Dean of Windesor Iohn Boxall Dean of Windesor and Principal Secretary of State George Carew Dean of Windesor William Dâ—y Dean of Windesor Robert Benet Dean of Windesor Giles Tomson Dean of Windesor and Bishop of Gloucester Anthony Maxey Dean of Windesor Marc Antonio de Dominis Archbishop of Spalato Dean of Windesor Henry Beaumont Dean of Windesor Matthew Wren Dean of Windesor Christopher Wren Dean of Windesor Brune Ryves Dean of Windesor Garters Kings of Arms. Sir William Brugges Knight Iohn Smert Sir Iohn Writh Knight Sir Thomas Wriothesley Knight Sir Thomas Wall Knight Sir Christopher Barker Knight Sir Gilbert Dethick Knight Sir William Dethick Knight Sir William Segar Knight Sir Iohn Borough Knight Sir Henry St. George Knight Sir Edward Walker Knight Ushers of the Black-Rod William Whitehorse Iohn Cray Thomas Sye William Evington and Edward Hardgyll Robert Marleton Ralph Ashton and Hugh Dennys Sir William Compton Knight Henry Norresse Esquire Anthony Knyvet Esquire Sir Philip Hobby Knight Iohn Norres and William Norres Esquires Anthony Wingfeild Esquire Richard Coningsbye and George Pollard Esquires Iames Maxwell Esquire Peter Newton Esquire Sir Iohn Ayton Knight Sir Edward Carteret Knight APPENDIX The Statutes of Institution of the most Noble Order of the Garter AD honorem omnipotentis Dei Sanctae Mariae Virginis gloriosae Sancti Georgii Martyris Dominus noster Supremus Edwardus tertius Rex Angliae anno regni sui post conquestum xxiii Ordinavit stabilivit fundavit quandum Societatem five Ordinem militarem infra Castrum suum de Wyndesore in hunc modum Primo scipsum statuit dictae Societatis sive Ordinis Superiorem filium suum seniorem Principem Walliae Ducem Lancastriae Comitem Warwici Capitaneum de Buche Comitem Staffordiae Comitem Sarum Dominum de Mortimer Dominum Johannem Lisle Dominum Bartholomeum Burghersh filium Dominum Johannem de Beauchamp Dominum de Bohun Dominum Hugonem de Courtenay Dominum Thomam de Hollande Dominum Johannem de Grey Dominum Richardum de fitz Symond Dominum Milonem de Stapulton Dominum Thomam Wale Dominum Hugonem de Wirteslay Dominum Nelelatum Loryng Dominum Johannem Chandos Dominum Jacobum Daudele Dominum Otonem de Hollande Dominum Henricum de Em Dominum Sauchetum Dabrichecourt Dominum Walterum Pavelay I. Concordatum est quod Rex Angliae qui pro tempore fuerit inperpetuum erit Superior hujus Ordinis Sancti Georgii sive Societatis Garterii II. Item concordatum est quod nullus eligatâ—r in socium dicti Ordinis nisi generosae propaginis existat miles careus opprobrio quoniam ignobiles aut reprobos Ordinis institutio non admittit III. Et xxvi Commilitones Consocii hujus Ordinis praenominati deferent mantella garteria apud dictum castrum ordinata quociens ibidem praesentes fuerint videlicet quâlibâ—t vice quâ capellam intrant Sancti Georgii aut domum Capitularem pro capitulo celebrando aut aliquid statuendo quod ad Ordinem pertinebit Et simili modo incedent in vigiliâ Sancti Georgii per modum processionis proficiscentes cum Superiori Ordinis aut suo Deputato de magnâ camerâ regiâ usque ad Capellam vel domum capitularem eâdem serie revertentur Sedebunt itaque cum Montellis Garteriis in dictâ vigiliâ tempore coenae tam illi qui coenare volunt quam etiam alii non coenantes quousque de magnâ camerâ praedictâ consuctum tempus fuerit separandi Sic eciam induti inâ—â—dere debent in crastino versus dictam Capellam abinde revertentes ac etiam tempore prandii postea quosque
aut ab ipso designati ceterorum Commilitonum in suscepto tentóque manifesto Concilio XXXVIII Deâ—iquè quò Discrimen Equitum hujus Ordinis à caeteris cui non sunt â—jusdem tantò clariùs eluceat Supremus ex consensâ—â— Commilitonum omnium vult Ordinâ—t instituit ut abbinc imperpetuum quicuâ—que fuerit Eques istius Ordinis circum cervicem utatur â—ureo Torque triginta unciarum Trojani Ponderis nihil suprà Conficietur autem ille Torques è laminis in formam Subligaris una laminarum duas intùs rosas habebit alteram rubram superiorem albâ—m altera inferiorem albam superiorem rubram In fine verò Torquis illius pendebit Imago Divi Georgii Quo Supremus omnes Ordinis hujus Equites uti tenebuntur praesertim in maximis praecipuis Anni solennitatibus Aliis autem diebus Cathenula utantur Aurea quae Divi Georgii gestabit imaginem in fine nisi gerâ—tur bellum aut gerendum ingruat aegritudo urgeat aut longum iter ineundum sit Tunc etenim sufficiat uti Fibulâ sericâ quae Divi Georgii duntaxat imaginem in fine pendulâ—m habebit Si vero Torques resarciendus sit tradi poterit â—â—rifici ut emendetur Nec debet ille Torques stipari gemmis aut ditari nisi forsan id Imagini fiat quae benè poterit ex arbitratu illius Equitis gemmis aut alitèr exornari Cavendum autem ne Torques hujusmodi vendatur mutuò tradatur aut alienetur ullo modo seu donetur ex ullâ causâ vel necessitudine sed ad cohonest amentum Ordinis Equitis Ordinati conservari debet Here follow the same Statutes as they were put into English shortly after their Establishment wherein some of the Articles are transposed and the 18. Article wholly changed But in all the Copies of them given forth since the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's Reign King Henry's Title of Supream head of the Church of England in Earth under Christ is omitted and some few words noted with an Asterisk altered to those inserted at the foot of the Page whither the Asterisk directs The Statutes and Ordinances of the most Noble Ordre of Saint George named the Gartier Reformed explained declared and renewed by the moost High moste excellent and mooste puissant Prince Henry the viii by the Grace of God Kyng of England and of Fraunce Defensor of the Faith Lorde of Irland c. WHereas the moost famous moost happiest and victorious Prynce Edwarde the thirde of that name his Noble Progenitour somtyme Kyng of England and of Fraunce and Lorde of Irland c. To th' onnoâ—re of almighti God and of the blessed and immaculate Virgyn Marie and the blessid Martir Sainte George Patron of the right noble Roialme of England and of Saynt Edwarde Kyng and Confessauâ— To the exaltation of the holy Faith Catholique Drdeyned Established created and founded within the Castel of Wyndesore a company of xxvi Noble and Worthi Knyghtes for to be of the said moost Noble Drdre of Saynt George named the Gartier and for the honorable continuance augmentation and interteyning of the same The seid moost victorious Kyng did devyse and institute divers honorable Estatuts and laudable Ordinances for to be observed and kept by the cobrethern and confreres Knightes and Compaynons of the said moost Noble Order amonge the which Estatutis been certeyne doubtis and ambiguities which to be more playnly declared interpreted and extended it is thought right necessary and expedient And that certeyne other new Ordinances and Articles be to the said Statutes added and adjoyned Wherefore the said moost excellent and victorious Prynce Henry the viii Kynge of England and of France Defensor of the Faith and Lord of Irland and Soveragne of the said moost Noble Order and for the right singular love good zeal ardent and intier affection that his royall Majestie hath and bearith to the said moost Noble Order and to the estate of Chivalrie and Knyghthod And for the honorablâ— contynuance and encreasing of the same And also at the humble requeste and instante destre of the Knyghts and Companyons of the said Noble Order And by their advyse councell and assent the xxiii day of April in the year of grace M.D.XXII and of his moost noble reigh the viii yere made interpretacion and declaracion of the Obscurities doubtis and ambiguities of the said Estatutes Ordinances Interpretacions declaracions reformacions with their additions aforesaid after the â—rew intencion of them shall be from hensforth observed kept and ensued by the Soverayne and the Knyghtes Confreres and Companyons of the said Noble Order in manner and fourme followyng I. Firste It is Ordened and accorded that the Kyng and his Heires and Successors Kyngs of England shall be for evermore Soveraynes of the saide moost Noble Order and amiable Companye of Saynt George named the Gartier to the which Soverayn and to his Heires and Successours shall apperteine the declaracion solucion determinacion interpretacion Reformacion and disposition of all causes concernyng and towchyng any thyng of obscuritie or dowbte conteyned in the Statutes of the said moost Noble Order II. Item it is accorded that none shall be elected and chosen for to be Felow or Companion of the said moost Noble Order excepte that he be a Gentilman of blood and that he be a Knyghte and without roproche And that the Knyghtes of the said Noble Order from hensforth shall not name any person in their Election to be Felow or Companyon of the said Noble Order in whome thei shall thynke or extiem in their conscience to have spotte of Reprâ—che And as towchyng the declaration of a Gentilman of blode it is declared and determined that he shall be decended of three decentis of Noblesse that is to say of name and of armes bothe of his Father's side and also of his Mother's side and as towchyng or concernyng any maner of reproche forasmoche as there be divers and many sundri pâ—yntis of reproche there shall be here declared but three poyntis of them oonly as is declared in manner and fourme folowying The first poynt of Reproche ys that if any Knyght os God defende be convaynqued or attaynted of errour against the Cristen Faith Catholique or had for any suche Offence suffred any payne or punicion publique The second poynt of Reproche is that if any Knyght as God defende had bene ararayned convicted or attainted or High Treason The third poynt of Reproache is that if any Knyght departe or flee away from batayle or journei beyng with his Soverayne Lord his Lieutenant or Deputie or other Capetayne bavyng the Kyng's power Royal and auâ—toritie and whereas Banners Estandatz or Pennons have bene displaied and that thei preceded to fight he that then renioufly and cowardly flieth or departith away from thens ought to be estiemeâ— and judged to have reproche and never worthi to be electe Knyght or Felow of the said Company And if it fortune that any Knyght of the
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
reception de la dicte Jartiere du Collier Habit que leur est envoié par la Souverain du dit Order qu'ils auront certifié avoir le dit Jartiere Collier Habit un sufficient Depuâ—é Procureur selon l'estat de son Seigneur Maistre moyennâ—ns qu'il soit Chevalier sans reproche pour estre miâ— en sa place y estant faire son serment y estre admis par au nom de son dit Seigneur Maistre Scavoir vous faisons que nous desirans pour le respect â—ue nous portons a la Royne nostre dicte Soeur Cousine l'estime que nous faisons du dict Ordre satisfaire qu'a nous est au contenu des dits Statutes en ce que touche la dite prise de possesion prestation de serment recognoissance que pouâ— cest effect nous ne pourrons saire melleur ou plus convenable election que de vostre personne pour les bonnes louables qualitiés qui sont en vons les tesmoignages que vous avez rendus en divers occasions de vostre affection au bien avantage de nos affaires service vous avons Commis Deputé Commettons Deputons par ces presentes signées de nostre main pour vous trausporter en Angleterre vous trouver a la prochain ceremonie qui se fera du dicti Ordre pour prendre possession de nostre place en iceluy selon la forme ordinaire si besoigne est faire le serment en nostre Nom ainsi que l'ou à accoustumé de fairé gardant au surplus les solemnites en tel cas requises generalment faire tout ce que vous adviserés necessaire pour l'effect dessus ores qu'il y eust chose qui requist mandement plus special qu'il n'est contenu en ces dits presents par lesquelles de ce faire vous avons donné donnoâ—s plain pouvoir puissance authorité commission mandement special Cartel est nostre plaisir Donné a Paris le vingtiesme jour de Avrill l'an de grace mil six cent de nostre Reigne le onziesme Henry Duneuville NUM CXXIV A Precedent of a Commission for Installation of an Elect-Knight Ex lib. Nig. p. 315. HENRICUS Dei gratiâ invictissimus Rex Angliae Franciae Fidei Defensor Dominus Hiberniae Ordinis Divi Georgii supremus fidelibus ac praedilectis Cognatis nostris N. S. D. P. Quoniam intelligimus quod illustrissimus ac potentissimus Princeps N. vel Dominus aut vir inclytus N quem nuper in Socium nostri Ordinis elegimus non possit ipse commodè advenire ut in â—ollegio nostro de more in sedem suam introducatur alias ibi Ceremonias ritè perimpleat juxta quod ex Statutis ipsis obligatur ob id virum bene nobilem ac honorandum N. misit ut sedem nomine suo possideat juramentum praestet caeteraque perficiat quae Statuta requirunt Nos ideò noâ—iscum ista reputantes Volumus virtute praesentium eam vobis authoritatem addimus ut hunc procuratorem ejus ac deputatum non solùm admittere sed caetera quaeque facere valeates quae ad Statuta consuetudinesque laudabiles attinere videbuntur Et hae literae nostrae vos tuebuntur Sub Sigillo nostri Ordinis N. die Mensis N. Anno regni nostri N. NUM CXXV A Commission for the Installation of Guido Vbaldus Duke of Vrbin Ex Collect. W. D. N. HEnry by the grace of God King of England and of France and Lord of Ireland Soveraign of the Noble Ordre of the Garter To our right trusty and right well-beloved Cousins the Marquess of Dorset The Earl of Surrey our Treasurer of England and the Earl of Shrewsbury Steward of our Household Companions of the said Order greeting Forasmuch as we understand that the right noble Prince Gwe de Ubaldis Duke of Urbin who was heretofore elected to be one of the Companions of the said Noble Order cannot conveniently repair into this our Realm personally to be installed in the Collegial Church of that Order and to perform other Ceremonies whereunto by the Statutz of the said Order he is bound But for that intent and purpose hath sent a right honorable personage Balthasar de Castilione Knight sufficiently authorised as his Proctor to be installed in his name and to perform all other things for him to the Statutes and Ordinances of the said Order requisite and appertaining We therefore in consideration of the premisses will and by these presents give unto you license full power and authority not only to accept and admit the said Balthasar as Proctor for the same Duke and to receive his Oath and install him in the lieu and place and for the said Duke but also farther to do therein as to the Statutes and laudable usages of the said Order it appertaineth and this our writing shall be to you and every of you sufficient discharge in that behalf Given under the Seal of the said Noble Order of the Garter at our Mannor of Grenewiche the vii day of Novembre the xxii year of our Reign NUM CXXVI Another for the Installation of Emanuel Duke of Savoy Ex Collect. A. V. W. PHilip and Mary by the grace of God King and Queen of England France Naples Hierusalem and Ireland Defenders of the Faith Princes of Spain and Cicily Archdukes of Austria Dukes of Millayne Burgundy and Braband Counts of Haspurge Flaunders and Tyroll and Soveraigns of the Noble Order of the Garter To our right trusty and well-beloved the Lord Clynton and the Lord Paget Knights and Companions of the said Noble Order Greeting Forasmuch as we understand that the right high and mighty Prince and our entirely beloved Cousin Emanuel Philibert Duke of Savoy and Prince of Piemont c. and our right trusty and well-beloved Counsellor the Lord William Howard of Effingham high Admiral of England were heretofore elected to be Knights and Companions of the said Noble Order of the Garter which Emanuel Duke of Savoy Prince of Piemont c. cannot conveniently repair unto our Castle of Windesore personally to be installed in the Collegiate Chappel of that Order and to perform other Ceremonies whereunto by the Statutes of the said Order he is bounden and for that cause hath sent a right noble personage Johan Thomas L'angusto des Contes de Stropiane sufficiently authorised as his Deputy and Proctor 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 appertain We therefore in consideration of the premises will and by these presents give unto you full power license and authority not only to accept and admit the said Johan Thomas L'angusto des Contes de Stropiane to be Deputy and Proctor for our said
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
and commence from the time of the last payment thereof unto the said Sir William Seager alias Garter our principal King of Arms 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 seventh day of February in the second year of our Reign NUM CLXXI. Commissional Letters for collecting the Contributions towards furnishing the Altar in the Chappel at Windesor Ex lib. vocat Frith's Regist. p. 139. CHARLES by the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith and Soveraign of the most Noble Order of the Garter To all and singular whom these may concern greeting Whereas We with the Knights and Companions of our said Order in contemplation of the great want of such sacred Furniture for our Royal Chappel of St. George within our Castle of Windesor as may be suitable to the honour and devotion of the said Order have at sundry Chapters there holden advised and decreed that a joynt contribution should be made for provision of the same And particularly at a Chapter together with the Solemnity of the Feast of St. George holden upon the 6. of this present October We did again declare and constitute that We our selves would begin and that every Lord which is now of our Realm a Companion of the said Order or was at the making of our first Decree viz. Nov. 24. 1625. should give and confer towards the same as to him should be thought meet Provided that it be not under xxl. Now know ye that We have and do by these presents give Authority and Command to our Dean and Canons of our said free Chappel that they forthwith by any one of themselves or by their lawful Deputy under their Common Seal do ask and receive as well of our own Officers for our Self as of every Lord and Companions of the Order that now is of our Realm and of the Heirs Executors and Administrator of any that are deceased since the time last above mentioned the said gift and contribution And that thereof they be accountable unto Vs at our next Chapter to be holden for the said Order or at the next Session of the Lords Commissioners for the said Order which of the two shall first happen Given under the Seal of our said Order the seventh day of October in the sixth Year of our Reign of England Scotland France and Ireland c. 1630. NUM CLXXII The Soveraign's Letter to the Dean and Canons of Windesor for making use of their Lodgings at Saint George's Feast an 7. H. 5. Ex Lib. vocat Denton fol. 69. TReschers bien aymés Nous vous solvons souuent Et pour ce que grant multitude de gens tant estrongers que aultres qui seront à nostre Chasteau de Windesore à ceste prochaine solempnité la feste de Sainct George à cause de la Venue de l' Empereur du Due de Holand Nous desirons voulons que leurs gens aultres estans de nostre Compengnie ayent la plus grand favour aise que faire se pourra en aucune maniere touchant leur Logemens dedens mesme nostre dit Chasteau Pour laquelle cause vous envoyons presentement nostre bien aymé Escuier Huisser de Chambre le porteur de cestes vers nostre dit Chasteau pour yenor donner contre nostre venue Si vous prions que vous veâ—illiés bonnement souffrir nostre dit Huissier survoyer lez Logemens de vous maisons dedens nostre College de y logier autant de personnes come faire se pourra bonestement à ceste foys tout seullement pour la cause dessus dit Et ce faisons vous nous faites â—ng singulier plesir Et n'est pas nostre intention ne vouloir que par coulour de ce Vous en soyés ainsi chargiés plus avant Et nostre Signeur soit garde de vous Donné soubz nostre Signet à Lambeth le 18. jour de May l'an de nostre Reigne septieme NUM CLXXIII A Letter from the Soveraign to excuse the absence of some of the Knights-Companions from the Grand Feast Lib. Nâ—ag 174. SVpremus honorando ac pervenerando Patri suo Thomae Comiti Derb. salvere ac benè valere Quoniam ob multa variaque negotia quae nostri oneris sunt perdelectus Cognatus noster Comes Salopiae fideles ac benè meriti nobis à Consiliis Dominus Reginaldus Bray Dom. Tho. Lovell Dom. Carolus Somerset Dom. Richardus Goulford Dominus Gilbertus Talbot Socii clarissimi nostri Ordinis non possunt ipsi in Festo Divi Georgii septimo Maii celebrando interesse sed venia nostra donandi siâ—t arduis illisce rebus impediti Nos igitur biis nostris scriptis certiorem tuam nobilitatem facimus Vt has excusationes rationi consonaâ— acceptes de nulla Statutorum vi dubitaturus si contra denotare videatur cum penes nos sit ut ipsaemet leges jure regantur Richmondiae 29. Aprilis NUM CLXXIV Another Ex Collect. A. V. W. Elizabeth RIght trusty and right entirely beloved Cousin and Counsellor We greet you well Forasmuch as our right trusty and right well-beloved Cousins and Counsellors the Earls of Arundel and Derby c. Companions of the most Noble Order of the Garter cannot for certain employments by our Commandment attend at the Feast of the glorious Martyr St. George to be holden and kept within our Castle of Windsor the 22. day of May next coming and they being by Vs dispensed with and pardoned for their absence at that time like as we have thought good to advertize you thereof so We will you to accept their reasonable excuses in this behalf accordingly any Statute of the said Order made to the contrary notwithstanding Given under the Signet of our said Order at our Palace at Westminster the 20. of May in the fifth year of our Reign NUM CLXXV Another Ms. penes Arthur Com. Anglesey fol. 122. b. Elizabeth RIght trusty and right well-beloved Cousin and Counsellor We greet you well And forasmuch as our right trusty and right well-beloved Cousin and counsellor the Marquess of Winchester and the Earl of Derby and our right trusty and right entirely beloved Cousin and Counsellor the Duke of Norfolk our right trusty and well-beloved Counsellor the Lord Clynton our high Admiral of England our right trusty and right well-beloved Cousin and Counsellor the Marquess of Northampton our right trusty and well-beloved Counsellor the Lord Howard of Effingham Lord Chamberlain of our Houshold our right trusty and right well-beloved Cousin the Earl of Shrewsbury our right trusty and well-beloved the Lord Hastinges of Loughborough our right trusty and right well-beloved Cousin and Counsellor the Earl of Leicester our right trusty and right well-beloved Cousin the Earl of Warwick our trusty and well-beloved the Lord Hunsdone
Interpreters who call those that are not noble before their Creation Milites Somewhat to like purpose would our learned Spelman deduce from the addition of Aurati conceiving it introduced ad distinguendum Equitem ritu honorario institutum ab inhonorato istiusmodi and by him made applicable to the Neapolitan Gentlemen usually called Cavalieri who are all stiled Equites though they never have attained the Knightly dignity Thirdly concerning the Knights Banerets a Title bestowed on such who had so well deserved in the Wars that they were afterwards permitted to use the Vexillum quadratum or a square Banner whence they were truly called Equites Vexillarii or Chevaliers à Baniere from the Dutch word Banerherr Lord or Master of the Banner Our learned Cambden derives the original of this Knightly dignity among us not higher than the reign of King Edward the Third and believes him to be the first Institutor thereof and this honorable Title to be then first devised in recompence of martial prowess a recital of which dignity received is mentioned in a Patent whereby that King grants to Iohn Coupland for the maintenance thereof five hundred pounds per annum out of his Exchequer to be received by him and his Heirs and this was for his good service performed in taking David the Second King of Scots Prisoner at the Battel of Nevils Cross neer Durham But some few years before the Creation of Sir Iohn Coupland there is mention also in the Patent Rolls of Sir Reignald Cobham and Sir William de la Poole both Banerets And doubtless the Title and Dignity was much more ancient with us as well as in France for in our perusal of the Accounts of the great Wardrobe we find such like Robes allowed to several persons made Knights as were appointed usually for the Creation of Banerets and this before the reign of King Edward the Third which implies that there was then a Degree of Knighthood so called amongst us For instance Gerardo de la Bret ad apparatum suum pro Militia tanquam pro Baneretto à Rege suscipienda c. viz. ad unam Tunicam c. after which is set down the particular Robes and other Ornaments appointed for his Creation and then it follows Consimilem apparatum habuerant subscripti viz. Hug. de Courtney Viz. Singuli eorum tanquam pro Baneretto Rad. de Wylington Viz. Singuli eorum tanquam pro Baneretto Rad. Daubeney Viz. Singuli eorum tanquam pro Baneretto Ioh. de Willouby Viz. Singuli eorum tanquam pro Baneretto Edw. Stradling Viz. Singuli eorum tanquam pro Baneretto Rad. Baro de Stafford Viz. Singuli eorum tanquam pro Baneretto Ioh. de Meules Viz. Singuli eorum tanquam pro Baneretto Will. de Percy Viz. Singuli eorum tanquam pro Baneretto Gerard de Insula Viz. Singuli eorum tanquam pro Baneretto Pet. Breton Viz. Singuli eorum tanquam pro Baneretto Rog. le Straunge Viz. Singuli eorum tanquam pro Baneretto Ernone de Potes Viz. Singuli eorum tanquam pro Baneretto Ioh. de Neville Viz. Singuli eorum tanquam pro Baneretto Gerard de Trassyns Viz. Singuli eorum tanquam pro Baneretto Willect de Ciply Viz. Singuli eorum tanquam pro Baneretto Mulect de Blekey Viz. Singuli eorum tanquam pro Baneretto Disram de Keney Viz. Singuli eorum tanquam pro Baneretto In like manner in the preceding year have we met with an account of Robes given to Iames Botiller of Ireland ad apparatum suum pro se novo Milite faciendo tanquam Baneretto as also to William Mountacute Ebulo le Strange and others So also An. 18. E. 2. to Hugo de Poynts and Hugo de Plesey and Ann. 16. E. 2. to Raymund Durant And our learned Spelman in Pellae exitus An. 8. E. 2. doth find Iohn de Crumbwell written with the addition and Title of Baneret But that this Dignity was yet more ancient in England is sufficiently apparent from a Writ of King Edward the First under the Privy Seal directed to the Clerk of the Wardrobe to furnish Thomas Bardolf with Robes such as were usually allowed to a Baneret he being to receive the honor of Knighthood at that eminent solemnity when Edward of Caernarvon the Kings eldest Son was made Knight which Writ runs thus Edwardus Dei gratiâ Rex Angliae Dominus Hiberniae Dux Aquitaniae Dilecto nobis Radulpho de Stoke Clerico magnae Garderobae nostrae salutem Mandaemus vobis quod dilecto nobis Thomae Bardolf tanquam Baneretto decentem apparatum pro se novo Milite faciendo ad festum Pentecostes proximè futurum in Comitiva Edwardi filii nostri karissimi habere de dono nostro faciatis Et nos vobis inde in compoto vestro debitam allocationem habere faciemus Datum sub privato Sigillo nostro apud Wolveseye tertio die Maii Anno Regni nostri Tricesimo quarto This Degree of Honor is esteemed the last among the greatest viz. Nobilium majorum or the first with those of the second rank and is placed in the middle between the Barons and the other Knights in which respect the Baneret may be called Vexillarius minor as if he were the lesser Banner-Bearer to the end he might be so differenced from the greater namely the Baron to whom properly the right of bearing a square Banner doth appertain But there are some remarkable differences â—â—tween these Knights and Knights Batchelors to wit as to the occasion and circumstances of their Creation the Baneret being not created unless at a time when the Kings Standard is erected and displayed besides he bears his own Banner in the field while the Knight Batchelor follows that which is anothers which evidently shews the Dignity to be of a higher nature nevertheless Sir Henry Spelman notes this not to be dishonourable since the Emperor Maximilian was pleased to serve in the Wars under the Banner of our King Henry the Eighth in the quality of his Soldier in the Camp before Terwin in France wearing the Cross of St. George and receiving the pay of one hundred Crowns a day This further difference is observed between them by Andrew Favin to wit that the Knight Baneret was he who had so many Gentlemen his servants at command as that he could raise a Banner and make up a Company of Soldiers to be maintained at his Table and their wages paid out of his own Purse But the Knight Batchelor he who had not servants sufficient to lead to the War at his own charge but marched under the Banner of some other These two degrees of Honor saith he were also distinguished by their Wages in regard that a Knight Baneret had twenty Sols per diem to dispend the Knight Batchelor ten and the Esquire but five proportionable hereunto is that which Mr. Selden notes out of the Wardrobe accounts an
of the Collar of the Garter and vulgarly called Collars of SS to note down a few things concerning them having first given a more exact account as to their antiquity than yet hath been made publick among us Georgius Wicelius informs us that he found a Book remaining in the Library at Fulda where in the life of the two Brothers Simplicius and Faustinus both Senators and suffered Martyrdom under Dioclesian is a description of the Society of Saint Simplicius consisting of persons noble in their own Families and so coming to describe the Collar used as the Note and Badge of their Society he says thus It was the custom of those persons to wear about their necks Silver Collars composed of double SS which noted the name of Saint Simplicius between these double SS the Collar contained 12 small plates of Silver in which were engraved the 12 Articles of the Crede together with a single Tresoyle The Image of Saint Simplicius hung at the Collar and from it 7 Plates representing the 7 gifts of the Holy Ghost As to the manner of their suffering it is thus set down in an old Legend They were commanded to undergo the sentence of death their Bodies to be bound together by the neck to a Stone and sent to the Bridge over the Tiber in Rome and thence thrown into the River All which was executed upon them the 287. year after the Incarnation of our Saviour And 't is probable that to these Collars the passage in Walsingbam cited by Mr. Selden to this purpose should refer where speaking of the Earl of Kent's coming to Sunning neer Reading in Berkshire where Richard the Second's Queen then lay to comfort her with the assurance that her Husband was then at liberty to the end he might gain credit to his relation forthwith pluckt off the Collars from some there present that wore them leting them know they ought not to wear a Badge so particularly relative to Henry the Fourth In the ancient creation of an Esquire in England part of the Ceremony was that the King put about his neck a Silver Collar of SS as an Ensign of that Dignity and our learned Selden contemns not the authority of that old Ballad The Canner of Camworth to prove the making of Esquires in King Edward the Fourth's Reign by bestowing such Collars But that the Golden Collar was the undoubted Badge of a Knight may be instanced in a multitude of Examples deduced from the Monuments of persons of that Degree in the Reigns of Henry the Sixth Edward the Fourth Henry the Seventh Henry the Eighth and since and so justly and legally appropriate thereto that in the Act of Parliament made for reformation of Apparel there is a Proviso entred That Knights notwithstanding might publickly wear a Gold Collar of SS though since it hath grown out of fashion Andrew Favin tells us that our King Henry the Fifth Instituted an Order surnamed Knights of the SS on the day of the Martyrs St. Crispine and Crispianus of which Institution though he found nothing mentioned in our English Histories yet out of the Chronicle of I. Iuvenal des Vrsins where it treats of the Battel of Agin-Court he collected this following relation The King of England exhorted his men and commanded that if any of them had trespassed against another they should be reconciled and confess to the Priests that were in their company otherwise no good could happen to them in their undertakings He further exhorted them to be civil in their march and to do their duty well and thus agreed with them That all those of their company who were not Gentlemen he would make them so and give them Warrants for it and have them thence forward enjoy such Priviledges as the Gentlemen of England had and to the end they should be particularly known from other he gave them leave to wear a Collar powdered with the letter S. Among the variety of Collars of SS now in use with us there are these following differences in Figure and Fashion The Lord Mayor of London's Collar is Gold having a knot like one of those which tye the Garters together in the great Collar of the Order inserted between two SS and they again placed between two Roses viz. a White Rose within a Red and in the middle before the Breast is a large Portcullis whereat hangs a most rich Jewel set with fair and large Diamonds The Collars of the Lords Chief Iustices of both the Benches and the Chief Baron of the Exchequer are in memory of the before mentioned Saint Simplicius a Senator and consequently a Gown-man formed of the Letter S and a Knot alternately having a Rose set in that part of it which falls out to be in the middle of their Breasts and another on their Backs the five Flowers of these Roses are made of five large Pearls Those Collars which appertain to the Kings and Heralds of Arms so likewise to the Serjeants at Arms having been bestowed by former Kings and renewed to them by his present Majesty to be worn upon all days of solemn attendance for his honor are also composed of SS linked together in the middle of the Breast is a Rose and another in the middle of the Back at each of which hang three small drops of Silver But the SS in the Collars worn by the Kings of Arms are made somewhat bigger than the others and in that part lying on either shoulder â— a Portcullis taken in between the SS which are wanting in the rest The general difference between the Collars appropriate to the Degrees before named is this All such persons as are honored with Knighthood have allowed them Collars of Silver gilt but to Esquires those of Silver only and therefore he that is created an Herald is also in part of that Ceremony made an Esquire by putting on a Collar of SS of Silver about his neck and so is a Serjeant at Arms. The Kings of England have sometimes heretofore drawn a Collar of SS about their Arms in like manner as we have shewed how the Garter doth surround them and we have seen impression of King Henry the Eight's Privy Signet whereon his Royal Arms crowned are incircled with a Collar of SS to the lower end of which is affixed two Portcullisses SECT IX The lesser George WE do not find among the Records of the Order that the Image of St. George was at any time worn by the Soveraign or Knights-Companions before the Breast or under the right Arm as now used until the 13. year of King Henry the Eighth But then that Soveraign past a Decree in Chapter held at Greenwich the morrow after St. George's day with consent of the Knights-Companions present to this effect That every Knight of the Order should wear loosely before his Breast the Image of St. George in a Gold Chain or otherwise in a Ribband the same to be thence forward placed within
the said Chancellor is to precede And to the end publick notice may be taken hereof and the respects known that is due to that place His Majesty hath commanded an Entry thereof to be made in the Register of the Order And is pleased that the Earl Marshal of England shall likewise cause the same to be entred in the Office of Arms. And to the end the place belonging to the Chancellor of the Exchequer may be certainly known we have thought fit to transcribe hither so much of the Decree and Establishment of King Iames made the 20. of May in the 10. year of his Reign as will evidence the same And his Majesty doth likewise by these presents for Himself his Heirs and Successors Ordain That the Knights of the most Noble Order of the Garter the the Privy Councellors of his Majesty His Heirs and Successors the Master of the Courts of Wards and Liveries the Chancellor and Under-Treasurer of the Exchequer Chancellor of the Dutchy the Chief Justice of the Court commonly called the Kings Bench the Master of the Rolls the Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas the Chief Baron of the Exchequer and all other the Judges and Barons of the Degree of the Coife of the said Courts now and for the time being shall by reason of such their honorable Order and employment of State and Iustice have place and precedency in all places and upon all occasions before the Younger Sons of Viscounts and Barons and before all Baronets c. The foresaid Constitutions appoint the Chancellor of the Order an Habitation within the Castle of Windesor like as hath the Prelate and that is the South-west Tower in the Lower-Ward of the Castleâ—hence â—hence called the Chancellors-Tower It appears the possession thereof had been for some time in the hands of others and therefore in a Chapter held at Whitehall the 5. of November an 5. Car. 1. It was decreed to be restored unto Sir Francis Crane then Chancellor of the Order and after his decease to descend to his Successors in right of this Office These Constitutions also Ordained That this Officer should have the like Diet and Liveries in the Soveraign's Court as were allowed to the Prelate At the erection of this Office the Chancellor had no Pension allowed him towards defraying his charge in the Execution thereof nor until the Constitutions relating to the Officers were established but thereby is setled on him a Pension of 100 l. per annum in consideration of his Employment or else an allowance proportionable in Fees Offices or other Promotions over and beside his Lodgings in the Castle and Liveries at Court But as to Fees or Perquisites there are none due to this Officer and for that reason he hath not only the foresaid Pension but all his disbursements touching the Affairs of the Order allowed him even to Paper Wax and Wafers and indeed those persons who formerly enjoyed this Office have thought it much below them to accept either of Fee or Gratuity for any thing done within the Order and so that truly noble person Sir Thomas Rowe sometime the worthy Chancellor of this Order out of an extraordinary sence of Honor affirmed in a Letter to Doctor Christopher Wren Register upon the tender but his refusal of some Gratuity That his Office was an Office of Honor and not of Fees and that he had alwâ—ys excepted against Fees for the disbursements of the Soveraign's Money Though he acknowledged some had given his Clerk a small Gratuity for the bare Ingrossing of an Alms-Knights Patent but nothing further And because the Custody of the Seals of the Order belong to this Officer before we leave this Section it will be here the fittest place to say something concerning them It appears by the Statutes of Institution to have been then agreed That there should belong to this most Noble Order a Common Seal This is confirmed by the Statutes of King Henry the Fifth and since called the Great Seal of the Order The use of this Seal is declared to be to seal not only the Original Statutes appointed to remain perpetually within the Treasury of Windesor Colledge as also those Copies of which each Knight-Companion is obliged to have one in his keeping but likewise all Letters of Licence to any of the Knights-Companions desirous to purchase Honor abroad and all Mandates and Certificates relating to the Order After what manner this first Seal was designed or what was engraven thereon we yet could never find Polidore Virgile tells us That when the Founder of the Order had made choice of St. George for its Patron he represented him armed mounted on a Horse bearing a Silver Shield and thereon a Red Cross. But whether St. George thus designed was engraved on the first Seal or only a Scutcheon of his Arms as in after times is not certain But this Author notes that the Founder clothed his Soldiers in White Iackets or Coats and on their Breasts and Backs sowed Red Crosses parallel to the Arms anciently assigned to St. George as also to the Kingdom of England placed under his Patronage which Arms the Soveraigns of this Order have ever since advanced in their Standards both by Land and Sea But besides this Common Seal King Henry the Fifth in the 9. year of his Reigâ— Instituted a Privy Signet in case weighty Affairs should occasion the Soveraign to go out of this Kingdom The use whereof was to set to all Acts made by the Soveraign beyond Sea to difference them from those of his Deputies here in England King Henry the Eighth's Statutes ordain the making both of a Common-Seal and Signet and direct that the Arms of the Order should be engraved upon each of them The Common-Seal used in his Reign we have seen and represented in the inserted Plate under the Number I the Signet being designed after the same manner but less The use of this Seal was continued as appears from several Commissions of Lieutenancy that have come to our hands until the Reign of King Iames and then altered to that Draught placed under number II There was a like Seal made at the beginning of the Reign of King Charles the First which being judged too little for the honor of the Soveraign's Commissions it was afterwards Decreed in Chapter held the 18. of April an 13. Car. 1. That a new one should be made of a larger size with the accustomed Arms and Motto and the care thereof left to Sir Thomas Rowe the then Chancellor and it appears he executed this Command with all due consideration by the nobleness of the design exhibited under the Number III In the same Decree direction was given for making a new Signet the former being thought too big for Letters this also was effected by the said Chancellor and represented under the number IV It was at the same Chapter further Decreed
it should not be granted To this Mr. Thaine drew up his Answer which being taken into consideration by the Soveraign in a Chapter held at Whitehall the 20. of February an 13. Car. 2. as also the Decree in Chapter before specified which fixed the Office to one of the Gentlemen-Vshers daily-waiters The Soveraign and Knights-Companions adjudged and declared the said Thaine's Answer not satisfactory as to the right by him pretended to the said Office and thereupon confirmed the foresaid Decree and further Ordered That Iohn Ayton Esquire one of the Petitioners should be forthwith sworn Gentleman-Vsher of the Black Rod to execute the place upon all occasions hereafter which was done by the Register of the Order in the presence of the Soveraign and Knights-Companions the Chapter sitting The Oath as we find it given to this Officer in the Reign of King Henry the Eighth was Truly and faithfully to observe and keep all the points of the Statutes of the Order as to him belonged and appertained He hath the like Habit with the Register and Garter before described But his Ensign and Badge are somewhat different from Garter's for first it was Ordained That he or his Deputy should carry a Black Rod whence he hath his ordinary Title before the Soveraign or his Deputy at the Feast of St. George within the Castle of Windesor and at other Solemnities and Chapters of the Order On the top of which there ought to be set a Lion of England This Rod serves instead of a Mace and hath the same authority to apprehend such persons as shall be found Delinquents and have offended against the Statutes and Ordinances of this most Noble Order And if at the command of the Soveraign and Knights-Companions he should apprehend any one of the Order as guilty of some Crime for which he is to be expell'd from the Order it is to be done by touching them with this Black Rod in consideration whereof his Fee is 5 l. There is also assigned him a Gold Badge to be openly worn in a Gold Chain or Ribband before his Breast composed of one of the Knots in the Collar of the Garter which tye the Roses together and encompassed with the ennobled Garter being alike on both sides which honor is conferr'd on him and his Successors by Decree in Chapter held the 24. of April an 8. Eliz. 'T is as ancient as King Henry the Fifth's Reign that we find a House in Windesor Castle granted to this Officer by Letters Patent together with his Office during life and the like provision is made for him by the Constitutions of his Office It is scituate on the South side of the Castle in the middle Ward The said Constitutions give him Baron-service at Court and Livery thereto appertaining and besides these the keeping of the said Castle and the two Parks adjacent King Charles the Firsâ— having taken into his hands the Little Park of Windesor by the resignation of Sir William Hewyd who had it by Grant under the Great Seal of England and bestowed it upon the foresaid Iames Maxwell then Vsher of the Order He also thought fit with the advice and consent of the Knights-Companions at a Chapter held in the With-drawing Chamber at Whitehall 5. November 1629. to Order and Decree That as the Custody of the said Little Park was conferr'd on Mr. Maxwell in right of his Office pursuant to the institution so the same should for ever after be annexed thereto and not be disposed of but under the Great Seal of the Order and that only to the Vsher of the Order for the time being Lastly this Officer had anciently a Fee of 12 d. per diem allowed him which we find continued down in the Letters Patent whereby this Office was granted beside which the Constitutions of his Office allow him an annual Pension of 30 l. heretofore paid him out of the Soveraign's Exchequer but by King Charles the First assigned him out of the 1200 l. per annum setled upon the Order touching which we shall Discourse in the next Section SECT VI The payment of the Officers Pensions upon the new Establishment KIng Iames sometimes Soveraign of this most Noble Order well considering its Institution Nature and Constitution and that it was in the nature of a distinâ—t Soveraignty govern'd by Laws Statutes and Assemblies of its own and Himself as Soveraign in matters and things immediately relating thereto had sole and absolute power of altering changing adding or explaining And finding that the annual Pensions paid to the Officers of the Order as those to the Alms-Knights and some other its Expences had been anciently made payable out of his Receipt of the Exchequer either upon and by virtue of the Great Seals of England or otherwise by Privy Seals and conceiving it incongruous that the Officers should longer receive or challenge their Pensions by virtue of any other Seal than that of the Order and in some kind derogatory to the Dignity of the Order it self to permit other Seals longer to work within or upon the same He thereupon with twelve Knights-Companions in a Chapter held at Whitehall the 2â— of May in the 20. year of his Reign Ordered That all things concerning the Order should thereafter be passed under the Seal of the Order only and in particulâ—r That the Grants of Poor-Knights Places after their being signed by the Soveraign should be passed under the Seal of the Order only and none other And whereas at the Feast of St. George the following year the Chancellor had received from the Dean of Windesor a Note in writing of the Pensions given to the Poor-Knights and by whom and in what manner the same had been given it was also Ordered That he should take advice of the Soveraign's Attorney General how by virtue of the Seal of the Order the said Pensions might be paid and received His Majesties further pleasure being That all Grants and Payments concerning the Order should afterwards pass under the Seal of the Order only and by virtue threof As to the Alms-Knights Patents this Decree took effect but in the other generals referring to the Order how far it was pursued we know not for in some of them we find it not observed But in a Chapter held at Windesor on the 22. of April in the 10. year of the Reign of his late Majesty of ever blessed memory debate was had about setting a part from the profits of his Revenue to the peculiar use of the Order the annual sum of 1000 l. to be assigned out of the Receipt of his Exchequer and employed particularly in discharge of Expences towards the Feasts of the Order Legations to Foreign Princes payment of the Officers Pensions and all other Titles by which any thing should at any time be disbursed for the necessity or reputation of the said most Noble Order Afterwards at
and right well-beloved Cousin and Councellor the Marquess of Winchester our high Treasurer of England NUM LXXXI A Warrant for Delivery of the Collar and George to Edward Prince Palatine Ex lib. vocat The Book of Warrants in the Iewel-house Charles R. OVR will and pleasure is that you deliver to the use of our entirely beloved Cousin Edward Prince Palatine one of the Companions of our most Noble Order of the Garter one Collar of Gold containing 26 Garters with Red Roses enamelled in the midst of them and 26 Knots the Collar weighing 30 Ounces Troy weight As also one rich George on horseback with a Dragon to be fastned and pendant thereto And for so doing this shall be your Warrant Given under the Signet of our said Order at our Court at Whitehall Z this 17. of June in the 13. year of our Reign By his Majesties the Soveraign's special command De Vic. To our trusty and well-beloved Servant Sir Gilbert Talbot Master of our Jewel-house NUM LXXXII A Warrant for the Delivery of the Collar George and Garter for Charles King of Sweden Ex eod Lib. Charles R. WHereas we have named and appointed our right trusty and right well-beloved Cousin and Counsellor Charles Earl of Carlisle our Ambassador extraordinary to our good Brother the King of Sweden and our trusty and well-beloved Henry St. George Esq one of our Officers at Arms to invest our said good Brother lately Elected Knight of our most Noble Order of the Garter with the whole Habit Ensigns and Ornaments of the same These are to will and require you to deliver unto our said Cousin and our said Officer at Arms or to either of them the great Collar George and Garter and what other things you may have provided on our former Warrant for that occasion And this with a Note under their or either of their bands mentioning the particulars to be delivered by you and acknowledging the Receipt of them shall be your sufficient discharge Given under our Signet Manual the 29. of November 1668. By the Soveraign's special command De Vic. To our trusty and well-beloved Sir Gilbert Talbot Master of our Jewel-house and our other Officers of the same NUM LXXXIII A Warrant for Delivery of the Collar George and Garter for Iohn George Duke of Saxony Ex Libro praed Charles R. WHereas we have named and appointed our trusty and well-beloved Sir Thomas Higgons Knight our Envoye extraordinary into Germany and Tho. St. George Esquire one of our Officers at Arms to carry to and invest our dear Cousin the Elector of Saxony late Elected Knight of our most Noble Order of the Garter with the whole Habit Ensigns and Ornaments of the same These are to will and require you to deliver unto the said Sir Thomas Higgons and Tho. St. George or to eitehr of them the great Collar George and Garter and what ever other things you may have provided on our former Warrants for that occasion And this with a Note under their or either of their bands mentioning all the particulars so delivered by you and acknowledging the Receipt of them shall be your sufficient discharge Given under our Signet manual this 29. of November 1668. By the Soveraign's special command De Vic. To our trusty and well-beloved Sir Gilbert Talbot Master of our Jewel-house and our other Officers of the same NUM LXXXIV A Receipt given to the Iewel-house upon delivery of the Ensigns of the Order for Charles King of Sweden Ex Lib. vocat The Day-Book in the Iewel-house p. 321. DEcemb 31. 1668. Delivered unto Henry St. George Esq one of his Majesties Officers at Arms by virtue of his Majesties Sign Manual bearing date the 29. of November last past viz. Imprimis 1 Onix George of the Order set round with 38 large Rose Diamonds 4 smaller Rose Diamonds on a Loop to the said George Also one Garter of the Order set with 202 Rose Diamonds in the Letters 6 between the words and 24 about 4 Ilot boles Also on the Buckle of the said Garter 11 great Rose Diamonds and 10 small ones and on the Tabb 3 large Rose Diamonds and 23 smaller Also one Collar and George of the Order Gold enamelled weight 30 ounces 10 penny weight 6 grains with three Cases of Crimson Velvet fringed with Gold Lace All which is acknowledged to be received by me Hen. St. George NUM LXXXV Another Receipt given for the Ensigns of the Order sent to Iohn George Duke of Saxony Ex Lib. vocat The Day-Book in the Iewel-house p. 324. FEbr 26. 1668. Delivered to Sir Thomas Higgons according to his Majesties Warrant bearing date the 29. of Novemb. 1668. Imprimis One Collar of the Order of the Garter consisting of 21 Roses and 21 Knots poize 30 ounces 16 penny weight As also one rich Aggot George set about with 32 rich Diamonds and three Sparks in the Ring Also a rich Diamond Garter all the Letters of Diamonds and at the Buckles end 9 fair Faucet Diamonds and at the Loop end 9 very fair Faucet Diamonds and -8 smaller Diamonds Also one enamelled George poize one Ounce All these I have received out of his Majesties Iewel-house with Cases to them Tho. Higgons NUM LXXXVI A Warrant to provide Necessaries for Transportation of the King of Sweden's Robes Ex Collect. W. le N. Cl. THese are to pray and require your Lordship that you cause to be provided with all speed these Necessaries following for the Transportation of the King of Swedens Râ—bes and other things belonging to the Order of the Garter namely one pair of fine Holland Sheets of two breadths and a half and three ells long Two Trunks for the packing up and transportation of the Robes Collar and Georges and two Sweet Bags of Taffaty to lay amongst the said Robes for the doing whereof this shall be your Lordships Warrant Whitehall this 27. of April 1627. To the Right Honorable the Earl of Denbeigb Master of our Great Wardrobe NUM LXXXVII A Warrant to provide several particulars for the Investiture of the Duke of Saxony Book of Warrants in the Grâ—at Wardrobe commencing at Michaelmas 1667. fol. 25. THese are to signifie unto your Lordship That it is his Majesties express pleasure That you do provide or cause to be provided in part of the Habit of the most Noble Order of the Garter which his Majesty is now sending unto the Elector of Saxony Knight Elect of the said Order and towards the furnishing of the Officer of Arms who is to go upon that Employment both with a Robe for himself and such other necessaries as are to be used for his Majesties honor and service on that occasion the following particulars One Black Velvet Cap and Feather such and of the same fashion as the Knights of the Order do wear on St. George's day when the Feast is kept and solemnized One Girdle and Hangers of Crimson Velvet One large Cushen of Blue and Purple Velvet with Buttons Fringe
yere within xv days after Ester by reason whereof We have according to the Statutes of the noble Order of the Garter differred the solennenifacion of the same unto the xxiiii day of May next coming on wyche day we have appointed the said Fest to be kept and also deputed you to be our Lieutenant at the same We therefore woll and desire you to prepare and dispose your self soo to bée accordingly Yeven under our Signet at our Vniversitie of Cambridge the xxv day of April NUM CLX A Letter of Notice to a Knight-Companion to be present at the Grand Feast held by Prorogation Ex Collect. praef W. le N. Cl. Mary R. RIght trusty c. And having deferred the keeping of the Feast of the Glorious Martyr St. George Patron of our most Noble Order of the Garter until the coming of our most dear Cousin the Prince of Spain To the intent the said Feast might be also honoured with the Installation of our said dearest Cousin We let you wit that we have now resolved to hold and celebrate the same Feast within our Casâ—le of Windsor upon Sunday the 5. of August next ensuing Requiring you therefore to put your self in order to make your repair thither for that purpose before the same day so as you may be present at the Celebration of that Feast and all the accustomed Ceremonies thereof Wherefore we pray you not to fail Yeven under the Seal of our Order c. NUM CLXI A Letter from the Chancellor giving a Knight-Companion notice of the Prorogation of the Grand Feast Ex Lib. Collect. W. le N. Cl. fol. 46. Right Honorable WHereas his Majesty Soveraign of the most Noble Order of the Garter for sundry causes but especially for the late Death of the high and mighty King his most dear and most entirely beloved Father which bringeth unto him cause of grief infinitely more then of triumph hath not thought meet to keep the Feast of St. George for this year on the days accustomed for the same that is to say on the 22.23 24. days of this month of April His Majesty therefore under the Seal of the said Order remaining in my Custody hath prorogued the keeping of the said Feast for this year unto the 16.17 18. days of August next Commanding all the Knights and Companions of the said Noble Order and Officers of the same then to attend his person wherein his Majesties Pleasure it is my due to make known to your Lordship which being by these performed I most humbly rest Your Lordships most ready to do you service George More 7. April 1625. To the right Honorable the Earl of Arundel and Surry Earl Marshal of England Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter and of his Majesties most Honorable Privy Council NUM CLXII Another Rowes Iournal pag. 5. May it please your Lordship THe King's Majesty Soveraign of the most Noble Order of the Garter having formerly prorogued the Celebration of the Feast of Saint George for this year from the usual days upon which it should have been solemnized unto the 8.9 10. of July following and by reason of the Contagion spread in many parts of his Kingdom from those days to the 26.27 28. of September and then also upon special consideration unto the 13.14 15. of December by Several Commissions under the Seal of his Order now remaining in my Custody His Majesty for divers and important Causes and to avoid the danger of the concourse of much people during the Infection finding it not convenient to celebrate the Feast at that designed time hath adjourned the Prorogation thereof by a new Commission to me delivered unto the 17.18 19. days of April next And thereby given Commandment to all the Knights and Companions and Officers of his Order that they should attend his Royal person upon these last appointed days Wherefore in discharge of my duty I do signifie unto your Lordship his Majesties pleasure praying your Lordship that you will be pleased to take knowledge herein of the Soveraign's Order humbly resting Your Lordships In all due Observance and Obedience Tho. Rowe Cranford 12. Dec. 1636. To the Right Honorable Iames Marquess Hamilton Knight and Companion of the most Noble Order of the Garter and my most Honored Lord. NUM CLXIII Another to the Register of the Order Ibidem pag. 3. Reverend Sir THE King's Majesty Soveraign of the most Noble Order of the Garter having formerly prorogued the Celebration of the Feast of St. George for this presents Year from the usual days upon which it should have been solemnized by several Commissions under the Seal of his Order now remaining in my Custody and finding it inconvenient for divers important causes specially by reason of the Contagion spread in divers places of his Kingdom to hold the Feast at any of those designed times His Majesty hath pleased by a new Commission to me delivered to prorogue the last Prorogation unto the 17.18 19. of April next And thereby given Commandment to all the Knights and Companions and to the Officers of his Order that they should attend his Royal person upon those last appointed days Wherefore in discharge of the duty of my place I do signifie unto you his Majesties pleasure desiring that you will take knowledge herein of his Royal Order Your affectionate Friend to do you service Tho. Rowe Cranford 12. Dec. 1636. To the Reverend and my Worthy Friend Doctor Wrenn Dean of Windsor and Register of the most Honorable Order of the Garter One Duplicate of this was sent to Sir Iohn Boroughs Knight Garter another to Iames Maxwell Esq Black-Rod NUM CLXIV Letters of Dispensation for attending at the Grand Feast Ex Collect. A. V. W. By the Queen RIght trusty and right well-beloved Cousin and Counsellor We greet you well and forasmuch as you are as well Governor of our Town of Barwick as also Warden of our East Marshes for and anyenst Scotland and may not conveniently be spared from thence for certain Affairs there by you to be done whereby you cannot make your repair hither to celebrate with us the Feast of St. George and have thought good upon that respect to excuse your absence from the said Feast and do by these presents dispence with you for the same And therefore these our Letters shall be your sufficient discharge in that behalf Yeven under the Signet of our said Order at our Palace of Westminster the day of April in the seventh year of our Reign 1565. NUM CLXV Another Ex eod Collect. By the Queen RIght trusty and right well-beloved Cousin We greet you well and forasmuch as you are President of our Council established in the City of York and by reason of your charge and attendance there for our service you cannot conveniently be present with us to solemnize the Feast of our most Noble Order of the Garter the Even of Vigil of St. George next ensuing We let you understand that
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