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A93074 St. George for England: or, a relation of the manner of the election and installation of the knights of the most noble order of St. George, called the Garter. Which is to be solemnized on the 15. 16. and 17. of April next, at the castle of Windsore. 1661 (1661) Wing S310; Thomason E1086_2; ESTC R208098 6,180 15

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St. GEORGE FOR ENGLAND OR A Relation of the Manner of the Election and Installation of the Knights of the most Noble Order of St. GEORGE called the GARTER Which is to be Solemnized on the 15. 16. and 17. of April next at the Castle of WINDSORE March 29 LONDON Printed for James Thrale and are to be sold at the sign of the Cross-keyes at Pauls gate 1661. A Relation of the manner of the Election and Installation of the Noble Order of St. George at Windsore c. BEfore I Come of speak of the Statutes of this noble Order it will be necessary to acquaint the Reader with it's Founder and the occasion of it's Institution The Founder of it was Edward the third King of England a person of a most accomplisht Virtue the Thunderbolt of War and in times of Peace nothing inferiour to any Law-maker of the best ages so much celebrated This most excellent Prince the Glory of his times and a chief Ornament of Europe having exceedingly prevailed both against the French and Scottish Kings discomforted their Armies and taken one of them in Person ordained this most Noble Order and society of Knights so to adorn their Valour manifested in the Warres with honor the reward of Virtue There number 26. no more ut pretium faciat raritas least being else communicated unto many it might at last become despicable nor ever have our Kings exceeded the number but still confined themselves unto the first intention of the Founder For the occasion of its Institution it is generally received that it took beginning from a Garter of the Queen or rather of Joan Countess of Salisbury a Lady of Incomparable Beauty which fell from her as she danced and the King taking it up from the ground a number of Nobles and Gentlemen standing by laughing at it The King said that shortly it should come to pass that Garter should be in high Honor and estimation adding withall these words in French Hony Soit qui maly pense i. e. Shame be to him that evill thinks Which after was the Motto or Impress of the Garter Which were it so saith Mr. Cambden it needs not seem to be a base originall thereof considering as one saith Nobilitas sub amore jacet He adds withall that some report how from his own Garter given forth as a signall of a battail which speed so fortunatly he called them Knights of the Garter But whatsoever the occasion was likely it is that it took this name from the blew Garter which the Fellows of it weare on their left leg carrying the aforesaid Impress wrought with Golden Letters and enchased with precious stones and fastened with a Buckle of Gold as with the bond of most inward society in token of Unity and Concord that so there might be a Communion as it were of Virtues and good will among them Dr. Cowel reports in his Interpreter that he hath seen an antient Monument wherein it doth appear that this most Noble Order is a Colledge or Corporation having a Common Seal consisting of the Kings of England as Soveraigns thereof or chief Guardians of it 25 Knight fellows as they call them or Companions of the Garter 14 Canons Resident being Secular Priests 13 Vicars or Chorall Priests and 26 of the inferiour sort of Gentry Military men commonly called Poor Knights of Windsore whereof indeed there are but twelve There belongs also to this Heroick Order the Prelate of the Garter which is the Lord Bishop of Winton for the time being a Chancellor a Register thereof which alwaies is the Dean of Windsore An Usher which is one of the Ushers of the Kings Chamber called the Black rod and last of all a Chief Herauld even the most principall of all Garter first King at Arms Instituted by that Victorious Prince King Henry the fifth to attend Chiefly on this Order and to do them service at their Funerals A brief View of some of the Statutes of this Order The Kings of England are as I said before the Soveraignes of this Noble Order and either do in person or by their lawfull Deputies by them nominated and appointed elect the Fellows of the Order and Solemnize the Festivals and hold the Chapters To them it also appertains to have the declaration reformation and disposition of the Laws and statutes of the said most Noble Order Which Laws and statutes were first Instituted and devised by the Victorious Prince King Edward of that name the third after revised and ratified by many of the succeeding Kings And on the Reformation of Religion much altered by King Edward the sixt About this time saith Sir John Hayward in his History of this Prince the Order was almost wholly altered as by the statutes thereof then made doth appear A thing not to be wondered at for even the Laws of the most setled States and Kingdoms have been often changed and varied according to occasion and the Princes pleasure Unto them also to the Soveraigns I mean or to their Deputies it appertains to chose and nominate into the Order whom they esteem to be most worthy of that Honor and like to be the greatest Ornaments unto it Yet so that six at least of the said Fellows do conveene at the Election and concurre in it the residue of them being all warned to be there present and such as faile of their attendance without just cause such as the Soveraign shall approve to be amerced In their Elections two things there are which they especially observ First that the Party nominated be a Gentleman of Name and Arms for three descents both by the Fathers side and the Mothers side For which cause when the Garter was reproachfully taken from the Lord William Pagit by Dudly of Northumberland to give to John his Eldest son the Earl of Warwick he used this colour to disguise that foule dishonor that the said Lord as the first raiser of his house was said to be no Gentleman of blood neither by father nor mother as Sir John Heyward tels the story The second thing to be observed is that the party nominated be without spot or foul reproach as viz not convict of Heresy nor attaint of Treason nor by his Prodigality and Riot decayed in his Estate by means whereof he is not able to conserve the Honor of his Order nor such a one as ever fled in the day of Battail his Soveraign Lord or his Lieutenant being in the field In all which cases a Knight Elected and Installed may also if it please the Soveraigne be degraded The Party chosen by the Prince if he be a stranger is certified thereof soon after by letters from the Soveraign and many times the Statutes of that Order have been sent unto him to consider of them whether or no he will accept of this Election But this is a matter meerly formal for commonly our Kings are first well assured of the Parties good affection to them before they choose him and as for Soveraign