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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Princes it is a true note of Mr. Cambdens that the most mighty of them have reputed it their chiefest Honour to be chosen and admitted into this Company If he accept it as no question but he will then doth the Soveraign forthwith send unto him by his Ambassadour and the chief Herald commonly the whole Habit of the Order with the Garter and the Collar wherewith they do invest him And on the other side the Prince or Stranger so invested within convenient time send their sufficient Deputy with a Mantle of blew Velvet to be installed in their room at St. GEORGE'S Church in Winsore But if the party chosen be a Subject of the Kingdom the Garter is delivered to him presently upon his Election to signifie that he is chose into the Order Afterwards in the Chapter-house upon the reading of his Commission before the Soveraign or his Deputy he is invested with the Robe and with the Hood Then follows the Installment performed with many grave and magnificent Ceremonies which done he doth receive the Collar of the Order This at their Installations have alwayes an Oath administrated that to their power during the time they shall be fellows of the Order they shall defend the Honour Quarrels Rights and Lordships of the Soveraign and that they shall indeavour to preserve the Honour of the said Order and all the Statutes of it they shall well observe without fraud or covin Which Oath is by the Natives of the Kingdom taken absolutely and in terms but many times by Strangers relatively and by halfes in reference to some former Order So when King Henry the third of France was by the Earl of Darby invested with the Garter Anno 1585. he took his Oath to keep the Statutes of the Order in all points wherein they were not opposite to the Order of St. Michael and the Holy Ghost to which he had been sworn before Upon which reason also Frederick King of Denmark though he did joyfully accept the habit of the Order refused to take the Oath at all because he had been sworn before at his Installation in the Order of St. Michael to the King of France Being thus solemnly installed and seated in the place belonging to them in the Chap●el their next care is to fasten an Escotcheon of their Arms and Hachments in a plate of mettal upon the back of their said Stalls which they remove according as themselves in Order are advanced higher And in that order they do also change the places of their Banners Swords and Helmets which are continually set over their said Stalls during their being of the Order This only is the difference that at the death of any of the Knights of this most Noble Order their plate of Arms is left for ever to that Stall where last they sat to preserve their memory whereas the Banner Sword and Helmet are all taken down and offered with all due solemnities the Offerings made by such of the surviving Knights as by the Soveraign shall be destinated to that service I said before that they remove their Plates and Hachments according as themselves in order are advanced higher in this Order they take place according to the antiquity of their Creation and not according to their Dignities Titles and Estates so that sometimes a Knight Bachelour hath place before an Earl or Baron as not long since we had example in Sir Harry Lea Knight keeper of the Armory Only in Honour unto Strangers which be Dukes or sons and brethren unto forrein Kings and Princes it is permitted that they take their rooms and places according to their quality Hitherto we have spoken of the Election of Saint GEORGE'S Knights and their admission to the Order A little would be said now of the means and wayes whereby their rooms are void and their places destitute and they are three For either they are void by Death or by Degradation or by Cession and surrendry The second of these for we wil not speak of Death is Degradation 〈◊〉 piece of Justice more to be commended where it may not than where it may be spared The Cases wherein Degradation is allowed of I have already shewn but the examples are but few William Lord Paget which was so scornfully degraded by Northumberland was by Queen Mary with great Honour restored again unto his Order And Sir John Fastolfe which for his valiantnesse had been elected of the Order was by the Duke of Bedford under whom he served and unto whom he was great Master of the Houshold divested in great anger of his George and Garter because he had departed from a Battel which the English lost without stroke stricken but afterwards by means of his friends and upon good excuse and reason by him alledged in his defence for certainly he was a wise and valiant Captain however on the Stage they have been pleased to make merry with him was restored to his Honour The third and last means of avoidance is by Cession or surrendry and here of the examples are also very few This I am sure of not to make further search into it that Philip King of Spain being offended with Queen Elizabeth about her altering of Religion and thereby alienated from the English delivered back unto the Lord Vicount Mountaque the Robes and Habit of the Order wherewith he was invested on his Marriage with Queen Mary By which his Act as the Historian hath observed he seemed to break off utterly all amity and friendship with the Realm of England It is true indeed King Philip being once resolved to renounce his Order was 〈◊〉 necessity to send back the Habit for so it is ordained amongst them that even such of them as depart this life are to take care especially that the Garter be restored to the Soveraign by him and by the company of the said Order to be disposed of to some other examples in which kind are infinite to relate Windsore the fairest and most stately of our English Palaces was by King Edward who adorned and beautified it conceived most fit to be the seat of this most excellent Order which he had established An house indeed worthy of such Inhabitants and therefore worthily honoured by them For here they alwayes leave in readinesse the Mantle of their Order to be laid up for them for any sudden chances which might happen to require their presence at St GEORGE'S Chappel or in the Chapter-house Here do they solemnize the Installations of their brethren and perform their obsequies And lastly such a reverend regard they owe the place that if they come within two miles of it except that they be hindred by some weighty and important business they alwayes do repair thereto and putting on their Mantles which are their in readinesse proceed unto the Chappel and there make their offerings Nor do they go at any time from out the Castle if their occasions bring them thither till they have offered in like manner Having thus spoken of the statutes of