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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29664	Englands glory, or, An exact catalogue of the Lords of His Majesties Most Honourable Privy Councel with the Knights of the Most Noble Order of Saint George, called the Garter, and the House of Peers : as also, a catalogue of the Lord Bishops, House of Commons, the dukes, marquesses, earles, viscounts, barons and baronets &c., made since His Majesties happy restoration and the times of their several creations : likewise, a perfect list of the Knights of the Bath, and the preparations and habits that were made for them at the time of their installment at the coronation : together with a perfect catalogue of the Lower House of Convocation now sitting at Westminster.	Brooke, Nathaniel.; Ferne, H. (Henry), 1602-1662. Catalogue of the prelates and clergy of the province of Canterbury.	1660 (1660)	Wing B4907; ESTC R12468	37,728	94

His Ma●… and his Prive councell The House of Lords The house of Commons The Lord Bishops The Convocation I. Ch Sculp Englands Glory Or an Exact CATALOGUE OF THE LORDS OF HIS MAJESTIES Most Honourable PRIVY COVNCEL WITH The Knights of the most Noble Order of Saint George called the Garter and the HOUSE of PEERS As also A Catalogue of the Lord Bishops the House of Commons the Dukes Marquesses Earles Viscounts Barons and Baronets c. made since his Majesties happy Restoration and the times of their several Creations Likewise a perfect List of the Knights of the Bath and the Preparations and Habits that were made for them at the time of their Installment at the Coronation Together with a perfect Catalogue of the Lower House of Convocation now sitting at Westminster LONDON Printed for Nath. Brooke at the Angel in Cornhill and Hen. Eversden at the Grey-hound in Saint Pauls Church-yard 1660. A Perfect CATALOGUE OF HIS MAJESTIES Most Honourable Privy Councel HIs Royal HIGHNESSE Duke of York Earl of Clarendon Lord Chancellour of England Earl of Southampton Lord Treasurer Lord Roberts Lord Privy Seal Duke of Albemarle Duke of Ormond Lord High Chamberlain Earl of Lindsey Lord Chamberlain Earl of Manchester Algernon Earl of Northumberland Earl of Leicester Marquesse of Dorchester Earle of Berkshire Earle of Norwich Earl of Saint Albanes Viscount Say and Seal Lord Wentworth Lord Seymour Chancellor of the Dutchey Lord Hollis Annesley Earl of Anglesey Lord Cooper Earle of Carlisle Earle of Sandwich Lord Cornwallis Earle of Lauderdail Sir Charls Berkley Sir George Carteret Secretary Nicholas Secretary Morice A Relation of the manner of the Election and Installation of the Noble Order of St. George at Windsore c. THE Founder of this Noble Order was Edward the third King of England a person of a most accomplisht Virtue this most excellent Prince 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 honour the reward of Virtue Their number 26. no more ut pretium faciat raritas The Lawes and Statutes of this Noble Order were first Instituted and devised by this 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 In their Elections two things there are which they especially observe First that the party nominated be a Gentleman of Name and Arms for three descents both by the Fathers side and the Mothers side 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 Soveraign 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 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. GEORGES Church in Winsore But if the party chosen be a Subject of the Kingdom the Garter is delievred 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 always an Oath administred 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 endeavour to preserve the Honour of the said Order and all the Statutes of ●t they shall well observe without fraud or covin Having thus spoken of the statutes of this most Noble Order whereby they are and have been governed we will descend in the next place to give you notice of their Patron which after the opinions of those times they chose unto themselves Of which this Polydore Virgil. This order is saith he dedicated unto St. GEORGE as the chief Saint and patron of the men of War whose Festival they therefore solemnly observe with many noble Ceremonies But what need Polidore have been produced unto this purpose since from the Charter of the Institution we have a testimony more authenticall For there King Edward tels us that to the Honor of Almighty God and of the Blessed Virgin St. Mary And of the Glorious Martyr St. GEORGE Patron of the Right Noble Realme of England and to the exaltation of the Holy Catholick Faith he had ordained established created and founded within his Castle of Windsore a company of twenty six Noble Knights to be of the said most Noble Order of St. GEORGE named the Garter It is true indeed what Polidore hath well observed with great Ceremony and Solemnity the Knights do celebrate this Feast Attending both on the Vesper and the day it self at Divine Service attired in the most rich and stately Mantles of the Order and gallantly adorned with their most rich and sumptuous collars which we call of SS the Image of St. GEORGE garnished with pearls and precious stones appendant to them In which their going to the Church and in their sitting at the Table they go and set by two and two every one with his Fellow which is fore against him in his stall And if by chance it happen that his Fellow be not present he doth both go and set alone I say if it chance to happen for all the Fellows are obliged to be there personally present without a just and reasonable cause acceptable to the Soveraign or his Deputy and signified by special letters of Excuse Other Pomp and rich magnificence of this Feast I forbear to mention as being unable to expresse it The mind is then best satisfied in such things as this when the eye hath seen them Now followeth a perfect Catalogue of the Knights of the most Honourable Order of the Garter made by our Gracious Sovereign King Charles