Memoirs of St. George: The English Patron, and of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. Being an Introduction to an Intended History of the Antiquities of the Castle, Town and Borough of Windsor, with the Parts Adjacent, in the County of Berks
Memoirs of St. George: The English Patron, and of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. Being an Introduction to an Intended History of the Antiquities of the Castle, Town and Borough of Windsor, with the Parts Adjacent, in the County of Berks
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1714 Excerpt: ...any 6s the l J" BnigfjtSTOttipaitfOnS happen'd to depart this Life, the (c)QDertftfn (or His OfpUtp) after certain Notice had thereof should forthwith by his %Ztttl$ summon all the J&ttfff&tS' ompatUDnB then within the Realm, who were able to come to meet him within 6 Weeks after such Notice, in what convenient Place ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1714 Excerpt: ...any 6s the l J" BnigfjtSTOttipaitfOnS happen'd to depart this Life, the (c)QDertftfn (or His OfpUtp) after certain Notice had thereof should forthwith by his %Ztttl$ summon all the J&ttfff&tS' ompatUDnB then within the Realm, who were able to come to meet him within 6 Weeks after such Notice, in what convenient Place soever He pleased to assign, for the electing a new Companion into the Society. Thus did the Law of this most noble Order, in Cafe of Heath, and to avoid long Vacancies, at first provide 3 wherewith we observe, the Practice of elder Times did punctually concurr. This was farther explain'd in a Chapter Lib' held the 21st of King James, at Wind-" for; where in the first place it was thus decreed, that the Sovereign being advertised of the Death of a KnightCompanion of/the Order, the KnightsCompanions remaining at the Court should move Him to declare his Pleasure, whether (He would.that Letters ihou'd he sent to all the Knights-Companions within the Realm, to attend his Person for the Choice of a new Knight, at a Day by the said Sovereign appointed, according to the ancient Statutes of the Order$ or be pleased to deferr the Eletfion until the Day and Feast of St. George, at what Time Elections have been most usually made$ wherein the Sovereigns Pleasure and Direction was to be followed and observed; and according as He resolved, in what Place it sljou'd be, so it ought to be made known unto them. But of later Times, this formal Way of Summons by Letter to KnightsCompanions attending at the Court, hath been left off (yet continued to such as are remote) and Notice given N 4 -' them them by a verbal Message only: For the Chancellor of the Order having known the Sovereigns Pleasure, as to the Day and Place, usually.
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