CHRONICLE. 



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Norroy king of arms. 

 Clarencieux, king of arms 

 ^ The register having 

 garter king of arms on 

 his right ; and depaty 

 black rod on his left 

 hand ; bearing the 



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 *' speftive offices. 



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 the purse, having on 

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he duke of Montrose, 

 carrying the sword of 

 state. 

 Lord Chamberlain. 

 The Sovereign, 

 in the full habit of the order; 

 Ilis train borne by the 

 eldest sons of two dukes ; 

 E <^ viz. the marquis of Tavis- y 

 took, eldest son of the 

 duke of Bedford ; and the 

 marquis of Worcester, eld- 

 est son of the duke of 

 Beaufort ; the former se- ! 

 venteen years of age, and 

 the latter thirteen ; and by 

 ^the hon. Mr. Villiers. 

 The officers of state, viz. 

 The earl of Harrington, gold stick. 

 Marquis of Hertford, master of the 



hprse. 

 Earl Macclesfield, captain of the 



yeomen of the guards. 

 Lord St. Helen's, lord in waiting. 

 Band of gentlemen pensioners. 

 Ten of his majesty's pages, in a new 

 uniform. 



Moving to the chapel, the proces- 

 sion entered at the south door, passed 

 down the south aisle, and up the 

 north aisle, to the chapter-house, the 

 poor knights dividing on either side 

 at some distanc*- from the chapter- 

 house ; then the prebendaries next 

 above; and the officers of arms nearest 

 to the chapter-house; none cnttiiing 



with the sovereign into the chapter- 

 house, but the knights companions, 

 and the sworn officers of the order, 

 the knights elet^ retired to their 

 chairs in the aisle behind the altar. 

 The sovereign's train was carried 

 into the chapter-house by garter, 

 and borne out of the chapter-house 

 by deputy black rod, and then again 

 carried by the train-bearers. De- 

 puty black rod, and the register, 

 not having been sworn, remained in 

 the aJsle, opposite to the knights 

 ele6l. The sovereign and the knights 

 companions being seated, the latter 

 according to their seniority, an^ 

 their stalls in the chapel ; Garter 

 acquainted his majesty, that Robert 

 Quarme, esq. deputy black rod, 

 waited at the door, and humbly 

 prayed admittance to take the oath 

 of office ; and he being thereupon 

 introduced by Garter, kneeled near 

 the sovereign, on the left hand ; 

 when Garter, holding the Gospels, 

 administered the oath. Deputy 

 black rod, having kissed the sove- 

 reign's hand, retired to his place at 

 the bottom of the table. Then the 

 chancellor acquainted his majesty, 

 that the dean of Windsor, the hon. 

 and rev. Dr. Lcggc, attended at the 

 door, and prayed admittance to 

 take the oath, as register of the 

 order. He was thereupon intro- 

 duced l)y garter and deputy black 

 rod ; the latter carrying the ensigns 

 of the register's office : the chancel- 

 lor administered the oath ; and the 

 register being invested, and having 

 kissed the sovereign's hand, with- 

 drew to his place at the bottom of 

 the table. Then, by the sovereign's 

 command, the chancellor, standing 

 on the left hand of his majesty, read 

 the new statute. Which done, the re~ 

 gisfer returned to his place. Garter 

 then, by the sovereign's command, 

 introduced the duke of Rutland bc- 



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