APPENDIX TO CHRONICLE. 
Crosses shall be subject to the 
same rules and ordinances, and 
have, hold, and enjoy, all and sin- 
gular the rights, privileges, im- 
munities, and advantages, which 
the Knights Companions of the 
said Order have hitherto held and 
enjoyed, by virtue of the statutes, 
excepting as far as may be alter- 
ed or affected by the present de- 
cree. 
Sth. It shall be lawful for all 
the present Knights Grand Cross- 
es, from and after the date hereof, 
to wear, upon the left side of their 
ppper-vestment, the Star or En- 
sign of the said Order, although 
such Knight Grand Cross may not 
have been installed; and hence- 
forward the said Star or Ensign 
shall be worn by each and every 
Knight Grand Cross, immediately 
after his being so nominated and 
appointed, provided tbat it shall 
not be lawful for any Knight 
Grand Cross to wear the collar of 
the said Order, until he shall have 
been formally installed, according 
to the statutes, or unless a dis- 
pensation has been granted for 
the non-observance of the cere- 
monial of installation. 
6th. In order to distinguish 
more particularly those officers of 
his Majesty’s forces, by sea and 
land, upon whom the First Class 
of the said Order hath already 
been, or may hereafter be, con- 
ferred in consideration of especial 
military service, such officers shall 
henceforth bear upon the Ensign 
and Star, and likewise upon the 
Badge of the Order, the addition 
of a wreath of laurel encircling 
the motto, and issuing from an 
escrol inscribed ** Ich Dien.” 
This distinction being of a mi- 
litary nature, it is not to be borne 
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by the Knights of the First Class, 
upon whom the Order shall have 
been, or may hereafter be, con- 
ferred for civil services. 
7th. The dignity of a Knight 
Grand Cross of the Most Honour- 
able Military Order of the Bath 
shall henceforth upon no account 
be conferred upon any officer in 
his Majesty’s service who shall 
not have attained the rank of 
Major-General in the army, or 
Rear-Admiral in the navy, except 
as to the Twelve Knights Grand 
Crosses who may be nominated 
and appointed for civil services. 
Sth. His Royal Highness the 
Prince Regent, acting inthename 
and on the behalf of his Majesty, 
is pleased to declare and consti- 
tute those whose names are un- 
dermentioned, to be the Knights 
Grand Crosses, composing the 
First Class of the Most Honour- 
able Military Order of the Bath.— 
[Seventy-two names follow. ] 
9th. And his Royal Highness 
the Prince Regent is further 
pleased to ordain and declare, 
thatthe Princes ofthe Blood Royal 
holding commissions as General 
Officers in his Majesty’s Army, 
or as Flag-Officers in the Royal 
Navy, now and hereafter, may be 
nominated and appointed Knights 
Grand Crosses of the Most Ho- 
nourable Military Order of the 
Bath, and shall not be included in 
the number to which the first 
Class of the Order is limited by 
the third article of the present in- 
strument. 
10th, By virtue of the ordi- 
nance contained in the foregoing 
article, his Royal Highness the 
Prince Regent is pleased to de- 
clare the following Princes of the 
Blood Royal to be Knights Grand 
