KNIGHT H O O D. 
invited by the queen to the drawing-room and the ball 
were accommodated with apartments for the night in the 
cUftle; and from that arrangement the chairs were ufelefs. 
On Sunday, as fir Ifaac Heard, Garter king of arms, 
was examining the fcaffolding, a nail entered Iris left foot 
upwards of an inch ; and, on the wound being examined 
by a lurgeon, he faid it would be impoffible for him to go 
through the fatigues of the inftallation ; in confequence of 
which, an exprefs was fent off to London, for Mr. Town- 
fend, of the Heralds’ Office, to prepare himfelf to do the 
duties of the office of Garter. 
On Monday night, feveral parties of the Bow-ftreet pa¬ 
role guarded the caftle, and were relieved every two hours, 
in the fame manner as the foldiers. 
At ten o’clock, on Tuefday morning, the 23d, the 
knights companions, in the complete habit of the order, 
the officers of the order in their mantles, the knights ele6t in 
their under-habits, having their caps and feathers in their 
hands, and the Hon. Capt. Yorke, the proxy for the earl 
of Hardwicke, in his ordinary habit, attended the fove- 
reign in the royal apartment. 
The officers of arms, and the four ferjeants at arms, 
with their maces, attended in the prefence-chamber; the 
prebends and poor knights, as alfo the kettle-drums and 
lionfe-trumpets, in the guard-chamber. 
At eleven o'clock, a difcharge of guns announced the 
proceffion. The fovereign coming under his ftate, De¬ 
puty Garter called over the knights ; and a proceffion was 
made from the royal apartment, through the prefence and 
guard chambers; the end of St. George’s hall; the late 
private chapel; the paflage leading to the great (fairs; de¬ 
scending which through the hall to the great court; and, 
from thence, to the fouth door of St George’s chapel. 
None entered with the fovereign into the chapter- 
houfe, but the knights companions and the fworn offi¬ 
cers of the order: the knights elect retired to their chairs 
in the aide, behind the altar. The fovereign’s train was 
carried into the Chapter-houfe by Deputy Garter, and 
borne out of the Chapter-houfe by Deputy Black Rod, 
and then again carried by the train-bearers. 
The fovereign and the knights companions being feat- 
ed, the latter according to their feniority, and their flails 
in the chapel, Deputy Garter, by the fovereign’s com¬ 
mand, introduced the duke of Rutland between two 
knights, viz. their royal highneffes the dukes of York 
and Clarence. He was received at the door by the two ju¬ 
nior knights, and conducted to the table where the fur- 
coat, girdle, and fword, had been placed ; and, Deputy 
Garter prefenting the furcoat to the two fenior knights, 
they inverted his grace therewith, the Regifter reading the 
admonition : “Take this robe of crimfon, to the increafe 
of your honour, and in token and fign of the moll noble 
order you have received ; wherewith you, being defended, 
may be bold, not only ftrong to fight, but alfo to offer 
yourfelf to fired your blood for Chrill’s faith, the liberties 
of the church, and the jurt and neceflary defence of them 
that are opprefled and needy.’’ 
The knights eleft, viz. the duke of Beaufort, earl of 
Pembroke, earl of Winclrilfea, earl of Chefterfield, and 
the proxy for the earl of Hardwicke, continued in the 
Chapter-houfe while the procefiion to the chapel was made 
down to the bottom of the north aifle, and, up the mid¬ 
dle aifle, into the choir. 
Tiie following is the oath taken by the inftalled knights : 
“ You, being chofen to be one cf the honourable com¬ 
pany of the mod noble order of the Garter, ffiall promife 
and fwear, by the holy Evangelifts, by you here touched, 
that wittingly and willingly you fiiall not break any fta- 
tute of the laid order, or any article in them contained, 
■the fame being agreeable and not repugnant to the will of 
soy 
God and the laws of the realm, as far forth as to you 
belongeth and appertained; fo help you God, and his 
holy word.” 
In returning from the choir, the proceffion moved in 
the fame order as before, down the centre of- the chapel, 
to the great well door, where the earl of Ilurdwicke’s 
proxy left his mantle with the fexton. 
The female part of the proceffion was as follows : The 
queen, being drelfed in a robe of royal purple, with the 
train borne by a page. Her majefty’s hair was turned up 
under a bandeau of diamonds, with the motto of the Gar¬ 
ter round her head. 
The princefs of Wales was fuperbly attired in royal 
purple : head drefs, pearls and diamonds, with the motto 
of the Garter round her head. The five princefies, and 
princefs Sophia of Gloucefler, walked two and two, all in 
purple trains, fuperbly ornamented with feftoons of dia¬ 
monds : each wore a white tippet, and alfo the motto 
round their heads. About thirty other ladies, all in pur¬ 
ple trains, richly ornamented: their head-dreffes con- 
iilied of diamonds, &c. they walked two and two: 
thefe, though dreffed nearly like the queen and princefies, 
had not the motto of the order round their heads. The 
ladies’ dreifes were all extremely tafteful, and after the 
richeft forms of magnificence: the hair was variourty 
worn ; but the Grecian mode was the molt prevailing : it 
was adorned with diamonds and jewels, gracefully en¬ 
twined, in clufters of the molt dazzling radiance. 
The contrail of the various uniforms, fuch as the Wind- 
for, the army, and the navy, the ribbands and liars of the 
nobility, &c. See- had a molt delightful effect in eroding 
the lawn, together with the dazzling of the arms, &c. in 
the fun-beams. There were alfo tome covered booths 011 
the green facing the chapel-door. 
The inftallation having occupied more time than was 
expected, the company did not begin to aflemble at the 
drawing-rooin until after eight o’clock, the hour appoint¬ 
ed for it to commence. 
Divine fervice, as far as the Pfalms, was performed by 
Dr. Dodfworth. The remainder of the morning-fervice 
was read by Dr. Cookfon, Mr. Northey, and Dr. Heath* 
The bifliop of Winchelter read the communion-fervice. 
The new knights gave ten guineas, ten ftiillings, and 
ten halfpence ; the old knights only two of each, except 
the king, who always gives ten. 
At nine o’clock the company partook of tea, coffee, See. 
Soon after the ball-room opened, and dancing commenced 
at ten o’clock. About one o’clock the fupper-rooms 
opened. The ball at the caftle concluded at half part: four 
in the morning. His majelty retired with his family at 
half part twelve. 
As fovereign of the order, the king is at liberty to per¬ 
form the ceremony of inftallation, or to difpenfe with it. 
This right he has fometimes exercifed, as was the cafe in 
the year 1801, when his letters patent were iffued on the 
28th of May for that purpofe. The prince regent, ufing 
the lame authority, has alfo difpenfed feveral knights of 
the faid ceremony. We (hall conclude this article by 
prefenting a fcheme of the ftalls in the choir of St. George’s 
chapel at Windfor, with the names of the knights by 
whom they are occupied at prefent. Above the feat of 
each flail the arms of the refpeflive knights are affixed on. 
a plate of gilt brafs, beautifully emblazoned; above the 
cornice of the fame flail, his helmet, creft, and fword, and 
higher up his banner, are fulpended, and remain there du¬ 
ring the life of that knight. At his death, the helmet, 
creft, and fword, are removed ; but the plate is not taken 
away, lo that at this moment feveral plates of great anti¬ 
quity are Hill remaining, as a lafting monument of the de¬ 
parted knight who once had the honour to fit there. 
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