MATTHEW WREN, D. O.

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Ex colleSlione et collatione , Matthæi Wren,Decani Windesoriensis, et JcribœNobiliJJimi ordinis, 1631.

Statutes ifthe Order ofthe Garter .

Extract from the Institution , Laws, and Ceremonies, of themost noble Order of the Garter. By Elias Aflimole, EJq\

Seff. 2. Page 193.

X N the Month of December , 1666. the Right Reverend Father in God, Aslimole ’ f“ 1 Matthew Wren, Lord Bishop of Ely, shew’d me a Manuscript com- ^

u piled by himself, about the Year 1631, being at that Time, Register of" this most noble Order; wherein, by Way of Comment upon King Henrycr VUIth’s Statutes, he briefly shews (out of the Statutes and Annals of the" Order) what Alteration there hath been in the Law of the Garter, both" before and since. It is a Work composed with a great deal of Judgment,

“ and exceeding useful ; and had it been my good Hap to have met there-“ with, before I had so near finished this Work, the ready Directions there-“ in would have eased me of much Toil, whilst I was about the compo-“ sing it."

This Comment of Bishop Wren's in Latin, with his Preface, wherein heacquaints us whence he collected his Observations, &c. is publilh’d by JohnAnflis , Esq; Garter King at Arms, in the Register of the most noble Order,usually call’d (from its Cover in black Velvet) the Black-book. In r Vol.

Fol. Load. 1724. p. 294.

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