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cordingly, to the Knights, Officers, and Heralds, by the Chancellor Sir JamesPalmer ; of which this is a Transcript to the Register.
Ex Autho-grapho.
S I R,
" ^Tp’H E King’s Majesty, Sovereign of the most noble Order of the Gar-" j|_ ter, having prorogued the Solemnization of the Feast of St. George,
" to the 18th, 19th, and 20th Days of April next, at the City of York, I“ these are to certify you, that you may take Notice both of the Time and“ Place, and to accompany in that Service the rest of the Officers of the" Order ; and therefore in Assurance of your Presence accordingly, I rest,
" Your very assured Friend,
March 28, 1642,
" James Palmer.”
Aihmoie of j n Consequence of the general Summons of March 28, 1642, to solemnize‘^ e ^ss ter ' the grand Feast of St. George at the City of York, several of the Knights Com-panions, who were Members of the Lords House in the long Parliament, gavenotice thereof to the House of Lords; whereupon they immediately made theensuing Order.
W HEREAS the Lord Chamberlain of his Majesty’s Houfhold, andsome other Lords of Parliament, Knights of the Garter, have beensummoned to give their Attendance, and repair unto the City of York, for theCelebration of St. George's Feast j who acquainting this House with the Sum-mons aforesaid, it is ordered by the Lords in Parliament, that they attend theweighty Affairs of the Kingdom, discussed in Parliament, whereunto they areobliged by his Majesty’s Writ, and the Law of the Land.
Jo. Browne, Clcrc . Parliament .
Ibid.
Echarfs Hist.of Envland,Vol. II.p.651.
Whereupon every one of the said Knights-companions, before the Daysappointed by Prorogation for holding the Feast, sent their petitionary Lettersof Excuse to the Deputy-chancellor, wherein they professed their Desire andReadiness to attend in Obedience to the said Summons; nevertheless pleadedthe forefaid Order for the Ground of their Stay at Londoti , and therefore de-sired him to obtain for them the Sovereign’s gracious Letters of Dispensation:but when the said Letters were severally presented in Chapter, held beforeVespers on the Eve of the said Feast, the Sovereign would not at present eitheradmit or dilallow of their Excuses, but referred the Consideration thereuponuntil the next Chapter, to be held by Prorogation.
The petitioning Lords for the Dispensation, were the Earls of Pembrokeand Montgomery, Salisbury, Dorset, Holland, Berks, and Northumberland, whodid not follow the King, but fat in the long Parliament: and after the Com'mons had taken upon them to abolish the House of Peers, but yet conde-scended that the Peers should have the Privilege to be elected Knights or Bur-gesses in Parliament; two of the above-mentioned Lords, with the old E^lof Pembroke , and the Earl of Salisbury, and the 'Lord Howard of Escrickttook soon after the Benefit of this Concession.
The Sacrilege and Rapine committed on the Chapel and Treasury, was fol-lowed by the Plunder in the Deanery-house, of all the Dean’s Effects; nltb 0