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CHRISTOPHER WREN, D. D.
tf Benedicimus te, gloria fe Domine Deus nojler , quod placuerit tibi tndere incorda ferenijjimi Domini noflri Caroli, & principum ijlorum, fanblas has obla-tiones fervitio tuo dicare ; respice quasumus de furnmo calo , & effunde bcne-diEiiones iuas super caput ferenisjima majeflatis ejus ; bate die ei in pro sapidejus regid ; in serenijjima regina Maria ; in illuflrijjimo principe Caro/o ;& tn reliquis omnibus regii Jlemmatts germinibusbenedicas quasumus Usomnibus , quorum donationes tibi oblatas, hie hodie accepimus ; decidat bone -diSlio tua , sicut nos cceli super ipf’os, & super profapias ipforum , G? superomnia qua , a te, ipforum flint ; & concede, ut sanblo devotoque eorum queehie offeruntur usu, nominis tui gloria semper annuncietur , majeftas tua de-bids hisce objequiis nojlris exaltetur ; per pfefum Chriftum, Dominum nojlrum .Amen.”
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Extras} from Mr. Ashniolc, of the Order of the Garter.
T H A T it might appear what was given, by whom, and how bestow’d, towards the furnishing the Altar of the Chapel of St. George, at Wind-for ; it was appointed, that a short historical Account of the sacred Offerings ,a nd Gifts, should be made and preserved in the Chapter-house , at Windsor.
The Book designed for this Purpose is now with his Majefiy, being a largethin Folio in Vellom, wearing this Title.
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Memoria , veritati, virtuti sacrum. Altare libera capella regies SanbliGeorgii martyris , infra caflrum regale Windcsorienfe, amplijjimis donariis ,Deo Optimo 7naximo per auguftijjimum fupremum, & honoratiffimos commili-tones nobilijjimi or finis d perifcelide dicafis, recenter adauclum , deferibit humil-hmus ilhus ordmisservus &scriba C. Wren, decanus Windesoriensis, Anno Do-mini 1637.
It contains the Orders made in Chapter 1625, 1630, and 1668, with the^mmijjionary Letters thereupon isided, together with the Names of all theEnights-companions present at each Chapter.
After these follow the Anns and dpuarterings, very fairly limn’d in Metal,a °d Colour, within a Garter , over each a Coronet suitable to the Dignity ofthe Per fan ; and underneath are entered the Stiles of all the Knights Compa-n ions, who were of the Order in the Year 1625, or admitted after, to the Timemaking the Book; as also the Sum which each Knight paid to the Regi-ft Cr . But as to any Account of Plate provided upon the Sovereign's , and fuc-^ding Knights Companions Contributions, there is none, though probably in-te nded to sill up the many blank Leaves that followed.
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