XI.—The revision of the Statutes of the Order of the Garter by King Edward the Sixth

Edward Maunde Thompson Esq.

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XI.—The revision of the Statutes of the Order of the Garter by King Edward the Sixth

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Edward Maunde Thompson Esq.

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By the most gracious permission of Her Majesty the Queen, I bring before the Fellows of the Society two MSS., the one in Latin and the other in English, of one of the several draft schemes which, were drawn up in the reign of Edward the Sixth for a revision of the Statutes of the Order of the Garter. They present the new Statutes as submitted at a Chapter on the 24th of April, 1552, with subsequent alterations and additions made by the king himself and by Sir William Cecil, Chancellor of the Order, with a view to submission to a later Chapter.

Type: Research Article
Information: Archaeologia , Volume 54 , Issue 1 , 1894 , pp. 173 - 198

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S026134090000655X [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1894

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^{page 173 note a} The identification is quite clear from a note in his The Register of the most noble Order of the Garter (London, 1724) i. 439Google Scholar: “And in Truth the Collector (Anstis himself) hath a very fair Exemplar of Statutes illuminated on Parchment, dated at first on this 24 Apr. through which Words a Stroke is drawn with a Pen, and instead thereof in the Margin the following ones, Windeeoriœ, 28 Sept. are entred with this King's own Hand, with several other Alterations made in the like Manner.” Anstis is not quite accurate; the word Windesoriœ is not in Edward's, but in Cecil's, hand.

^{page 174 note a} Ashmole, Elias, The Institution, Laws and Ceremonies of the most Noble Order of the Garter, (London, 1672), 190Google Scholar.

^{page 174 note b} Ibid. 191.

^{page 174 note c} Ibid. 192.

^{page 175 note a} Ashmole, 194.

^{page 175 note b} Now in the British Museum, Add. MS. 6288.

^{page 175 note c} History of the Orders of Knighthood of the British Empire (London, 1842), i. 173Google Scholar, 174.

^{page 175 note d} Nichols, J. G., Literary Remains of King Edward VI., Roxburghe Club (London, 1857), ii. 511Google Scholar.

^{page 176 note a} ii. 511.

^{page 176 note b} Burnet printed the Latin scheme in the Appendix to his History of the Reformation and dated it correctly in 1551.

^{page 181 note a} Literary Remains, ii. 411.

^{page 182 note a} Journal, Literary Remains, ii. 459.

^{page 182 note b} The shield, which is defaced in the Queen's and Windsor MSS., here contains the mounted knight.

^{page 183 note a} Order of the Garter, Appendix, No. xiv.

^{page 190 note a} This is written in the upper margin, subsequently to the other notes.

^{page 192 note a} An error for xvj.

^{page 195 note a} This sentence is written, incompletely, in the upper margin.

^{page 196 note a} This word and other words and letters within brackets have been eaten away by mice.

^{page 196 note b} The king forgetfully reverts to the first person.

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