33. UPON the Death of any Canon, the Custos or Warden is to certify the same by Letters to the Sovereign, if beyond Sea, to know whom he pleases to present to the Canonship.
34. THERE was to be a Register appointed by the Sovereign and Fellowship, the most intelligent Person of the College, who was to be present at the Chapters, to record their Elections and the Electors, their Punishments, and Causes of them, with their Reconciliations, all Acts whatsoever administred in their Council, from Chapter to Chapter yearly; for the faithful Execution of which Office he was to be sworn at his Admission therein; and whatsoever had been register’d was in the Beginning of the following Chapter, on the Vigils of St. _George_, to be publickly recited before the Sovereign and the whole Fellowship, that what was amiss and incorrect might be mended and reduced to due Form.
§ 2. BESIDES these Statutes there are Two other Bodies, or Exemplars establish’d since, the one by King _Henry_ V. the other by King _Hen._ VIII. King _Henry_ V. finding the Glory of the Order declining, removed the Grand Festival and other Solemnities, and commanded a strict Observation of all the Founder’s Statutes, and brought many more to like Perfection, which he subjoined to such of them, where they might be properly and are as follow:
{ 3. THAT the Knights should mark their { Obeisance in the Choir first to the Altar, { and next to the Sovereign, or in his Absence { to his Stall. { { 8. THAT the Deputy should elect, if { the Sovereign (when abroad) had not Six { Knights with him. { { 9. THAT the Feast of St. _George_ should { not be kept upon St. _Mark_’s Day, nor the { Days of St. _Philip_ and _Jacob_, nor of the { Holy Cross, neither upon any Days which { should happen in the Festivals of the { Ascension or Pentecost, or other solemn { Feasts ordained by the Church to the interrupting { their Divine Service. { { 12. That when a Knight should ride { out he might wear a Blue Silk Ribbon instead To Article { of his Garter. { { 14. That the Order and Manner of { Offering up the Atchievements should be { as is there prescribed, _viz._ before they { offer their Money, their Swords should be { first offered by Two Companions, which { the Sovereign or his Deputy should appoint, { and afterwards their Helmets with { their Crests, by Two others of the { Order. { { 20. That Knights absent in the Sovereign’s { Service might be install’d by Deputy. { { 31. That the Sovereign should take a { Signet of the Order abroad with him, to { be fixed to all the Acts he does in Foreign { Parts relating to this Order, in Distinction { to those done at home. { { 34. That no Charge should be admitted { upon the College by the Custos or Canons, { without the Sovereign’s Consent likewise.