that it might be conferred upon the Earl of Warwick el∣dest Son of the said Duke, who, out of courtesie, is called so, in which Relation both Haward and Stow have mista∣ken, for they were bestowed upon Sir Andrew Dudley, Brother to the Duke; for tho' he was put in the Scrutiny enter'd among the Annals of Edward VI. in the Sixth Year of his Reign, upon S. George's Day, yet was the Earl neither then, nor at any other time, elected.The Ensigns of this most Noble Order, as soon as Queen May ascended the Throne, were with as much Honour restored to the Lord Paget, and with as great and absolute an Authority, as they were disgracefully taken from him. And in Confirmation of this Lord's Restaura∣tion, he had the Garter buckled on his Leg, and the Col∣lar and the Oder put about his Shoulders, with the George depending, by two of the Knights-Companions present; and the Garer King at Arms was order'd, That he should take Care his Atchievements should be replaced over his Stall at Windsor, which is the 9th on the Sovereign's side. It is observable, that the very Records of the Order brand his Degradation as Injustice; as if it were infera∣be, That when Honour is conferred, upon the Account of Virtue and exquisite Endowments, the Consideration of these supplies the defect and obscurity of Extraction. The Sovereign, whose Prerogative it was to declare and interpret the Statutes, being present in Chapter, thought t to qualifie the Law, and gave him this honourable Commendation, That he had highly deserved of the Nation, by his Prudence and Counsel.And though there's only inserted in the Examplar of the Black Book, Virtue and good Report for a Qualification, yet the same was observed by the Sovereigns and Lieute∣nants in foregoing Time, with great Circumspection; and that the Magnanimity, Fortitude, Prudence, Generosity, Fam, Reputation, and other Virtues and Excellencies, wheter innate or acquired, of the Person proposed to Election, have by prudent Inquisition been inspected, and brought to the Tochstone, before they have been admitted into so oble and illustrious a Body.Those Qualities were chiefly consider'd and esteemed y Henry V. for which Reason, at an Election in the th Year of his Reign, he gave the Preference, before ther tha wer nominated and presented unto him, to 0