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Of the Knights promoted in 1662.

The Present King, with the greatest Ceremony, that perhaps was ever practised on the like occa∣sion, made a Promotion of several Knights of this Order, in the year 1662. in which number were two Princes of the Blood, nine Prelates, and fifty nine other great Persons and Commanders: Besides, the King sent the Collar of his Orders of his Ambas∣sadours at Rome and in Spain, to Julius Cesarini, Duke of Castel-Nove, a Roman Baron, and to the Prince of Conty, Father of the present Prince of that Name, and to the seven other Lords, absent in the Southern Parts of France, who repairing immedi∣ately, to the then Prince of Conty, who was Gover∣nour

of Languedoc, and kept his Residence at Peze∣nas, were Installed the same year in Nôtre-Dame Church at Pezenas, with the same Ceremonies that had been used in the Great Augustines Church at Paris; the Order being Confer'd on them by the Duke d' Arpajon, who was sent thither on purpose by the King, where Monsieur Martineau, and des Prés, as Herald and Usher of the Orders, officiated their Places.

Some dayes before the Ceremony of Installing the said Knights at Paris, the King gave the Cross of the Order of the Holy Ghost to the late Duke of Beaufort in the Month of December 1661. who was then going out upon an Expedition to Sea, who upon his return in 1663. received the Collar of the Order from his Majesty, upon the Feast of the As∣sumption in the Chappel of Germains en Laye.