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On May 21st ten Knights Genud Cross of the Order of the Bath were installed with full ceremonial in the chapel of the Order. King Henry VII's Chapel, in Westminster Abbey. The Sayerṛign of the Order, the King, could not be pre sent; but the Great Master, the Duke of Connaught, headed the ceremony: and in- volving as it dil, the whale of the Abbey. this noble rite, revived by King Geoeged V: in als after the, kapse of a century, ↑ and repeated in his presence in 1920, had a stateliness and splendour, which only a Coronation could exceed.
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Since the number of stalls in King Henry VI's Chapel is limited (th visitor may count banners and 3 stalls, and the tale of Knights Grand Cross exceeds either number), & G.6.R | ean be installed only when death has cansed the banner si a Knight to be taken down, and his memory preserved by his name and arms, engraved on a brass plate on his stall. The principal features of the rite are these. The Great Master)
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installed and those about to be installed. with the Dean of the Oriber (the Dean of Westminster) and the clergy of the: Abbey assemble, in the Chapter House' fully robed. The Great Master and the Knights wear long manties of crimson satin with shoulder-knots of write ribbon. the chain of the Bath, and hats of black velvet with upright white plumes in front, The Dean, too, wears the crimson mantle the "other officers wearing white antiu mantles lined with the crimson. Preced- ed by the choir and trumpeters, they come in possession round three sides of the Cloisters, enter, the Abbey by the West Cloister door, go down to the west end and then right up the long pay. the Great Master and the Knights to the choir stalls, the Denn and the other clergy to the Presbytery.
A GORGEOUS SIGHT.
A short service of prayers, both general and special to the Order. is then held. and after it the procession of Knights and clergy forms again and goes east- ward, At the top of the Presbytery steps it divides, and, going in two lines through the hors north and south of the altar, passes on either side of the shrine of the Confessor and over a temporary bridge that crosses the ambulatory and lends to, the great gates of King Henry VIUs Chapel. And there, at and before the little altar over the tomb of King Henry Van alta? once again beautiful with its Renaissance carvings rescued and reassembled same half-century ago after being scattered by the "shipwreck of Kings in 1633-the ancient, vows are taken as the ancient offerings are
made.
The band of the Scots Guards. playing Bach and Parejal, whiled away the time while the Abbey was filling with a bril Hait assembly. Then could be heard. from the cloister the trumpeters, and the voices of the choir singing Psalmisvi
Let God arise, and let his enemies by shuttered and then, the inasie grow ing near and neurer. the procession caine into view. It was a solemn and a gorgeous sight: the King's Redesmen in their blue gowns: the Abbey Cross and Its attendants: the choir, headed by some of the children of the Chapel Royal in their scarlet and gold: the minor Canons in gopes of gold brocade: the Canons in mantles of white matin, carry- ing flat hats of crimson: then the Knights in all their splendour, some 30 all; the Gentleman Usher (Colonel Sir Char les Wyndham Murray), the Genealogist (Sir H. Farnham Burke. Garter King of Arms), who was representing Bath King of Arms: and then the Dean and the. Great Master.
The ten Knights to be installed were Lord Southborough. General Sir W. H. Mackinnon. Lord Chaźners, Sir George William Buchanan (formerly British Am
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bassador in Rome), Lord Esher Lord defend to your Power; you shall dutend Stamfordham, Lord Beatty, Lord Haig. Maidens, Widows, and Orpharis in their Lord Ypres, and Colonel Sir Joseph
West Ridgeway. They walked togetherights and shall sutter un Extortion as between two bodies of Knights already far as you may prevent it: and of 25 great Honour be this Order untugna as installed.
ever it was to any of your Progenitors, or others,"
The Knights seated in the choir, and. the elergy grouped in the Presbytery, the service began Parry's anthem, I was glad when they said unto me," was aung; the Dean read the Lection (Ephesians vi. 16-18, about the armour of true Chris. than chivalry): the Creed, the responses and prayers were spoken and led by the Precentor of the Abbey. Then, to the music of Elgar's Imperial March, the procession formed again and passed, admonish you to use your Sword to the we have described, up the choir and through the eastern doors, past the brine on the Confesser, which, with the tombs about it, was strewn with evergreena, over the bridge, and into the Chapel of the Order.
THE NIGHTLY OATH.
The robes, the uniforms, the gold plate, the summer sunlight enriching all the beauty of the great church, had made the scene a feast of splendour, always Bar- mauized. qd' subdued by the immemorial quist of the Abbey. The reene within the chapel was rarer and more beautiful still The Crimson peonies and the geld vessels on and about the altar chimed with the robes of the Raights; the banners and the helmeas above the stalls seemed to
The Great-Master, kneeling at the pre-dinu before the altar. raakes his offering of gold and silver. The denies of the Knights newly sworn fat this day's makes his offering in the same manner, installation it was Lord Southborough) and tenders also his sword which the Dean offers up and then restores to him, with the admonition: “I exhort, and
Glory of God, the Defenen of the Gospel, the Maintenance of your Sovereign's Right and Honour, and of all Equity and Justice, to the utmost of your Fazer This is the crowning moment of the rite. The newly installed Knights, facing each other in a double line, draw their swords simultaneously, mud stand holding the hilt of them towards the altar. Then one and all sheathe thes, and the rite is over.
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A return. in procession to the choir.c while Nicholson's Solenn March" was played; the Te fleum; prayers, the Bless ing spoken by the Dean; verse of the National Anthem; and then to the music. down the north, aisle of the Abbey and, of two humns the great procession went speak the long tradition of this body, back into the Cloisters, where, though which, though it has been an Order for guard of the Westminster only two centuries, has been a degree TC, the Knights returned to of knighthood since Saxon times: the Chapter House music heard from the body of the church
| made a background of beauty.
The ceremony is intricate, involving no little movement and repeated "rever- ences to the East, to the stall of the Sovereign, and to, the Great Master, but it went without a hitch. The Knights to be installed are sworn by the Chaplain with the oath of the Order :---
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