and ample manner as Richard Champney, or any other, ever had, or ought to have enjoyed the fame, with the yearly falary of forty pounds payable out of the Exchequer of us, our heirs and fucceffors, as other our provincial King of Arms are entitled to receive; in which faid bill our royal will and pleasure is, that there fhall be claufes inferted, empowering the faid Glucefter to grant arms and crefts to perfons refiding within our dominions of Wales, either jointly with our Garter principal King of Arms, or fingly by himfelf, with the confent, and at the pleasure, of our Earl Marshal, or his deputy, for the time being; and that for the future this office of Gloucefter fhall be infeparably annexed, united, and perpetually confolidated, with the office of Bath King of Arms of the most honourable military Order of the Bath and Gloucester King of Arms, and principal Herald of the parts of Wales; and which faid Bath King of Arms, for the dignity of this most honourable Order, fhall in all affemblies, and at all times, have and take the place and precedency above and before all other provincial Kings of Arms whatever. And we likewise, of our certain knowledge, mere motion, and especial grace, do hereby for us, our heirs and fucceffors, make, ordain, conftitute, erect, and appoint, our trusty and well-beloved fervant Edmond Sawyer, Efq. Gentleman-Ufher of the Scarlet Rod of our most honourable Order of the Bath, our Herald of Arms, with the Great Master of our faid Order for the time being, by the style and title of Brunswick and by thefe prefents we do appoint, empower, and direct, the Great

Mafter of our faid Order, for us, and in our name, and by our authority, to fignify to our Attorney or Solicitor-general, under the feal of our faid Order, our royal pleasure and command forthwith to prepare a bill for our royal fignature to pafs under great feal, containing our grant to the faid Edmond Sawyer of the office of Brunswick in the manner before fpecified, with that title, and all rights, privileges, and immunities, heretofore enjoyed by any Herald of our predeceffors, or of any of them under any denomination whatfoever, with any Duke, or other Nobleman, or by any Herald of any Duke, or other Nobleman, to have and to hold the faid office of Brunswick during his good behaviour, with all rights thereto belonging, with the like yearly falary of forty marks, payable out of the exchequer of us, qur heirs and fucceffors, as other our heralds now receive; in which faid bill our royal pleafure is, that a claufe be inferted, declaring, that, for the honour of our faid Order, this office. of Brunfwiek Herald hall for the future be infeparably annexed, united, and perpetually confolidated, with the office of GentlemanUfher of the Scarlet Rod of our faid most honourable Order of the Bath: and that in thefe feveral bills all fuch other proper and beneficial claufes fhall be recited, as our Attorney or Solicitor-general fhall judge fit and convenient for making thefe. our feparate grants most firm, valid, and effectual in the law. And our will and pleasure being, that thefe three officers fhall be formally and regularly created with the ceremonies accuftomed in thofe refpective cafes, we hereby empower, appoint, and direct, the Great Mafter of our

faid moft honourable Order of the Bath, for us, and in our name, and by our authority, to fignify, under the feal of our faid Order, our royal will and command, to our Earl Marshal of England, or his deputy, to create the faid John Anftis, jun. the Genealogift of our most honourable Order of the Bath, to be Blanc Courfer Herald Grey Longueville, Bath, to be Hanover Herald; and, as foon as that rite is finished, to create him Gloucester King of Arms, and Edmond Sawyer to be Brunswick Herald, with the due folemnities required on fuch cocafions.

And we hereby decree and ordain, that all the officers of this moft honourable Order of the Bath fhall have liberty, at all times and in all places, to wear their respective Escutcheons appropriated to them feparately by the statutes; and that, for the future, the Genealogift, being created an Herald, fhall upon one fide of his efcutcheon bear the impreffion of the white horse richly enamelled thereon; Bath, being created Gloucefter, upon one fide of his efcutcheon fhall bear the arms of Hanover; and the Gentleman-Ufher, being ercated Brunswick, fhall bear upon one fide of his ef cutcheon the impreffion of Charlemagne's crown: for which purposes the Great Master of our faid Order is to iffue his warrant to the officers of our Jewel-House for the enamelling thereof.

Given under our fign manual, this fourteenth day of January, 1725.

GEORGE

GEORGE R.

GEORGE, by the grace of God, King of Great Bri, tain, France, and ireland, defender of the Faith, &c. and Sovereign of the most honourable military Order of the Bath, to all, to whom these presents fhall come, greeting. Whereas we are refolved to advance the honour of the most honourable military Order of the Bath, we by virtue of our royal prerogative, and in confequence of the power referved to us in the ftatutes, do hereby ordain and enjoin, that the following articles and explanations are, and fhall be always deemed to be, part and parcel of the ftatutes to be perpetually obferved.

First, Whereas, in cafe a war fhould happen in Europe, we are determined that this realm fhould be in a posture of defence against the attempts of our enemies, we do hereby declare, ordain, create, conftitute, and establish, that always, from henceforth, every companion of the said most honourable military Order of the Bath, in cafe of any danger of invafion from foreign enemies, or a rebellion at home, whenever they fhail be fummoned by the Great Master, under the feal of the Order, in the Sovereign's name, fhall maintain, at his own proper coft and charge, four men at arms, and the Great Mafter fhall maintain four trumpeters, for any number of days the Sovereign fhall think proper, not exceeding forty two days in any one year; and shall allow to each man at arms two fhillings a day, for himself and horfe, during the faid term of forty-two days;

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after which term of forty-two days, if the faid men at arms fhall be continued in fervice, they, and their officers, fhall be paid in the fame manner as all other the horse of our armies of Great Britain are paid.

Secondly, That the faid men at arms fhall ferve within any part of the realm which the Sovereign shall think proper, but not out of Great Britain.

Thirdly, That the Great Mafter of our faid Order is, and always fhall be, Captain and Commander in chief of the faid men at arms.

Fourthly, That the Great Mafter of our faid Order fhall always appoint, under the feal of the Order, the following officers, to lead and command the faid men at arms: that is, one captain-lieutenant, who fhall receive the daily pay of eight of the faid men at arms; one lieutenant, who fhall receive the daily pay of feven of the faid men at arms; one fub-lieutenant, who shall receive the daily pay of fix of the faid men at arms; one enfign, who fhall receive the daily pay of four of the faid men at arms; one guidon, who fhall receive the daily pay of four of the faid men at arms; and three quarter mafters, who fhall receive, amongst them all, the daily pay of fix of the faid men at arms that three of every four of the faid men at arms to be fo paid by each of the faid Companions of the Order, and the four trumpeters to be paid by the Great Mafter, fhall be clothed in fcarlet cloth coats and waistcoats, with brass buttons, having the arms of the Order embroidered upon their right fleeve; that they fhall each of them have a hat laced with gold lace, a blue cloak, a good and able horfo, with a bit-bridle,

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