APPENDIX B 581 DEGRADATIONS The following is a list of those who are said to have been degraded from the Order. The incomplete state of the registers of the Order makes it im- possible to compile a record that can be guaranteed free from all errors whether of commission or omission. Many Knights who were attainted or convicted on trial for treason were executed before the meeting of another Chapter of the Order, and consequently their places became vacant without any formal degradation. I. Robert (de Veer), Duke of Ireland, 1387/8 (.?).(^)
- 2. Thomas (Beauchamp), Earl of Warwick, 1397 (?).(^)
3. Henry (Percy), Earl of Northumberland, 1406-7 (.^).(^)
- 4. Jasper (Tudor), Earl of Pembroke, 1461.
5. James (Butler), Earl of Wiltshire and Ormond, 1461 {:).{^) 6. Richard (NeviU), Earl of Warwick, 1468 (r). 7. Galhard de Durfort, Seigneur de Duras, 1476. 8. Thomas (Grey), Marquis of Dorset, 1483.
- 9. Thomas (Howard), Earl of Surrey, 1485.
10. Francis (Lovell), Viscount Lovell, 1485. 11. Edmund (de la Pole), Duke of Suffolk, 1503/4. 12. Edward (Stafford), Duke of Buckingham, 1521. ♦13. Thomas (Howard), Duke of Norfolk, 1546/7.
- i4. William (Paget), Lord Paget, 1552.
♦15. William (Parr), Marquis of Northampton, 1553. 16. Sir Andrew Dudley, 1553. 17. Thomas (Percy), Earl of Northumberland, 1569. 18. Henry (Brooke), Baron Cobham, 1604. 19. James (Scott), Duke of Monmouth, 1685. 20. James (Butler), Duke of Ormonde, 1 7 1 6. GARTER MISSIONS The following list is believed to comprise all the Foreign Sovereigns and Potentates who have, by special mission, been formally invested abroad, and to show the date (which is of course subsequent to the date of nomination)
- Those marked thus were subsequently restored to the Order.
(^) There being no extant contemporary register of the Order for this period, there is no direct evidence of the degradation of these Knights which, however, may be assumed to have followed on their attainder. C") It is very doubtful whether he was formally degraded. His insignia were removed from the choir of St. George's Chapel 17 May 1 461, but he had been executed in the preceding month, according to the testimony of contemporary writers; although, as stated in a note in the first edition of Complete Peerage, vol. vi, p. 141, a communication of Sir J. H. Ramsay to The Genealogist (N.S., vol. iv) appears to suggest that he may have been alive many years later, and was so understood by G.E.C., though the facts adduced therein hardly suffice to justify that inference.
