Obs. Also -cion, -tioun. Aphetic form of INSTALLATION.
1447. Shillingford Lett. (Camden), 95. Byfore the stallacion of Leofrik in the said Cathedrall Chirch.
1522. Stat. Order Garter, xxv. in Ashmole, Inst., etc. (1672), App. h b/1. Every Knyght within the yere of his stallation shall cause to be made a Scouchon of his armes, and hachementis in a plate of metall…, and that it be surely sett upon the backe of his stall.
1537. Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., VI. 315. The tyme he was in Ingland for stallatioun of the Kingis grace in the ordour of the garter.
1661. Morgan, Sph. Gentry, IV. iii. 44. In case that the said Soveraign be out in the country, to the which he cannot in propper person do that shall appertain to the Stallation, he may give power … to two of the fellows … to exercise it in his name.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. 54/1. The same Admission and Ceremonies shall be used at the Stallation of the said Noble Order to every Knight.
