The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-07-06 00:00:00

r - 1 1 1 Scottish Union made the interests of the kingdoms the same. Besides which he had only to refer their Lordships, many of whom moat have been personally engaged in them, to the debates of the first Regency in the last reign, in time report on which Scolds precedenti were mentioned and reasoned upon the same as English precedents. There were two propositions in support of his claim, which be begged their-Lordships to bear isrl mind, and which he should sustain by farts. The first, ! the uniform esseciee of this right—viz. that no King was ever crowned, who was there married, without his Queen-Consort being crowned. This alone he thought enfficient for his purpose. The second, that there never was a Queen-Consort in these realms who slid not paw take with her husband in this ceremony, subject, how- ever, to some qualifications. With respect to the fine, proposition, there was but one apparent exception, mud' that he should satisfactorily explain. To the second there were, perhaps, two or three seeming exceptions, but these also be would satisfactorily explain. The est of his argument was in the history of this eeretuny.— Ile might content himself with going Isacluto the cons quest, but he should go as far as history reached.---111 had been doubted whether, among the Saxons, the Queens were crowned at all , and some historians as serted that it only took place in the latter period of the Saxon times. He admitted that when Kings mere crowned on the field of battle, amidst the shouts and acclamations of their followers—if this was the origin of the ceremony of the Coronation, the eery circum stances of the case prevented their Queens from being crowned with them. There were also doubts on the subject, because in 7 I, a law of the West Saxons was passed, depriving Queens generally of all honours, rights, dignities, &c. But the best Chroniclers con tended that this was a change introduced into the laws of the country, in consequence of the murder which Queen Ethelhurga had committed. Accordingly, in 536, Judith, the wife of Ethelwold, King of the West Saxons, was crowned in France, and received afterwards Royal honours in England. Selden says that the Queens of the West Saxons were thenceforth crowned like other Queens, which, Mr. Brome:harn said, assumed that they enjoyed this right. After quoting a passage from a manuscript, which Selden stated to be 600 years oh!, in support of his position, he proceeded to sbew that in all foreign countries, whether their laws mellowed gmmeena to reign or not, they were uniformly crowned with their husbands. In Prance there was this differ -I.IICP, that the King was crowned at one place, and the Queen at another. He then returned to the practice in England. Edward IV. was crowned in 1461 ; and in 1163, being then married to Elizabeth Woodville, was Erntenemi with her immediately after the marriage. The Cotton Manuscripts contain the order' issued for the I 'orsmation of Edward IV. and Isis Consort ; that which referred to the Queen, required that the same order shonlil be taken " eimundu solo coronae)." Time eere ntony for the King's Coronations nus there laid down, arel then separately that which was to be observed for the Queen. Richard 111. and his Queen were crowned together iu l-it , 3; and this brought him down to the period of Ilenry VII., upon whose reign and Coronation it would he necessary for him to make more than one observation. It was well known that that Prince held the throne by the three-fold claim of marriage, conquest, and descent. Lord Bacon remarked, that he (Henry VII.) always considered descent as the principal claim, and that he considered the other two as only casualties compared with that of descent. lie had, as the same writer observed, always placed descent as his shield, and rompiest and marriage as his supporters. All his ad herents of the Lancaster party ripheid his pretensions on the claim of descent. The King's claim de fi:eio was constituted by Act of Parliament to be tic jure even after. Not only Henry awl his adherents, but that which was the only legitimate organ to which their Lordships could attend, the Parliament, held the claim of descent to be the hiehest of time three. Henry caused himself to hr crowned, however, before he made any application to Parliament, in I. Parliament sat ;few days after. The Art was passel which entailed time Crown, limiting the succession to Henry VII. and the direct heirs of his body. Ile was declared to have a full and perfect right to time Crown, amid no mention was made of the Princess Elizabeth ; anal it was kept as a matter of doubt whether she was to be Queen or not, his policy being to avoid that marriage, if it were possible. It was even said that be was in treaty for another Princess, and still he con tinued to defer celebrating the marriage as long as he could. Ile was not married till l 4 6. A very remark able delay then took place in time Coronation of the 'peen, who was, it was to be observed, a Princess, and the daughter of Edward IV. Great doubts were enter tained, and much discontent was excited by this delay. She was attended and treated in all respects as Queen .Consort. Now, the more jealous Ilenry had been of her pretensions being mingled with his own, the more aexiorts he was to avoid meeting Parliament until he had confirmed his own claim, the more solicitous he had been to drier the marriage, the more likely be was to avoid doing ..ny thing after, which might seem to imply even a notion of the Queen's rights with respect to th e Crown. She was always treated as the Queen Consort, and Lord Bacon had remarked, that Henry's marriage to line had occasioned much more triumph amid rejoicing than his own entry or Coronation, which, his Lordship farther remarked, the King rather anifored than liked. Time delay of her Coronation was found to give great umbrage. And here lie would strew what were time feel ings of the country, and especially of the Queen's party, on the occasion, bar referring to a then living authority. Margaret of York, aunt to Elizabeth, afterwards mar- Heil to the Duke of liurgundy. had these remarks among i••• reflections which she made upon the events of those times. " Sbe could not," She said, " see without trouble. that Henry refused to let Elizabeth he crowned (an honour which no Queen of England had been debarred of since the Conquest), and that the birth of a son had not rendered him at all more indulgent or just in his roneuet towards her." He could not appeal to a better antiaority than that of an aged and Royal woman, the aunt of the reignig Queen. the last fortress and prop of the Lancaster*. redone of the rights which belonged to her family. and fearful of any thing which appeared to slight their claims. She hail passed the less active mo ments of her life in study and meditatinn on the history of her family, conscious of all whirls bad transpired in the course of that history, and especially of the facts which connected her family with the Crown. There, could be no better witness to show what had been the !terse of former times, what understanding had existed respecting the rights and usages of those times in refer ence to Queens of England. She maintained that Queen Elizabeth ought to be crowned, as every other Queen Consort had been before her. Henry the Seventh at length yielded to public feeling. and the Queen was crowned on time 23th November, 1467. Lord Bacon said that it wu an old christening which had stood long for godfathers, and his Lordship gave his readers to under stand that it went much against the King's stomach.— The coronation was ordered in the very same form and words in which two years and eight months before the King's own coronation had been. Up to this period from the Conquest there had been nineteen Kings crowned. Of these eighteen were married before or after the Coronation, and of these marriages the eighteen Queens were all crowned. Assuming that Margaret, second wife of itdward the First, was crowned (of which, for reaming before give., there could be no doubt.) In dependent of that there were eighteen Queens crowned—and these coronations had been solemnised for Queens alone. About the same number had been so lemnized for King's alone. The state of the Church during the whale of the subsequent period of that reign was such as made it hardly possible for any person to say whether it was It •forined or Catholic, or to know any ritual could have been gone throsigh without ince siouing jars either on the one side or on the other. Be , , sides which, the pregnancy of the ()neon, shortly after the marriage, labouring as be always did under the most anxious desire of the birth of a son, would natu rally turn aside the King's thoughts from any other subject. and *he died the day after the delivery, within a year and a few months after the death of Qiiren Anne Boleyn. Then, with regard to Anne of Cleves, her ease was no exception to his arguments, because it was well known that from the very day of his marriage with her he began his attempias to effect her divorce, which lie continued till he accomplished his purpose with her con sent, which consent of bets was a must material feature in the case. She consented to the divorce, and waived all claim to the Crown. The state of the Church during his union with Catherine Howard was again a material objection to her being crowned; besides which, very won after their 'carriage she was discover ed to be incontinent, and a divorce took place. Again, at the time of Catherine Parr, the state of ecclesiastical affairs would very well aceount for there being no Coro nation—if it should be found, ou full search being made that no such Coronation did take place. That, however, he had no right to admit ; no man had a right to assume that it did not take place ; although lie believed it was highly probable that it did not, as there were no remains of the solemnity. There was no necessity for perusing the inquiry in the reigns of Edward VI., Mary and Elizabeth, as Edward was never married. and Mary and Elizabeth were Queens regnant. With regard to the reign of James 1., he was crownel shortly after his ar rival from Scotland. On the second of February. 1t;25, he was crowned, that being &considerable period after his accession, which occurred tot the nth March pre ceding, on or about a year before. A Proclamation is sued in the usual terms, and almost in the same terms as the Proclamation of his present Majesty, on the 17th January, 1625, for the " Coronation of the King, and his dearly beloved Consort, the Queen." On the 24th of the same month and year, another Proclausation is sued, appointing a Court of Claims, and in the recital of that Proclamation, the Coronation was mentioned as be ing to take place on February 2, " of ourselves and our dearly beloved Consort." go that on the 24th of Jan only nine days before the Ceremony, as well as one the 17th, it was clearly intended that die Queen should be crowned on the second day of the ensuing month. It was true that on the 3lhh ofJanuary, another Proclama tion was issued, the third in the same month, and only three days before the Ceremony took place, for the purpose of creating Knights of the Bath to : assist at the solemnity of the Coronation, iu which, I for the first time, the words " our dearly beloved Consort," were dropped. The intention, however, as regarded her, might not have been dropped; nor was there any positive evidence to show that her Coro nation slid not take place, which hail been announced in the Proclamation of the 17th, and solemnly recog nised in that of the 4dth. Having then done with these cases, he was now to come ton period when he was bet ter able to feel his way, and when the facts to which he should have occasion to allude were more defined and better authenticated. It would be his duty to refer their Lordships to a most curious and valuaille work which was in the British Museum in the Harlian Collec tion. In this were contained the whole particulars of the Coronation of Charles I. and the ceremonial of that occasion furnished several farts calculated to tbzo* light upon the present question. From that it appeartlff, that up to a very short tinie preceding the Coronation, the King had determined that his Royal Consort should be crowned with him. This however, dill not take place, but the grounds upon which her absence was to be ac counted fur were distinct and decisive. He hoped to be able to show that the Queen not brim; crowned with her husband arose, in a gret measure, from her own indis position—or more properly, her scrupulooraversion to be present at a ceremony performed in a religion di ff erent from her own. It was unnecessary to tell this II ourt, that Henrietta Maria, wife to Charles I. being a daugh ter of theiKing of Franey, was in her reli gine a Roman Ca tholic. Her history was au eventful one and the sufferings which she afterwards experienced, and great part of which were induced by her attachment to the tenets of that re ligion, proved that she oats not only professedly a Ito man Catholic, hut that she was also a most as-n*l)o4ms believer in, and uncompromising stickler for the tufalli uf that religion. Charles, as the bead of a Protest ant State, was necessarily a Protestant, and the laws of this country required that the ceremony should he per formed by the hands of a Metropolitan of the Church of England. In these times religious animosities ran very high, and Charles, whose conduct had already given the people cause to dislike him, seemed only to want this omened marriage with the daughter of the King of France to aggravate that feeling , for by it he added religious jealousy to political distrust. The people,! from the beginning, showed an aversion to the faing'sl connecting himself with a Roman Catholic wife, for Charles was not supposed to he very steady in his faith, and the influence of a Consort who pr as'essed principles' of religion such as the nation then abhorred, was much 1 dreaded. It was Irons a knowledge of use prevalence of ' these feelings that some regulations were introduced to I the Marriage Treaty, which it was hoped . would quiet the alarm then so generally felt. The principle of these related to the persons who were to make part of the Queen's household, it being expressly stipulated that for fear undue means of proselytizing would he resorted to, the Queen should be restricted from hiring, as her servant., any natural born subjects of the King. The King at the same time openly declared his attachment to the national faith, and uo pains were neglected to re-assure the people.of his hearty and sincere disposition to continue in it. But these steps had not the effects expected from Olefi—the appre hensions of the people, arising Iron. jealousy of a human Catholic Consort to the King, were not fully removed and the Parliament felt itself called upon to take the matter into its own consideration. Being met, some dis-' cussion arose ; the danger likely to arise to the re!igion of the country from the circumstances in which the hint; was placed was strongly stated, and, in the result, a Pe tition was agreed upon to the King, which was to lay before his Majesty the sense of horror which his Parlia ment and his people felt for Popery,and the fears, which they could not conceal, they enterained of the effects which the influence of his Royal Consort wasii Vely to produce. They therefore prayed him, that lie would show himself a sincere supporter of that religion to remove the doubts of the people, by adopting such farther precautions as would effectually neutralize any efforts that should be made on the part of the Queen or her friends, to extend that religion of which they were s u ch zealous professors. The King received the Petition with good humour—thanked the Parliament for their attention to the interests of religion, but at the same time hinted that it was net necessary thus to remind him of how much was expected from him in support of that religion. Ile was not displeased With them for bringing the subject before him; but his at tachment to the national religion could not be height ened by any suggestions from without. He declared. that if they had never addressed bins, be should have, taken the same steps. lie desired theta to dismiss from their minds all uneasiness which the religion of the! Queen might excite; her Majesty was not ambitious of making proselyte., and the prospect of her being able to make a convert of hint (the King) did not at all enter into the views which his father entertained when he pro- posed the alliance to him. Such was the answer re turned by the King to the address of the Parliament, so answer which, considering the times aid the haughty tone of prerogative which lie always assumed, could be considered in no other light than as a concession to the ipeoludiees of the people. lit was clear from this fact alone, that the strongest ferlinjs prevailed against the Queen, oo account of her religion, and that the King felt himself under the necessity of succumbing to this feel ing by keeping his Consort, as much out of the public eve as possible. He even felt it necessary to go still firtber, for in some days after, the King, to show that he joined heartily in their ideas of the Roman Ca' tholic Religion, published a Proclamation against Popish Recusants, in which they were denounced with the s► verest penalties. These measures could only be called foe by a sense of the strong feeling which prevailed abroad, and it was not difficult to suppose that the exclusion esf the Queen from the Coronation was uttritintable to iise same cause. This supposition was possible, but it was more than probable that her absence was owing to antes they cause, namely, her own indisposition to be present at the ceremony. St all events, it mould seem that the King was carried along by circumstances, and that if he did forbid his wife to he crowned with him, it was per haps more in compliant* with the feelings of the times and more to allay party heats, than from any conclu sions drawn from consideratioevolher right to assist at the ceremony. About this time the politic mind was so much agitated by the disputes between the King and the Parliament, that the former was scarcely left at liberty to act by his own judgment, bat was borne along from bne excess to another, now carrying his prerogative to the highest pitch, an d then making concessions which were not, perhaps, very worthy of him. Those disputes which had hi.herto existed between him and the Parlia ment, were daily assuming • snore serious character. Early in the month of' August, the grand conference had been held, to which Alamos was made, the Petition which was presented to the King agreed upon, and his Majesty's answer thereto takes into consideration ; but on the I I th of the same mouth, the House of Commons took an important step—they resolved themselves into a Committee of grievance, of which the principal coin plained of was the danger to he feared from the influence of the Roman Catholic Religion. They again addressed the Crown, and absolutely refused to vote the supplies until there was a redress of grievances. The King, ir ritated at the opposition, and at this time not beitig in a Immour to make concessions, dissolved the Parliament. It was after this and before another Parliament was called that the Coronation took place. The people were dissatisfies' with the King's conduct, and, considering that religion was the principal com plaint made by the late Parliament, it was easy to suppose that the public mind was not in a fit disposition to entertain the question, whether the Queen had a right to he crowned or not. It was suffi cient that she was a Papist—the people would exclude her on that ground only, and, whatever justice there was in her claims, the King did not think advisable at that particular time to aggravate the misunderstanding between him and the people by recognizing her right to be crowned with him. that he wished her to partake in the ceremony there was no doubt, but it was possible that, for the reasons stated, he was induced to give the design up. This was possible; but, as lie said before, it was more than probable that the Queen's own scru ples of religion weighed with her on this occasion. She could not be insensible of Ilse dislike which the people felt towards her on account of her religion ; and it could not be her wish, as it certainly was not her interest, to aggravate that feeling. The nature of the ceremony, too, into which so much of religious form necessarily entered, e as disagreeable to her, as being inconsistent with the tenets of her faith. How could - she, a rigid Roman Catholic, enter a Protestant Temple, on an oc casion the most solemn, make sows to•Uod in a Pro testant Cathedral, or partake of the holy sacrament at a Protestant altar ? The very Archbishop who was to officiate at the ceremony she would look upon as a here tic, and the place it'd( as heretical. But, supposing she overcame her scruples so far as to enter the Ca thedral, or partake of the Sacrament, could she pledge herself to support a faith, as in effect she would, which by her education she could never revere— or, indeed, which she could consider no otherwise than as false and heretical. For was it forgotten that the cere mony exacted from the person to he crowned a sort of pledge to maintain the established religion of the King dom ? It was a necessary part of the ceremony that the Archbishop, in putting a ring on the Queen's finger, should say, arcipe annnlnnt fi deli, the ring of the faith —meaning the Protestant faith; and he was to add, that this ring was sign aertnin sancta Trinitatis. Now it was not likely that a rigid Roman Catholic c'-uhl receive this ring in this sense. Therefore, whe ther the ring—the place—the hands from whence it came—or the words accompanying it, were considered, it was easy to !oppose that the Queen would not look upon the whole ceremony otherwise than with abhor rence. The ring, as given by a Protestant Archbishop she could never receive as signora/um sancta. Triaitatis. In fine, every word pronounced by the Archbishop ren dered the ceremony more disagreeable to her in a reli-1 pious point of view. A rigid Roman Catholic surely could not believe that by receiving a ring from an Areli- 1 bishop of a different communion, she became possessed of a power quo 'wait mars heretieas eradicate et hat taros genies: et ad ro'nutiunern rerilatis adrorare. I The Archbishop was to tell her that this ring was to prose: her against the influence of spiritist sin, and as the wife of a Protestant King. she was desired to take the ring whirl' would be a safeguard against heretics, or those who professed her own faith. All these doings, therefore. insist have looked damnable in her eves, and it was, therefore, natural that she should avant a cere mony at which all her predecessors had assisted. As Queen Regnant. she rertainly could have claimed a right to be presesit at it; but she had waived the right by her own act, and therefore the rights of her succes sors were not compromised by her art, which could only affect herself. The Queen o f Charles I. then, was ab sent from the Coronation for either of two reasons—she was prevented by t h e King. or she absented herself by her own will ; the former was a possible case—the latter a likely one. It was certainly clear that a variety of rause% acted upon her to induce her not to be present. Laying aside her own feelings, she could not be so in diderent to the interests of her husband as unnecessarily to provoke the feelings of the people against him. She was also aware how unpopular her religion and person were. It was therein.- easy to suppose that the objec tion arose on her part. And, indeed, a reference to dates would throw considerable light on this matter. l Exclusive of the reasons he had just advanced, there was another which made in favour of his argument, namely, that of the dates. He did not deny that great clamour then prevailed, and that representations were made by the Councillors of the King, forcing the right away. • But it was altogether improbable, that between the 17th and 24th of January any thing should have occurred to alter the intention which existed of crown ing the Queen. There was nothing likely to alter this evident intention at all events by way of compulsion. The Parliament was not sitting—popular meetings were not likely to be held, and the politic opinion could hardly have been better known on the 24th than on the 17th )anuary, when this intention was already so gene rally known. If, however, it was the fact, that the Queen for certain objects was forced sad compelled to be absent from the Corosation, such force and sompul sion in place of weakening, materially strengthened his argument. If the Queen acted ceder this, it account ed safely for him, site made the objection, which was so far a waiver of her right; but the doing so could sot apply to any future Queen Consort, who ought Dot and could not be affected by her act. The next to, formed no exception to the general custom established, because the Queen of Charles '' pint—himself a Protestant, added to which married at the time of his Coronation. looked like an exception, it the more confirmed neral ground he had taken. As the period - was apprdaching. as thii lec - Olictiois of the , hellion were still quite fresh, as the religion am, plea of Henrietta Maria were not forgotten, and cussions must have arisen on the subject, the lie duct then pursued was easy to Le accounted f 12th of Charles 11. a debate arose in the House mons as to the propriety of his marrying and perhaps it so rose because of his known marry a Princess of Portugal. Queen Oahe, took an objection, and refused to be married I testant Prelate in consequence of religious This was even made one of the articles of against Lord Clarendon; nay, the Princess he._ the risk of returning home and not being martied so scrupulous was she of being married by a !meet and in fact he did not know if she ever were married a Protestant. Henrietta Maria also refused crowned, finless the ceremony were performed tholic Priest. Here, then, there was Queen Catharine refused to be married by ant, and Henrietta Maria to be crowned by James 11. and his Queen (being married _ don) were crowned together. The ceremony %. Sacrament was thee omitted, for what reason could not tell. But this difference existed - ease, as compared with those be had tioned, namely, that they were both of the . James went openly to mass, and he and his no objection to the ceremony being performed testant, and took the wont* used exactly in t sense. Se far, therefore, there was no difficw regard to this case. He now came to the " since which period all Queen Consorts, were crowned, and which be was not called on observations. With respect, however, to Heorge I. she never came to this country; she called Queen nor known as Qiieen, and was 0 ' to have been divorced by a foreign Backlit' before her husband was crowned ; it w , doubly impossible that she should be crowned legally impossible if she were divorced, i tally impossible ;lobe never came here. then to the institution of any proceedings, took it that the settled law could not b; them. On this point he sliniikl merely allude which was argued in the House of Lords, son was said to be found guilty, but never . passed. On that occasion one of the Learned said, "If a man be found guilty, and has passed on him lie must be looked upon as nocent as if no charge were made against should be ashamed to occupy the time of their in enforcing this very proper principle, for clearer than this, that the laws knew no tweeen complete guilt or complete innocence. Here the Learned Counsel referred to the gel, in the possession of the Dean of Westminster, entries of the Corotiatioos ; and on his expressing wish for its production, the Court was cleared. In less than a quarter of an hour the book for his inspection. The Dean of Westminster was then asked the Council, if there were any other books c similar entry; to which he replied there was except the great Mass Book, which contained inony used on those occasions. The Missal was then sent for, and Coined , Mr. Berman Am expressed a wish that the Coon adjourn for an hour, in order to a ff ord bins dale into those books; adding. that he meld not his case in the course of this day, buying as dress their Lordships on the legat as well as siderations of this important subject. Lord LIVERPOOL, saw no objection to granting request. The LORD CHANCELLOR wished the pr ings so continued, and asked the Learned Counsel i f be could not proceed is some ether part of his case, and again re cur to any arguments which lie might wish to found on the Liber &gabs and the Mass Book? Mr. Beoetaism certainly wished for delay midi to morrow. If, however, their Lordships wished it, be could now proceed ; but observed that his general argu ment still Ermined untouched, and he certainly thought considerable importance would be attached to it. lie meant, that lee felt it would be important to state a ge neral argument. The LORD CHANCELLOR-111PN will your Lordships sit from ten to four to-morrow, and afterwards at six Mr. linouGtatst.—Our arguments, my Lords, will cer tainly finish before four o'clock to-morrow. , Lord Latrosaosui did not approve of any delay. Lord LIVERPOOL.—We du not as yet know who are to be heard. The Lotto CHANCELLOR.—The rule is, that two Cons sel should be heard. Mr. liaocouam.—Two Counsel, my Lords; we shall certainly expert no more. After some further desultory observations between the Right lion. Members of the Court, it was adjourned at two o'clock, until to-morrow morning at ten. ameammumen it case hr came atom whirls ' e s 11. was a P.- ch he w • •a; n .• Anti if th e 'tinned the rr. of exclusiun the grand re- late aud prinel- ems and es.dis. the line of con- ed for. In the House of CA • a Protestant, sown desire so • :atherine thee vied by a Pn. t ions wrnplet. impeachment ess herself ran tnanied at al', r a Protestant en married by refused being rimed by a Ca- ryisteur:e that oy the Protest- 1 , a Protestant. I at his were. remony of the at reason he isted in their '• I before men. same faith.— . is wife made need by a Pre- y in the same liffirnlty with he Revolution, ere invariably to make •any the Qum of she serer was as farther said Mastical Co onwamsedtlrfe it w o u t t r s t it was pigs:- With regam ,s, he humbly , be altered by llude to a case 4 " I, where a per- r had sentence " earned Judges ii no senteeee is being as in. lest him." He heir Lordships or nothing was difference be- the Lilac? Re- 'estmiester, for expressing his ordered to be • mk was o feted ;eked by one of containigg any m was no other mined the care- seal edlUd In. Ire Court should 0 int tithe to 'look be Id not conclude r as yet to sd- -1 aa general con- o granting the :re&lnge to be he could e, aid again ;v- -ia to found es , delay until to. wished it, be is general ergo• rtainly thought died to it. lie 3t to state a ge- A fter - somi further desultory observations between rap Right lion. Members of the Court, it was adjourned at two o'clock, until tomorrow morning at ten. - Q IIE EXS MEMORIAL. —.ow-- "TO Till KEY(. A MOST ItECELLENT MAJESTY, IN COVE , cll. AsSEMISLED. "The Memorial of her Majesty the Queen sheweth, that your Majesty has, by yonr Royal Proclamation , hearing date at Carlton:house, the 9th day ofJune inst., declared your Royal will and pleasure to celebrate the + l4 : solemnity of your Royal Cot ovation upon Thursday. the 19:11 day of July next, at your Palace at West minsier, hut that directions have not boo given Inc the Coronation of the Queen, as limb isesesofere been accustomed on the like occasions. "That divers of your Majesty's subjects, by 'mint customs and usages of these realms, as also in regard of divers tenures, of sundry 1113111141. lands and ether here. ditaments. do claim, a n d are hound to do and perfore divers services on the day and at the time of the Coro ta- tion of the Queens Consort of these realms, as in times • precedent their ancestors and those from whom they claim have done and performed at the Coronation of the t Queens Consort in times past. h , "Thai the Queen m r most dutifully claims, as of ri 10. to celebrate the ceremony of her Royal Coronado' , .0.1 to preserve as well her Majesty's said right, a, toe aforesaid lawful rights and inheritances of otlters your Majesty's subjects. • . " The Queen respectfully prays that your Map le will be graciously pleased forthwith to issue your Ito al • Proclamation, thereby to appoint the same 111th 'la) it July next, at Westminster sturessid, to celebrate the • r. , resuony of her Coronation as the Queen Coneort of yo t - Majesty, and to direct that all such as by the said ow tams and usages awl tenures, ::w hound to do and per form the services aforesaid, du duly give their attend- ances accordingly, at the said flay and time of the Coro- nation aforesaid, in all respi•cts fat nished as to so free, a solemnity appertained', awl answerable to the diet • ties and places which every one of them holdetb and ea- loyeth i and further, that your Majesty . will be K witny , . 1 4 Tra t . sed i toapissu.encurr itunYloasalisi::iseistor;cueineerh)e: .. and determine the petitions and claims whirls shall co made to them In this behalf. .. 0 Ana the QUEEN," Ow.