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&stories! research which he had displayed, to prodece
out instoice in which the oath had been taken to any
other Queen Conbort of Scotland. But even this
statute slid nut contain one word :about coronation.
js dad not point out any particular period in which
the oath was to he token. The other statute of
1436, which hod been referred to, give no better
support to the argument of hos 'opponents. 11.ordy
went to letters of credit which were to be given
to the Qiteeti Consort, and was confined In
teTinv strictly In her-i4nre lettuces sear ide-
-4.aWilt-Alrkirar irestrarreolpnrz-41. -*UT);tut
Quyer . uttonapt- had ever before been made
so apply the words to other Quetta, 1.11./.1,
his tilitTerifeifirrnie tette 'ALIA*r
eiroggitouncte Pfthst hivorr. sal lrinthr

sight to be erew;ied se owe her hasba.ci feriber raper*.
rhiri► ►e had, elrestly acvirel—kulkcimitistal•••

Ibtr right,lniil;4l tbreertrao is; t; subllire ilispr;setlwiiir
at bite pl.iiiirreor She imarasiere of the Crows. a centimes,

?pi
colpfremell ill wittifiwilorteriperi.
!mat ag.in, that all the aat►aty
ytfal ots ilia committee a Qlseee•

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Als, of IN,
• it :Ceuta NO 'who Ma.
imoderu, Were - _ _
• •CtraW7et. eractoii, who was very Precise mod cirmaastaidial
.ei* kiadilrairsswiatio.s, was entirely silent* .*a to that
tdsiqbe.. Rod therelimm say thing like a claim of right, l•
anall.maritely have estmeml-ao.discarisior •is author. Chlyr
Narms Cummins, in his chapter; on Consianius, bad wrIIIMI
of a ceremony beiongiug to %Age slots.. Ml* lioneed
*now in huoilierliart docussed ilie.righis and privilegmarN
illMilltisitiotairt-,, and had not mated roroostion amour tbs.
Slailbin Hr ,stated verioits right, of the Qiieeo, as that alm
reualdetre and besurdasis fecassesola aa,l i.p..tewf her always
'.s a branch of the .wyalty, hut nut use word of right to
Iseeettronetiou. "'..ere were, in short, no fiesta apperta•nrog
' bear; sad all that mould he .equ•re,l of linear hobbles '
,essisorr enjuyii. g firl4lll.oll. froth It,- wure,to hr ready to petforna
gaw yes sierrassteramer'eslled upOsi Biarksionk had a chap-
, moan • that right of falsetto, sad treated' •r that ceremo .y
.to K 0014.• bat Ism wholly silent ow ibe right of
fillosens to coronation. There was not a Marie wastenae
fir any law wrifer'of sodality to support the claim of rigal.
41. thought tbal their Lordships would see that lb,.
. • lailostattoretber •riet rhe part of the Quern, as a chain of
..tiatteccat ir. lire station. as It was not seppor'ted by
;.brec or the precept of any authority. The easo•lidlall
vest, thevefur• ,altogeihrtr tau usage. I( the corunatitrll..l
116 Queen were a substantive right necessary to serial%
colt sweteeesiod, it meal be in all cries necessary lo here
tiverfwetabed..• He did not see on what grounds Isla Leonia'
llstimsb-imal, mode soy distinction in the counters:
i)44 of precedents between Queens Regnant and htilwells
tonsure, though be was willing to preserve their distines
tilin. Beginning front the Conqueror, they ad-
iittted
that Ili, Queen was nut crowned with him. Ferber
tisintlsee. which they rave were' iratiatietnry. The are.
Missparas-perbormed at a time whim tunrch political impui ts
awns was attached to it, the kin,:dum beteg orn to aloacot
eon Meader', aud. the eircumetaaces of the limo maiming
ilusbsl sny means u? Coosuldating the power of tht
INNS was nut married, and no infermice
thinkl•be drawn from his ease. Henry the First was not
inostieci••i hes coronation, and his wife was subsequently.
eionsiel. • Ile was surprised to hear Steplem passed over,
,narkisu reason assigned far his Queen slut brier itettwase•
wsllt luita. was tinanuliiedly Dom ied tau kis assent is Oak
throne. If the cer.inony was coasidered so essentially se.
',Ntaboory, surely she ought to have been crowned with hits.
lieeimartiosied this to sheer 'thin rage did not support OW
Out of right. No aromas were offered fur this emossio• by
Ili, Learned Friends, who contented themselves by Metros
tI.A she was crooned, which must have been posteriorly.
He would tout stop to examine the reasons given for the
tiseen of John not baring been crowned with him—the fact
crowned.

Goo ealloe r-TXadoooodlo Spbxgaiiirleg right at
twee fall to tbe grow iris

- merely alert
14‘ht, c.oeseri- aeatlratialJ aut bare
blow aaiwitit., !flare mold it beeii au "graiwer at a "gebtiA
right, and dig Biagio retie ef elmwripti I. .tiralisfisiritted chatty
t he • .

cormaalies of the Qweee-skd set depemt spun any
ettetiag right, het solely Spun the w,I aid rliserelion of she
Irkig. lie sew aims to lb case of Charles It., sud , this
Moaarrh 11/141 DOI Married instil after the euroustios,, aid
some doubts bad been thrown oat of his laavisg been mar.
did by itf/aitestant Bishop. Bat there was is the British
Itinerant • newspaper date.' 71pt k1ey,.1602, called the
" hifellgeneer," in ts•hicli it woe staid that She
Cog alas ellarried in luadon.hy Bamkup of Idandno.
There was another paper, bearing the same date, the"llar-
eepyla Palatine.'" which corroborated titelitet. If Ilse* she
Olden cemented • lobe married by a l'rillestant Bishop, it
• .!'"641 k. a 01115( singular scruple to.decliae the ceremony
of the canaission, because it emild nit be performed by •
Catholic Clugyafas. The fors, hue ever, could qui, be Ale.
nied, Hist she never sae crowned. What then became of
the argument dented from usage, opus which his ,Leersied
Fries& retied me much ? Four of the wives of Henry VIII.
were not clowned; the wife of Charles I. the wife of
Charles U. nor of George I. were not cruvreed. The real
state of the usage is this, that in sit instances the ccrenouly
was swrformrd, in seem' instances it was dispirits:al wills.
The-wife of James 11. was crowned; the ease of %Valiant mid
Macy was Ile example, em she was a Queen Ilegnamits the
wives of George G. and 111. were crowsed, but Wife the.
time ut Henry VII. the majority of examples, so far from be-
ing In favour of the right, as founded open usage, coin.
pli•telj gut rid of any much inference draws. is favour sof this
demaud from sainterrupted enjoyment. Bat indepeadent
of this the farms mid language used respecting the ceresiwuy
deinonstemed clearly that the coronstiou of Qureo was a
matter of decretioit not ef right. The Isuguege of the
Pevelsinatius for .the 'coronation of F.lward 11. to he
sees is. Byeter's redete, *ltli.meh it summoned She per.
sous appointed so attend in honour. of .lassiwit sad glseess •
yet it .hewed that part of the-ceremony was duet as '
honour to the Queen, but that the substantive part
was she coronation of the King. If it were a maitre
lid positive erald, His Saha:user of eisintsasd «wild 'weir
hare been' used, and the Peru., made use of were
!"Ordimivinstsa" and " decterimats"—" we have detes missed
land resolved that the sereis.uuy shmild take place," which
tersely pro. cal that the whole et ei ninny emmat,ii solely
;front the King. And in the synokiissent•iif she Barons of
' she CillqUe Ports, and Catlett* .other ullirem, she same lan.
`guage was held, and was to be C. 11.141 in all the Prochtnia-
tapas mime the time of Charles I. 11 was ob./Iwo' .at the
coroastum of the lose King; the Proclamation commented
with, " IVlicrras, We hate resulted to celebrate sir cere.
mry," .Cc. 1114 Learned Freed had obtsine4 'fora the
DI! MA IC huPter of iVemtatiumter a book, the fiber
wh eh'

being that sic eas not so ......o..•llere were deviations
flews the oink-rippled exercise, which 'hewed that this
cerrinny depended un the will awl pleasure of the King,.
and in +de out a raw against his Learned Friends. ff
tight could he suspended by that weans, it mattered little
whet eircutestancis led to it.
AM DIEN VAN here said, that it Wight nve 'time to tor-
reek • a ntiotatt went .of fact. They had not omitted to nu'
tire Kiug Stephen. They bed stated us the •tathocily
James's Chronicles, that King Stephen and his wife woes
crowned at Canterbury by Archbishop Thenhald.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL was not aware that the
Q1111•4I was preseal at King Stephen's coronation. They MR
stated that both Qneeas of Venial I. were'crowmed. It yes
singular if that were the case,,t hat wrung the western& pre-
served, nothing could be farad which bore allusion to her of
all the-ceremonies there !trammed. As far as the records pre-
Wrili of his Queen being said t.. have been crowned
with him, so reventbou wee wade of her. Prince Lewellyn
in his letterspultigksing es account of sickness, was anxious
to ham attended " soleinefeelow seta coronationis." The
order fur purveying the provisions went ins furttiec—" in pro.
•vistoiribar faeleariaa contra covonat regis " The paper
was headed "'Arestrendatin Coeonationns" There was no-
thing of notice bestowed on the Qiwen's coronation. There

*ariameotemia poperved of tbovationation of his second
Celfa. Ho now came to that mute *blab load been most relied
vu, the wife of Henry VII. la a remonstrance written by
her' aunt it was stated, that all the Queens of England
had been crowned, though the honour was refused oo her,
- relied A remark would

and ibis authority was conedently 00.
be necessary ow the coroaation of the second son of Edward,
vbst was crowned. It was not to be contended that the sou bad
a • igbt to be crowned, and still less that his wife had that
right, though for reasons of state they both were erownedr-
He admitted that usage was strengthened by a claim of
tight being allowed, but be could not see bow that could apply
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in stem where the ceremony h►d been eeseeded as a matter
favour or policy. If be were to select any ease in par.
titular to support his argument. it would be that of
hang• VII. That Monarch was exceedingly anxious that
his title should rest is himself. H. was contracted in mar-
tial(' with Elisabeth before the battle Bosworth field, and

impossible foe soy maw le dray that they were millet dated by his Leaned Priced (Mr. Broughme), of the right
before the mat bed takes place. Not there were else is I of way or common, made manses is favour of than agmlowt
the Banal Moores soave curious old moneseripte, from this assrrtion; Cos' that -might have brew an homily -my; taw
which it troattetretkolly appear that Aso %Brew wits soot I met of usurpation, er the sigise might hove helm hekt at lbe
eroweed, fur they st•tml that theeereeatioe had take. pipit will stud pleso~fr Lod..he "Q. figh Ms*.
epee • Vim the King west by wales. :Fele. ,adduce ms4beThyt , eat .
_gittopery acregrolai.
*mitre, the illsook 9.0414 at she wididdli, ismolmittg Oa, Certain per were w at-attesit
sod all tseclat aiserailbsi mime t Its mat ,71.. Pip rwithal ; bat did this seta ri ) Carotid,
Lesread "bad ski/Ohm ter Claire bei a C.,Mit i The rim MMtbe mete wish
• had Aire to the oremmour-b4Ol • NI;
am arguments, *MIN taw atf~iM
od not she pn•bahly badbadbaked 1.11 w most material so - the Issisait. good, sod
the eircemstasets atteeding eoreosileattk Wows%

*at pisreekA at itCO-..1140.by the wilwa.
*4l' tht authirity •Gof she CMS,. The lampookeepeed
ill all oh peoelwelieee piece 4.zsalrs.-

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claims to his writ of right, because it could mot issue without
the cosiest of the Crown—that the captors of • vowel „had
do right to sly distribution of the prize•nsoney whichithey
•had eiritskiwause. the Lag's Proeliunatiou win* 'ber -
111Adtpi 11 hey could receive it—sul that theendeat in
Vow tintititiiweve In refuels to connive • Parliaments bud
•lasiwietid to Ire a row Paetlitahlturtio4whea, becastAiincis a
Iniavishindlesttonld not take'plsee without a Royal Procia*".
00 the .abject and thi eoua(ry were is full posies-
ainoret etilbese rights; an& if the Qween's right to a rum.
nation were put. upon:the 11111111 e footing, 4 would be equally
drat that she possessed. it, and that tie necessity of restating

1r -_I OnSWUZJs JL.WWIII4/111111,6, Mit I,lltt rwa TiTIOU
of the (Aileen to be crowised mild sot diprod upon the will
or the King to issue a Proclamation fur that purpose, would
be snore sorurelp felt, if their Lordship referred to the u
lure aitd probable meaning of the cererawas itself, an‘
what had berm the rawl object of this acknowledgiwint sr
eorodblios of the Queen, whkb, In it happened, bid koi
tired

.
ivrobir its diffi-reut usages, anst snrYieed even Spinet any 7..
Woe it mg reasonable so suppose that the peculiar duties in
the royal household which the Queen Consort prrforrned for
which

the benefit of the realm, the peculiar Mae* she held
in the Kiwg's family sod in the country, bad 10,1440. ripe to
the great care, which, throughout all our history, bid been
exercised to give effect to the stil.-mOity of her oulaisitiOn ?
That essivideratiou, if it were 'Omitted to have weight, and
lie did owl Lee how weight could be deuied it, would fully
prove the necessity which rusted fur the Mounation of
every Queen Consort. Not only was the Queen Consort
the wife of the King, but she was also the mother of the
royal progeny; she it was through whom the succemiim
to the crown, that greed fevourite of the law in all ages,
was to be iretssenitted, pure and uotaiuted, to rotors grog-
•rations; she it was on whose undisputed purity of coodogs:
depended that, over which, next to the legitiutacy of the
prod offspring, the law watched with the creates eare-4no.
aileani the iuternsl tranquillity and prosperity of the reale*
If they went back to the Must distant limes to which hi/4n
Melaka Ibem to recur, they would find that the merle*,
jealousrof the contamination of the Blood Royal had always
under all circumstances prevailed. Could any one, there-
fore, maintain that in the times when the ili.ld111.; Up of Ilse
Monarch to the recognition of his people was considered so
important as never to be neglected, the obtainiug a recog-
nition of the undisputed right of his wife at a period when
the validity of marriage was more important and less easy
to establish than at present, would be thought a matter of
trifling consetmeace ! He must press upon the attention of
their Lordships that he was now talk:ug of times in which
nu legislative peivitions were made fur royal marriages,
and in which not mtly a point on which no doubt could arise
in modern times was often involved in great obscurity, namely,
whip was the wife of the King—a point which siguified much;
hut also smother point which signified more, namely, who was
the mother of the King's children who were to succeed bins.
le the eases of marriage contracted after the accession and
coronation of the King, such marriages being always a
matter of public notoriety, it 11611 hardly possible that any
doubts of that kind should exist, and the omission in those
cases therefore was no answer to this argument. Comm-
stances might arise where a marriage had been legally coo-
tracied by • Prince, which might reader it expedient to
conceal such marriage during the I fe and reign of his father.
The very Isidore of the matrimonial contract was also, in
many eases formerly, doubtful. The custom of bettuthing
Mhos, who, when arrived at :nature years, might dissettl
from the proposed marriage; the nice points respecting the tire
of eutisangst unity, which were so often raised iu the Catholic
chord]; and vas ious other concurring circuinstauces, which
rendered it sometiines difficult to say who had a moral right
to be Queen, poitittd out the propriety of is formal and
outline riettgilition of her who was destined to share the
she ease of. Kee iherefr-- 'he had asserted

she must have bad some objection os the gravid of her re-
ligions scruples; sbe must •lio hare been aware that
onosiderable peals ,prevailed in the country oo the score
of her religioo, endow both these 'Toon& it was, be con.
tended, highly probable that she mould decline being crown-
rd. lu his (proper argument he referred to the treaty
of weirriage, between Charles and Henrietta Maria, and
If they looked et it they would find (224 James I.) that
age was one artick expressly biudiug the Klieg, with re.
ipeet to the ceremony of the wedding about to be performed
between Prince Charles aid Henrietta Maris, that " no reli-
--IjOalseLallbtatabiould.bitialsodaceds.Jaat that it Amok' be
normal:ea in the sante manure as bee" father, 'marriage
and in Sully 's Memoirs were 'described the great pains
takes on that occasion to pervert any umbrage to either was
Mr 'the -other religion. The teamed Counsel read tei peo-
nage from dories/4m • fu like manner, he aria, it was
alipolated joy France that the ceremony should be perionged
bete, cud in this Pr * kingdom ow religious

Owit /rwtestaut _
cerensbsy sbpatd be introductd into the marriage
of the Protestant Prince with i hat Cai belie Priacess.
—lf such strong objectiews were raised by Pelt-
- ir - • Pro:delimit

throne. In the case of a KinK, ww„
before his sreeoon to the throne, it was evident that some
such solemnity as that of the coronation of his wile was
more otieeasary than in any other case, at his marriage might
have been contracted hs seeresy,and doubt might exist as to
the legitimacy not ouly of such children as were born to him
previous to his secession, but of such as might be born to him
afterwards, supposing nu such coronation to have takes place.
With resmet to the form of the proclamation, much stress
bad been laid by his Learned Friends on the general lan.
gunge, and en certain particular repressions which were
therein used ; such as "ordinarhstis"—" we have ordained"
i«—A• we have decreed"—" we have resolved"—as tending to
chew that the right of having a coronation was altogether at
the will sod discretion of the King He contended, that the,
language of the usual proclamation on such occasions MY
merely the mire!« of allowiug the right, which was to Me
mineinered at ex jeafilitt, and nut ex 'vatic:. The
language was word In writs of error and other wrap,
which of right belonged ill the sutijict, and was to
be Interpreted in this case in the same manner as in the
fossils of Law it was id those of such writs. la ibis
point of view the Proclamation was to be eousideled merely
writ of coronation, conferring no favour on the Queen,
bat giving her that which she had a right to demand. As
to the car
conferrir

rietta Maria to the 'introduction of any
religiose areemony at her marriage, it was much more ifkely
that she eleiraldohject to a religious ceremony of the suite.,
and august nature of a coronation, ■nd that reason such.
cietitty accounted for the change of the intention announced
in the. proelainidiria of the Mb, ■nd repeated In that of
the 2411sjanuary. " But," said his Learaed Friend, " al-
though It was probable enough that she might have übjeced
to certain poets of the eerensony, yet if she had that right in-
dependent of the King's will, which is now contended fr,
she could not have waived it ; because, if eke had the right,
it did not belong to her as an individual, but as a public
righl;,ind as. Au a public right, no right of waiver could
exist." The right, however, might partake of the na-
ture of both a public and • private right. "In that
case," said his Learned. Friend, " she was not entitled
to waive that part of the right which was public, acid
if she did to, it was decisive against the claim now pat for-
ward." But as it appeared to hien (Mr. Brougham) that did
not of neceqeity follow, because a right might be denied to
one party through another; as, is the present ease, the
right of the Queen to be crowned was derived to her through
the coroustiou of the King, *ad could not be exercised by
her miles■ the King himself were crowned. du in like mea-
tier the public right to the cutonation of the Queen was de-
rived through the right of the Queen herself, and could not
be exercised but in her person But it did not follow that
the public right was extiaguialsed, because the party through
whom it was to be everciard Awe in her own person, to
waive or decline the exercise of such right ; fur he did not
use the term " maim," in a legal sense, but only as provieg the
cease why the Queen Henrietta Maria was not crowned. As
fares the strictly legal stoma the term maire► went, lie was
free to admit that the Queen mould have bad no right to
waive the public interest in the solemnity; as far as the
public were concerned, he had a right to say that the public
right was trot thereby concluded—dial • wrong was done to
the realm, that its right was invaded, be was ready to ad-
mit, but that did not 'ouch his argument, which only west
toshew why theceremony did not take place. In noticing the
observations which had been made by him anti his Learned
Friend on the-custom, the other side bad argued at if lie bad
said the right was vested iu the tarieea in the same way as the
ordinary right of pasture, ur a :ight of way, or of commun.
But lie had only proved the wire to shew that it had pre-
vailed, and he called un the other side to shew that it was
not of right that it had so prevailed, and also where ex-
ceptions bad occurred he had accounted for them, to shew
that the right was not thereby concluded. Where long
use of a right was proved, and it had for a lime been in-
terrupted, the party setting up a claim could not be
ailed slew the

COL / or to . coati of such interruption. It was
the interest of the party ofteutimes to prevent the enjoy-
ment or exercise of a right by another, sad, therefore, it
was fur him to spew whereon his right of imetreptiog sock
enjoyment was founded. But those were cases of adverse
enjoyment. Here there was MO adverse enjoyment—he did
not put it on that footing. He contended that the tight was
it' both—that there was in the Queen the right to be crown-
ed, and in the King ihe right to have her crowned. mewl to put •
her right iuto exercise. He had, therefore, proved the wire,
and where there was but one instacee of its tion•exereise, Chas
was not sufficieut to own tuna the right which long ta-
hushed. The usage clearly gmerned the right, and more espe-
cially in this solemnity of coronation, which was altogether
the creatare of precedent, and existed only by its authority.
Ile completely was the Queen's right recognised, that a sepa-
rate ceremony was arranged where the King and Queen
were crowned apart Crum each other. If the practice
were, invariably that the Queen's coronation should take
place with the King's, then it might be said that her ow-
lernaltslion was merely as an auxiliary or coroner, to his,
and to give additional grace to the pump of the King's care-
loony but that was not the (lox.; the Queen's coronation
wax always performed with that separate alterative to bet
rank which mint have beet' intended to show al least some.

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to the coronation b••ing merely • matter of ceremony, and
conferring no tight, bi• Learned Friend hail nut altewn that
in ■ncleat times Ail ceremony did not complete the till, to
the crown, though of later dart it was not necessary to rum.
•rletc title. Lord Coke, when calling it a ceremony, said
-ther, tbsta, It wa• an outward solemnization . of 14

thing more ibrin mere formality; it was a mark of respect
evidently intended to the Queen as Queen, and inikpeodent
of that always paid to the King. It was is itself mauifestly
a .utatantive, important, and independent ceremony, Sloe.
Oro I IVC of the right of the one party, sad not dependant or
contingent upon rile mere will of the Monarch. So essential

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royal right. If it was what Lord Coke described it, then is
warren important eeremon) even as regarded the King, but
kill more so as related to the Quern, as it VAS %pu bli c
recognition of the marriage of the Queen with the King.
The Learned Counsel thou proceeded to continent on the
general armrest of the Attorney General against the Queen's

right, and the instances advanced by him in support ul Ws
opposition to tbe Queen's right. He putietilirly comments:4l
on the cue of Joins sod his first wire, Arvin of Glo•-
cester. John came over to snatch • c.own, leasing Isis
Duchess behind him; he was cruwurd in her sliscuce, re-
turned to the Continent to proqectite his wars; immediately

littler d, was it that sue shoot., biiMPININIAleklls All the forms
which belonged to such a soleniniljkliat thessisie writs of soul-
minis ware iissaed,and nearly the soon demands uf service wade
upon officers of Gist', as whew the King himself was crowned
He entreated the recollection of their Lordships to the
be had cited yesterday. Seeing a collection of facts of such

a nature as be bad Mounted; geeing the number of in-
stances in which tba coronation of Queens hail naturally
fultovred upon their secession to the throne; seeing tsie un-
interrupted succession in which they had all undergone that
ceremonial at some period mother of their.hushande reign ;
seeing 1114 that ceremonial had even a separate existence.