The National Register.
London, England, 1821-07-09 00:00:00

No. 1,321.—V0L. xn .3

HER MAJESTY'S CLAIM to be CROWNED.

PRIVY COUNCIL.

Thorsdiv being the tune fixed for hearing the
le till art:Jonems of liar Majesty's Counsel in support of
the Queen's formal memorial to enjoy the ceremony of
the c.iratiatit it, conjunction with the King. her Nal-
jesty's Attorney and Solicitor• General, Mr. 11 -ham
and Mr Dell111:111 arrived at Whitehall at ten o'clock,
and were immediate's, ushered into the council-room,
where they were received by the following members of
the council, who sat no the occasion.—The Lord Chan-
cellor, their Royal Highnesses the !bikes of York and
Clarence ; the Dukes of ‘Velliilgton, Montrose and
Beaufort ; siarquisseaCamden, I lertford, and Cholinott-
(ldes ; Earls Donoughmore, liarrowby, Bathurst, and
Bridgewater; and about thirty other Peers; the largest
number of Privy Councillors ever known to attend a
council—Chief dodoes Abbot sod Dallas, and the Carel
Boron, the King's Attorney and Solicitor General, Mr.
l'iernee, Sir James Macintosh, and a considerable num-
ber of .itietril•ers of the blou,e of Commons, were also
present. Toe chamber was crowded to excess.
At half-past ten o'clock the clerk of the mined pro-
ceeded to read het Majesty's three memorials to be heard
Ly her counsel, and also the order made in compliance
%vial) the Queen's anheation.
Mr. BROUGHAM opened the pleading about half-past
ten o'clock, the customary forms having been first gone
through. lie was occupied for a considerable portion
of time in tracing the Saxon SIICiiIfSSIOIIS through the
ceremonial history of their coronations which were cele-
brated during their reigns. Ile;nursited the sante line of
inquiry through the several Norman reigns' down to the
vigil of King John, pointing out from the bearing of cir-
cumstances connected with the solemnized coronations
the general policy which guided them, the principle of
right as it regarded the QIICI.7IIS, which was established
by them, together with tile motives and accidents which
had caused any seeming interruption of the acknowledg-
ment of that right on particular occasions. Ile found
• that down to the time of Henry 111. there bad been
eight coronatiofisrnf Kings of England solemnized with-
out the coroesittieVo of their queens, and that there had
been eight coronations oh queens, with or without kings,
celebrated for those queens alone, and without any com-
mixture of the same solemnities petformed at the time
on behalf of the hogs. There had been eight kings,
including William Rufus, who died .unmarriecl,crowttud
without queen, and in the same period of time had there
been eight qtwens crowned without kings. Henry 111.
WAS crowned in 1716, before he was married. Having
wedded Eleanor, Jan. 14, 1220, she was crowned alone,
iu about six clays after, the king himself being present to
do the ceremony the more honour, not in the exercise
of his power as soveleign of the realm, but as one of the
higheat rank in the state; and according to Matthew
Prior, the sword of Edward the Confessor, called the
Sword Cortanea, was carried before him as a token of
the authority of the constable of the palace, the particu-
lar function of which was, to prevent any thing from
bcitig done wrong in the course of the ceremony. Ed-
ward the First'and Second were crowned without their
querns. Edward the First was married to Anne in
August, 1274. Edward the Second wedded Eleanor of
France. and whe'n and where she was crowned, he (Mr.
Brougham) had not been able to ascertain. That she
was crowned lie had no doubt, and he conceived that
he should be able presently to prove it to their lordships
by unquestionable references. Edward 111. was crowneti
alone, Jan. 26, 13VG. lie married Philippa
.early in
1327, who was also crowned alone, April, 1327.—
[The book of Westiniiists r, to which it was the nitra-
tion of the learned counsel to refer to those pans of his
case upon which sufficient information was not other-
wise to be had, was now sent for.)-o.i the last men-
tioned coronation, be would produce a very curious and
important document xisting ; it was the proclamation
for Queeu Phillipa's coronation, itt which the Barons of
the Cinque Ports were called on to +attend the ceremony,
and perform snit and service, as they were bound to du
at the king's coronation. The mcfama was in the
very came toms as that which had been issued fur the
conmaiiiiti of the kimr., and the very same services were
to be mattered. Richard 11. was crowned July 16.
1377, and married Aline in 1383, January 14. who was
crowned by herself on the e2d of the saner month. At
the death of Anne be slurried Isabella, and in 1397 (as
would he seen by the Close Roll in the 'Dower) I %ARAL'
was crowned alone. The order remained w hick was
Men issued to the sheriffs to MIIIIIIIOII all persons who,
by the nature of their tenures or offices, were bound to
do service at the king's coronation, to come forward amid
do the likestreiees for ihe coronation of the V men con-
iasrt, in which the king was In lake no part. In the
Lotion Manuscripts hi the British, Museum, thou was
a document of a most remarkable en:oat:ter, which he
would tortitiois ill their lottlsisilis. lit particular he con-
sidered it of very great importatice to the elucidation of
the soltFet before them; but lie did not know that he
would have taken notice of it but for the general prin-
ciple which it contained. It was au order preseribing
flit f
Milli 11l which the Cololo4llPli of the Quern was
lie celebrated, and cont.toted these %cry remarkable
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