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EDWARD IV.

The monarch had his title confirmed by the
forms of a popular election. Immediately
after his victory over Henry VI. he came to
London, and returned thanks to God at St.
Paul's church. He was then conducted in
solemn procession to Westminster, and placed
on the King's Bench, in the Hall, which was
filled with people. It was then demanded of
the commons whether they would accept this
prince to be their sovereign; to which all
assented. He was crowned by archbishop
Bouchier, June 49th, 1461.
EDWARD Y.

Preparations were made for the coronation
of Edward V., but the barons and commons
refused to accept any of the late king's sons
as their sovereign, and tendered the crown to
Richard duke of Gloucauter.
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Hz NRY VIII.

Henry VIII. was extremely fond of pa-
geantry, and be was particularly anxious
`about the ceremonials of his coronation.
The Londoners seconded his desires, and
when, after having created twenty-four
knights of the Bath, he rode through London
from the Tower, June, 22, 1509, the streets
were hung with tapestry and cloth of arras,
and a great part of the south side of Cheap
and part of Cornhill were hung with cloth of
gold. The several companies and civic
dignitaries liawx. ; t&l4
us, " The goldimithi' stalls .unto the end of
the Old Change, being replenished with
virgins in white, with branches of white wax ;
the priestes and clearkes in rich copes, with
crosses and censers of silver, censing his grace
and the queene also as they passed. The
queene Katherine was sitting in hir litter,
borne by two white_ palfries, the litter covered
and richlie apparelled, and the palfries trapped
in white cloth of gold ; hir person apparelled
in white satin imbroidered, hir haire hanging
downe to hir Backe, beautifull and goodlie to
behold, and on hir head a coronall set with
manic rich orient stones."

The coronation was celebrated with brilliant
"jugs and turneies," which the king and queen
witnessed from "a faire house covered with
tapestiie."
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THE FIRST OFFERING.

The Queen, attended by the two Bishops her supporters,
-the Dean of Westminster, the Great Officers, and the No-
en-bearing the regalia and the four swords going before
her Majesty, passed to the altar. Her Majesty, kneeling upon
the cushion, made her first offering of a pall or altar cloth of
gold, which was delivered by an Officer of the Wardrobe to the
Lord Chamberlain, by his Lordship to the Lord Great Cham-
berlain, and by him to the Queen, who delivered it to the
Archbishop of Canterbury, by whom it was placed on the altar.
The Treasurer of the Household then delivered an ingot of
gold, of one pound weight, to the Lord Great Chamberlain,
who having presented the same to the Queen, her Majesty
delivered it to the ArehbiShop, and was by him put into the
Oblation Basin.
Her Majesty continuing to kneel, the prayer, "0 God,
who dwellest in the high and holy place," &c., was said by the
Archbishop. At the conclusion of the prayer her Majesty rose
and went, attended as before, to the Chair of State on the
south side of the area.
The regalia, except the swords, were then delivered, by the
several Noblemen who bore the same to the Archbishop, and
by his Grace to the Dean of Westminster to be laid on the
Altar ; the Great Officers of State (with the exception of the
Lord Great Chamberlain), and the Noblemen who had borne
the Regalia, deposited on the Altar, going to the respective
places appointed for them ; the Bishop of Durham standing
on the right hand of her Majesty, with the Noblemen carrying
the swords on his right hand ; the Bishop of Bath and Wells
on her Majesty's left hand, and, near him, the Lord Great
Chamberlain . _ _ _

The Noblemen bearing the swords (except the Sword of
State) continued to stand on the south side of the area until
the inthronization.
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GEORGE 111.

George 111. and queen Charlotte were crown-
ed the 22nd of September, 1761.
In the Gentleman's Magazine for 1764,
p. 28, is an extract from a letter addressed to
the duke of Devonshire, which contains the
following singular anecdote : " The young
Pretender himself was in Westminster Hall
during the coronation, and in town two or three
days before and after it, under the name of
Mr. Brown. A gentleman told me so, who
saw him there, and who whispered in his ear,
Your royal highness is the last of all mortals
whom I should expect to see here.'—' It was
curiosity that led me,' said the other : but I
assure you,' added he, that the person who is
the cause of all this pomp and magnificence is
the man I envy the least !' "
When the champion cast down his gauntlet
for the last time, a white glove fell from one
of the spectators, who was in an elevated si-
tuation,; on its being handed to the champion,
he demanded, " Who was his fair foe ? " The
glove was said to have been thrown by the
young chevalier, who was present in female
attire.
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THE LITANY

Was then read by the Bishops of Worcester and St. David's
kneeling at a faldatool above the steps of the theatre, in the
centre of the east side thereof, the choir reading the responses.
At the conclusion of the Litany, the Bishops resumed their
seats on the bench along the north side of the area.

THE COMMUNION SERVICE,
Previously to which the choir sang the Sanctus—" Holy !
Holy ! Holy ! Lord God of Hosts ! ' The Archbishop then
began the service,the Bishop of Rochester reading the Epistle,
and the Bishop of Carlisle the Gospel. The service being
concluded, the Bishops returned to their seats.

THE SERMON
Was then preached by the Bishop of London. During the
sermon her Majesty continued to sit in her chair on the south
side of the area, opposite the pulpit, supported on her right
hand by the Bishop of Durham, and beyond him, on the same
side, stood the Noblemen, carrying the swords; on her lef t the
Bishop of Bath and Wells, and near him the Lord Great
Chamberlain. The Archbishop of Canterbury took his seat
in a purple velvet chair, on the north side of the area, Deputy
Garter standing near him. The Dean of Westminster stand-
ing on the south side of the area, east of the Queen's chair,
and near the altar.
The text from which the Right Rev. Prelate preached, was
the 34th Chapter 2d Book of the Chronicles, v. 31.
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CHARLES 11.

Charles 11., having been invited to Scot-
land by the Presbyterians, was crowned at
Scone, January 1, 1651. On this occasion a
most extraordinary sermon was preached by
" Master Robert Dowglas, minister at Edin-
burgh, moderator of the General Assembly,
from 2 Kings xi., verges 12-17." The preacher
delivered a fierce philippic against the young
king's father and mother, the latter of whom he
compared to the wicked Athaliah. _ _ _

When the ceremony was concluded, " the
minister spoke to him a word of exhortation ;"
that is to say, a long oration, scarcely less o&n-
-sive than the sermon.
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HENRY IV.

Henry IV. was crowned by archbishop Fitz-
alan on the 13th of October, 1399, and on this
occasion the ampulla was first employed.
After Henry had gone to the Tower he created
forty-six knights of the Bath, among whom
were three of his own sons. The procession
from the Tower to Westminster was unusually
splendid, no less than six thousand horses
having been employed on the occasion.
Froissart gives the following account of
Henry IV.'s procession. The duke of Lan-
caster left the Tower this Sunday after dinner,
on his return to Westminster; he was bare
headed, and had round his neck the order of
the king of France. The prince of Wales,
six dukes, six earls, eighteen barons, accom-
panied him, and there were of knights and
other nobility from eight to nine hundred horse
in the procession. He passed through the
streets of London, which were all handsomely
decorated with tapestries and other rich hang-
ings : there were nine fountains in Cheapside
and other streets he passed through, that ran
perpetually with white and red wines. The
whole cavalcade amounted to six thousand
horse, that escorted the duke from the Tower
to Westminster."
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THE LITANY

Was then read by the Bishops of Worcester and St. David's
kneeling at a faldstool above the steps of the theatre, in the
centre of the east side thereof, the choir reading the responses.
At the conclusion of the Litany, the Bishops resumed their
seats on the bench along the north side of the area.
TILE COMMUNION SERVICE,
Previously to which the choir sang the Sanctus—" Holy 1
Holy 1 Holy I Lord God of Hosts !" The Archbishop then
began the service, the Bishop of Rochester reading the Epistle,
and the Bishop of Carlisle the Gospel. The service being
concluded, the Bishops returned to their seats.
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GEORGE L

Gorge I. was crowned at Westminster,
October 20, 1714, with the usual solemnities.
The king did not understand English, and
few of those around him could speak German,
so that the ceremonies had to be explained to
his majesty in such Latin as those near him
could command : this gave rise to the popular
jest, that much bad language had passed be-
tween the king and his ministers on the day of
the coronation.
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EDWARD I.

On the 15th of August, 1274, Edward I.
and his queen Eleanor were crowned at
Westminster by the Archbishop of Canter-
bury, aided by other prelates.
Holinshed adds some remarkable particu-
lars of this coronation :

" At this coronation were present, Alexan-
der king of Scots, and John earle of Bretaine,
with their wives that were sisters to King
Edward. The king of Scots did homage unto
King Edward for the realme of Scotland, in
like manner as other the kings of Scotland
before him had doone to other kings of Eng-
land, ancestoures to this King Edward. At
the solemnitie of this coronation there were
let go at libertie (catch them that catch might)
five hundred great homes by the king of
Scots, the earles of Cornewall, Glocester,
Pembroke, Warren, and others, u they were
allighted fro their backs."

EDWARD H.

Edward IL and his queen were crowned at
Westminster on the 24th February. Holin-
shed informs us, " There was such premise and
throng at this coronation, that a knight, called
Sir John Bakewell, was thrust or crowded to
death." The bishops also were incommoded,
and forced to hurry through the service in a
slovenly manner; and yet it was not concluded
before three in the afternoon.
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ELIZABETH.

Speed's account of the procession of queen
Elizabeth contains some particulars too re-
markable to be omitted. "All things in rea-
dinesse, upon the fourteenth of January, with
great triumphes and sumptuous shewes, shee
passed thorow London, towards Westminster,
to receive her imperial! crowne ; but before
shee entered her chariot in the Tower, acknow-
ledging that the seat was God's into which
shee was to enter, and shee his vicegerent to
wield the English sceptre ; in that royall as-
sembly, with eyes and hands elevated to
heaven, upon her knees, she prayed for his
assistance, as Solomon did for wisedome when
he tooke the like charge ; with a thankful! re-
membrance unto God for his continued pre-
servation, who had brought her thorow great
dangers unto that present dignitie."
She was crowned the 25th of January, 1555,
by Oglethorp bishop of Carlisle, the see of
Canterbury being vacant by the death of Car-
dinal Pole. Holinshead says that she com-
posed the following prayer as she went to her
coronation :

" 0 Lord Almightie and Everlasting God,
I give thee most heartie thanks that thou hast
beene so mercifull into me, as to spare me to
behold this ioifull daie. And I acknowledge
that thou hast delt as wonderfullie, and as
mercifullie with me, as thou didst with thy
true and faithfull servant Daniell, thy prophet,
whome thou deliveredst out the den from the
eltie of the greedy and roaring lions. Even

so was I overwhelmed, and only by thee de-
livered. To thee, therefore, onelie be thanks,
honor, and praise, for ever. Amen."

,JAMES I

The ceremonial for the coronation of James
I, was prepared Lader the superintendence of
that monarch, and displays many marks of the
pedantry and extravagant notions of the royal
prerogative, which form so large a portion of
his character. He created two earls, ten
barons, sixty-two knights of the Bath, and
conferred the honour of knighthood on about
four hundred gentlemen.
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HENRY V.

Henry V. was crowned on the 9th of April,
1413. Katherine of France, the queen of
Henry V., was crowned on the 24th of Feb-
ruary, 1420 ; the account which Holinshed
gives of the magnificence displayed upon this
occasion is far too characteristic of the age to
be omitted: " After the great solemnization
of the foresaid coronation in the church of St.
Peter's, at Westminster, was ended, the queene
was conveied into the great Hall of West-
minster, and there set to dinner. Upon whose
right hand sat, at the end of the table, the
archbishop of Canterbury, and Henrie, sur-
named the Rich, cardinall of Winchester.
Upon the left hand of the queene sat the king
of Scots in his estate, who was placed at a
covered messe, as were the foresaid
but yet after them. Upon the left hand, -
to the cupboard, sat the maior • and' hir
thren, the - aldermen of Loudon. The
began the table, against the barons of the
Cinque Ports; and the ladies against the
maior. These, with others, ordered the ser-
vice ; and, for the first course, brawne in mus-
tard, eeles in burneur, pike in herbage, fuiment
with balien, lamprie powdered, trout, codling,
plaice fried, martine fried, crabs, leech lum-
bard flourished tarter, and a devise called- a
pellican, sitting on hir nest with hir birds, and
an image of St. Katharine holding a booke,
and disputing with doctors.
" The second course was, gellie coloured
with columbine flowers, white potage or creams
of almonds, breame of the sea, conger, cheuen,
barbill and roch, fresh salmon, halibut, 'gni.-
nard, rochet broiled, smelts- fried, crevis or
lobster, leeche-damaske, with the king's poesie
flourished thereon.

" The third course was, dates in compost,
creame motle, carpe deore, turbot, tench,
pearch with goion, fresh sturgion with welks,
porperous rosted, crevesse de eau doure, branis,
eeles rosted with lamprie, a leech, called the
white leech, flourished with hawthorn leaves
and red hawes•; a marchpane garnished with
di verse figures of angels."
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CHARLES L

The coronation of Charles I. was delayed
until the sth of February, 1626, in conse-
oluence of the plague, which then reigned in
London. The principal novelty was the in-
troduction of the following clause in one of the
prayers:. " Let him obtain favour for thy
people, like Aaron in • the tabernacle, Elisha
in the waters, Zacharias in the temple. Give
him Peter's key of discipline and Paul's doc-
trine."

In the year 1633 Charles I. went to be
crowned king of Scotland at Edinburgh. He
was received with great splendour, and seve-
rat pageants were prepared to honour his re-
ception. The most singular was a triumphal
arch. under which a mountain was raised in
he form of a theatre, upon which sat a nymph,
representing the Genius of the citv of Edin-
burgh. " Slice was attired in a sea-greene
velvet mantle ; her sleeves and under roahe
of blew tissue, with blew buskins on her feete
about her necke shee wore a chaine of dia-
monds, the• dressing of her head represented
a catto tiirn'ts. her -locks dangled upon
her shoulders." She was attended by-
" all in white tatreta,With a blew mantle
seeded with starres, and a crown of stones on
her head, to chew from whence she is," lean-
ing upon a shield, and trampling beneath her
feet Superstition, represented as a blind old
woman, covered with rags. On the left hand
stood Justice, in " a red damaske mantle,"
trampling upon Oppression, represented as " a
person of fierce aspecte,'M armes, but broken
all and scattered."
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EDWARD VI.

Edward VI. was crowned February 20th,
1546. "He rode through London into West-
minster," says Holinshed, " with as great
roialtie as might be, the streets being hung,
and pageants in divers places erected, to
testifie the good wilder of the citizens. . . .
As he passed on the south
part if Paule's churchyard, an Argosine
came from the battlements of Panic's church
upon a cable, being made fast to an anchor
by the deane's gate, lieing on his breast, aiding
himselfe neither with hand nor foot, and after
ascended to the middest of the cable, where
he tumbled and plaied many prettie toies,
whereat the king and the nobles had good
pastime."
At this coronation, when the three swords,
for the three kingdoms, were brought to be
carried before him, the king observed, that
there was yet one wanting, and called for the
BIBLZ. " That," said he, "is the sword of
the spirit, and ought in all right to govern us,
who use these for the people's safety, by God's
appointment. Without that sword we are
-..uthing: we- can do nothing. From that we
are what we are this day . . . . we receive
whatsoever it is that we at this present do
assume. Under that we ought to lire, to fight,
to govern the people, and to perform all our
affairs. From that alone we obtain all power,
virtne, grace, salvatien, and whatsoever we
have of divine strength."
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HENRY VI T.

Henry VIT. was crowned October 30th,
1485, and his queen, Elizabeth, October 30th,
1487. The latter was remarkable for the
procession by water from the palace of Green-
wich to the Tower, instead of from West-
minster, as was usual. The queen was
escorted by the lord mayor, sheriffs, and the
heads of the different companies in their state
barges, richly ornamented with silken pennons
and streamers, and also with the banners of the
different trades, on which their arms were em-
broidered in gold. One of these barges, called
the bachelors' barge, contained an extraor-
dinary pageant, an enormous red dragon which
spouted streams of fire into the Thames. When
the queen rode through the city on the follow-
ing day, choirs of children dressed as angels
were stationed in different places, who sang
hymns and songs as she passed by.

ITENRy VITT.

Henry VIII. was extremely fond of pa-
geantry, and he was particularly anxious
about the ceremonials of his coronation.
The Londoners seconded his desires, and
when, after having created twenty-four
knights of the Bath, he rode- through London
from the Tower, June, 22, 1509, the streets
*ere hung with tapestry and cloth of arras,
and a great part of the south side of Cheap
and part of Cornhill were hung with cloth of
gold. The several companies and civic
dignitaries lined the streets ; and Hall tells
us, " The goldsmiths' stalls unto the end of
the Old Change, being replenished with
.virgins in white with branches of white wax :
the priestes and clearkes in rich copes, with
crosses and censers of silver, censing his grace
and the queene also as they passed. The
queene Katherine was sitting in hir litter,
borne by. two white palfries, the litter covered
and richlie apparelled, and the palfries trapped
in white cloth of gold ; hir person apparelled
in white satin imbroidered, hir haire hanging
Towne to hir backe, beautifull and goodlie to
behold, and on hir head a coronall set with
nianie rich orient stones."
The coronation was celebrated with brilliant
" justs and turnies," which the king and queen
witnessed from "a faire house covered with
tapestrie."
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VALUE OF THE CROWN JEWELS.

The ruby in the crown of state is valued at
10,0001., and the aqua marina, which forms
the mound, is still more precious. When the
notorious Colonel Blood had nearly succeeded
in stealing the crown from the Tower, the'ruby
fell in the struggle, and was not recovered for
several days, when it was picked up by a poor
old woman who was sweeping a crossing. The
values of the other jewels have not been ascer-
tained, with the exception of those in.the crown
worn by the queen consort on her return to
Westminster Hall, which have been estimated
as follows :

Twenty diamonds round the circle, 1500/. each . £30,000
Two large centre diamonds, 20004 each . . . 4,000
Fifty-four smaller diamonds placed at the angles _ _

of the former
Four crosses. each composed of 25 diamonds .
Four large diamonds on the tops of the crosses
Twelve diamonds contained in the Gut- delis
Eighteen smaller diamonds contained in the same 2,000
Pearls, diamonds, &c. on the arches and crosses . 10,000
One hundred and forty-one diamonds on the mound 500
Twenty-six diamonds on the upper cross . . . 3,000
Two circles of pearls about the rim . . . . 300

1:11 1,000
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WILLIAM IV.

The arrangements for the coronation of
William IV. and Queen Adelaide were a
compromise between economy and
parade.
The procession from the Hall to the Abbey:
and the coronation feast in the Hall, were
omitted. The popular enthusiasm was greater,
however, than on any former occasion. The
new entrance to St. James's Park was opened
for the first time, and in the evening the me-
tropolis was universally illuminated. The very
lanes and alleys tenanted by the poor classes
were lighted, to testify the loyal affection of
even the humblest for " the sailor king."
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WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR.

After William had taken the coronation
oath, to protect the church, prohibit .oppres-
sion, and execute judgment in mercy, Aldred
put the question, " Will ye have this prince
to he your king'?" The people answered with
loud shouts, and the noise gave so much alarm
to the Norman garrison in the city, that the
soldiers, believing the English to have revolted,
without waiting to make any investigation, im-
mediately set the next houses on fire, which
spreading and giving a general alarm, most of
the congregation rushed out of the church, the
English hastening to stop the fire, and the
Normans to plunder. The bishops, clergy,
and monks, who remained within the church,
were in such confusion, that they were scarce
able to go through the office of crowning the
king; William himself, who saw the tumult,
and could not conjecture its cause, sate trem-
bling at the foot of the altar, and though no
great mischief was done by the fire, it laid the
foundation of a long and inveterate enmity
between the English and the Normans.
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►JAMXI H.

James's coronation, April 23, 1685, Was
eelebratml with so much splendour, that it ren-
dered him for a considerable time popular in
London. The most remarkable anecdote con-
nected with the solemnity is, that, on the king's
return from the Abbey, the crown tottered
upon his head, and would have fallen off, had
not the Honourable Henry Sidney. supported
it, saying, " This is not the first time our fa-
mily have supported the crown."
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HENRY VI.

Henry VI. was crowned at Westminster,
Nov. 6th, 1429, being then only in the ninth
year of his age. The coronation feast was
celebrated at Westminster with great splen-
dour. In the - first course, Fabian tells us
there were, among other royal viands, " Bore
hedes in castellys of gold and enarmed," " Cus-
tard royall, with a lyopard of golde syttyng
therein, and holding a floure de lyee.'"fhe
pageant for this course was, " A sotyltie of
Seynt Edwarde and Seynt Lowys armed, and
upon eyther his cote armoure, holdyng at.wene
them a figure lyke unto Kynge Henry, stand-
ynge also in his cote armoure, and a scripture
passynge from them both, sayinge,---‘ Beholde
II perfyght kynges under one cote armoure."
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THE HOLY BIBLE.

The Dean then taking the Holy Bible from the Altar de-
livered it to the Archbishop, who, attended and assisted by
the same Archbishops and Bishops as before, presented it to
the Queen, saying " Our Gracious Queen," &c. The Queen
then returned the Bible to the Archbishop, who gave it to the
Dean, and by him replaced on the Altar, the Archbishops
and Bishops returning to their seats.
THE BENEDICTION AND TE DEUM.

The Archbishop then pronounced the benediction, the
Bishops and the Peers following every part of the benediction
with a loud Amen. The Archbishop then, turning to the
people, said, "And the same Lord God Almighty grant,"
&c. The "Te Deum " was sung by the choir, at the com-
mencement of which the Queen removed to the recognition
chair on which her Majesty first sat, on the south-east side of
the Throne, the two Bishops her supporters, the great
Officers of State, the Noblemen carrying the swords, and the
Noblemen who had borne the Regalia, coming from their
respective places, and attending her Majesty.
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WITH WHICH THE " TRUE SUN" IS NOW INCORPORATED.

No. 14,989.

LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 2Q,-1838, 20th-Bdition of THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1838.

THE CORONATION DAY.
BY MURDO YOUNG.

All hail, Queen Victoria ! all hail to this day, •
So teeming with promise—we welcome it here !
As the bright stream of glory pursues its glad way,
And the blessing of thousands ascends in that cheer !

But if thousands on thousands are happy before thee,
Saluting thy favours, and catching thy smiles;
Oh ! think of the millions of hearts that adore thee—
For this day is a JUBILEE over the isles !

Not alone o'er the isles—but Hindostan afar
Doth our jubilee spread—in the West, the poor slave,
As he prays for thy ru,rey, " fair z ibertv's star
" Be the Queen of the F 1 F. as the Queen of the brave.'

Let the African joy, for his freedom is nigh;
Our Queen would not reign but o'er happy and free
Let that thunder attest it—yon banner on high—
The Banner of Glory o'er land and o'er sea!

Bear witness, ye Nations ! the homage we pay,
The pride that we feel, and the love we declare ;
For the Queen of our hearts is, on this happy day,
Not alone of the brave—but THE Queen of the Fair !

Nor can chivalry boast, in the rolls of renown,
A scene such as TlllS—lor old Time stands apart,
While the Crown of her PEOPLE VICTORIA puts on,
All radiant with beauty—and pure as her heart !

Then fill up a bumper to honour THE QUEEN !
Our hands and our hearts in devotion we give
And our children, while weeping with joy o'er this scene,
Shall pray, GOD bless VicIORIA ! and icing may she live.

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throne, a generous patron of the theatres and the
fine arts, and has already done much to restore
them in England to the splendour of the Eliza-
bethan age. Men of science have not been
overlooked, and England promises to be as
celebrated under her reign for the peaceful
arts as ever it was for warlike deeds under the
most renowned of her predecessors.

Her reign has been alreadf distinguished by
the,eStablishment of a regular communication
by steam with the United States, and the rapid
improvements now continually made in the
arts, of which our journal this day presents one
splendid specimen, betoken au unprecedented
progress in civilization. For her Majesty's
reign to be glorious for herself and happy for
.her people, her political measures must cor-
respond with the extraordinary movement now
impelled on society. Following a monarch
who acquired a deservedly-high reputation as
a reformer, her task, and the task of her states-
men, it must be admitted, is not- easy. But
those who see in all things the directing hand
of Providence will probably look on the graces
of a female 'reign as likely to temper most ad-
vantageously the character of the monarchy,
which, in this age of the world and with the
present temper of mankind, might be. exposed
to much risk were either a heartless debauchee
or a wilful tyrant to be on the throne.
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OFFERING OF THE SWORD.

The Queen, rising up, went to the altar, where her Majesty
offered the sword in the scabbard (delivering it to the Arch-
bishop, who placed it on the altar), and then returned to and
sat down in St. Edward's Chair; the sword was then re-
deemed for one hundred shillings, by Viscount Melbourne,
who received it from the Dein, and carried it during the re-
mainder of the solemnity, having first drawn it out of the
scabbard, and delivered the latter to an officer of the ward-
robe. The Archbishops and Bishops who had assisted dur-
ing the offering returned to their places.
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HENRY VIII.

Henry VIII. was extremely fond of pa-
geantry, and he was particularly anxious
about the ceremonials of his coronation..
The Londoners seconded his desires, and
when, after having created twenty-four
knights of the Bath, he. rode through London
from the Tower, June 22, 1509, the streets
were hung with tapestry and cloth of arras,
and a great part of the south side of Cheap
and part of Cornhill were hung with cloth of
gold. The several companies and civic
dignitaries lined the streets; and Hall tells
us, " The goldsmiths' stalls unto the end of
the Old Change, being replenished with
virgins in white, with branches of white wax ;
the priestes and clerkes in rich copes, with
crosses and censors of silver, censing his grace
and the queene also as they passed. The
queene Katherine was sitting in hir litter,
borne by two white palfries, the litter covered
and richlie apparelled, and the palfries trapped
in white cloth of gold; hir person apparelled
in white satin imbroidered', hir haire hanging
downe to hir back e, beautifull and goodlie to
behold, and on hir head a coronall set with
manie rich orient stones."
The .coronation was celebrated with brilliant
‘, lusts and turneies," which the king and queen
witnessed from '‘ a faire house covered with
tapestrie."
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THE SCEPTRES.

The Dean then brought from the altar the sceptre with
the cross and the sceptre with the dove, and delivered them
to the Archbishop.
In the meantime the Duke of Norfolk, as Lord of the
Manor of Worksop, left his seat, and, approaching the Queen,
and, kneeling, presented to her Majesty a glove for her right
hand, embroidered with the arms of Howard, which her
Majesty put on.
The Archbishop then delivered the Sceptre with the Cross
into her Majesty's right hand, saying "Receive the Royal
Sceptre," &c. ; and then the Sceptre with the Dove into her
left hand, saying "Receive the Rod of Equity," &c. ; and
the Lord of the Manor of Worksop supported her Majesty's
right arm, and held the Sceptre.
THE CROWNING.

The Archbishop standing before the altar, and having
St. Edward's Crown before him, took the same into his
hands, and consecrated and blessed it with the prayer, " 0
God, who crownest thy faithful servants with mercy," &c.
Then the Archbishop came from the altar, assisted by
the Archbishops of York and Armagh, with the Bishops of
London, Winchester, and other Bishops, the Dean of West-
minster carrying the Crown ; and the Archbishop took
and placed it on her Majesty's head ; when the people,
with loud and repeated shouts, cried " God save the
Queen ;" and immediately the Peers and Peeresses present
put on their Coronets ; the Bishops their caps ; and the Kings
cf Arms their crowns ; the trumpets sounding, the drums
beating, and the Tower and Park guns firing by signal.
Never did we hear louder or more hearty plaudits, that al-
most rent the walls of the old Abbey, setting at nought all
etiquette and ceremony, than those which burst from the lips
and hearts of her attached and loyal people, when the Crown
was placed oil the head of their young and lovely Sovereign.
The acclamations having ceased, the Archbishop pro-
nounced the exhortation, " Be strong, and of a good courage,"
&c. The choir then sang the following anthem, " The
Queen shall rejoice," &c.
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THE FIRST OFFERING.

The Queen, attended by the two Bishops, her supporters,
and the Dean of Westminster, the Great Officers, and the No-
blemen bearing the regalia and the four swords, going before
her Majesty, passed to the altar. Her Majesty, kneeling upon
the cushion, made her first offering of a pall or altar cloth of
gold, which was delivered by an Officer of the Wardrobe to
the Lord Chamberlain, by his Lordship to the Lord Great
Chamberlain, and by him to the Queen, who delivered it to
the Archbishop of Canterbury, by whom it was placed on
the altar. The Treasurer of the Household then delivered
an ingot of gold, of one pound weight, to the Lord Great
Chamberlain, who having presented the same to the Queen,
her Majesty delivered it to the Archbishop, and was by him
put into the Oblation Basin.
Her Majesty, continuing to kneel, the prayer, "O God,
who dwellest in the high and holy place," ke., was said by
the Archbishop. At the conclusion of the prayer her Majesty
rose and went, attended as before, to the Chair of State on
the south side of the area,

The regalia, except the swords, were then delivered, by
the several Noblemen who bore the same to the Archbishop,
and by his Grace to the Dean of Westminster to be laid on
the Altar ; the Great Officers of State (with the exception of
the Lord Great Chamberlain), and the Noblemen who had
borne the Regalia deposited on the Altar, going to the
respective places appointed for them ; the Bishop of Dur-
ham standing on the right hand of her Majesty, with the No-
blemen carrying the swords on his right hand; the Bishop of
Bath and Wells on her Majesty's left hand, and, near him,
the Lord Great Chamberlain.

The Noblemen bearing the Swords (except the Sword of
State) continued to stand on the south side of the area until
the Inthronization.
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THE REGALIA.

These are—St. Edward's Staff—
the Spurs—the Sceptre with the
'Cross—the Pointed Sword of Tem-
poral Justice—the Sword of Mercy
—the Sword of State—the Sceptre
with the Dove—the Orb—St. Ed-
ward's Crown—the Patina, the Cha-
lice, and the Bible.
St. Edward's Staff, in length four
feet eleven inches and a half, is a
sceptre of gold, having a foot of
steel about four inches and a quar-
ter in length, with a mound and
cross at the top ; the ornaments are
Also of gold, and the diameter is
upwards of three-quarters of an inch.
The Spurs, called the great golden
-Spurs, are elaborately wrought ; they
have no rowels, but end in an orna-
mented point. -
The Sceptre with the Cross, or
Sceptre Royal, is likewise of gold,
the handle plain, and the upper part
wreathed; it is in length two feet nine
inches and a quarter, and is of the
:same thickness as the. former. The
point at the lower part is enriched
with rubies, emeralds, and small
diamonds ; and the space of five
inches and a half in length, above
-the handle, is elegantly embellished
-with similar precious stones. The
-top rises into a fleur-de-lis, with six
leaves, of which three are upwright,
and the other three are hanging
down, all enriched with precious
stones ; out of the fleur-de-lis issues
a mound made of an amethyst, set
-round with table-diamonds, and upon
the mound a cross, wholly covered
-with precious stones, and a large
)able-diamond in the centre.

The Sword of Justice of the Tem-
porality, or Third Sword, is sharp-
pointed; the length of the handle
]; four inches, the pommel an inch
luld three-quarters, and the cross
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ANNE.

Anne was crowned April 23, 1702 ; her
husband, prince George of Denmark, was
present, but took no prominent part in the ce-
remony. The queen gave the kiss of peace to
the archbishop and the other prelates ; but,
when the temporal peers did their homage,
they only seemingly kissed her majesty's left
cheek. As parliament was sitting, galleries
were provided for members of the House of
Commons, both in the Hall and the Abbey,
and a sumptuous dinner was prepared for them
in the Exchequer Chamber.
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THE ANOINTING.

Upon the conclusion of the hymn the Archbishop
read the prayer preparatory to the anointing, " 0 Lord,
Holy Father, who by anointing with oil, didst of old make
and consecrate Kings, Priests, and Prophets," &c. At the
conclusion of this prayer the choir sang the anthem,
" Zadok the Priest and Nathan the Prophet," &c. At the
commencement of the anthem the Queen arose from her
chair, went before the altar, and attended by her supporters
and the Lord Great Chamberlain, the Sword of State being
borne before her, was disrobed of her crimson robe by the
Mistress of the Robes, assisted by the Lord Great Chamber-
lain, which were immediately carried into St. Edward's
Chapel by the Groom of the Robes.
The Queen then proceeded to and sat down in St. Ed-
ward's chair, covered with cloth of gold, and with a faldstool
before it, placed in front of the altar, when her Majesty was
anointed ; four Knights of the Garter, viz., the Duke of Rut-
land, the Marquis of Anglesey, the Marquis of Exeter, and
the Duke of I3uccleuch (summoned by Deputy Garter), hold-
ing over the Queen's head a rich pall or cloth of gold, de-
livered to thein by the Lord Chamberlain, who received the
same from an Officer of the Wardrobe ; and the anthem being
concluded, the Dean of Westminster took from the ampulla
containing the consecrated oil, and, pouring some into the
anointing spoon, the Archbishop anointed her Majesty on

the head and hands, in the form of a cross, pronouncing the
words—" Be thou anointed," &c.
The Queen then kneeling at her faldstool, the Archbishop,
standing On the north side of the altar, pronounced the prayer
after the anointing ; when her Majesty, arising, resumed her
seat in St. Edward's chair ; the Knights of the Garter re-
turned the pall to the Lord Chamberlain (which was by him
re-delivered to the Officer of the Wardrobe) and returned
to their seats.
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1' OROS AT A )
I:l4rayed ji.v.tt a little 7; ork entitled" Cl4aplera on

lit ths age of the Piantagenets and Tudors,l 1
WWI under the Stuarts, until the coronation of
James 11., it was customary for the kings tol '
reside in the Tower of London for some time,
Previous to the coronation. On the Saturday
before the coronation the sovereign went from:
Westminster to the Tower of London, at-,
nded by great numbers of the nobility awh
civic dig-mtaries, and by those squires that.
were to be knighted, and who watched their;
arins that night. Each squire bad a chamber
allotted him, anti a bath in which he bathed..
The ensuing day after mass the sovereign
meate4l them knight. After their investiture
they were permit:ed to sit down in the king's
presence, but dorile.f the whole time of dinner
they were not al 1 uv. ed to partake of any part
of he entertainment. The queens in their
own right, Mare,' Rod Elizabeth, though they
girded the swoid:i on the knights with their
ewn hands, did no give the accolade or blow,
which is the deter:einate action that impresses
the character of knighthood. At both coro-
nations, Henry earl of Arundel performed
this office. A ropy of his appointment is to
be found in ltvrver.

WiLLIAM TUE CONQUEROR.

After William had taken the coronation

oath, to protect ti.e church, prohibit oppres-
sion, and execute jedgment in mercy, Aldred
put the
,qaestion..•• Will ye have _this .-prince
to be sour king r The people answered with
loud shouts, and the noise gave so much alarm
to the Norman garrison in the city, that the
soldiers, believing the 'English to have revolted,
without waiting to nlnke any investigation, im-
mediately set the next houses on fire, .which
spreading- and giving a general alarm, most of
the congregation rushed out of the church, the
English hastening to stop the fire, and the
Normans to plunder. The bishops, clergy,
and monks, who remained within the church,
were in such confusion, that they were scarce
able to go through the ofEce of crowning the
king; William himself, who saw the tumult,
and could not conjecture its cause, sate trem-
bling at the foot of the altar, and, though no
great mischief was done by the fire, it laid the
foundation of a ng and inveterate enmity
between the English and the Normans.

WILLIAM 11., Rupus.

William IL laid claim to the crown by
virtue of a form of election ; the nobles believ-
ing that he would be less inclined to control
!heir usurped,privileges than his elder brother,
Robert. He was crowned at -Westminster,
September 27, 107, by Lanfranc archbishop
of Canterbury, and the archbishop of York.
Besides swearing to observe justice, equity, and
mercy in all his conduct, and to maintain the
peace, liberties. and privileges of the church,
he promised that he would follow the arch-
bishop's counsels. in his administrations.
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GEORGE I.

George I. was crowned at Westminster,
October 20, 1714, with the usual solemnities.
The king did not understand Eng;ish, and
few of •th6ose around him could speak German,
so that the ceremonies had to be explained to
his majesty in such Latin as those near him
could command : this gave rise to the popular
jest, that much bad language had passed be-
tween the king and his ministers on the day of
the coronation.
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QUINN MARY.

Mary, the first female sovereign of this
realm, was crowned on the Ist of October,
1553, by Stephen Gardiner, bishop of Win-
chester, the archbishops of York and Canter.-
bury being then prisoners in the Tower. On
the last day of September she went in state
from the Tower to Westminster in an open
chariot, drawn by six horses, covered with
cloth of tissue. In a second chariot came the
princess Elizabeth and the lady Anne of
Cleves ; the ladies in waiting rode upon
horses covered with trappings of crimson vel-
vet and satin. Three pageants were erected
in Fenchurch-street by the Genoese, Easter-
ling, and Florentine merchants.
Among the city pageants, the most remark-
able was that of St. Paul's cathedral, thus de-
scribed by Holinshed :—" There was one
Peter, a Dutchman, that stood on the weather-
cock of Paule's steeple, holding a streamer in
his hand of five yards long, and waiving there-
of, stood sometimes on the one foot and shooke
the other, and then kneeled on his knees, to
the great marvel! of all people. He had
made two scaffolds under him, one about the
crosse, having torches and streamers set on it,
and another over the ball of. the crosse, like-
wise set with streamers and torches, which
could not burn, the wind was so great. The
said Peter had sixteen pounds, thirteene shil-
lings, four pense for his costes, and paines,
and all his stuffe."

The conduits ran with wine, and, when the
civic authorities received the queen at Cheape,
the chamberlain presented her with a purse of
tissue containing a thousand marks in gold,.
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ELIZABETH.

Speed's account of the procession of queen
Elizabeth contains some particulars too re-
markable to be omitted. " All things in rea-
dinesse, upon the fourteenth of January, with
great triumphes and sumptuous shewes, shee
passed thorow London, towards Westminster,
to receive her imperiall crowne ; but before
shee entered her chariot in the Tower, acknow-
ledging that the seat was God's into which
shee was to enter, and shee his vicegerent to
wield the English sceptre ; in that royall as-
sembly, with eyes and hands elevated to
heaven, upon her knees, she prayed for his
assistance, as Solomon did for wisedome when
he Cooke the like charge; with a thankfull re-
membrance unto God for his continued pre-
servation, who had brought her thorow great
dangers unto that present dignitie."
She was crowned the 25th of January, 1551,
by Oglethorpe bishop of Carlisle, the see of
Canterbury being vacant by the death of Car-
dinal Pole. Holinshed says that she corn-
ed the following prayer as she went to her
coronation:

de 0 Lord Alirxightie and Everlasting God,
I give thee most heartie thanks that thou ha's
beene so merciful! into me, as to spare me to
behold this ioifull daie. And I acknowledge
that thou halt Belt as wonderfullie, and as
mercifullie with me, as thou didst with thy
true and faithful! servant Daniell, thy prophet,
whome thou deliveredst out the den from the
crueltie of the greedy and roaring lions. Even

Igo was I overwhelmed, and only by thee tde-
;livered. To thee, therefore, onelie be thanks,
honor, and praise, for ever. Amen."

JAMES I-

The ceremonial for the coronation of James
I. was prepared tinder the superintendence of
that monarch, and displays many marks of the
pedantry and extravagant notions of the royal
prerogative, which form so large a portion of
his character. He created two earls, ten
barons, sixty-two knights of the Bath, and
conferred the honour of knighthood on about
four hundred gentlemen.
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HZNIT VI.

Henry VI. was crowned at Westminster,
Nor. 6th, 1429, being then only in the ninth
year of his age. The coronation feast Wag
celebrated at Westminster with great splen-
dour. In the first course, Fabian tells us,
there were, among other royal viands, " Bore
hedes in castellys of gold and enarsned," " Cus-
tard royall, with a lyopard of golde syttyng
therein, and holding a floure de lyce." The
pageant for this course was, " A sotyltie of
Seynt Edwarde and Seynt Lowys armed, and
upon eyther his cote armoure, holdyng atwese
them a figure lyke unto Kynge Henry, stand-
ynge also in his cote armoure, and a scripture
passynge from them both, sayiage,—, Beholde
II perfyght kynges under one cote armoure.'
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CORONATION ROBES.

The ancient coronation robes which were
destroyed in 1649, do not appear to have been
very valuable, if we may judge from the enu-
meration given of them by the parliamentary
commissioners, from which we have before
quoted. In their report we find the follow-
ing " Inventory of the Regalia, now in West-
minster Abbey, in an iron chest," where the 3,
were formerly kept.

X s. d.
One common taffaty robe, very old, valued at . 0 10 0
One robe laced with gould lace, valued at .
One silver cullered silk robe, very old, and
worth nothing
One robe of crimson tafility sarcenet, valued at 0 5 0
One paire of buskins, cloth of silver and silver
stockings, very old, and valued at .
~0 2 6
One paire of shoes of cloth of gold at *. . . 0 2 0
One paire of gloves, embroidered with gould, at 0 1.
Three swords with scabbards of cloth of gould at :3 0 0
One old comb, of home, worth nothing . . . 0 0 0

Totall in the chest . . 4 10 6
The combs which is here dismissed so con-
temptuously, was supposed to have belonged
to Edward the Confessor, and was used in the
ancient forms of coronation, to smooth the
king's hair previous to the anointing. -
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KINGS-AT-ARMS.

The dresses of the kings-at-arms, heralds,
and pursuivants, add considerable splendour to
the ceremonial of a coronation. The kings-at-
arms wear tabards, or surcoats of velvet and
cloth of gold, on which the royal insignia are
emblazoned ; these tabards resemble sleeveless
gowns in form, but they are furnished with
wings, which fold over the arms. They wear
also collars of SS, that is, composed of links
S, made of silver gilt,
badgeswith
hped like
a thet
the letter
centre, containing the sham-
rock, rose, and thistle, enamelled in their pro-
per colours. They are also entitled to wear
coronets, or plain circles of gold, decorated
with sixteen upright leaves, eight of which are
long, and eight short. So important was the
office of king-at-arms anciently held, `that a
solemn ceremony •was appointed for their in-
auguration. 1 n fact, it was the mimicry of a
royal coronation, except that the unction was
performed with wine instead of oil. In Scot-
land, ,Sir David Lindesay was crowned Lyon
king-of-arms by his sovereign, with the ancient
crown which the monarchs wore before they
assumed a close crown, A.D. 1592.

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