The Sun.
London, England, 1838-06-28 00:00:00

EDWARD 111.

On the deposition of Edward 11., his son,
prince Edward, was brought to a general as-
sembly of the nobles and clergy in the abbey
church of Westminster, on the 20th of Janu-
ary, 1327, and Walter Raynold exhorted all
present to choose the young prince for their
sovereign. All assented; but the prince him-
self declared that he would not accept the
crown until it had been voluntarily resigned
by his father.
A remarkable coron tion medal was struck
on this occasion : on one side the young prince
was represented crowned, laying his sceptre
on a heap of hearts, with the motto " Pepulo
dat Jura volenti" (He gives laws to a willing
people); and on the other was a hand held
out to save a falling crown, with the motto,
" Non rapit, red recipit." (He seizes not, but
receives.)
RICHARD 11.

The coronation of this king was more mag-!
nificent than any of the preceding. The

procession of the king from the Tower to'
Westminster, on the day preceding the coro-
nation, is thus described by Holinshed
The citie was adorned in all sorts most,
richlie. The wa.ter-.conduits. ran with wine'
for the space of three hours together. in the:
upper end of Cheape was a certain castell,.
made' with foure towers ; out of the which cas-
tell, on two sides of' it, ran forth wine abun-
dantly. in the towers were placed foure beau-
tiful]. yirgins, of stature and age like to the
king, apparelled in white vestures, in every
tower rue, the which blew in the king's face,
at his approaching neere to them, leaves of
gold; and as he approched also, they threw
on him and his horsse counterfeit florens of
gold. When he was come beitre the castell
they tooke cups of gold, and, filling them with
wine at the spouts of the castell, presented
the same to the king and to his nobles. On
the top of the castell, betwixt the foure towers,
stood a golden angell, holding a crowne in his
hands, which was so contrive, that when the
king came he bowed downe, and offered to
him the crowne. In the midst of the king's
pallace was a marble pillar, raised hollow
upon steps, on the top whereof was a great
gilt eagle placed, under whose feet in the
chapiter of the pillar divers kinds of wine
came gushing forth at fours several places all
the dale long, neither was anie forbidden to
receive the same, were he fleyer so poor or
abiest."

HENRY -

Henry IV. was crowned by archbishop Fitz-
alan on the 18th 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
splen&d, no less than six thousand horses
having been employed on the occasion.
Frcissart 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
is .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."