The Sun.
London, England, 1821-07-06 00:00:00

lam and from all perSijtis, whiclewas usual for the King's.—
/t, ire his opinion. established the fact, that the two ceremonhds
acre linked together and conjoined; the Coronatiox oftheQucen
Qensort with her Husband the King, was qoite a matter of
c;ourre. Then again as to the peactize of :Monarchs when the
• Ceeenation took place in France, the only difference was as to
pa.i:ee, the King's taking place at Rheims, and the Queen's, he
'believed, at Nantes, but he was not certain of the r,lace of the
Having referred to the Saxon Chronicles, he shouid come
stt once to the Norman line. He believed that it appeared Wil-
liarrethe Conqueror was married to Matilda 11 years before the
Conspnest. Sae did not come over to Englaod with William,
who was crowned in lt76ti ; her coronation did not take place
until 1068 ; the difference as to time was ca-pable of easy solu-
tion. William was at first greatly occupied with the agitated
.state of:public affaire, and the troubled state of the country,
punchne could then have hardly been considered to have con-
. ,quered ; he brought his _Queen over, however, in 1068, and she
was :hen immediately crowned. In this, as in other instances
prior to the .6sne cf _Henry the Third, it would be found that
whnoneow:no' to circanostances easy of expinnation, the Queen
WZ',3 itoWile:3 subsequent to the King haviag undergone that
ceremony, he was again crowned with. her. The•prevailing
lan-ors was certainly
.so; but he admitted that there were nu-
.4.APRS in which the Queen Wee; crowned by herself.—
Tfititis was crowned immediately on his eleetion to the'
t: Cafe. Ile (Mr. B.) called it his election, for he and the next
tro,Kings• of the NOrman line ascended the throne rather by
vleeffo,h than. by ran; claim founded upon hereditary right ;
for, aceording7to William of Maloasbury, they were, in point
of facto'electekby a Council of Nobles, and crowned about
eleven days after. Henry I. was crowned four days after Wil-
liam's death—namely, on the Bth August, 1100; he was then
-unmarried. On the Ilth November of that year he married
Alseifla, and she was crowned in Mnrteamas of that year, pro-
bably. on the very day of the marriage. The King afterwards
married Alice, of Louvain,--and she, was crowned on the 30th
January, 1110, immediately upon her marrnage. On the elec-
tion of Stephen, in 1135, he was crowned, when he swore to
-maintain the privileges and rights of the Nobles and Clergy,
both of which classes in their torn gave him a conditional oath
of allegiance to support him so long as he supported them in
their possessions. Stephen's Queen was crowned on the 22d of
_Maien, 1136. Henry 11. was crowned December 19,1154, but
there was some doubt as to the time of the-Coronation of his
Queen Eleanor. According to .Jervis, of Canterbury, she was
crowned with him ; but, according to others, she was crowned
in 1155, and 1177. Henry IL was in fact crowned twice, some '
said three times; the first time he was unmarried. A yell, re-1
imarkable circumstance occurred during the reign of that,Prince;
the solemnity of crowning his eldest sow took place in his (the
father's) life-time; the- Prince (or King, as he was sometimes
called, from the fact of his Coronation in his father's lifetime)
was married to a daughter of Louis of France, and she was not
crowned although her husband was. The novhlty of that
omission of what was considered a uniform ceremony led to a
complaint and remonstrance to the King of England, and the
result was, that he had recourse for redress to the usual process
of Kings—to arms, and a declaration of war; and, in front
of his reasons' for taking that step, the French King placed
the omission to crown his daughter with her husband. So hat
here came an interruption to what he (Mr. Brougham) con-
tended was a long and uninterrupted enjoyment on the part of
the Queens-Consort of the ceremony of Coronation, with or
after the Kings had undergone that solemnity—an interruption
-not acquiesced in by the Queen or her family, but formally
and solemnly complained of; and Henry was at length obliged
to submit, for he went over to France and entered into some
compromise with Louis to avert hostilities, and the daughter of
the' 'French King was solemnly crowned at 'Winchester by
Irlishops and other venerable and distinguished Authorities,
who were sent over from France to perform the ceremony of
her Coronation with. suitable splendour. There was a dif-
ference among the chroniclers as to the fact of the King being '
crowned again with her at Winchester; some asserted that
he was ; others that he was not. Richard I. had been twice