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crowned ; it would be in vain to search for a record of his first
wife's coronation, for although he espoused Alice, he never
'completed the marriage ; and he afterwards married again ;
and neither Alice nor the second wife ever at all came to Eng-
land : no wife of Richard's was therefore ever within the four
seas. When Richard married into the Sicilian family, his then
Queen was crowned in the island of, Cyprus, where he married
her. So that in every view of the ceremony, the marriage of
the Monarch appeared to bring after it, as a necessary conse-
quence, the Coronation of the Queen, unless where reasons of
accident interposed, not at all affecting the general right.—
Xing John succeeded Richard, and was known to have had
two wives. He was crowned by himself on the 27th of March,
1199 ; and his Queen Isabella was crowned alone, October 3,
1200. John also married Arvisa, of Gloucester, from whom,
however, he was divorced. He (Mr. Brougham) could nowhere
thid that she had not been crowned; and here he must observe,
that where the uniform and undeviating course was that a Queen
was to be crowned, historians and chroniclers were less likely
to set down the fact that she was crowned, than that she was
not, and he took it for granted that this Queen had been
crowned, as he could trace no record to the contrary ; but sup-
pose his (Mr. Brougham's) opponent contended she were not—
and here he must remark, that ode of his difficulties in putting
his argument was, in not knowing who was to be his opponent,
with whom he Was • contending, or whether he was to be re.
plied to;—but supposing he was to have an opponent who
should contend that Arnsa was not crowned, then heshould say,
that even admitting such to be the case, it could be satisfactorily
e.ccounted for without affecting his general propoSition. Arvisa
was Duchess of Nonnoralv, she was left there when John de-
parted for England ; he was crowned on the 27th of May, in
London; in the year 1199; he left Normandy pretty much as
William did—all around him was in a troubled and unquiet
state; in little more than three weeks after his own Coronation
he had to hasten• back to Normandy, where he was smitten with
Isabella. That passion, no doubt, hurried his
,steps to divorce
Arvisa, which, however, it was said, he had previously contem-
plated, before this passion had cotne upon bun. Indeed; at the
time of Arvisa's marriage, the Archbishop, who performed
the ceremony, protested against the match, on account of
her consanguinity to the King ; he said they were too near
en blood, and therefore the contract was dissoluble by the canon
law. The divorce of Arvisa was, in fact, going on during the
time yihich intervened between the King's Coronation and. the
marriage with Isabella. Arvisa never in the interim came to
Englano ; so that her whole case furnished a conclusive reason
why she had not enjoyed the Coronation. Down to John, then,
there were eight Coronations of Queens without the Kings
being crowned at the same time and eight with them ; in short,
.einnht solemnities On account ot the King's Royal Person, in:
al,..viing, Rufus,. who was unmarried. There was the same
number, the very same number eight, on account of Queens,
and by no means as a mere pageant for the Kings; they were
exclusively and entirely on account of Queens, and they occur-
red unintearuptedly down to Henry 111. who was crowned in
the year 1216; he was then unmarried; he was afterwards mar-
ried to Eleanor of Provence on the 14th January, 1236, and she
was crowned alone six days after, namely, on the 20th January,
the rung attending in person to grace the solemnityof the scene.
Natthew Paris described the whole ceremony—the -carrying of
e nvoird of Edward the Confessor, the Earl bearing it as Mar-
.ital of the Palace, with the right of restrainirg the King if "ha
acted amiss." The red book in the Exchequer was also curiously
minute upon - the ceremony. • Edwards I. and 11. were both
Trcsoned with their Queens—the first on the 19th August, 1274,
with Eleanour, and the second with Isabella on the 25th Fe-
Lruary, lafi6. No observations arose upon either of these ceres
monies. Edward came to the throne January 26, 1326;
he afterwards married Philippa on the 24th January, 1327, end
sine was crowned 'alp,: in the April of the same year, and a pro-
ciamation was still extant, ordering the usual solemnities to be
solaservcd upon that occasion as upon the King's Coronation.
The Earl of Hartoownw thsn • addressed Mr. Brougham,
and raid, tha.taalx had come to a point, he wished to inform
him, that the book from the Dean and Chapter of Westminster
wao.now in tioi r:ouncii-noom, if he' wished to refer to it.
The Dean had brought the. book and a missal—which were
aleponitod with the Council.
Mr. Bum osta hi thanked his Lordship for the information,
hut said that he should at present prefer pursuing his line of
hiotoric narrative, and that he should by and by avail, himself
of their Lordships` kind permission to refer to the 4‘ Lib=
Renadis." He then referred to a Proclamation issued by the
Barons cf the Cinque Ports,- for the attendance of their assist-
a.nta or bearcro at the Coronation of Philippa, and which was
exactly the same as that obnerved at tire solemnity for crown-
ing the King, and the same services were alike in that,Procla-
matacn prescribed, and the same conditions made to depend
urirn their performance. He now came to the time of Richard
who was crowned on the 16th July, Er,7l. Richard mar-
his Queen Anna on the 14th January,l3B2, and on the 926
.of the same month she was crowned. He afterwards.married

I.7.abrila, in the year an; and according to the elm roll in the
Tower, elle was C-riswned alone, with the usual solemnity and
pomp, the Sheriffs of London having been- enjoined to make
the usual proclamation and sunamons as at the Coronation of the
Kings, enjoining the attendance of all those who, by virtue of
their places, privileges, or tenures, were under a condition to
present themselves at such a ceremony. The King in that Coro-
action bearing no part, it was, like the others, the Queen's Co-
ronation as of ancient right. There.- was another curious do-
cument, bearing date about the period of which he was now
speak.-in,7, prescribing the duties of persons oqui;eri to attend the
t:orenaton, either the particular one of-- Isabella to which he
referred, Cr the general formula of Coronation ceremonies, he
knew not • which. It was in the Cotton collection, and. con-

tanned the instructions to the Keeper of the Wardrobe to take
cam and ot ready the Queen's robc " for her Coronation,"—
Themext King's reign to which he should call the attention of
their Lcrdships was- that of Henry IV. Henry was crownedizial377, afterward: in 1399, and his queen in 103, soon after