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

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by her Counsel, and also the order made in compliance
with the Queen's application.
Mr. BIROUGINAM was then desired to proceed. He
consmenced by alluding to the strong disposition which
he was bound to express, on the part of her Majesty.
that this important quettion.emmeeted with the Queen's
rights, should be disposed of with the smallest possible
delay. He was, however, bound to inform the Court,
that there was a book, called the '4 Liter Regalia," in
the possession of the Dean aid Chapter of Westminster,
which it was important for him to inspect, bat to which
ite was informed, contrary to the courtesy paid to him
elsewhere, that he could not have access, unless by the
authority or sanction of the Crown, or the Law. The
process by the latter would be too tedious fur his pur-
pose. sad be now applied for the former through the
Privy Council.
Lord HARROWS./ then said that the book should be
sent for.--Some conversation then took place as to Mr.
Brougham's going on in theinterins, and it was at length
resolved that he should go on until he came to such
parts as the hook contained.
Mr. &moans)s proceeded to address the Council
epos her Majesty's right. He was occupied for a con-
siderable portion of time in tracing the Saxon successions
through the ceremonial history of their coronations
which were celebrated daring their reigns. lie per.
reed the saute line of intriry through the several Nor-
man reigns down to the reign of King John; pointing out
from the bearing of circumstances connected with the
solemnised coronations, the general policy which guided
them, the pr:nciple of right as it ..,otrded the Queens,
which was established by them, together with the mo-
tives and neeidents which had caused any seeming inter-
ruption of the acknowledgment of that right on parti.
color occasion., lie found that down to the time of
Henry 111. there had been eight coronations of Kings
of England solemnized without the coronation of their
Queens, and that there had been eight coronations of
Queens, with or without Kings, celebrated for those
Queens alone, and without any commixture of the same
solemnities performed at the time on behalf of the Kings.
There had been eight Kings, including William Rau.,
who died unmarried, crowned without Queens, and in
the same period of time had there been eight Queens
crowned without Kings. Henry 111. was crowned in
1216, before he was married. Having wedded Eleanor,
January 14, 1220, she was crowned alone, in alms.; six
days Efter, the King himself being present, to do the
ceremony the more honour, not in the exereise of his
power as Sovereign of the realms, but as one of the high-
est rank in the State; and according to Matthew Prior,
the sword of Edward the Confessor, called the sword
Curtanea, was carried before him as a token of the an-
tliorily of the Constable of the Palace, the particular
function of which was, to prevent any thing from being
done wrong in the course of the ceremony. Edward
the Firm and Second were crowned without their Queens.
Edward the First was married to Anne in August, 1274.
Edward the Second wedded Eleanor of France, and when
and where she was crowned he (Mr. Brougham)
not bees able to aseertaiw. That she was crowned he
bad no doubt, and he conceived that he should be able
presently to prove it to their Lordship by unquestion-
able references. Edward 111. was crowned alone Jann.
ary 116, 1326. lie married Phillippa early in 1327, who
was also crowned alone, April, 1327.--r The Book of
Westminster, to which it was the intention of the
le;irned Counsel to refer to those parts of his ease upon
which sufficient information was not otherwise to 1w hail,
was now sent fur.)—On the last-mentioned Coronation,
he oflohl prattle, a very curious and important disco-
scent existing; it was the proclamation for Queen Ph•l-
lippa's corona:ion, in which the Barons of the Cinque
Ports a ere called on to attend the ceremony, anti perform
suit and service, as they were bound to do at the King's
(unmask's. The proclamation was in the very same
terms as that whirls had been issued for the coronation
of tile King, and the very same services were to he ren-
dered. Richard 11. was crowned July 16, 1377, and
married Anise in 1343, January 14, who was crowned
by herself on the 2241 of the same month. At the death
of Aline he married Isabella, and in 13!17 (as would be
seen by the Close Roll in the Tower) Isabella was crown-
eil alone. The order remained which was then issued
to the Sheriffs to common all persons who by the nature
of their teisnres or offices were bound to do service at the
King's coronation, to come forward and do the like ser-
vices for the Coronation of the Queen Consort, in which
the King was to take no part. In the Cotton manuscripts
in the British Museum, there was a document of a most
remarkable character which he would mention to their
Lordships. In particulars be considered it of very great
Worm-wire to the elucidation of the subject before them,
lon he did not know that he would have taken notice of
it but for the general principle which it contained. It
was an order prescribing the forms in which the coro-
nation of the Queen was to be celebrated, and contained
these very remarkable words:—
" Ideas inities cadent modo in coronationam Regions
si sit coronatio regis, sive solo cormiato."
Henry IV, was crowned the 14th of October, 1329.
He was twice married. His first wife, Mary, died be-
fore he came to the Throne. His (,2,!een Johanna was
crowned with him. Henry V. in 1413, the eighth year
of his reign, came from France to attend the Corona-
tion of his Queen Catherine. The Close Roll of the
Tower proved that she was crowned alone, and that suit
and service was performed for her as Queen Consort, in
the same manner as had been done fur the King. On
the accession of Henry VI. be was an infant; Ise was
twice crowned ; once in England, in 1429, and again in
France, in 1431. He was married after both Corona-
tions, and his Queen, Margaret, was crowned alone in
1445. Here Ise would, with their Lordships' permission,
step aside to consider what had been the rule and prece-
dent of Scotland in these matters, where the same cus-
tom with that which he had been describing had uni-
formly taken place, though the documents for the proof
of it were by rio means so clear or perfect. But this be
was prepared to maintain, that there was no instance its
the History of Scotland in which a Queen Consort had
not been crowned with or wi•tiont her husband. lie
stated this in the broadest terns., and lie put it on those •
who asserted the contrary, to dioprave I ' . The reason
and principle on whirls lie grottioleil this assertion
I mainly was, a very remarkable cirenawance in the sta-
lute laws of Scotland, wills regard to the right of Queens
Consort to Coronation. He held in his hand the book
which contained the whole statute law of the kingdom,
as it had remained for one particular period of two coot;
lurks. The statute in question prescribed an oath of
allegiance to be taken to the Qiteen Consort ; soil it
was passed in the Bth Parliament of James I. of Scot-
land. in the year 1429, inil was to he found in chap.
109, in the enactments of that year of his reign. In the
folio edition of the Statutes the terms of the oath'
were to be assumed as terms of succession.
and were held to apply to heirs and successors
throughout all time. He found from Marrag's
of the Statutes, with the Commentaries upon them, brit
the oath was hold to be of the same force and import-
ance in all respects as the oath ef allegiance taken to
the King. That he had a right to refer to Scotch prece-
dents he was fully prepared to main:aim—since the Act