The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-04-20

while the heralds sound their salutes
/ to be taken up without the walls by
/ the deeper mouthed cannon at the
Tower and Windsor Castle.
| While this is in progress King Ed
/ ward rises, and as the shouts subside
and the great choir breaks into the sol
emn "Te Deum," he turns and pro-
ceeds to the Throne of Homage"
placed in the center of the "Theater."
Here is then enacted the most mediae-
val and also the longest and most try
ing of all the coronation rites. First
come the lords spiritual to kneel before
the King, pronounce the words of hon.
age and kiss his hand. The princes of
the blood ascend the steps of the
throne, and with their coronets remov-
ed and with fingers lightly touching
the royal crown, repeat their homage,
at the close of Which they kiss the
Kings cheek. Last come the peers of
the realm, who repeat the procedure,
save that they kiss the hand instead
of the cheek. The ceremony closes with
nine great cheers given by the COM
moners, with another God save the
king!' at the end
The words of the Act of Homage,
honorable through long centuries, are:
II wellington Tor whatever the speak
er's title may BEL do become your
liegeman of life and limb, and of
earthly worship, and of faith and
truth which I will bear into you to
live and die against all manner of
folk, so help me God" While this is
in progress the lord treasurer throws
10 noir ana lower galleries the gold
and silver coronation medals.
CrOwniRg the Queen.
In the meantime Queen Alexandra
will have been crowned in much the
same manner as her royal husband,
the Archbishop of York attending her,
as his brother of Canterbury waits
upon the King. She does not, however,
take any oath, nor is she proclaimed
through the Abbey.
1t is all of two O'clock when the
procession starts to retrace its way
down the long nave. King Edward is
again robed in the royal cloak of pur-
ple-the color prescribed as kingly by
that old Witlaf of Mercia, who ruled
in Britain in the days when the Ro-
man invasion was still recent mem
ory-and the crown of Saxon Edward
is on his head. In his right hand he
carries the scepter with the cross, in
his left the orb. Again King and Queen
enter the state coach, and the eight
cream colored horses whirl them away
between lines of the cheering populace
of their capital.
The progress back to Buckingham
Palace is by a longer route than the
one followed in coming to the Abbey.
1t leads through Parliament street,
Trafalgar square, the Strand, Fleet
street and the Thames embankment.
On the day following the King and
Queen will take an even longer drive
through London thoroughfares. that
the millions may have an opportunity
to see and cheer, and 1t is for these
professions that such great sums are
being paid for seats or windows.
In no other respect does the change
that has come over England with the
passing years appear than in this of the
prices paid for a view of the new
crowned King. The first of the Ed
wards was to be seen by subjects for
half farthing, the figure asked for
seat from which to view his corona
ton progress. This was doubled in the
day of Edward II, and had again risen
to half a penny at the accession of Ed
ward III. Prosperity doomed the mar
ket for the march of Richard II, to see
whom the good folk of the time paid d
whole penny. From that the price has
gone steadily up. two pence for the
procession Of Henry ~, four pence for
that of Henry VIII. six pence for that
of Good Queen Bess. and even a shilling
for James l. To see the present King
seats are selling freely for from s. to
$40, while windows seating four or five