praying for an Idolater and persecuting king to restore that very hand he then stretched out against him to apprehend and imprison him for prophecying against his idolatrous Altar by Gods special command How much more then would he have prayed for king David Solomon and other pious Kings to restore and preserve their lives 5ly When Athaliah had slain all the seed royal of the house of David but Joash an infant of an year old and usurped the Crown above six years Jehoiada the High Priest called the Rulers of the hundreds and Captains of the guard and all the chief fathers of Israel and the Levites and brought them into the House of the Lord and made a Covenant with them and took an Oath of them and shewed them Joash the kings son whom he hid being but 7. years old and said unto them Behold the kings son shall reign as the Lord hath said of the sons of David Then disposing the Captains Guards and Levites in the Temple with their weapons in their hands round about Joash they thereupon brought out the Kings Son and put upon him the Crown and gave him the Testimony and made him King and Jehoiadah and his sons anointed him and they clapt their hands and said God save the King And all the people of the Land rejoyced and sounded with Trumpets also the Singers with Instruments of Musick and such as taught to sing praise praysing the King And Jehoiada took the Captains of hundreds and the Nobles and the Governours of the people and all the people of the land and brought down the king from the House of the Lord and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom And all the people of the Land rejoyced and the City was quiet after they had slain Athaliah with the sword Here we have the self-same acclamation and prayer Let the King live or God save the King made by Jehoiada the High-Priest and his Sons the Captains of the Army the Princes Officers Priests with all the City and people present at the coronation of Joash right heir to the Crown by descent from the House of King David as was used at the Inaugurations of Saul and Solomon and no doubt was practised at the coronations of all other Kings of Judah and Israel though not particularly recorded in the Sacred History of their lives and reigns being a thing so vulgarly known for brevity sake it being the received practice custom of all other Nations at the Coronations of their Kings and Emperors till this very day as is evident by Dan. 2. 4. c. 3. 9. c. 6. 6. 21. as well as among the Israelites 6. I shall evidence the truth of the Israelites practice in praying for their kings whiles they lived by what the Scripture records touching their lamentation and publike mourning for their pious and good kings when they died It is recorded 2 Chron. 35. 24 25. that when good King Josiah died of his wounds received in battel and was buried all Iudah and Jerusalem mourned for him and all the singing men and singing women spake of Josiah in their Lamentations unto this day and made them an Ordinance in Israel and behold they are written in the Lamentations writ upon this occasion amongst others as is evident by Lam. 4. 20. c. 5. 16. The breath of our nostrils the anointed of the Lord was taken in their pits of whom we said Vnder his shadow we shall live among the Heathen The Crown of our head is fallen Wo unto us that we have sinned If all Judah and Jerusalem the singing men and singing women and Jeremiah the Prophet thus mourned for and lamented the death of Josiah and their other good Kings at and after their funerals no doubt they constantly prayed for their health long life and prosperous reigns whiles they were living as the premises evidence though not particularly recorded in the Abridgement of their reigns in the Books of Kings and Chronicles 7. Ezra c. 9. 7. in his prayer Nehemiah c. 9. 32 34. in his prayer Jeremiah Lam. 2. 9. and Daniel c. 9. 6 8. in his prayer confessed lamented the sins of their Kings and Princes and bewailed their deliverance into the hands of the Kings of the Lands to the Sword to Captivity to a spoyl and Confusion of face and prayed not to let all the trouble that had come upon them seem little c. Therefore no doubt they constantly prayed for their kings during their reigns and prosperity who thus lamented their captivity and misery 8. The Prophet Ezekiels injunction by God c. 19. 10 c. to take up a Lamentation for the Princes of Israel because they were cut off and caried away captives the strong rod of the royal progeny broken and withered so as Israel had no strong rod left to be a Scepter to rule concluding thus this is a Lamentation and shall be for a Lamentation with that of the Prophet Hosea c. 10. 3. In that day Israel shall say by way of Lamentation and grief we have no King because we feared not the Lord what then should a King do to us Are convincing Arguments that these Prophets and all fearing God did constantly pray for the life and continuance of their kings and kingly Government and Posterity whiles they enjoyed them as their principal earthly blessing and security since they thus sadly lamented the want and Captivity of their kings and Princes of the royal bloud to rule over them as their greatest misery and infelicity both for the present and future till restored to the throne again to rule over them 9. The Israelites whiles they were bondmen and Captives under the Babylonians Assyrians Persians having no kings nor Princes of Davids royal posterity to rule over thē did make prayers offer Sacrifices to God for the lives prosperity of these Pagan kings their sons too therefore no doubt they did it much more out of loyalty and duty for their own hereditary kings and their sons whiles they reigned over them For their practice in relation to those forein kings under whom they were Captives though Pagans Idolaters and Enemies to their Nation We have one memorable Precept and at least three Presidents in Scripture The 1. is that of Jer. 29. 1 to 9. where Jeremiah the Prophet by Gods direction and command writ thus in his letter sent from Jerusalem to the Elders Priests Prophets and all the people of Israel when Nebuchodonosor had caried them away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel uuto all who are caried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon Build ye houses plant vineyards take ye Wives and beget Sons and Daughters c. And seek ye the peace of the City whither I have caused you to be carried away captive and pray unto the Lord for it to which some Antients adde and pray for the life of Nebuchodonosor and his sons virtually included in the former clause at least for
William Herbert must hold a pall over him And first the said Arch-bishop shall annoint the King kneeling in the palmes of his hands saying these words Vnguantur manus c. With this Collect Respice omnipotens Deus After he shall annoint him in the breast in the middest of his back on his two boughts of his Arms and on his head making a Crosse And after making another Crosse on his head with holy Cream saying as he annointeth the places aforesaid Vngatur Caput ungantur Scapulae c. During which time of unction the Quier shall continually sing ungerunt Regem and the psalm Domine in virtute tua laetabitur Rex And it is to be remembred that the Bishop or Dean of Westminster after the Kings enunction shall dry all the places of his body where he was anointed with Cotten or some Linnen cloth which is to be burnt And forthwith the places opened for the same are to be clozed by the Lord Great Chamberlain And on the Kings hands shall be put by the said Archbishop of Canterbury a pair of Linnen gloves which the Lord Great Chamberlain shall before see prepared This done the King shall rise and the Archbishop of Canterbury shall put upon the King a Tabert of Tarteron white shaped in manner of a Dalmatick And he shall put upon the Kings head a Coiff the same to be brought by the Great Chamberlain Then the King shall take the Sword he was girt withall and offer it himself to God laying it on the Altar in token that his strength and power should first come from God And the same Sword he shall take again from the Altar and Deliver to some great Earl to be redeemed of the Bishop or Dean of Westminster for one hundred shillings Which Sword shall be borne naked afterwards before the King Then the King being set in his Chair before the Altar shall be crowned with King Edwards Crown and there shall be brought by the Bishop or Dean of Westminster the Regal Sandals and Spurs to be presently put on by the Lord Great Chamberlain and the Spurs again immediately taken off that they do not incumber him Then the Archbishop with all the Peers and Nobles shall convey the King sustained as before again into the Pulpit setting him in his Siege Royal and then shall the Archbishop begin Te Deum laudamus c. which done the Archbishop shall say unto the King Sta et retine amodo locum And being the King thus set all the Peers of the Realm and Bishops holding up their hands shall make unto him Homage as followeth First the Lord Protector alone Then the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord Chancellour So two and two as they be placed I. N. become your Liege man of lieff and limme and of earthly worship and faith and troth I shall bear unto you against all manner of Folks as I am bound by any allegiance and by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm So help us God and All-Hallows And then every one shall kisse the Kings left cheek which done all there holding up their hands together in token of their fidelitie shall with one voice on their knees say We offer to sustain and defend you and your Crown with our Lives Lands and Goods against all the world And with one voice to cry God save King Edward which the people shall cry accordingly Then shall the King be led to his Traverse to hear the high Masse and so depart home Crowned in order as he set forth accordinglie T. Cantuar. T. Wriothesly Cancellar W. Saint-John John Russel J. Lisle Cuthb Duresme Anth. Brown Will. Paget Anthony Denny William Herbert The Order of bringing the King and Queen into the Church with other Ceremonies touching their Coronation 2. BIshops to support the King 2. Bishops to support the Queen 2. Bishops to sing the Lerany 1. Bishop to carry the Paten 1. Bishop to bear the Regal The Dean of Westminster to be in the whole Action 2. Bishops to attend the Archbishop 1. Bishop to Preach 1. To demand the fourth Question of the King 1. Nobleman to carry the Spurs 3. Special Noblemen to carry the 3. Swords 2 To carry the 2. Scepters 1. To carry the Rod with the Dove before the King 1. Nobleman to carry the Crown 1. Nobleman to carry the Scepter 1. To carry the Ivory-rod before the Queen The Marshal of England is to go before the Archbishop to the 4. sides of the Stage when he demandeth the Question of the people touching their willingnesse c. The Archbishop undoeth the Loops of the Kings Apparel and shirt and openeth the Places to be anointed The anointing ended The Dean of Westminster closeth the Loops again which were opened Then a shallow quoiff is put on his head because of the anointing oyl Then the Collobium or Dalmatica is put on him by the Dean of Westminster And after a Prayer ended The said Dean arrayeth the King First with the Supertunica or close Pall. Then with the Tynsin hose Then with the Sandals Then are the Spurs put on by a Nobleman appointed by his Majestie After the Archbishop hath delivered the Sword unto the King the same Sword is girded about him by a Peer thereto appointed by his Majestie Then the Armil is put about his neck and tied to the boughts of his Arms by the Dean of Westminster So is likewise the Mantel or open Pall put on him by the said Dean Then the King putteth on the Linnen gloves Then the King offereth up his Sword wherewith he was girt before Then a Peer redeemeth the Sword taketh it again from the Altar draweth it out and carrieth it before the King so drawen from that time during the whole solemnitie The Coronation Inthoronization and other Ceremonies ended and Homage done by the Archbishop Bishops and Noblemen the King delivereth the Scepter and the Rod with the Dove hiis qui stirpi Regali sunt proximiores who ease the King of them and carry them before him Touching the Solemnity for the Queen THe Solemnitie of the Kings Inthoronization and Coronation being performed the Archbishop leaveth the King in his Throne and goeth again down to the Altar Then the Queen who hath all this while reposed her self in her Chair beneath ariseth and commeth to the steps of the Altar and kneeleth down c. And when the Queen ariseth from her prayer the chiefest Lady present taketh off her Coronet and after that done openeth her breast for the Anointing c. Then the Queen kneeleth down again and the Archbishop anointeth her c. Then the chiefest Lady attendant clozeth the Queens Robe at her breast and after putteth on her head a Linnen quoiff c. Then the Archbishop putteth on her Ring and then Crowneth her And after that putteth the Scepter into her Right hand and the Ivory Rod into her left hand The Communion ended and other Ceremonies performed the King and Queen with all
say aloud Sursum Corda Resp Habemus ad Dominum Lift up your Hearts c. Answ We lift them up unto the Lord. Verè dignum justum est aequum salutare os tibi semper ubique gratias agere domine sancte pater omnipotens eterne Deus electorum fortitudo humilium celsitudo qui in primordio per effusionem diluvii Crimina mundi castigare voluisti per Columbam ramum olivae portantem pacem terris redditam demonstrasti Iterumque Aaron famulum tuum per unctionem olei sacerdotem sanxisti posteà per hujus unguenti infusionem ad Regendum populum Israeliticum sacerdotes ac Reges prophetas praefecisti vultumque Ecclesiae in oleo exhilerandum per Prophaeticam famuli tui vocem Davidi esse praedixisti Ita quaesumus omnipotens Pater ut per hujus creaturae pinguedinem hunc servum tuum Jacobum sanctificare tua benedictione digneris eumque in similitudine Columbae pacâ—m simplicitatis populo sibi subdito praestare exemplo Aaronis in Dei servicio diligenter imitari regnique fastigia in Consiliis scientiae aequitate judicii semper assequi vultumque hilaritatis per hunc olei unctionem tuamque benedictionem te adjuvante Toti Plebi paratum habere facias per Christum Dominum nostrum c. It is very meet right and our bounden duty that we should at all times and in all places give thanks unto thee O Lord holy Father Almighty and everlasting God the strength of thy Chosen and the exalter of the Humble which in the beginning by the pouring out of the Flood didst chasten the sins of the world and by a Dove conveying an Olive branch didst give a token of reconcilement unto the earth and again didst consecrate thy servant Aaron a Priest by the anoynting of Oyl and afterward by the effusion of this Oyl didst make Priests and Kings and Prophets to govern thy people Israel and by the voice of the Prophet David didst foretell that the Countenance of thy Church should be made cheerfull with Oyl We beseech thee almighty Father that thou wilt vouchsafe to blesse and sanctifie this thy Servant James that he may minister Peace unto his people and imitate Aaron in the service of God That he may attain the perfection of Government in Counsel and Judgement and a countenance alwaies cheerful and amiable to the whole people through Christ our Lord. This done the King ariseth from his Devotion and reposeth him a while in his chair of Estate After a while he goeth to the Altar and there disrobeth himself of his uppper garments his under apparel being made open with loops only closed at the places which are to be anoynted The Archbishop undoeth the loops and openeth the places which he is to anoynt The Archbishop first anoynteth his hands saying Unguantur manus c. istae de oleo sanctificato unde uncti fuerunt Reges prophetae Et sicut Samuel David in regem ut sis benedictus constitutus Rex in regno isto super populum istum quem Dominus Deus tuus dedit ribi ad regendum gubernandum Quod ipse prestare dignetur qui cum Patre Spiritu sancto c. Let these hands be anoynted as Kings and Prophets have been anoynted and as Samuel did anoynt David to be King that thou maist be blessed and established a King in this Kingdome over this people whom the Lord thy God hath given thee to rule and govern which he vouchsafe to grant who with the Father and the holy Ghost c. The mean while the Quire singeth the Anthem Sadoc Sacerdos Sadock the Priest and Nathan the Prophet anoynted Solomon King and all the people rejoyced and said God save the King for ever The Archbishop saith this prayer Prospice omnipotens Deus sereuibus obtutibus hunc gloriosum Regem sicut benedixisti Abraham Isaack Jacob sic illum largis benedictionibus spiritualis gratiae cum omni plenitudine tua potontia irrigare atque perfundere dignare Tribue ei de rore coeli de pingue dine terrae habundantiam frumenti vini olei omnium frugum opulentiam ex largitate divini muneris long a per tempora ut illo regnante sit sanitas corporum in paâ—ria pax inviolata sit in regno dignitas gloriosa regalis Pallatii maximo splendore Regiae potestatis oculis omnium fulgeat luce Clarissima choruscare atque splende scere qui splendidissima fulgura maximo profusa lumine videatur Tribue ei Omnipotens Deus ut sit fortissimus protector patriae Consolator ecclesiarum ac Coeâ—obiorum sanctorum maxima cum pietate regalis munifieentiae atque ut sit fortissimus regum triumphator hâ—stium ad opprimendas rebelles paganas nationes Sitque suis inimiciis satis terribilis pro maxima fortitudine regalis potentiae Optimatibus quoque atque prâ—ecelsis praceribus ac fidelibus sui regni Munifious amabilis pius Ut ab omnibus timeatur atque deligatur Reges quoque de lumbis ejus per sueccssiones temporum futurorum egrediantur regnum hoc regere totum post glorio sa tempora atque faelicia praesentis vitae gaudia sempiterna in perpetua beatitudine habere mereatur Per Christum c. Look down Almighty God with thy favourable countenance upon this glorious King and as thou didist blesse Abraham Isaac and Jacob so vouchsafe we beseech thee by thy power to water him plentifully with the blessings of thy grace Give unto him of the dew of Heaven and of the fatnesse of the Earth abundance of Corn and Wine and Oyl and plenty of all fruits of thy goodnesse long to continue that in his time here may be health in our Countrey and Peace in our Kingdome and that the glorious dignity of his Royal Court may brightly shine as a most clear lightning far and wide in the eyes of all men Grant Almighty God that he may be a most mighty protector of his Countrey a bountifull comforter of Churches and holy Societies the most valiant of Kings that he may triumph over his enemies and subdue Rebels and Infidels that he may be loving and amiable to the Lords and Nobles and all the faithfull Subjects of his Kingdome that he may be feared and loved of all men that his Children may be Kings to rule this Kingdome by succession of all ages and that after the glorious and happy dayes of this present life he may obtain everlasting joy and happinesse through Christ our Lord. The prayer ended the Archbishop proceedeth with his anoynting 1. Of the Breast 2. Between the Shoulders 3. Of both the Shoulders 4. Of the boughes of both his armes 5. Of his head in the Crown The anoynting being done the Abbot of Westminster closeth the loops again which were opened The Archbishop saith these prayers Deus Dei filius Deus Dei filius Jesu Christe dominus noster qui
Rights and Priviledges according to Law and Justice Then the King rising from his Chair is led to the Altar where in sight of all the people laying his hands upon the Bible he takes his Oath and sayes All the things which before I have promised I shall observe and keep So God me help and by the Contents of this Book After the Oath the King returns to his Chair of State and then is sung the Hymn Veni Creator c. The Hymn finished the King kneeleth at his Foldstool and the Archbishop sayes this prayer We beseech thee O Lord holy Father almighty and everlasting God for this thy Servant King Charles that as at the first thou broughtest him into the world by thy Divine Providence and in the flower of his youth hast preserved him untill this present time So thou wilt evermore enrich him with the gift of Piety fill him with the grace of Truth and daily increase in him all goodnesse that he may happily enjoy the seat of supreme Government by the gift of thy supernal grace And being defended from all his Enemies by the Wall of thy mercy may prosperously govern the people committed to his Charge After the Prayer the Letany is sung and at the close thereof this is to be added That it may please thee to keep and strengthen in the true Worshiping of thee in Righteousnesse and Holiness of life this thy servant Charles our King and Governor and so to the end Then is said this prayer by one of the Bishops that sings the Letany O Almighty and everlasting God Creator of all things Ruler of Angels King of Kings and Lord of Lords who madest thy Servant Abraham triumph over his Enemies didst give many victories to Moses and Joshuah the Governors of the people didst raise and exalt David thy Servant to be a King over them didst enrich Solomon his Son with the gift of Wisdome and Understanding and blessedst him with peace and great prosperity Give ear we beseech thee unto our humble Prayers and multiply thy blessings upon this thy Servant who is now to be consecrated our King that He being strengthned with the faith of Abraham endued with the mildness of Moses armed with the fortitude of Joshuah exalted with the humility of David and beautified with the Wisdom of Solomon may please thee in all things and ever walk uprightly in thy wayes Defend him by thy mighty arm compass him with thy protection and give him to overcome all his and thine Enemies Honour him before all the Kings of the Earth Let him rule over Countries and let Nations adore him Establish his Throne with Judgement and Equity let Justice flourish in his dayes and grant that He underpropped by the due obedience and hearty love of his People may sit on the Throne of his Forefathers for many years and after this life may reign with thee in thine everlasting kingdome through Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour Amen The Letany thus ended the Archbishop beginneth to say aloud Lift up your Hearts and give thanks unto the Lord. Answer By the Bishops that sings the Letany We lift them up unto the Lord and to give thanks unto him it is meet and right Then the Archbishop says It is very meet and right and our bounden duty so to do and at all times and in all Places to give thanks to thee O Lord holy Father almighty and everlasting God the strength of thy Chosen and the exalter of the humble who in the beginning by sending the floud of Waters didest punish the sins of the World and by a Dove bringing an Olive branch in her mouth didst give a token of Reconcilement to the Earth Who afterwards didst consecrate thy Servant Aaron a Priest by the anointing of Oyl as also by the pouring out of the same didst make Kings Priests and Prophets to govern thy People Israel And by the voice of the Prophet David didst foretel that the Countenance of thy Church should be made joyful with Oyl We beseech thee to bless and sanctifie this thy Servant King Charles that he may minister Peace unto this People that he may attain to the perfection of Government in Counsel and Judgment and that his Countenance may be alwayes cheerfull and amiable to all his People through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen This Prayer said the King rises from his devotion and reposeth himself awhile in the Chair of State in which he is to be Crown'd Afterwards he goeth to the Altar and standeth with his Back close unto it disrobes himself of his upper Garment his under Coat having the loops opened in the Places where he is to be anointed Then he comes to the Pulpit side and sitting in a Chair a Canopy is held over his Head all the time of his Anointing The Archbishop first anoints his Hands in the Palms saying In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost which wordes he repeats in all the several Anointings let these hands be anointed with Oyl as Kings and Prophets have been anointed And as Samuel did anoint David to be King that thou mayest be blessed and established a King in this Kingdome over the People whom the Lord thy God hath given thee to rule and govern Which he vouchsafe to grant who with the Father and the Holy Ghost is one and reigns in glory everlasting Amen In this time the Singers do sing the Anthem Sadocke the Priest and Nathan the Prophet anointed Solomon King and all the People rejoyced and said God save the King for ever Then the Archbishop says this Prayer Look down Almighty God upon this thy Servant our dread Soveraign King Charles with thy favourable countenance and as thou didst bless Abraham Isaac and Jacob so vouchsafe we beseech thee to water him plentifully with the Blessing of thy Grace give unto him of the dew of Heaven and of the fatness of the Earth abundance of Corn Wine and Oyl with all plenty of fruites and other good things Grant him long to continue and that in his time there may be health and peace in this Kingdome Grant O Almighty God that he may be a mighty Protector of this Country a bountiful Comforter of Churches and holy Societies the most valiant of Kings terrible to Rebels and Infidels amiable to his Nobles and to all his faithful Subjects Make his Royal Court to shine in Princely dignity as a most cleer Lightning far and wide in the Eyes of all men Finally let him be blessed with happy Children that may reign as Kings after him and rule this Kingdom by Succession of all Ages and after the glorious and happy dayes of present life give him of thy mercy an everlasting Kingdome with thee in the Heavens through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Prayer ended the Archbishop proceeds in the Anointing 1. His Breast 2. Betwixt the Shoulders 3. Both the Points of the Shoulders 5. Boughs of his Arms. 5. The Crown of his
Majesties head The Anointing done the Dean of the Chappel closeth the loops again which were opened Then the Archbishop reads this Benediction God the Son of God Christ Jesus our Lord who was anointed of his Father with Oyl of gladness above his fellows pour down upon thy Head the Blessing of the Holy Ghost and make it enter into the inward parts of thy Heart so that thou mayest reign with him in the Heavens eternally Amen This pronounced a shallow Quoife is put upon the Kings head because of the Anointing Then the King goeth to the Altar and the Robe is put upon him at which the Archbishop says this Prayer O God the King of Kings and Lord of Lords by whom Kings do reign and Law-givers make good Laws vouchsafe in thy favour to bless this thy Servant Charles in all his Government that living godly and leading his People by the way of righteousness after a glorious course in this life he may attain that joy which hath no end through our Lord. Amen Then the Sword is brought to the Archbishop who laying it on the Altar prayes in this manner Hear our prayers we beseech thee O Lords and vouchsafe by thy right hand of Majesty to bless and sanctifie this Sword wherewith thy Servant Charles desires to be girt by the same he may defend Churches Widdows Orphans and all the People of God against the savage cruelty of Pagans and Infidels and that it may be a terrour and fear to all those that lie in wait to do mischief through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Then the Archbishop takes up the Sword and puts it in the Kings hand saying Receive this Kingly Sword for the defence of the faith of Christ and protection of his Holy Church and remember him of whom the psalmist did prophecy saying Gird thy self with thy Sword upon thy Thigh O thou most mighty and with thy sword execute thou Equity and justice Persue all Hereticks and Infidels defend Widdows and Orphans restore the things that are gone to decay maintain and confirm the things that are restored and in good order destroy the growth of iniquity and take punishment of all injustice that you may be glorious in the triumph of vertue and reign with him whose Image you bear for ever and ever Amen The Sword is girt to the Kings side by one of the Peers thereto oppointed Then the King returns to the Chair wherein he was anointed and hath the Spurs put on by the Lord Marshal After which the Archbishop taking the Crown in his hand sayes this prayer O God the Crown of all the faithful who dost Crown their Heads with pretious Stone that trust in thee bless and sanctifie this Crown that as the same is adorned with many precious Stones so this thy Servant that weares the same may be replenished of thy Grace with the manifold gifts of all precious Virtues through Christ our Lord. Amen Then the Archbishop crowneth the King saying God Crown thee with a Crown of glory and righteousness with the Honour and vertue of fortitude that by a right faith and manifold fruits of good works you may obtein the Crown of an everlasting kingdome by the gift of him whose kingdome endureth for ever Amen Then the King goes to the Stage and sits in the Chair of State which is placed by the Throne Then the Lyon by direction of the Marshal calls the Nobles who set their hands to the Crown and say every man these words So God not help me as I shall support thee And when they have done they all hold up their hands and swear to be loyal and true Subjects The Marshal having in his hand the obligatory Oath of the People goeth to the four Corners of the Stage and reads the same to the Lyon who cries it down to the people and they all hold up their hands and say Amen The Oath of the People is this We swear and by the holding up of our hauds do promise all subjection and loyalty to King Charles our dread Soveraign and as we wish God to be merciful unto us shall be to his Majesty true and faithful and be ever ready to bestow our Lives Lands and what else God hath given us for the defence of his sacred Person and Crown When the King is Crowned the Earles and Viscounts put on their Crownes and the Lyon his The other Barons and Lords continue bare and uncovered Then is this Anthem sung Be strong and of good courage and observe the Commandements of the Lord to walk in his wayes and keep his Ceremonies Precepts Testimonies and Judgements And almighty God strengthen and prosper thee wheresoever thou goest The Lord is my ruler therefore I shall want nothing The King shall rejoyce in thy strength oh Lord exceeding glad shall he be of thy Salvation For thou hast granted him his hearts desire and hast not denyed him the request of his lips for thou hast prevented him with blessings of goodness and hast set a Crown of pure Gold upon his Head After this the King goes down again looses his Sword wherewith he was girt and offers it laying the same upon the Altar which one of the Chief Nobles redeems with an Offering and then draws it forth and carries the same naked before the King Then the Archbishop takes the Scepter and delivers it in the Kings right hand with these words Receive the Scepter the sign of royal power the Rod of the kingdome the Rod of vertue that thou mayest govern thy self aright defend the holy Church and all the Christian people committed by God to thy charge punishing the wicked and protecting the just And then he saith this Prayer O Lord the fountain of all good things and the Author of all good proceedings grant we beseech thee to this thy Servant that he may rightly use the Dignity which he hath by Inheritance vouchsafe to confirm the Honour which thou hast given him before all Kings and enrich him with all Benedictions Establish his Throne visit him with increase of Children let Justice spring up in his dayes and his Soul be filled with joy and gladness till he be translated to thine everlasting kingdome Amen After this the Archbishop blesseth the King saying The Lord bless thee and keep thee and as he hath made thee King over his people so he still may prosper thee in this world and in the World to come make Thee partaker of his eternal felicity Amen The King then kisseth the Archbishop and Bishops assistant After that the King ascendeth the Stage attended by the Nobles and the Singers sing Te Deum laudamus c. Which ended the Archbishop enthrones the King saying Stand and hold fast from henceforth the place whereof you are the righteous and lawful Heir by a long and lineal succession of your Forefathers which is now delivered unto you by the authority of Almighty God and by the hands of us the Bishops and Servants of God And
miracles wrought in them And they have daily upbraided your sacred Majesty your followers yea pierced your souls during your Exile among them with this soul-piercing Quaere Where is now the God of the Protestants He can neither preserve nor restore You to your Crowns and Kingdoms Unless you renounce your Protestant God Church Heresie embrace our Roman Catholike God Church Religion there is no hope nor possibility of your restitution and that only by the Arms of your Catholike Allyes and Subjects But blessed and for ever magnified be the glorious Name of our great God who hath now vindicated his own Glorie and Omnipotencie against their reproaches wrought so many Miracles in your Maties restitution to justifie both the Truth of the Protestant Religion Churches your Subjects that all their spurious Miracles and Impostures wherewith they abuse their over-credulous Proselytes and fraught their Legends even to nauseousnesse are no more to be compared with them than a Glo-worm to the Noon-day Sun And their God and rock is not as our God and rock our Enemies themselves being now Judges Verily your Majesty with all your Protestant Subjects after such a stupendious glorious deliverance from their late usurping Pharaohs worse than Aegyptian Tax-masters Burdens and servitude have just cause to sing aloud to the God of their Salvation this triumphant song of Moses and the Children of Israel and King David after them Who is like unto thee O Lord amongst the Gods who is like unto thee glorious in holynesse fearfull in prayses doing wonders Thou stretchest out thy right hand the earth swallowed them Thou in thy mercy hast led forth thy people which thou hast redeemed Sing ye unto the Lord for he hath triumphed gloriously The King shall joy in thy strength O Lord and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoyce for thou hast now given him his hearts desire thou hast not with-holden the request of his lips For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodnesse thou settest a Crown of pure gold on his head His glory is great in thy salvation Honor and Majesty hast thou laid upon him Thou hast made him most Blessed for ever thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy Countenance For the King trusteth in the Lord and through the mercy of the most High he shall not miscarry Blessed be the Lord God of England from everlasting to everlasting for this unexpressible mercy and let all the people say Amen Praise ye the Lord. Yea they all now joyntly and severally apply to your Majestie the blessing and words of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon after she beheld his transcendent Wisdom Virtues and Magnificence which far exceeded the report thereof as your Majesties royal wisdom and graces of all kinds much transcend their fame Blessed be the Lord thy God who delighted in thee to set thee upon his Throne to be King for the Lord thy God Because the Lord thy God loved Israel England Scotland and Ireland TO ESTABLISH THEM FOR EVER THEREFORE MADE HE THEE KING OVER THEM TO DO JUSTICE AND JUDGEMENT yea to restore them to their pristine Liberty Peace Plenty Traffick Renown Prosperity and make them the happiest of all Subjects in the world In the contemplation of which inchoated common Felicity I humbly presume to dedicate to your Majesty this now compleated Treatise of The Signal Loyalty and Devotion of Gods true Saints and pious Christians in all ages and likewise of Pagans to their KINGS both before and under the Law and Gospel more especially within this your first Christian Realm of Britain wherein I have most expatiated expressed both by their publike and private Prayers Supplications and Intercessions unto God for their long life health safety victory prosperity temporal spiritual and eternal felicity and all sorts of blessings both on their Royal Persons Queens Progenies Families Government Kingdoms Armies Counsâ—ls by their Thanksgivings to God for their advancement to their Royal Thrones Victories Successes Deliverances Piety Justice and Gratious reigns over them by their loyal Acclamations Salutations Addresses Panegyricks Epistles to them and their dutiful Subjection and Obedience under them which I have evidenc'd by presidents and Testimonies in all ages never formerly collected into one Manual To which I have super-added the antient and modern Forms of the Coronations of Christian Emperors Kings and Queens and of some Pagans with the Ceremonies Solemnities Prayers Collects and Benedictions used at them especially those relating to England and Scotland not hitherto published as a President in and Prologue to your Majesties much desired and expected Coronation The first Part of this Treatise I lately Printed for Your Majesties service in January last to inthrone You in the Hearts cordial Prayers and Supplications of all Your loyal Subjects and to prepare the way for Your Majestyes speedy Restauration to Your Hereditary Crowns and Kingdoms which blessed be God you now actually enjoy to their unspeakable comfort of the accomplishment whereof without Armes or Blood I had such full assurance then and since in my own apprehensions from the Observation of Gods admirable Providences of Your Majesties Opposites intollerable Extravagances and Infatuations of late Your Subjects dutiful Inclinations tending thereunto through the loyal Endeavour of some Faithfull Friends to your Majestie and your People that I committed the Second Part of this Treatise and all that concerns Your Coronation to the Presse in the beginning of April last before any visible appearances thereof to the eyes or thoughts of others And I repute it an extraordinary Blessing and Honour from God and your Majesty that any of my Paper Arms and Publications in your Majesties and others apprehensions have been instrumental to promote this your happy Unbloody most joyfull Restitution to your Throne and Kingship maugre all Ire Ingagements Oaths of Abjurations to debar your Majestie and all your Royal line for ever from them I humbly beseech your Royal Majestie graciously to accept this Unpolish'd work compiled in the midst of many publike distracting Imployments bring your Highnesses peculiar by all Rights and Circumstances as a Publick Testimony of my Loyalty to your Majestie and a lasting Monument of my Thankfullnesse to Almighty God for hearing my many years constant Prayers and blessing my impotent Paper Artillery and endeavors for your Majesties long-desired and now happily accomplished Investitute not only in your Royal Throne but like a 〈◊〉 in the Hearts Consciences publike private Devotions and Supplications of all your People Whom this Treatise seconded with my Healths Sicknesse dedicated to your Royal Father many years past and your Majesties most Pious fresh Proclamation will instruct and excite most devoutly to pray for your Majesties Health and Happiness in their Churches Chapels Families Closets rather than heathenishly to prophane abuse your Sacred Name in drinking your Majesties Health to the Hazard of their own and their fools to boot through Drunkennesse and Intemperance in Taverns
the Throne and Government over them as is evident by the 1 Kings 1. 27. 43. compared with the 2 Sam. 10. 16. and other subsequent texts 5ly I shall adde to the premises this passage in Huram king of Tyre his letter to Solomon 2 Chron. 2. 12. Huram said moreover Blessed be the Lord God of Israel that hath made heaven and earth who hath given to David a wise Son endued with prudence and understanding that might build an house for the Lord and an house for his kingdom And these words of the Queen of Sheba to Solomon 2 Chron. 9. 7 8. 1 Kings 10. 7 8. Happy are thy men and happy are these thy servants which stand continually before thee and hear thy wisdom Blessed be the Lord thy God which delighted in thée to set thée on his throne to be King for the Lord thy God because thy God loved Israel to establish them for ever therefore made hee thee King over them to do judgement and justice Now if King Huram and the Queen of Sheba meer foreiners Princes not subjects thus blessed God for Solomons kingdom justice reign and advancement to his fathers throne for the establishment and welfare of his subjects then much more were the Israelites themselves his own subjects and servants obliged to blesse him and blesse God for his reign wisdom and good government over them which no doubt they did constantly perform in their publike and private Devotions and all their addresses to him as also to their other Kings succeeding him though not particularly recorded in the books of Kings and Chronicles which are but short Epitomes of his and their reigns 3ly When King Solomon had finished the Temple he assembled all the Elders heads of the Tribes and chief of the fathers of the children of Israel with the Priests and Levites to Jerusalem to bring up the Ark and dedicate the Temple where Solomon having first blessed all the Congregation he with the whole Congregation of Israel standing before and joyning with him Blessed the Lord God of Israel who had with his hands fulfilled that which he spake with his mouth to his father David That his Son which should come out of his loyns should build an House to the name of the Lord God of Israel The Lord therefore hath performed his word that he hath spoken for I am risen up in the room of David my Father and am set on the Throne of Israel as the Lord promised and have built the House for the Lord God of Israel c. After which he stood before the Altar of the Lord upon a brazen scaffold and kneeled upon his knees before all the Congregation of Israel and spred forth his hands towards heaven and said O Lord God of Israel there is none like thee in the heaven nor in the earth which keepest Covenant and shewest mercy unto thy servants that walk before thee with all their hearts Thou which hast kept with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him and spakest with thy mouth and hast fulfilled it with thy hand as it is this day Now therefore O Lord God of Israel kéep with thy servant David my Father that which thou hast promised him saying There shall not fail thée a Man in my sight to sit upon the Throne of Israel yet so that thy children take heed to their way to walk in my Law as thou hast walked before me Now then O Lord God of Israel let thy word I pray thée be verified which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David c. O Lord God turn not away the face of thine anointed Remember the Mercies of David thy servant When Solomon had ended all his prayer and supplication to the Lord he arose from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven and he stood and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice saying Blessed be the Lord God that hath given rest unto his people Israel according to all that he hath promised there hath not failed one word of all his good promise which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant The Lord our God be with us as he was with our Fathers Let him not leave us nor forsake us that he may incline our hearts unto him to walk in all his wayes and to keep his Commandements and his Statutes and his Judgements which he commanded our Fathers And let these my words wherewith I have made supplication before the Lord be nigh unto the Lord day night that he may maintain the cause of his servant the cause of his people Israel the thing of a day in his day or at all times as the matter shall require that all the People of the Earth may know that the Lord is God and there is none else c. After all the Dedications sacrifices offerings and feasts were fully ended Solomon sent the people away and they blessed the King and went unto their tents Joyfull and glad of heart for all the goodnesse that the Lord had shewed unto David his servant to Solomon and to Israel his people In these remarkable passages we have King Solomon blessing all his Princes Elders people and they blessing him again and both of them joyning together in blessings thanksgivings and prayers to God for his blessings mercies and fulfilling of Promises Covenants to each other and their ancestors especially to King David and his royal posterity in relation to their spiritual and temporal welfare and exceedingly rejoycing for Gods goodness mutually bestowed on each other but more especially for Gods promise made and fulfilled to David Solomon and their royal posterity That they should not want a man of their seed to sit upon the throne of Israel for ever for the real performance whereof they all most earnestly prayed as well as for David and Solomon as the only means under God of their perpetual unity safety felicity Now these Prayers Blessings and Thanksgivings of Solomon thus made at the dedication of the Temple registred by the Dictate of Gods Spirit inserted into the History and Canon of the Scriptures as patterns of imitation for the Israelites and all Gods people in succeeding generations we cannot but conceive and acknowledge they were frequently recited and imitated at least by the godly Israelites upon all occasions both publikely and privatly 4ly When idolatrous King Jeroboam put forth his hand to lay hold on the Prophet and man of God who prophecied against his Altar at Bethel and God thereupon immediately dryed up his hand he stretched out so that he could not pull it in again to him Thereupon the King said to the man of God Intreat now the face of the Lord thy God and pray for me that my hand may be restored me again And the man of God besought the face of the Lord and the Kings hand was restored again and became as it was before Here we have a Prophet and man of God
placed under their Hands and Seal or by one of the two Universities under their Seal likewise and except he shall first subscribe to these three Articles following in such manner and sort as we have here appointed 1. That the Kings Majesty under GOD is the only supreme Governour of this Realm and of all other his Highnesse Dominions and Countries aswell in all Spiritual or Ecclesiastical things or causes as Temporal and that no forein Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate have or ought to have Jurisdiction Power Superiority Preeminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within his Majesties said Realms Dominions and Countreys c. And Can. 55. They prescribed this form of prayer to be used by them in their prayers before all their Ser-Lectures and Homilies And herein I require you most especially to pray for the Kings most excellent Majesty our Soveraign Lord CHARLES King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defendor of the Faith and Supreme Governour in these his Realms and all other his Dominions and Countries over all persons in all causes aswell Ecclesiastical as Temporal Ye shall also pray for the Kings most honourable Councel and for all the Nobility and Magistrates of this Realm that all and every of these in their several callings may serve truly and painfully to the glory of GOD and the edifying and well governing of his people remembring the account that they must make Also ye shall pray for the whole Commons of this Realm that they may live in true Faith and Fear of God in humble obedience to the King and brotherly charity one to another Which all Ministers and Preachers duly observed usually adding this clause thereunto That God out of his infinite mercy would grant so to blesse the Kings Majestie and his Royal issue with a perpetual Posterity that there might never want a Man of that Royal race to sway the Scepter of these Realms so long as the Sun and Moon should endure and till all Scepters and Kingdoms should be resigned at the last day into the hands of Jesus Christ the King of Kings The Lords Spiritual Temporal and Commons of the Realm of England assembled in Parliament in the first year of King James do thus expresse and declare their own and the whole Kingdoms unspeakeable joys acclamations and thanksgivings unto God and their own and their posterities Signal Loyalty affection and Devotion to King James his Heirs and Royal progeny for ever in the Statute of 1 Jacobi ch 1. intituled A most joyfull and just Recognition of the immediate lawfull and undoubted succession descent and Right of the Crown Great and manifold were the benefits most dread and most gracious Soveraign wherewith almighty God blessed this Kingdom and Nation by the happy union and conjunction of the two Nobles houses of York and Lancaster thereby preserving this noble Realm formerly torn and almost wasted with long and miserable dissention and bloodie Civil War But more inestimable and unspeakable blessings are thereby powred upon us because there is derived and grown from and out of that union of those two Princely families a more famous and greater union or rather a re-uniting of two Mighty Famous and antient Kingdoms yet antiently but one of England and Scotland under one Imperial Crown in your most Royal Person who is lineally rightfully and lawfully descended of the body of the most excellent Lady Margaret eldest daughter of the most renowned King Henry the 7th and the high and noble Princesse Queen Elizabeth his wife eldest daughter of King Edward the 4th The said Lady Margaret being eldest sister of King Henry the 8th father of the high and mightie Princesse of famous memorie Elizabeth late Queen of England In consideration whereof albeit we your Majesties loyal and faithfull Subjects of all Estates and Degrees with all possible publike Joy and Acclamation by open Proclamations within few houres after the decease of our late Soveraign Queen acknowledging thereby with one full voice of tongue and heart that your Majesty was our only lawfull and rightfull Leige Lord and Soveraign and by our unspeakable and general rejoycing and applause at your Majesties most happy inauguration and Coronation by the affectionate desire of infinite numbers of us of all degrees to see your Royal Person and by all possible outward means have indeavoured to make demonstration of our inward love zeal and devotion to your most excellent Majestie our undoubted rightfull Leige Soveraign Lord and King yet as we cannot do it too often or enough so can there be no means or way so fit both to sacrifice our unfeined and heartie thanks to Almighty God for blessing us with a Soveraign adorued with the rarest gifts of mind and body in such admirable peace and quietnesse and upon the knees of our hearts to agnize our most constant faith obedience and loyalty to your Majestie and your Royal Progenie as in this high Court of Parliament where all the whole body of the Realm and every particular Member thereof either in Person or Represeatation upon their own free Elections are by the Laws of this Realm deemed to be personally present To the present acknowledgment whereof to your Majestie we are the more deeply bounden and obliged as well in regard of the extraordinarie care and pains which with so great wisdom knowledge experience and dexteritie your Majestie since the Imperial Crown of this Realm descended to you have taken for the continuance and establishment of the blessed peace both of the Church of England in the true and sincere Religion and of the Common-wealth by due and speedy administration of justice as in respect of the gracious care and inward affection which it pleased you on the first day of this Parliament so lively to expresse by your own words so full of high wisdom learning and virtue and so repleate with Royal and thankfull acceptation of all our faithfull and constant endeavours which is and ever will be to our inestimable consolation and comfort We therefore your most humble and loyal Subjects the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled do from the bottom of our hearts yield to the divine Majestie all humble thanks and prayses not only for the said unspeakable and inestimable benefits and blessings above mentioned but also that he hath further enriched your Highnesse with a most Royal Progenie of Most rare and excellent gifts and forwardnesse and in his goodnesse is like to increase the happy number of them And in most humble and lowly manner do beseech your most Excellent Majestie that as a memorial to all posterities amongst the Records of your high Court of Parliament for ever to endure of our Loyalty Obedience and harty and humble Affection it may be published and declared in this high Court of Parliament and enacted by authority of the same That we being bounden thereunto both by the Laws of God and Man do recognize and acknowledge and thereby
Subjects do most justly acknowledge this great and infinite Blessing to have proceeded merely from God his Great Mercy and to his most holy Name do ascribe all the Honour Glory and Praise And to the end this unfeigned Thankfulnesse may never be forgotten but be had in perpetual Remembrance that all Ages to come may yield praise to his Divine Majesty for the same and have in memorie THIS IOYFULL DAY OF DELIVERANCE Be it therefore enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majestie the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authoritie of the same That all and singular Ministers in everie Cathedral and Parish-church or other usual place of Common prayer within this Realm of England and the Dominions of the same shall alwaies upon the fifth day of November say Morning Prayer and give unto Almighty God thanks for this most happy Deliverance And that all and everie person and persons inhabiting within this Realm of England and the Dominions of the same shall alwaies upon that day diligentlie and faithfullie resort to the Parish Church or Chapel accustomed or to some usual Church or Chapel where the said Morning prayer preaching or other service of God shall be used and then and there to abide orderlie and soberlie during the time of the said prayers preaching or other service of God there to be used and ministred And because all and everie person may be put in mind of this Dutie and be the better prepared to the said holy service Be it enacted by Authoritie aforesaid That every Minister shall give warning to his Parishioners publikelie in the Church at morning prayer the Sunday before everie such fifth day of November for the due observation of the said day And that after morning Prayer or preaching upon the said fifth day of November they read publicklie distinctlie and plainlie this present Act. Upon this occasion there was a special Book of Prayers and Thanksgivings compiled by the Bishops and Clergy prescribed by Authority to be annually read in all Churches and Chapels on the 5th of November wherein amongst others there were four remarkable prayers and thanksgivings relating to the King Queen Prince all the Royal posterity Nobility and Magistrates which I shall here insert I. ALmighty God who hast in all Ages shewed thy power and mercy in the miraculous and gracious deliverances of thy Church and in the protection of righteous and religious Kings and States professing thy Holy and Eternal Truth against the wicked conspiracies and malicious practises of all the enemies thereof We yield unto thee from the very ground of our hearts all possible praise and thanks for the wonderfull and mighty Deliverance of our gracious Soveraign King Iames the Queen the Prince and all the Royal branches with the Nobility Clergy and Commons of this Realm assembled together in Parliament by popish treachery appointed as sheep to the slaughter and that in most barbarous and savage manner no age yielding example of the like cruelty intended towards the Lords anointed and his people Can this thy goodness O Lord be forgotten worthy to be written in a pillar of Marble that we may ever remember to praise thee for the same as the fact is worthy a lasting monument that all posteritie may learn to detest it From this unnatural conspiracy not our merit but thy mercy not our foresight but thy providence hath delivered us not our love to thee but thy love to thy anointed servant and thy poor Church with whom thou hast promised to be present to the end of the world And therefore not unto us not unto us Lord but to thy Name be ascribed all honour and glorie in all Churches of the Saints throughout all generations for thou Lord hast discovered the snares of death thou hast broken them and we are delivered be thou still our mighty Protector and scatter our cruel Enemies which delight in blood infatuate their Counsel and root out their Babylonish and Antichristian sect which say of Ierusalem down with it even to the ground And to that end strengthen the hands of our gracious King the Nobles and Magistrates of the Land with Iudgement and Justice to cut off these Workers of Iniquity whose Religion is Rebellion whose Faith is Faction whose Practise is murthering of Souls and Bodies and to root them out of the confines and limits of this Kingdom that they may never prevail against us and triumph in the ruine of thy Church and give us grace by true and serious repentance to avert these and the like Judgements from us This Lord we earnestlie crave at thy mercifull hands together with the countenance of thy powerfull protection over our dread Soveraign the whole Church and these Realms and the speedie confusion of our implacable Enemies and that for thy dear Sons sake our onlie mediator and advocate II. ALmighty God and heavenly Father which of thy everlasting providence and tender mercy towards us hast prevented the extreme malice and mischievous imagination of our ensmies revealing and confounding their horrible and devilish enterprise plotted against our Soveraign Lord the King his Royal House and the whole State of this Realm for the subversion thereof together with the truth of thy Gospel and pure Religion amongst us and for the reducing of Popish Superstition and tyranny into this Church and land we most humbly prayse and magnifie thy glorious name for thine infinite gracious goodnesse in this our marvellous Deliverance we confesse it was and is thy mercy thy mercy alone most mercifull Father that we are not consumed that their snare is broken and our Soul is escaped For our sins cryed to Heaven against us and our iniquities justly called for judgement upon us but thy great mercy towards us hath exalted it self above judgement not to deal with us after our sins to give us over as we deserved to be a prey to our enemies but taking our correction into thine own hands to deliver us from their blood-thirsty malice and preserve from death and destruction our King and State with thy Gospel and true Religion amongst us Good Lord give us true repentance and unfeigned conversion unto thee to prevent further judgements increase us more and more in lively Faith and fruitfull love in all obedience that thou mayest continue thy loving favour with the light of thy Gospol to us and our Posterity for evermore Make us now and alwaies truely thankfull in heart word and deed for all thy gracious mercies and this our special deliverance Protect and defend our Soveraign Lord the King with the Queen and all the Royal Progeny from all treasons and conspiracies preserve them in thy faith fear and love under the shadow of thy wings against all evil and wickednesse prosper their reign with long happinesse on earth and everlasting glory following in the Kingdom of Heaven Bless the whole State and Realm with grace and peace that with one heart and mouth we may praise
solemnitie return to their Thrones above from whence after a while they return down again in all solemn manner into St. Edwards Chapel c. Where the King in the Traverse is disrobed of St. Edwards Robes by the Lord Great Chamberlain which Robes are then delivered to the Dean of Westminster Then the King is newly arrayed by the Lord Great Chamberlain with his Robes royal prepared for his Majesties wearing that day Then the Archbishop setteth the Crowns Imperial provided for the King and Queen to wear that day upon their heads The King and Queen so Crowned taking into their hands each of them their Scepter and Rod after the train is set in order before them go from St. Edwards Altar out to the great Altar and so up to the Stage and so thorough the midst of the Quire and Church and return the same way they came The Scepters and Rods of St. Edward which the King and Queen carried in their hands are after Dinner to be re-delivered to the Church of Westminster to be kept with the Residue of the Regalia It hath pleased his Majestie to give order to me the Archbishop for the appointing of these Bishops 2. Bishops to support the King 2. Bishops to support the Queen 1. Bishop to carry the Regal 1. Bishop to carry the Paten Your Lordships are to understand the King his pleasure which of the Noblemen it will like his Majestie to appoint 1. To carry the Spurs 3. To bear the 1 2 and 3. Sword 2. To bear the 2. Scepters 1. To bear the Rod with the Dove before the King 1. To carry the Crown Imperial which the King is to wear that day 1. To bear the Crown 1. To bear the Scepter 1. To bear the Ivory Rod before the Queen 1. To put on the Kings Spurs 1. To girt on the Kings Sword 1. To redeem the Sword after it is offered and to bear it drawn before him 2. To ease the King of the carriage of his Scepter and Rod. The manner of the proceeding at the Coronation GEntlemen and Esquires 2. and 2 Knights having no Liveries Sewers of the Chamber Aldermen of London Esquires of the body Clerks of the Signet Clerks of the privy Seal Clerks of the Counsel Clerks of the Markets of England Chaplins having Dignity Secretaries of the Latin and French Solicitor Attorny and the Kings Sergeants Masters of the Requests Lord chief Baron of the Exchequer Lord chief Justice of the common Pleas. Master of the Rolls Lord chief Justice Popham Nunc privati consilii Knights of the Bath Sergeant Porter Sergeant of the vestry The Kings Chapel in Copes The Prebends of Westminster Master of the Jewel-House Master of the Gardrobe Counsellors being Knights Bishops in their Robes Barons in their Robes Secretary Controuler Thresorer Earls in their Robes Their Coronets on their caps in their hands Clarencieux Lion Vlster Lord Keeper Lord Archbishop alone An Earl with the Spurs An Earl with Saint Edwards Scepter An Earl with the pointed Sword An Earl with the Sword called Curtana An Earl with the third Sword The Mayor of London with his Mace Garter principal King at Arms. Gentleman usher of the Privy Chamber The Lord Great Chamberlain of England The Constable with his Mace The Sword in the Scabbard The Marshal with his Rod. An Earl bearing the Scepter of the Dane An Earl bearing the Crown An Earl bearing the Orb. Barons of the Cinqueports for the Canopy His Majestie led by the Bishops of Duresm and Wells The Chamberlain assisting the Train Master of the Horse Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber to the King Grooms of the privy Chamber Gentlemen-Ushers to the Queen An Earl bearing the Queens Scepter An Earl bearing the Queens Crown An Earl bearing the Queens Ivory Rod. A Bishop The Queen in a purple Robe Her hair dependent under a Canopie borne by the Barons of the Cinqueports A Bishop Train-bearer The Queens Chamberlain supporting the Train Marquesses Countesses Baronesses Ladies of the Privy Chamber Gentlemen of the Queens Privy Chamber Captain of the Guard with all the Guard following For the third I shall present you with the Ceremonies and Prayers used at King James Queen Annes and our late King CHARLES their Coronations at Westminster of which I have two Authentick Copies never formerly Printed Processio ad Templum de Palatio Ascentio ad Thronum Interrogatio Populi Descentio ad Altare Himnus veni Creator Litaniae Unctio Regis Investitura Regis Benedictio Regis Ascentio ad Thronum Inthronizatio Homagium Caeremoniae supportationis Coronae Communio Sacra Descentio ad oblationem Communicatio Regis Ascentio ad Thronum Finis Communionis Oblatio Concio Juramentum Regis Colobii c. Tunica Gladii Armillae Pallii Coronae Annuli Oblatio Gladii Sceptri Virgae Descentio ad Tumulum Edwardi Confessoris Depositio Coronae sacrae vestium Indutio Coronae Novae vestium Discessio de Templo ad Palatium A Brief out of the Book of the Rites of the Coronation called Liber Regalis 1. THE person that is to Annoint and Crown the King is the Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury 2. The place is the Church of VVestminster to which it is by divers Charters granted to be Locus constitutionis Coronationis Regiae Repositorium Regalium 3. The time if it may well be some Sonday or Holy-day The Preparation 1. There is a Stage set up square close to the four high Pillars between the Quire and the Altar railed about which Stage is to be spread with Tapestry and the Railes of it to be richly covered 2. It is also to have Stairs out of the Quire up to it and down from it to the Altar other Staires Eastward 3. There is a Throne of Estate for the King to be erected on the said Stage adorned in all points as is meet 4. There is also another Chair of Estate for the King to be set below by the Altar on the right side of it and a Fald-stool with Cushions for the King to pray at 5. There is a traverse also to be made in St. Edwards Chappell for the King to disrobe himself in after the Ceremonies of his Coronation ended The Evening before the Coronation 1. The Evening before the Coronation the King is to be put in minde to give himself a certain space to contemplation and prayers In what sort it is set down in Libro Regali It appertaineth by office to the Abbot of Westminster to remember his Majesty of this and other observances 2. There is then also to be delivered by his Majesties appointment to such persons as he shall like to assigne to carry them 1. The Regall 2. The Paten 3. The two Scepters 4. The Rod with the Dove 5. The Spurs 3. There is then also to be delivered to his Majesty the Tunica or Shirt of red Silke with the places for the annoynting opened and looped close which he is to wear next over his Shirt The morning of the
Ghost through all ages world without end Another blessing of the Queen before the Nobles to be said at the Altar before she be anoynted Deus qui solus c. God which onely hast immortality and dwellest in Light which cannot be approached whose Providence is never deceived which hast made all things â—hat are to come and callest those things that are not as the things that are which castest down the Proud from their Seat and dost exalt the Humble and Meek we humbly beseech thy unspeakable mercy that as for the good of the people of the Jewes thou didst deliver Queen Hester from Captivity and didst bring her to the bed of King Assuerus and the society of his Kindome so for the good of thy Christian Flock thou wilt of thy mercy by our Ministery advance this thy Servant to the most high and Royall company of our King that she continuing alwaies in the chastity of Princely Wedlock she may obtain the Crown that is next unto Virginity and may in all things and above all things study alwaies to please thee the living God and by thy holy inspiration to perform those things that are acceptable unto thee through Christ our Lord Amen Here the Holy Oyle shall be poured upon the Crown of her head in the manner of a Crosse The Queen is to be anoynted two times first in the forepart of her Head the Bishop saying these words In the name of the Father the Son and the holy Ghost let the anoynting of this Oyl increase thy honour and establish thee for ever and ever Secondly on her Breast saying the same words In the name of the Father the Son and the holy Ghost let the anoynting of this Oyl increase thy honour and establish thee for ever and ever After the Anoynting this Prayer is to be said Omnipotens sempiterne Deus O Almighty and everlasting God we beseech thee of thy Goodnesse poure out the spirit of thine abundant blessing upon this thy servant that as by the Imposition of our Hands she is this day Crowned Queen so she may by thy sanctification continue alwaies thy chosen and worthy Servant that she may never hereafter fall from thy Grace through Christ our Lord. Here the Ring must be given her and put on the Fore-finger of her Right hand the Bishop saying Accipe annulum Receive this Ring the Seal of a sincere Faith that you may avoid all infection of Heresie and by the power of God compell barbarous Nations and bring them to the knowledge of the truth This Prayer must follow Deus cujus est God to whom belongeth all Power and Dignity grant we beseech thee to this thy Servant by the signe of Christian Faith prosperous successe in this her honour and that she may continue firm in the same and endevour alwaies to please thee through Christ our Lord. Then the blessing of the Crown Deus tuorum O God the Crown of the Faithfull which dost Crown their heads with pretious Stones Blesse and sanctifie this Crown that as the same is adorned with many precious Stones so thy Servant that weareth the same may of thy grace be replenished with the manifold gifts of all pretious virtues through Christ our Lord. Amen Then the Crown is set upon her Head the Bishop saying Accipe Coronam Receive the Crown of Glory and the honour of Joy that you may shine in Righteousnesse and be crowned with everlasting gladnesse This also Officio nostre Seeing you are by our Ministery solemnly Consecrated for our Queen receive the Crown of Royal excellency which is placed upon your head by the Episcopal hands of us though unworthy and as you are Crowned without with Gold and Pearl so labour to be beautified within with the Gold of Wisdome and the Pearl of Vertue that after this life ended you may with the just Virgins decently meet the everlasting Bridegroom our Lord Jesus Christ and enter the Kingly gate of the Heavenly Court by his help who with the Father and the Holy ghost liveth and reigneth for ever and ever Amen Then the Archbishop purteth the Scepter in her right hand and a Rod of Gold in her left hand saying Omnium Domine O Lord the fountain of all good things and the giver of all perfection grant unto thy servant that she may order aright the high Dignity she hath obtained and with good works establish the glory that thou hast given her through Christ our Lord. Amen Then is the Queen carryed back into the Throne by the two bishops As she passeth by the King she boweth to him She is placed in her Throne and thus continueth untill she come down with the King to offer and receive the Communion The Queen going with the King into Saint Edwards Chappell putteth off her Crown there at the Altar before which Altar she stayeth untill the King hath made himselfe ready in the Traverse After they both put on their Crowns Imperial and so go to the Pallace For the fourth I shall communicate to the World this Form of King Charles the I. his Coronation in Scotland Anno 1633. Written with Mr. Dells own hand Secretary to the late Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Dr. Laud. The Form of Coronation and Rites to be used therein collected from other the like Solemnities known to have been used either in this Kingdom or by other great Princes abroad LEaving the choice of the Place and Church to his Majesties own appointment wheresoever the Coronation shall be done A Stage must be set up made square and fastned to four Pillars of the Church railed about and the Rayles and Stage overspread and covered with Carpers and Tapestry The Stage being made of some convenient height and breadth must have some Steps for ascent on the West part about the mid'st thereof and as many for descent to the Altar or Table which is to be placed on the East Upon the Stage another little Scaffold must be erected of two foot high which two steps to ascend on which the Throne of State must be placed and adorned as is meet A Chayre of State must also be set on the Stage on the right hand of the little Scaffold with a Fald-stoole and Cushions for his Majesty to do his Devotion A little Traverse is to be made on the South side of the Altar or Table for the King to repose and disrobe himself Round about on the right and left hand of the Stage there must be Scaffolds for Noblemen Barons Knights Gentlemen of the Chamber and others to rest and behold Within the compass of the Altar or Table a Pulpit must be set for Sermon Over against it a Chayr of State for his Majesty with a Foldstool to kneel at On the West side of the Pulpit a Foarm covered with Tapestry for the Arch-Bishop and Bishops serving at the Coronation The Evening before the King would be at service in Chappel besides his private Devotion whereof the Bishop of Dunblane now Dean of the Chappel must have
care to remember his Majesty The Regal Crown Scepter and Sword with the Great Seal of the Kingdome and Spurs are to be delivered to such Persons as his Majesty will appoint for carrying the same There is likewise to be provided a Red silken Coat having the Places for the Anointing opened and looped which his Majesty is to weare next to his Shirt The Sacred Oyl is to be provided also and put in some Silver Vessel Cloath of some colour red or blew must be prepared and spread on the Ground from the Palace Hall dore to the Stage in the Church for his Majesty to walk upon all the way which Way must be rayled on every side This must be done in the Morning of the Coronation by some Nobleman that his Majesty will make Almoner for that day And this concerning the Preparation The Morning of the Coronation The Bishops Noblemen and Commissioners of Burroughes to the number of six are at that Morning to come unto the Presence The Constable and Marshal who are to carry their Battones in their hands all that day having brought the King from his Bed chamber to the Presence and after he is placed in his Chaire they all making the Reverence that becomes Some one of the Church or Noblemen speaks to this purpose Sir the Estates of this your native and ancient Kingdom calling to mind the great happiness they enjoyed under the Government of your Majesties Father of blessed memory and acknowledging your Highness to be the rightful Heir of this Crown by a long and lawful descent do beseech your Majesty to receivet hem into your Highness protection to govern them by the Laws of the Kingdome and defend them their Rightes and Liberties by your Royal power Offering their Service in most humble manner to your Majesty with their Vows to bestow Land Life and what else is in their power for the safety of your Majesties sacred Person and maintenance of your Crown which they intreat your Majesty to accept and pray Almighty God that you may happily and for many years enjoy the same The King Answers I do esteem your affections more then the Crowns of many Kingdomes and will by Gods assistance bestow my life for your defence wishing to live no longer then I may see this Kingdom flourish in all happiness Then kissing his Majesties hands they prepare all to go in their ranks as they are appointed towards the Church The Lyon K. of Arms having an open Crown upon his Head carries in his hand the Vessel containing the sacred Oyl Two of his Brethren walk on either of his hands one The Trumpets sound and so they march The Receiving of the King into the Church THe Arch-Bishop and Bishops with the Musitians of the Chappel are to meet the King at the Entry in Procession wise The King is received under a Canopy supported by four Barons Two Bishops walk one on his Majesties one hand and another upon the other The Dean of the Chappel is alwayes by to inform the King of the Rites of the Solemnity as need shall be The King is received with an Anthem into the Church Protector noster c. Behold oh Lord our Protector and look upon the face of thine Anointed because one day in thy Court is better then a thousand c. Quam dilecta c. The King passing up the Church goeth to the Stage and reposeth himself a little The Regal Crown Scepter Sword Great Seal and Spurs are laid down on a Taffel besides the Altar or Table The sacred Oyl is delivered by Lion K. of Armes to the Dean of the Chappel who brings it to the Arch-bishop and he sets the same on the Table Then the King comes down from the Stage and the Sermon begins Which ended the King ascends again to the Stage and ls it s down in the Chair of State Then the Arch-bishop the Marshal of Scotland going before him goeth to all the Quarters of the Stage and speaks to the People in these words Sirs I do present unto you King Charles the rightful and undoubted Inheritor of the Crown and dignity of this Realm This day is by the Peers of the kingdome appointed for his Coronation And are you not willing to have him for your King and become subject unto him and his Commandements The King stands up in this time and as the Arch-bishop goes from one part of the Stage to another turneth himself that he may be seen of the People The People declare their willingness by their Acclamations and Shouts crying God save King Charles or Let the King live Then is sung this Anthem Firmetur manus tua c. Let thine Hands be strengthened and thy right Hand be exalted let Judgement be the preparation of thy Seat mercy and truth go before thy face Hallelujah Psal 89. Misericordias Dei c. Glory be to the Father c. Whilest the Anthem is singing the Arch-bishop goeth down to the Altar or Table and resteth there Then is the King supported by two Bishops brought to the Altar and makes his Oblation After which he kneels at his Fald-stool and the Arch-bishop sayes this Prayer Deus visitator humilium O God who dost visit those that are humble and dost comfort them by thine Holy Spirit send down thy Grace upon this thy Servant King Charles that by him we may feel thy presence amongst us through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Prayer ended the King sits down in his Chair and the Archbishop goeth unto him and asketh if he be willing to take the Oath appointed to be given at the Coronation of Kings His Majesty declaring his willingness the Archbishop ministreth the Questions following Archbishop Sir will you promise to serve Almighty God and as every good King in his Kingdom ought to do maintain the Gospel of Iesus Christ in this your Kingdom against all Atheism Profaneness Heresy Schism or Superstition whatsoever Rex I promise faithfully so to do Archbishop Sir will you promise to rule this People subject to you and committed to your Charge according to the Laws Constitutions and Customes of this your Kingdom causing asmuch as in you lyeth Iustice and Equity to be ministred without partiality And to endevour the Peace of the Church of Christ and all Christian People Rex I grant and promise so to do Archbishop Sir will you likewise promise to preserve the Rights and Priviledges of the Crown of Scotland Rex I promise so to do Archbishop Sir We do also beseech you to grant and preserve unto us of the Clergy and to the Churches committed to our Charge all Canonical Priviledges and that you will defend and protect us as every good King ought in his Kingdom to defend his Bishops and the Churches that be under their Government The King answers With a willing heart I grant the same and promise to maintain you and every one of you with all the Churches committed to your charge in your whole
as you see the Clergy come more near to the Altar then others so where it is convenient you will remember to give them that honour and respect which is due to their places that the Mediator of God and man may establish you in this kingly Throne and that with him you may reign and live for ever Then goeth the Chancellour to the four Coruers of the Stage and proclaims his Majesties pardon with offer of the same under the Great Seal of Scotland to all who shall require it Upon which the people make their Acclamations crying God save the King This done the Archbishop and Bishops kneel down and make their Homage their hands being betwixt the Kings hands and these words are read unto them J. A. B. shall be faithful and true and faith and truth bear unto you our Soveraign Lord and your Heirs Kings of Scotland and I shall do and truely acknowledge the Service of the Lands which I shall claim to hold of you in the right of the Church as God help me And they shall kiss the Kings left cheek After them the Temporal Lords in like manner kneeling and holding their hands betwixt the Kings hands have these words read unto them J. A. B. become your Liege man and truth and faith I shall bear unto you live and die against all manner of folks whomsover in your Service So God me help They kiss likewise the Kings left cheek The King giveth the Scepter to such as it shall please his Majesty for carrying the same and goeth down to the Chair of Estate ouer against the Pulpit And the Archbishop going to the Altar or Table beginneth the Communion The Communion ended and blessing given the King with the Crown on his Head and Scepter in his hand returns with the whole Traine in most solemn manner to his Pallace The Trumpets sound the Canons shout and other small Shot are discharged Silver and Gold pieces coyned for that purpose are cast among the People And then the King goeth to his Feast which is ordered as his Majesty shall give direction God Save the KING Having given You this large Account of the Ceremonie and Prayers used at the Coronations of our own and other Christian Kings and Emperors I shall thereunto subjoyn this memorial passage of Diodorus Siculus touching the Form of Prayer and Solemnities used at the inauguration of the ancient Pagan Kings of Egypt When the Egyptian King was to be inthroned he had such a Copy of the Laws delivered to him by which he was to conform himself in all things and an exact Estate of the Realm presented to him by Letters written from all parts Tum lotus regni insignibus splendidâque trabea ornatus diis sacrificatum ibat Adductis tum ad aram victimis mos erat Principi sacerdotum regi astantem magna voce in conferta Aegyptiorum corona PRECES ENUNTIARE Uâ— DII SANITATEM CUM BONIS CAETERIS OMNIâ—US REGI JUS ET AEQUUMERGA INFERIORES TUENTI LARGIANTUR singulae etiam Regis virtutes depraedicandae tum erant quod videlicet piam ergâ Deos mitissimam erga homines affectionem gerat ut qui sit continens justus magnanimus alienus à mendatio benignus honorum communicator tandem omnis concupiscentiae victor qui minores delictorum meritis paenas irroget ampliorem beneficio gratiam rependat benemeritis Haec multa alia his affinia ubi peroravit Antistes ignorantiae ad extremum peccata execratur Regem quidem culpa eximens sed noxam paenas in ministros doctores malorum retorquens Quod ideo peragebat simul ut ad metum Numinis vitam Diis gratam Regem exhortaretur simul ut non admonitionis acerbitate sed laudum ille cebris virtuti maxime congruis ad vitae modestiam illum adsu efaceret Post haec cum extis victimae inspectis Rex perlitasset à sacris libellis sacerdos consulta quaedam facta clarissimorum viorum ad vitam conducentia è commentariis sacris praelegebat ut Princeps Reipublicae honestissimorum rationes consiliorum animo consideratas ad praescriptam singulorum administrationem simili modo accommodaret Non enim agendi ad populum indicia obeundi tantummodo sed etiam de ambulandi laudandi cum uxore dormiendi omniumque adeo per vitam agendorum tempus definitum erat simplici praeterea nutrimento uti vitulorum anserumque carnibus vesci certam bibere vini mensuram quae nec ad repletionem immodicam nec ad ebrietatem faceret in morem habebant Breviter tam moderata victus ratio praescripta fuit ut non legislator sed Midicorum optimus ad sanam valetudinem omnia referens eam instituisse videatur Whereupon their Kings strictly conforming themselves to their Laws in all things without the least deviation he subjoyns Hâc ergà subditos justitiâ cum Rege uterentur majore in se cives benevolentia quà m amore cognaâ—os propensos habebant Non enim sacerdotum duntaxat collegia sed universa Aegyptiorum Naetio adeòque sirguli non tà m de uxoribus liberisque bonis suis privatis quà m de Regis incolumitate solliciti erant QUOCIRCA LONGISSIMO EIIAM TEMPORE SUB REGIBUS MEMORATIS INTEGRUM REIPUBLIC AESTATUM CONSERVARUNT IN SUMMA VITAM FELICITATE EXIGENTES QUAMDIU HAEC LEGUM CONSTITUTIO VIGEBAT Ad haec plurimae ab eis gentes subactae maxima vis opum collecta provinciae inimitabili operum magnificentiâ illustratae ur besque variis sumptuosissimis donariis exornatae Which God grant may be England condition for the future as well as theirs and its too in times past by a speedy happy cordial legal restitution conjunction of K. and Subjects in the strictest bonds of mutual love and loyalty without any adulation or self-seeking on either part Then shall we sing with the elegant Poet Non quaerit pretium vitam qui debet amori O quantum populo secreti numinis addit Imperii praesens species quantamque rependit Majestas alterna vicem cum Regia Circi Connixum gradibus veneratur purpura vallis Plebis adoratae reboat fragor Unaque totis Intonat Augustus Septenis Arcibus echo Fallitur egregio quisquis sub Principe credit Servitium nunquam libertas gratior extat Quam sub Rege pio quos praeficit ipse regendis Rebus ad arbitrium plebis Patrumque reducit Concorditqus libens meritis seu praemia poscant Seu punire velint posito jam purpura fastu De se judicium non indignatur haberi Sic docuit regnare Pater sic casta juventae Froena dedit teneros his moribus imbuit annos Verior Augusti genitor fiducia belli Pacis consilium per quem squalore remoto Pristina Romuleis infloruit artibus aetas Per quem fracta diu translataque penè potestas In proprium reducta Larem victricia reddit Fata solo
a Title to this in Bochellus we read Traditio Gladii quem Rex tenet erectum nudum usque ad finem Orationis sequentis Antiphonam k Benedictione Bochellus l So in Bochell but it should be Molem that and some other passages are in that of the Roman Pontificale m Patre S S. vivit regnat Deus Per omnia saecula saeculorum Amen Bochellus n Iudicia quocunque Bochellus o Ac te pro illo Idem p Statim dare Idem a To this the Title is in Bochellus super Regem genuflexum with Oremus b Iacob sic Bochellus c Coruscante atque Bochellus d Paganorum Idem e Digneris qui cum unigenito filio tuo c. Bochellus f Praestare c. ut supra g In that place in Bochellus his Copy hath this note Hic debet fieri mistio de Crismate oleo caelitùs misso h Privilegio ut Crismate juxta cum oleo caelitùs misso modo alio quà m caeteri Reges singulariter inungantur Alii enim Reges inunguntur solùm in Humero iste verò in Capite in aliis membris sicut inferiùs distinguetur Parata c. So it is in Bochellus But whoever drew in this Glosse was vainly deceived For the use in England as well as France was antient and so also by the Ordo Romanus in other Kingdoms where Anointing was allow'd to anoint the Head notwithstanding what we find otherwise in the Popes Canons which Princes obeyed at their pleasure But for this matter see before p. 155. a Plainly this Prayer was first made for the English Saxon Kings For what had ever any of the French Kings to do with these people but the wonder is most strange that this place of the Prayer which might have been sitted for any King is thus left here In Bochellus Nordam Cimbrorum is for Nordanchimbrorum which should have been doubtlesse Nordhanhumbrorum for those beyond Humber And it is plain that the very Syllables of the Saxon Ceremonial are afterwards used in this of the French The Annointing the French King * Manu victoria omnis gloria Bochellus * Connectuntur ansulae aperturarum vestimentâ—rum Regis per Diaconum Bochellus * This and the Prayer following is not in Bochellus * Hyacinthina * Copertura Bochellus The anointing of the French Kings Hands The Benediction of his Gloves The putting on his Gloves * Haedorum The wiping the French Kings hands being anointed if he will have no Gloves The Benediction of the Ring * This with the two Prayers or Benedictions following is wanting in Bochellus and is written in the Margin of the Copy of King Charles and directed to come in here * l. immune The giving him the Ring The giving him the Scepter The giving him the Rod or Verge which they now call I think La Maine de Justice The Benediction of the Crown * This is in the Margine of the Copy of King Charles and directed in here but not in Bochell a Exnomine à Cancellario si c. Bochell b Et vocantur primò Laici posted Clerici Clerici vocantur eo ordine quo dictum est superius de sedendo quibus c. Bochellus c Coronae Bochell d tenet Bochell and after this presently follows these words Teneat Metropolitanus Coronam altè primò duabus manibus posteà sinistra tantum quando benedicit * Quam semper tenet manu finistrâ Bochellus b Ita tu contra Bochellus c Bonedictionis Bochellus e Dyonisii atque Beati Remigii atque Bochellus a Statim fiat ista secunda Benedictio Bocâ—eâ—lus d Laudâ—mus non dicitur nisi post Coronationem sequentem Quo c. Bochellus * Lacesseret Bochellus e Condiscat Bochellus f There follows in Bochellus in ordinatio sancti Dyonisii post Inthroniâ—ationem Regis ponitur Professio ejus ante osculum Parium a In Bochellus there follows Hic incipiet Achiepiscopus Te Deum quo incoepto recedat b Here the Copy of Bochellus hath this note Notandum antequam pax Domini sit semper vobiscum dicatur Archiepiscopus debet dicere hanc Benedictionem super Regem super populum And then follow both that Benediction and Benedictio Vexilli or of the Oriflamb which are both at the end of this anon added a Cum libro Bochellus b Dici mâ—ttere c. Boch c Thus far also that in Bochellus And here it is concluded with Explicit consecratio Coronatio Regis Franciae But he hath not the Ceremonial for the Queens Coronation Which here followeth The Coronation of the French Queen The anâ—inting of the French Queen The Ring given to the French Queen The Scepter given to the French Queen and the Rodor Verge The Crown put on the French Queen l. Eam * Et tua Bocheâ—lus * Defendat * Titles of Honor part 1. ch 8. p. 151 152 174 175 177 178 179 180. â— Sceptrâ—m * This was given into the left hand as the Scepter into the right See Mat. Paris pag. 206. edit Londin * This is in the old Ritual called Ordo Romanus This is almost the same in the old Ritual called Ordo Romanus Elemosin magnus Episc Dunelm Bathonien Portatio Calicis Sancti Edwardi Portatio patenae dicti Calilis Portatio Sceptri virgae aureae Portatio Gladiorum Portatio Calcarium Portatio ensis redempti Senescallcus Portatio Coronarum Marescallus Pincerna Constabularius Camerarius Panetria Salsaria Furnival Assistentes reginae Dom. assistenâ— reginae Ordo coronationis Richardi secundi Iur amentum regis ante coronationem suam Preces dicendae in coronatione Solemnizatio missae in die coronationis Iohâ—… regis Coronatio Regis Generalis processio Conc. Roff. Ep. Rex equitabit Sedes Regalis Pulpitum Thronus Regalis Abbas Westmonast Tunica Camisia Processio Crvx caetera Barones 5. portuum Aâ—â—as Wesâ—m Archiepiscopus inquiret voluntatem populi Oblatio Regis Rex prosternitur Rex praestat juramenta Vnctio Regis Abbas Westmonast deponet piâ—eum Regi Rex induitur tunica longa per Abbatem Benedictio ensis Impositio coronae capiti Regis Oblatio ensis Acceptio sceptri Praelati alii facient homagium Oblatio panis vini Corona S. Edwardi Renovatio Regalium Alia Corona Regis reversio in palatium Liberatio Sceptri Coronatio Reginae Juramentum Domini Regis Eleemozinarius magnus Episc Dunel Episc Bathon Cancellarius Angliae Thesaurarius Angliae Comes Cestriae alii Comes Leycestriae est Senescallus Dux Ebor. Comes de Arundel Comes Herford Comes Oxon. Comes Norfol. Furnel The Arch-bishop kneeleth The Arch-bishop anointeth kneeling Five pound to redeem the Sword The King is Crowned with St. Edwards Crown Homage Nota. * Since to the Dean thereof Nota. Nota. From the New dore Anthem 1. Sermon Anthem 2. He offered twenty pieces The Oath Veni Creator Letany Nota. By the Lord Chamb. By the Earl of Bohun By the Earl of Bohun â— Deum Nota. * Bibliothecae Histor lib. 1. sect 70. p. 61. 62. a Claudian de 6. Consulatu Honorii p. 156. b Claudian de Laudibus Stilâ—conis l. 3. p. 196 197.
abjure extirpate their posterities and deprive them of their hereditary Crowns which some now deem their Saintship piety honour felicity to accomplish The 3d. are the several prayers and supplications that Moses made for King Pharaoh the grand oppressor enthraller afflicter of the Israelites when God sent him to rescue them from their intollerable bondage under him and his Officers to remove those very plagues which God himself inflicted on Pharaoh and his Aegyptians thereby to deliver them from their vassallage and bring them out thence to the promised Land thus recorded by Moses himself Exod. 8. 8. to 14. When the frogs came up and covered the land of Aegypt then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and said Intreat the Lord that he may take away the frogs from me and from my people and I will let the people go that they may do sacrifice to the Lord. And Moses said to Pharaoh Glory over me against when shall I intreat for thee and for thy Servants and for thy People to destroy the frogs from thee and thy houses that they may remain in the river only And he said to morrow And Moses said be it according to thy word that thou mayst know that there is none like unto the Lord our God and the frogs shall depart from thee and from thy houses and from thy servants and from thy people they shall remain in the River only And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh And Moses cryed unto the Lord because of the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh And the Lord did according to the word of Moses and the frogs dyed out of the Houses out of the Villages and out of the Field v. 29 30 31. Moses intreated the Lord that the swarms of frogs he sent might depart from Pharaoh from his Servants and from his Pople And the Lord did according to the word of Moses and he removed the frogs at Pharaohs request there remained not one After this Moses intreated the Lord to remove the mighty Thunder and Hail he had sent spreading abroad his hands unto the Lord in prayer for that end and they ceased Exod. 9. 28 29 33. The like he did at his Intreaty to remove the plague of Locusts Exod. 10 7 18 19. From these Presidents and practice of Moses I shall deduce these genuine seasonable Observations 1. That Moses being born in Egypt and bred up in Pharaohs Court was rather a Native subject to King Pharaoh than a mere Sojourner and Foreiner as Abraham and Jacob were to Abimelech and Pharaoh though he had been absent thence about forty years it thence follows from the premises That Subjects as well as Sojourners are bound by duty and allegeance to pray for their Kings and people 2ly Moses was enforced to fly out of Egypt to save his life because Pharaoh sought to slay him for killing an Egyptian who smote and oppressed an Hebrew one of his Brethren and this Pharaoh to whom God sent him and for whom he thus prayed four times after each other was not only a Pagan-Idolater but in all probability the Kings Son or Grand-son who sought to slay him Aegypt being an hereditary Kingdom as Isay 19. 11. and all Historians record Yea both these Pharaohs with two or more of their Ancestors and their Officers did extraordinarily oppress the Israelites causing all their Male-children they could meet with to be drowned in the River but such as the Midwives preserved against their commands afflicting them by their Task-masters heavy burdens rigorous service and hard bondage which made their lives bitter and caused them to sigh groan and cry unto the Lord by reason of the bondage who thereupon heard their cry and saw their oppression and remembred his Covenant made with Abraham Isaac and Jacob to rescue them from their Thraldom yet notwithstanding Moses prayed four times to remove the Plagues God had inflicted on Pharaoh his Servants and people and no waies endeavoured to deprive or disinherit them either of their Lives Crowns or Succession though a chosen Servant Man and Saint of God commissioned and sent by God himself to deliver the Israelites from their bondage under Pharaoh and bring them out of Egypt Whence I shall irrefragably infer That the eminentest chosen Saints Men and Servants of God yea all other loyal Subjects ought chearfully to obey and pray for not only their Pagan Idolatrous but persecuting and oppressing Kings and their royal Posterity and though they may use all lawfull means to deliver themselves and fellow-subjects from their unjust tyranny bondage oppressions yet they neither lawfully can nor ought forcibly to dethrone disinherit them or their Posterities of their Crowns nor rebel against or deprive them of their lives by tumultuous Insurrections Assassinations and High Courts of Justice 3ly That Godly persecuted oppressed Subjects may and ought to pray for the removal of those Judgements which God himself inflicts upon their oppressive persecuting Kings their Servants People successively one after another for those persecutions tyrannies oppressions under which they groan and cry of purpose to bring them to repentance and deliver them from their bondage pressures vexations under them as Moses did in this case of Pharaoh his Officers and the Egyptians for the removal of 4 grievous Plagues inflicted upon them one after another by God himself and Moses and Aaron as his Instruments Thus much concerning these most memorable antient Presidents before the Law and Kings of Israel which none have hitherto pressed or insisted on in this kind to my knowledge as I have done CHAP. II. I Shall in the next place proceed to Presidents of Gods Servants and people under the Law from the first erection of the Israelites into a kingdom till our Saviours Nativity intermixed with some examples of this kind in Pagan Idolators within that circle of time The first Prayer and President of this nature recorded in sacred Story by Gods own Spirit is that which was used at the anointing and inauguration of Saul the very first King * elected ordained by God himself over his own people of Israel when Saul being chosen by lot and fetched from among the stuff where he had hid himself 1 Sam. 11. 23 24. The Prophet Samuel said to all the people See yee him whom the Lord hath chosen that there is none like him among all the people And all the people thereupon shouted and said God save the King or Let the King live as the Hebrew Phrase renders it which no doubt they oft times repeated according to the usual practice at all Kings inaugurations and coronations ever since which probably they learned from the custom of other Nations round about them who had Kings and kingly Government before them as the 1 Sam. 8. 5 19 20. Make us a King to judge us like all the Nations Nay but we will have a King over us that we also may be like all the Nations compared with Deut. 17. 19. And
as well in this our Island as in all other places of his Empire as these passages of Eusebius who lived in his Court and flourished under him will aboundantly evidence This Godly Christian Emperor Constantine before his Battel with the persecuting Tyrant Licinius dedieated a certain vacant time to powr forth Prayers to our Saviour Christ in the tabernacle of the Crosse which he fixed far remote from his Camp where afflicting his body with fasting and abstinence he powred out Prayers Supplications to God to reconcile him to himself and become his gracious Protector In which Duty he imployed certain Persons whom he reputed eminent both for faith and piety to joyn with and assist him in the performance thereof as he usually did upon other occasions before every battel with the enemy After which having vanquished Licinius and by his death obtained the sole power and government over the Roman Empire Omnes ubique victorem hymnis celebrabant Tum choreis hymnis primum Deum summum omnium regem esse praedicarunt deindè victorem Constantinum ejusque filios modestissimos Deoquâ— charos Caesares acclamationibus continuis extulerunt After which this Godly Emperor to excite his Subjects to Prayers was portrayed in all his Coyns Statues standing upright with his eyes looking up and his hands stretched forth and elevated towards Heaven as if he were praying prescribed all his Legions and Soldiers as well Pagans as Christians this set form of Prayer in the Roman tongue which they were to use and recite every Lords day in their daily prayers with their hands and eyes lifted up to Heaven unto God the Giver of all good things and Author of victory Te solum Deum agnoscimus c. We acknowledge thee to be God alone we professe thee to be King we invocate thee our helper by thee we have obtained victories by thee we have overcome Enemies from thee we confesse we have received present hope that we shall obtain future felicity Tui omnes supplices sumus abs te petimus ut Constantinum Imperatorem nostrum unà cum piis ejus liberis quà m diutissimè nobis salvum victorem conserves We are all Supplicants unto thee We all request from thee that thou wouldest conserve our Emperor Constantine together with his pious Children safe and victorious to us for many generations or as long as possible may be or for ever Ejusmodi ferè Sanciebat a Militibus solis die fieri talesque ab eis voces in diurnis Precibus adhibert Which prayers no doubt were used in this our Island of Britain where he was born and crowned by his Soldiers and other Subjects for him and his royal posterity as well as in other places the Churches and Christians then in Britain concurring both in their Doctrine and Practice with the Churches in Rome Italy Aphrick Aegypt Spain Frauce Lybia Greece Asia Pontus and Cilicia as Constantine himself records in his Epistle to all Churches concerning the affairs of the Council of Nice Anno 330. But of this more in the next Chapter It is the Observation of Thomas Rudburne the History of Winton Church and Bishop Vsher out of them Orationes ac deprecationes justorum assiduae cum multum valeant apud justum judicem Deum ascenderunt lacrymae suorum fidelium in conspectu conditoris altissimi sedatum est gravissimae persecutoris ac percussionis jaculum fulminosum completo videlicet spatio viginti duorum annorum undè Christiani qui priùs in sylvis opacissimisque locis se posuerant within this our Island of Britain as well as in other places during the reigns of Dioclesian Maximinian and Licinius who grievously persecuted them in publicum se ostendentes under Constantine the Great renovant Ecclesias quae usque ad solum undique erant destructae Quo in tempore aedificata est Ecclesia Wintoniensis secundò ab Christi fidelium oblationibus The Christians daily Prayers and tears to God in this our Island being the principal means to cease their former persecutions under their cruel Pagan Emperours and to procure them peace and prosperity under this first Christian Emperor Constantine for whose long life and prosperous reign they daily Prayed unto God in the Churches they re-edified and repaired during his pious Reign Guithelin Archbishop of London in the the year of our Lord 455. being sent by the Christian Britons of our Island into Britain in France to crave ayde against the barbarous Nations who invaded murdered spoyled and miserably oppressed them thereupon Androenus King of the French Britons sent his Brother Constantine with 2000. men unto them upon condition they should elect and crown him for their King Which expedition Constantine undertaking Guithelin thereupon brake out into these gratulatory Acclamations and Prayers unto Christ for him Christus vincit Christus regnat Christus imperat Assit igitur gratia Christi Regi Britanniae qui est defensio nostra ut insulam miserimam ad pristinam reducat libertatem Christ overcommeth Christ reigneth Christ commandeth Therefore let the grace of Christ be present and assistant to the King of Britain who is our defence that he may reduce the miserable Island to its pristine liberty A Prayer as suitable for our miserable exiled King and Island now as for this their new British King and Island in that Age wherein the other Bishops and Christian Britons made the like Prayers for him both at and after his Coronation as Guithelin did before it Our famous British King Aurelius Ambrosius after he had destroyed and burnt the bloody Regicide and Usurper Vortigern and conquered and exiled the Pagan Saxons in the year of Christ 488. repaired and new built the Churches they had demolished placed Priests and Clerks in them restored divine service to its due state conferred many Gifts Rents and Revenues upon Church-men Et orare pro Regno et Ecclesiae statu omnibus imperavit And he commanded all men to pray for the Realm and state of the Church which no doubt they performed accordingly in their Churches not forgetting to pray likewise for this good King who repaired them and restored Christianity To pretermit Saint Patricks Prayers and Petitions to God for the seven Kings he baptized and the Irish he converted to the Faith with his ascending into a Mount and there fasting forty daies ut oraret pro eis that he might pray for them Pope Gregory the 1. in his Epistle to Aldeberga or rather Bâ—rtha wife to King Edilbert before his conversion to the faith of Christ who after her conversion was very instrumental to help convert the King and his subjects to the faith useth this thanksgiving and prayer to God on her behalf Omnipotentem Deum Benediximus qui conversionem Gentis Anglorum mercedi vestrae dignatus est propitius reservare c. Bona vestra non solâ—m jam apud Romanos qui pro vita
propterea unxit te Deus Deus tuuâ— oleo laetitiae ad exemplum illius quem ante secula unxerat praeparticibus suis Iesum Christum Dominum nostrum c. Receive the Rod of vertue and equity Learn to make much of the godly and to terrifie the wicked Shew the way to those that go astray Offer thy hand to those that fall Repress the proud Lift up the Lowly that our Lord Jesus Christ may open to thee the dore who saith of himself I am the dore by me if any man enter in â—he shall be safe and let him be thy helper who is the key of David and the Scepter of the house of Israel who openeth and no man shutteth who shutteth and no man openeth who bringeth forth the captive out of prison where he sate in darkness and in the shadow of death that in all things thou mayest follow him of whom the Prophet David saith Thy seat O God endureth for ever the Scepter of thy Kingdome is a right Scepter thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity Wherefore God even thy God hath anointed thee with the oyl of gladness above thy Fellows even Jesus Christ our Lord. After this he blesseth the King saying Benedicat tibi c. Dominus custodiatque te sicut te voluit super Populum suum esse Regem ita in presenti seculo faelicem aeternae faelicitatis tribuat esse consortem Amen The Lord blesse and keep thee and as he hath made thee King over his people so he still prosper thee in this world and make thee partaker of his eternal felicity in the world to come Amen Grant O Lord that the Clergy and People gathered together by thy Ordinance for this service of the King may by the gracious assistance of thy goodnesse and the vigilant care of thy servant and King be continually governed and preserved in all happinesse Amen Grant that they obeying thy holy will may be freed from all adversities and enjoying the riches of thy grace may with fervent love walk in the waies of thy Commandements that in this life being made partakers of thy peace they may be Citizens of thy Kingdome in the life that is to come through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The King kisseth the Archbishop and the Bishops then Assistant After this the King goeth up from the Altar to the Stage all the Peers solemnly attending his Majesty in their places In the mean time the Quire sing Te deum laudamus c. Which being ended the Archbishop inthronizeth the King into his throne there saying Sta retine à modo locum quem huc usque paterna successione tenuisti haereditario judicio tibi delegatum per autoritatem Dei omnipotentis praesentem traditionem nostram omnium Episcoporum caeterorumque Dei servorum quanto Clerum sanctis altaribus propinquiorem prospices tanto ei potiorem in locis congruis honorem impendere memineris quatenus mediator Dei hominum te mediatorem Cleri Plebis in hoc regni Solio confirmet in regnum aeternum regnare faciat Jesus Christus Dominus noster Rex Regum Dominus Dominantium qui cum patre spiritu sancto vivit regnat in secula seculorum Amen Stand and hold fast from henceforth that place whereof hitherto thou hast been heir by the succession of thy fore-fathers being now delivered unto thee by the authority of Almighty God and by the hands of Us and all the Bishops and Servants of God and as thou seest the Clergy to come nearer unto the Altar so remember that in places convenient thou give them greater honour that the mediator of God and Man may establish thee in this Kingly throne to be the mediator betwixt the Clergy and the Laity and that thou maist raigne for ever with Jesus Christ the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords who with the Father and the holy Ghost liveth and reigneth for ever Amen Which done all the Peers do their homage to the King His verbis I become your Leige-man of Life and Limb and of Earthly Worship and faith and Troth shall bear unto you to live and dye with you against all manner of folk So God me help And after put their hands and touch the Crown by way of ceremony as promising to support it with all their power Then the King to ease himself of the Scepter and Rod in his hands giveth them to carry to such as it pleaseth his Majesty The Archbishop kneeled down and made his Homage as followeth Out of the Coronation of Edward the 6. J. A. Shall be faithfull and true and Faith and Troth bear unto you our Soveraign Lord and to your Heires Kings of England and I shall do and truly knowledge the service due of the Lands I claim to hold of you as in the right of your Church as God shall help me And so kissed the Kings left cheek c. Or these words taken out of another book I become your man Leige of life and Limb and Troth and hearty Honour to you shall bear against all men that now live and dye So help me God c. The Archbishop goeth down to the Altar and begins the Communion The Prayer Quaesumus omnipotens c. Quaesumus omnipotens Deus ut famulus tuus Jacobus Rex noster qui tua miseratione suscepit Regni gubernacula virtutum etiam omnium percipiat incrementa Quibus decenter ornatus vitiorum voraginem devitare hostes superare ad te qui veritas vita es gratiosus valeat pervenire per Dominum Iesum nostrum Amen O Almighty God we beseech thee that this thy Servant James our King who by thy mercy hath received the government of this Realm may also receive an increase of all Vertues whereby he may be acceptable to thee and avoid the gulfe of vice and overcome all his enemies and finally come to thee in glory who art the Way the Truth and the Life thorough Christ our Lord. The Epistle 1 Pet. 2. The Gospel Matth. 22. By two Bishops The Nicene Creed The Offertory The King cometh down from the Throne to offer He offereth twice 1. Bread and Wine 2. A Mark of Gold Then the Prayer Omnipotens Deus c. Omnipotens Deus det tibi de rore coeli de pinguedine terrae habundantiam frumenti vini olei serviant tibi populi adorent te tribus Esto Dominus fratrum tuorum incurventur ante te filii matris tuae qui benedixerit tibi benedictionibus repleatur Deus erit adjutor tuus Opus benedicat tibi benedictionibus coeli desuper in montibus in Collibus benedictionibus abyssi jacentibus deorsum benedictionibus uberum uvarum Pomarumque benedictiones Patrum antiquorum Abraham Isaac Jacob confortatae sint super te Almighty God give thee of the dew of Heaven and of the fat of the Earth abundance of Corn and Wine Let the
ante Regem in processione portabunt Item Comes Cestriae portabit in processione coram Rege gladium vocatum Curtana ex cujus parte dextra Comes Huntingdon alium gladium portabit tertium ex sinistra parte portabit Comes Warwick Item unus de nobilioribus Dominis Magnatibus Regni portabit magna calcaria deaurata in processione Item Comes in regno superior ensem circa Regem accinctum in coronatione oblatum super Altare redimet redemptum ante Regem in Palatium revertentem portabit Item Dominus Nicholas Hastings serviet Regi de mappis post prandium mappas habebit Item Comes Leycestriae serviet Regi die coronationis suae de officio Senescalli Item Dominus Nicholaus de Bello Campo de Dunely serviet Regi de salsario cultellis cujus est ipsum officium Item Dux Ebor. haeredes sui portabunt coronam Regis Reginae in coronatione ipsorum Item Comes de Arundel serviat de Pinternapio Item Comes Herford serviet de Constabulario cujus est ipsum officium Item Comes Oxon. serviet de Camera cujus est ipsum officium Item Comes Norfol. serviet de Marescalia cujus est ipsum officium Item Dominus Nicholaus Furnel sustentabit brachia Regis vel Reginae in coronatione ipsorum Item duo Episcopi ad hoc per Regem assignati sustentabunt Reginam in sua coronatione Item una de nobilibus Dominabus Angliae semper assistet Reginae in sua coronatione ei sedulo ministrabit Item Memorandum quod Archiepiscopus Cantuar. unget Regem Reginam capitibus eorum coronas ponet deponet Ad quem pertinet jure Ecclesiae suae coronatio unctio Regum Reginarum Angliae vel Episcopus suffraganeus Ecclesiae Cantuar cui dictus Archiepiscopus ipso absente hujusmodi coronationis officium committet per literas suas patentes vel ipse Episcopus cui Capitulum sede vacante officium commiserit exequendum Et item Archiepiscopus in die coronationis in Pulpito stans interrogabit publice a populo si istum venerabilem Principem justum haeredem Regni acclamare eligere ei subjicere ejus jussionibus obtemperare voluerit Tunc à circumstantibus clero populo elevatis brachiis manibus extensis Respondebit volumus concedimus fiat fiat Amen The Coronation of King Edward the sixt THis day the Lord Protector and others his coexecutors whose names be hereunto subscribed upon mature and deep Deliberation had amongst them did finally resolve that forasmuch as diverse of the old observances and ceremonies to foretimes used at the Coronation of the Kings of this Realm were by them thought meet for sundry Respects to be corrected and namely for the tedious length of the same which should weary and be hurtsome peradventure to the Kings Majestie being yet of tender age fully to endure and bide out And also for that many points of the same were such as by the Laws of this Realm at this present were not allowable The Kings Majesties Coronation should be done and celebrated upon Shrovesunday next ensuing in the Cathedral Church at Westminster after the form and order ensuing First the Archbishop of Canterbury shall shew the King to the people at 4. parts of a great Pulpit or Stage to be made for the King and shall say on this wise Sirs here I present King Edward rightfull and undoubted inheritor by the Laws of God and Man to the Royal Dignity and Crown Imperial of this Realm whose Consecration Enunction and Coronation is appointed by all the Nobles and Peers of this Land to be this day Will you serve at this time and give your good wills and assents to the same Consecration Enunction and Coronation as by your duty of Allegiance ye be bound to do The people do answer Yea Yea Yea and cry King Edward King Edward King Edward This done the Archbishop of Canterbury being revested as he should go to Masse with the Bishops of London and Winchester on both sides with other Bishops and the Dean of Westminster in the Bishops absence to go in order before the King The King shall be brought from his seat by them that assisted him to the Church to the high Altar where after his prayer made to God for his Grace he shall offer a Pall and a pound of Gold 24. l. in Coin which shal be to him Delivered by the Lord great Chamberlain Then shall the King fall groveling before the Altar and over him the Archbishop shall say this Collect Deus humilium c. Then the King shall rise and go to his chair to be prepared before the Altar his face to the Altar and standing one shall hold him a Book And the Archbishop standing before the King shall ask him with a loud and distinct voice in manner and form following Will ye grant to keep to the people of England and other your Realms and Dominions the Laws and Liberties of this Realm and other your Realms and Dominions I grant and promise You shall keep to your strength and power to the Church of God and to all the people holy peace and concord I shall keep You shall make to be done after your strength and power equal and rightfull justice in all your Dooms and Judgements with mercy and troth I shall do Do ye grant to make no new Laws but such as shall be to the honor and glory of God and to the good of the Common-wealth and that the same shall be made by the consent of your people as hath been accustomed I grant and promise Then shall the King rise out of his Chair and by them that before assisted him be led to the high Altar where he shall make a solemn oath upon the Sacrament layed upon the said Altar in the sight of all the people to observe the premisses and laying his hand again on the Book shall say The things which I have before promised I shall observe and keep so God help me and these holy Evangelists by Me bodily touched upon this holy Altar That done the King shall fall again groveling before the high Altar and the said Archbishop kneeling before him shall with a loud voice begin Veni Creator c. Which done the said Archbishop standing shall say over the King Te invocamus c. and at the end shall kneel again And then shall the King rise and be set in the Chair again And after a little pawse he shall rise and assisted with those that did before that Office goe again to the high Altar where he shall be unclothed by his great Chamberlain unto his coat of Crimson satten which and also his shirt shall be opened before and behind on his shoulders and the bought of his Arms by the said great Chamberlain to the intent that on those places he be anointed and whilest he is in the Anointing Sir Anthony Denny and Sir