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A06146	The order, solemnitie, and pompe, of the feastes, sacrifices, vowes, games, and triumphes: vsed vpon the natiuities of emperours, kinkes [sic], princes, dukes, popes, and consuls: with the custome, order, and manner of their inaugurations, coronations, and annoynting. With a briefe rehearsall of the funerall solemnities at some emperours, kings, and princes burials; Triplicitie of triumphes	Lloyd, Lodowick, fl. 1573-1610.	1610 (1610)	STC 16633; ESTC S108796	40,346	66

The Archbyshop demaundeth againe Wilt thou bee a Defender to guard the Church and the Ministers therof The kyng answereth I will The thyrd time the Archb. asketh the king Wilt thou maintain rule and defend the kingdom which God committeth into thy hand according to the lawes customs of Polonia To this the K. answereth and saith that he wil perform by the help of God al these things faithfully truly with al care and diligence to the vttermost of his power And then the king kneeling before the Archbyshop bareheaded with both his hāds vpon a book vttereth these words I N. naming his owne name that shall be King of Polonia doo professe and promise before God and his Angels that I will with all faith and trueth keepe the lawes exercise iustice maintaine the peace and quie●et●esse of the church and yeeld due obedience reuerence and canonicall honour to the Pope of Rome The oath of the K. of Poland at his coronation and to his Bishops pro posse nosce as Emperours and other Kinges doo and will obserue due honour and loue to the states of Polonia so God help me and the contentes of this sacred booke Then the Archbishop reciteth a collect that it would please God to blesse him as he did blesse Abraham and Moses and to send him victories and triumphes as he did send to Iosua and to Dauid to teach him with wisdom as Salomon with the mildnes of Moses with the fortitude of Iosua with the humility of Dauid and with the faith of Abraham c Then the Archbishop kneeling on his knees and the king flat on his face vpon the ground singeth aloud from the high Altar this verse that it would please God to accept of this seruice as a reasonable sacrifice the Quire answering Wee beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. Then the Archbyshop standing turneth vnto the King holding the crosse vpon him being vpon the ground goeth forward with his praiers saieng Hunc in Regem coronandum bene dicere digneris that it would please God to blesse this new elected King the Chore answering as before Then the Bishops the Abbats and the Chore sing the Letany Supra Regem ouer the king which all this while lieth flat on his face vpon the ground When the Letany is ended the Archbyshop sitteth downe the King before him kneeling the Archbishop annointeth him with the thumbe of his right hand he annointeth the king in the palme of his right hand Their King is annointed and from thence vnto his elbow and betweene his two shoulders saieng I annoint thee king with this holy and sacred oile in the name of the Father and of the sonne and of the holy Ghost Then the Archbyshop praieth vnto God to blesse this annointed king by him as he did blesse Iehu Azachiel being annointed by the hands of Helias the one K. of Israel the other King of Siria As Dauid Saul by the hands of Samuel After many of these godly Collects and praiers for the inauguration and annointing of kings published Dalmatical robe the Archbishop doth againe attire the King with his Dalmatical robe saieng Take this robe formed and framed quadrant foure square that thou maist knowe that the foure coastes of all the whole world are subiects to the deuine power of God and that there is no power nor authoritie but from God From the high Altar the King is lead into his royall seat where the Archbishop deliuereth vnto the King kneeling vp-his knees a Sword The words ceremonies at the coronati-of the king of Polonia saieng Accipe Gladium de super Altare c. Take this Sword taken from the Altar and consecrated by the authority of the Apostles to reuenge euill to presse iniquitie and to destroy the enemies of God In like sort he setteth the Diadem vpon the Kings head with like wordes and ceremonies as the Hungarians doo Then the Archbyshop deliuereth the scepter into his right hand and the Apple into his left hand vttereth these words Accipe virgā c. Take this scepter the scepter of equity and vertue the scepter of thy Kingdome And so the Apple the figure and type of the world with the like wordes as before At that time the new annointed king dooth offer bread and wine for sacrifice which being ended he is lead into the middest of the Cathedrall Church into a regall throane made for that purpose wherof by the Archbysh the king is put in possession of his kingdome saieng these words Sede retine locū tibi a Deo delegatum Sit and keepe that place geuen vnto thee from God Then he saieth Firmetur manus tuae exaltetur dextra tua as before After this the Archbishop standing vpon the right hand of the King he praieth vnto God to visit this King as he did visit Moses in the bush Iosua in his tents Gedion in the fields and Samuel in the Temple This being thus finished the King is brought into his Pallace with all the pompe and solempnity that may be These are the ceremonies and solempnities at the coronation of any of the kings of Poland Of the annointing and coronation of the kinges of Bohemia and of the ceremonies and solempnities therof AT the very day that the Kings of Bohemia should bee annointed and crowned all the knightes Barons and chiefe Nobles of Bohemia meete at the pallace of the new elected king about sixe of the clock in the morning From thence with all pompe he is most rotally brought to the Cathedrall Church at Praga The Metropolitane of Bohemia before whom went foure of the principall Peeres of Bohemia two of the foure caried either of them a loafe of bread of some round bignesse Vincenslaus the first annointed king of Bohemia by whom all their reliques and ceremonies were first instituted the one on a golden standing cup the other on a siluer cup for that gold and siluer are fit for Sacrifice The other two caried two golden pots full of white wine Before the king are caried a rich precious Diadem the Scepter and the Apple The Sword which was a monument that Vincenslaus left to his Successors was caryed by the Chancelor of Bohemia in a scabberd of red Holoserico Holoserico a kind of precious costly silke Thus the King was lead out of the Chappel of S. Vinceslaus being by the Chamberlaine of Bohemia attyred after the maners and ancient custom of the Bohemians to the high Altar where the Archbyshop of Praga attended and expected the Kings comming Assoone as he that caried the Diadem before the Kinge came in sight of the people the troope of Trompetors sounded and a number of brazen hornes were with all triumphant myrth likewise sounded The solempa musike and melody vsed at the coronation of the K. of Bohemia the Organes and other musicall instrumēts began also to sing with the quire While these melodies were doing the reliques monuments wer brought

Thos. Iolley Esq r F.S.A. THE Order Solemnitie and Pompe of the Feastes Sacrifices Vowes Games and Triumphes vsed vpon the Natiuities of Emperours Kinkes Princes Dukes Popes and Consuls With the custome order and manner of their Inaugurations Coronations and Annoynting With a briefe rehearsall of the Funerall Solemnities at some Emperours Kings and Princes Burials Imprinted at London 1610. The Triplicitie of Triumphes Of the pompe and solempnitie of Triumphes games and plaies in Natalitia vpon the natiuities of Emperors kinges and princes throughout the whole worlde THe natiuity of Emperours and Kinges in olde time were had in such honour and reuerence as all Kingdomes and countries of the worlde deuised by all meanes possible to obserue those great and victorious daies by feastes triumphes vowes sacrifices games and plaies to celebrate the memorie of a good Prince borne and to make mention of victories peace quietnesse iustice and other infinite good thinges and great felicity which is held by the birth of a vertuous prince Vowes made in the feast Natalitia and therefore the Romanes vowed in this feast Natalitia to build temples and to exect vp Altars to solemnize games to set vp Images and statutes in the Capitoll in the market place and in the Orators court as in Athens they were woont to magnifie and set forth the dignity of kings and princes natiuities with the triumphant Arches and Pillers in Ceramicus in the Temple of the Muses and in the Castle of Minerua for the byrth of a good Prince is as the natiuity of a kingdome and the second birth of euery good particular subiect within the kingdome and therefore it was not lawfull in these ioyfull feastes Natalitia by Lycurgus law in Greece and by Numa Pomp. law in Rome to offer any sacrifice of blood vnto the Goddes but with corne honey milke cakes with all flowers and fruites of the earth Frankensence and Myrrhe and other sweete odours so Pythagoras saith Nihil animatum Diis censuit immolandum in Natalitiis So it was in the feast of Palilia decréed that no beast should be slaine vpon that day for it was the byrth-day of Romulus the first founder and king of Rome which the olde Romanes with all feastes and myrth obserued for that was the day of Romulus byrth who after was cannonized a God and named Quirinus Vpon the which day the Romanes vsed three solemne feasts games and plaies The one a natiuall feast in memorie of kyngs and princes byrth The second a triumphant feast in remēbrance of victories and triumphes The third the great vowed feast which was the most magnificent and the most regal feast of al celebrated in Circo Max. instituted by Tarquinius the proud the seuenth and last king of Rome continued by the Consuls and Dictators but fully inlarged and set forth with greater glory by Augustus Caesar Vota pro salute principum So that all countries held the natiuities of their kinges and princes as the sound Anchor and sure stay of their states For it was lawfull as well to the vestals Virgins to be present at the feast Natalitia among the Romanes as it was for the Nunnes of Ceres to come to the games of Olympia among the Grecians for it was a free and a ioyfull feast And therefore we sing and say in honor of September Sing we IO PAEAN glad and say our triumph now is such That Perseans yeeld and Greekes giue place and Romans triumphes couch Of the Vovves vvhich the Romans vsed to make for the health and good estate of their kinges Dictators Consuls and Emperours IT was a custome among the Romanes vpon the third of Ianuary to make Vowes The Romans Vowes and to sacrifice for the preseruation and health of their Kinges Dictators or Emperors vpon the which day they erected an hūdred Altars wheron the priests called Flamines sacrificed an hūdred oxē an hūdred sheep an hundred Swine with supplication to the Gods for their Prince their countrie and their children This sacrifice was among the Grecians in olde time called Hecatombaea and vsed after of the Romanes in the feast Natalitia Of the vowes of the Grecians for their Princes Gouernours and Magistrates THe Grecians vowed for their Gouernours and Princes health and long life The Grecians Vowes to dedicate Statues and Images of Marble Copper Iuorie Siluer and Golde to stand in Ceramicus in their Castle of Minerua in their Temples and to represent the maiestie of their Goddes with chains iewels crownes garlands with all solempne sacrifice singing Poeana to Iupiter the Sauior and to Iuno the Song Herea for the Princes of Greece all the Priests and sacrificers being crowned with Garlāds of Oliue leaues A vovv yearelie made of the Aegyptians for the prosperous estate of the Kinges of Aegypt AMong the Egyptians a straight law was made by the Priestes of Memphis that they should assemble into one place once a yeere and shaue their heades and their beards The Aegyptians Vowes and to dedicate the haires therof with solempne vowes to their God Serapis at Memphis to defende their Kinges from all harmes daungers and death The manner and order of the Perseans in making their Vowes for their kings The Persians Vowes THe ancient Perseans had their Kinges in such reuerence and honour that the Wise-men called Magi for that they had neither Temples nor Images would clime vp to an high hill and there make a pile of wood and vpon the wood they poured wine milke and honney and after sprinkled all kinde of sweete flowers as pawnes and pledges of their vowes which they made for their kings with supplication and sacrifice to the Sun whose temple said they was the whole world then to the Moone the starres and the Wind for the health and safeguard of their kinges all crowned with garlandes of greene boughes and so other Kingdomes and countries they vowed sacrifices seruing their Goddes for their kinges and Gouernours Then England Quid nisi vota supersunt For het that suckt Melissas milke and sat on Pallas lap Who can with sacred Sibils sleight Calypsos wiles entrap Of the Natiuity of King Cyrus and of the Persean feastes or ioy thereof THe great king Cyrus for so the Perseans named their Kinges after Cyrus time vpon the very day that hee was borne The Persean feasts vpon Cyrus natiuitie had victory ouer the Scythians and Saceans he so honoured and magnified that day that Cyrus commanded that they should bee called the great Kinges and appointed that it should be so solemnized yearely with a regall noble feast called Sacaea after the name of that nation conquered The great kings of Persia in the which feast was celebrated diuers straunge kindes of ceremonies as the maisters to attend vpon the seruauntes the mistresses vpon their maides imitating the orders and maners in the feast Saturnalia wherein also were Bachanalia vsed in the which feast were men women and children which disguised themselues like Faunes with

were a thousand wilde Boares a thousand Hartes a thousande Deares a thousand wilde Goates a thousand Estriges The next day were brought an hundred terrible Lions three hundred Leopardes brought out of Siria Libia three hundred mightie hugh Beares an hundred Lionesses Alex. lib. 6. Cap 6. with many other wild beasres at what time they vsed hunting with all kind of weapons and dartes with all deuices and pollices for the killing of those beastes In like sort Aurelianus triumphed ouer king Odenatus and ouer Zenobia Queene of Palmeria the pompe whereof was such that three triumphant imperiall chariots one of siluer the second chariot all of golde the third all of precious stones in the which Queene Zenobia was caried a Queene of passing vertues and singular learning In this triumph the Emperour Aurelianus followed in the fourth chariot which was drawen with eight faire strong Harts Aurelianus triumph In this triumph were Elephantes Tygers Alces Camels Leopardes beside infinite number of wilde and tame beasts In the triumph of Seuerus were foure hundred wild beasts and three hundred tame beastes in all seuen hundred wilde tame beasts let loose in the Amphitheators in Rome as Lions Panthers Elephants and Beares wilde Asses wilde Oxen and wilde Beares which after long terrible and daungerous fight were slaine by polliticke stratagems and the feast thereof was celebrated for seuen daies an hundred beasts euery day consumed in feasts with all solempnity pomp magnificence and glorie Titus celebrated two feastes one in memorie of his father Vespasianus in Beritto a citie in Siria and the other in remembrāce of his brother Domitianus natiuity in Caesarea Who after great games and royaltie Titus triumph caused diuers Iewes taken Captiue at the sacking of Hierusalem to fight with terrible wilde beastes and so to be deuoured And so of the rest of the Romans triumphes which were in number 320. from Romulus the first triumphāt King vnto Probus the last triumphant Emperour which continued 260 Olympiads so long the Romans state continued The Romans triumphed but 320 in 1200. yeares O ten times more happye England sithens her Maiestie was crowned Queene vntill this day 20295 triumphes of Quation without blood which neither Romanes Grecians Perseans could neuer boast of for their triumphes were bloody therfore blesse we her birth and say Here Ioue Pandora staid in state here Mars Pamphila stal'd Here Phoebus points Pansophias seat diuine Eliza cald With Oliues dect with Palme attyr'd with Laurell crown'd is she With Myrtle branch triumphant like a prince of Peace to be Of the byrth of Mahomet THe natiuity of Mahomet which was vpon Friday is vnto this day among the Saracens solempnly celebrated with diuers ceremonies and sacrifices in remembrance of his byrth euery Fryday through the yeare but specially vpon good Fryday in contempt of our Sauiour Christ the Saracens haue such a royall feast that the charges of that one dayes feast far surmounteth all the other 51. feastes The Arrabians honour the natiuity of their Mahomet so much that they begin the yeare and make their computation of time from the byrthday of Mahomet by the name of this word Hegyra as the Hispaniards were woont of long time after they were subdued by the Romaines to number their yeares from Augustus Caesars raigne by these foure letters A er a which is Annus erat Augusti If these infidels and Paganes obserue a memoriall for the natiuities of their kings and princes throughout the whole world as In Persea the byrth of Cyrus vpon the 16. day of the moneth Lois In Macedonia the natiuity of Alexander the great August vpon the I de of Februarie And in Rome the natiuity of Romulus vpon the 21. of Sept. In like sort the natiuity of Iu. Caesar vpō the 4. I de of Iuly The natiuity of Nerua vpon the 4. Calend of Decemb. The natiuity of Adrian vpon the 6. Calend of Nouemb. Of Antonius pius vpon the first of Aprill Of Gordianus vpon the 13. of Ianuary Of Constantine the great vpon the 4. Calend of February And so of Traiane Vespatian and others whose natiuities were with great honor obserued and with great dignitie of triumphes feasts sacrifices games and plaies with all pompe and glorie in remembrance of good kings natiuities solempnized For Beata respub cui pinceps Philosophus If all the kingdomes of the world in their feast Natalitia in memorie of the most happy state of a good King vsed al kind of strange inuentions to magnifie their kings The Egyptians in their Pyramides Obeliskes The Grecians in their triumphant Arches and Pillers the Perseans with feastes bankets solemnized the natiuities of their kings and the Romans excelled with sundry pompes of triumphes to set foorth the dignities of their kings The varietie of triumphes Dictators and Consuls Others in the sacred wood Aricinum do sacrifice to Diana with their pompe of Peplon c. Beside such magnificent and triumphant games and plaies to set foorth the dignities of the feast Natalitia in memory of good princes natiuities As at Athens Magna Panathenaea first instituted by Ericthonius to honour Minerua euery fift year In like maner as the games of Olympia was by Hercules Istmia celebrated to honor Iupiter or Isthmia was by Thesaeus made to honour Neptune So in Rome the great plaies and games called Ludi triumphales Ludi Natalitii were onely to that effect inuented to magniste good princes and to record their worthinesse with feasts triumphes and plaies in memory of their natiuities Natalitia For at this feast of Natalitia the common people assembled together with sweete flowers greene hearbes some made them booths with oken boughes and some tents couered with long reedes with great banquets and much mirth to honour the natiuities of kinges The Romaine shepheards dressed vpon that day their sheep-folde with greene rushes sweet flowers with branches and boughes they their wiues and families with nosegaies and garlands with bagpipes and fiddles celebrated their feast Palilia at the byrth of any king Dictator or Consull of Rome Saturnalia Sigillaria Lupercalia In other places they celebrated the games Saturnalia in December their games Sigillaria in Ianuary the games Lupercalia in February But in Athens their Bacchanalia is solempnized in Nouember where the Ministers priestes of Bacchus and Diana Bacchanalia by the names of Mimallones Sileni Menades Bacchae The names of Bacchus prists Satyri c. al crowned with Iuy garlands and with Iuy Speares in their handes singing the song of Dithirambos dancing Enoplia with the pompe of Peplon is honour Bacchus But our Bacchanalia in England is otherwise in Nouember than in Athens wherefore we may Canere Paean and say Io for our Eliza For With Graces three with Muses nine with Sibils ten can she With three the fourth with nine the tenth With ten the eleuenth be The natiuity of our Sauiour Christ THe natiuitie of our Sauiour

his good will herein and if his Maiesty would vouchsafe to come to the Church of Saint Bartholmewes at Frankford a place as Westminster is in England or S. Dennis in France If the Emperour come he is receiued by the Archbyshop of Moguntia and the Duke of Bauaria and the rest of the Electors meete him at the Church dore according to their custome and there with solemnitie and pompe they bring him into the Councell house in his imperial robe and his Diadent on his head to accept of this election and from thence after the election is signified vnto him by the Archbishop of Moguntia in order they come foorth into the church the Emperour vnto his imperiall seate the new elected King lead betweene the aforesaid foure Bishops vnto the Altar according to the woonted rites and ceremonies of their elections they set the King and there he is crowned King by the Electors Te Deum c. is sung then the trumpets belles gunnes and all kind of sounding is there and after al this is done they lead the King vnto his roiall seate prouided in the middest of the Church and there proclaimed King of the Romanes Kings of Rome heires of Augustus and heire of Augustus Thus shortly haue I laide downe the maner of the election of the latter kinges of Rome They haue their seuerall ceremonies in crowning of their Kinges and Emperours In Aquisgrane with siluer In Millaine with Iron and in Rome with a Crowne of gold For these three Crownes belonged proper to the Empire of Rome Of the maner and forme of the inauguration annointing of the kings of France at their coronations with al other ancient ceremonies and solemnities FOr the inauguration and annointing of the Kinges of France First a regall throane is made in the body of the Church at S. Denis the night before the king of France is crowned the keies and custody of the Church is committed to the kinges guard the King that night entreth into the church very deuoutly to pray there continueth a while in the morning the kings watch with his guard lock all the doores of the church morning praiers being ended the King with al his barons nobles peeres with al archbishops Bishops early in the morning come to the church wher the archbishop of Rhemes doth most richly attire himselfe to celebrate seruice In the meane time the Abbot and the Monkes of Rhemes bring Ampullam to S. Dennis with great reuerence the Archbishop comming to the Altar in his Pontifical robes and speaketh to the king in this wise We request thee and require thee that thou defend the canonicall priuiledge of the Church committed to our charge that thou wilt obserue iustice and the law of France The charge giuen to the K. of France at their coronation as that thou wilt keepe vs and saue vs as a King ought in his Kingdome preserue and maintaine any that putteth confidence vnto him whether he be of the Cleargy or of the Laiety To this the King dooth promise and voweth that he will defend maintaine and keepe with all his power both the state of the Cleargie and the Laiety saieng Promitto iuro me vnicuique vestrum legē ius debitum Ecclesiae seruaturum This doth the king of France promise and sweare with a solempne oath before all the states of France The Kings oath After the kings oath is ended two Archb. take the king by the hand and lead him before the high Altar where he kneeleth vntill some certain songs and praiers be ended Vpon the Altar is set most solempnly the imperial Diadem of France with another lesser crowne beside the regal sword in his scabberd there are also laid vpon the Altar a paire of golden spurs a Scepter of pure gold with a golden rod springingforth as it were out of an Iuory hand also a paire of hose The ancient monuments at the coronation of the K. of France called Sandanali of purple collor wrought ouer cum floribus Lirinis of pure gold a coat which is called Dalmatica and a regall cloake these were ancient monumentes and orders of France instituted by Charles the great left as reliques monuments after him to his successors the kings of France These ought the Abbat of S. Dennis to bring to Rhemes from his owne Monastry the K. standing before the Altar vnlaceth himselfe vnto his shirt the great Chamberlain of France receiueth at the Abbat of S. Dennis the sandals which the king weareth After the Duke of Burgundy putteth the kings spurs on and presently taketh them off againe then the Archbyshop girdeth the sword to the kings side and straight taketh it off and draweth it out of the scabberd and deliuereth it into the kings hand saieng Accipe gladium tibi datum quo possis repellere omnes inimicos sanctae Ecclesiae regnū tibi commissum defendere c. Take this sacred Sword which is deliuered vnto thee from aboue whereby thou maist resist banish all the enemies of God and the aduersaries of his Church defend the kingdome committed vnto thee Then the Chore sang this Antheme Confortare esto virilis obserua legem domini Dei tui c. The words of the ceremonies Be strong and corragious and obserue the lawes of thy Lord God that thou maist waike in his waies and keepe his commandements as testimonies of his loue and God shall strengthen thee and saue thee wheresoeuer thou be The king taketh the sword out of the Archbishopes hande and deliuereth it to the Constable of France to bee caried before the King then the king is annointed with the holie and most sacred oile which was brought by the Abbot of Rhemes but before that the K. is annointed the Archbishop readeth 3. short collects for the grace blessing of God wherby the king might the better gouerne his people with wisedome vertue Then the King kneeling is ready for the holie oile and by the Archbyshop is annointed in fiue places of his body First vpon his head then vpon his breast thirdly in the armeholes fourthly on his elbowes and fiftly and vppon both his shoulders saieng these wordes at euery seuerall annointing Vnguo te oleo sanctificato c. I annoint thee with this sanctified Oile in the name of the Father c. and all the Bishops and States say Amen While the Archbyshop annointeth the King they in the Chore sang this Antheme Sadoke the high priest and Nathan the prophet came to Salomon at Ierusalem merilie saieng The Anthem at the annointing of the King God saue king Salomō for euer Thē the Archbishop reciteth a Collect desiring God to annoint this King as hee had annointed his Priestes Prophetes and his Martires which onely through faith subdued Kingdomes c. When the Archbyshop had ended some praiers after the annointing of the King and being lead vp againe by the Archbyshop and Byshops the great Chamberlaine of France

from Vinceslaus Chappell and laid vpon the high Altar all other regall Ensignes called Insignia regia symbola were also laid vpon the Altar except the two loaues of bread and the pots of wine which were laid vpon a side table When this musicall noise ended the King was solempnly lead vnto the Altar and presented by all the Bishoppes of Bohemia before the Archbyshop of whome they require in the name of the holy Church their mother that this new elected Prince should be King of Bohemia The demāds of the Archb. to the Nobility of Bohemia concerning their new elected King thereunto the Arcbyshop demaundeth of the Byshops whether they thought him fitte and woorthy for so high a dignitie They all with one voice affirmed the woorthenesse of the man Then all they kneeling downe with the Archbyshop and the King fell to prayers After praiers the Archbyshop blesseth the King three seuerall times wishing vnto him a most happie and fortunate raigne to the which the Byshoppes answere Terogamus audi nos From hence the King was lead by the Byshops to his seat being set in the middest of the Quire vnder a canapy of great marueilous rich state the byshops cum suo quisque Episcopali pedo on the one side of the King with the rest of the Peeres Nobles of Bohemia on the other side also they that caried the Diadem the Scepter the Sword and the Apple From his seat againe the King was brought vnto the high Altar where the Archbyshop read before the King ex libro rituali the customes Ceremonies and orders of his Predecessors After he had annointed the new King with his right thumb with the sacred oile vpon his arme in the maner and forme of a crosse Likewise hee annointed him on his breast The annointing of the k. of Bohemia and on both his shoulders This being ended the Noblemen brought to the Archbyshop the Diadem the Scepter the Sword the Apple and the Ring he receiuing the same doth first sanctifie and hallow them before he deliuereth them to the king After in this order he doth deliuer the sword into the Kings hand naked The ceremonies at the coronation of the King of Bohemia and after the Archbyshop taketh the naked Sworde out of the Kings hand and putteth it in the Scabberd and girdeth it to the Kings side Secondly he putteth the ring vppon that finger of the right hand which is called Anularis digitus Thirdly he deliuereth into the left hand the Apple and the Scepter into the right hand of the King These Ceremonies being once ended the Archbyshoppe dooth aske the King certaine questions on this manner as the Polonians vse at the coronation of their Kings Wilt thou maintaine the Faith Wilt thou defende the Church and be a buckler and shield vnto the Ministers thereof The charge giuen to the K. of Bohemia at his coronation Wilt thou protect and defend this Kingdome committed to thy charge Wilt thou obserue the lawes and customes of Bohemia To al these the King answereth and saith I will thereupon taketh his solempn oath Then is there also a nobleman in the name of the King that demaundeth also of the people The oath of the King whether they bee contented to be subiect to this newe elected King and whether they confirme the Kingdome vnto him with al obedience and faith due vnto him to be performed and yeelded This being consented vnto by the states and the people certaine of the chiefe men come before the King in the name of all the whole Kingdome laying their handes vppon the imperiall Diadem as the maner is of Bohemia doo sweare solempnly with their faith and trueth in the name of all the people of Bohemia to serue the King to obey him as their soueraigne Lord and maister This being ended the Archbishop pronounceth out saith Thanks be vnto God and therewith the Trompets gunnes belles altogether soundeth with such noise and triumph vntil the King be brought againe with all pompe and solempnitie vnto his pallace This is the maner and ceremonies of the annointing and inauguration of the Kinges of Bohemia at their coronation Of the inauguration annointing of the great Duke of Muscouia with the ceremonies at their coronation AT the coronation of the great Duke of Muscouia all the states of Muscouia which they cal Camesi assemble together at S. Michaell their chiefe Temple the day appointed for the coronation the Citie is so strawed with flowers and sweet odours and set foorth with boughs that their triumph is great feasting according to the custome of the Muscouites The great men meete the Duke or the Emperour and bring him into the Temple who at his comming into the Temple an old fatherly man meeteth him hauing on a long garment down to the ground Bōbycina veste This imbraced the Emperour most curteously for he was the Metropolitane of Muscouia Muscouian Ceremonies or the chiefe priest which they call Princeps sacrorum whose authoritie in that countrie is great In the midst of the Temple was made a Theator with seates to sit on and with staires to passe to euery place of the Theator being set forth with most sumptuous showes The seat of the Emperours was made most roiall A seat or a chaire and with great magnificence sitting in Scamno with a rich purple cap on his head beset with gold and precious stones a precious garment wrought with gold and laced cloase at his breast called Bombycina vestis his hands so beset with Iewels that only the Emperours hands and his head were to be woondred at Now the Emperour beeing in his Pallace the States and the great men in their seates the chiefe Priest or the Metropolitan turneth his face and looketh vppon the Emperor saieng My most louing Sonne and great Duke of Muscouia now the Goddes haue placed thee in the highest tower of Fortune and in the great state of dignitie not to harme or hurt thy people but to help and to guide them not to deuoure them but to relieue them ministring lawes iustice to euery man alike laying before thine eies the noble examples of the best Emperors thy father brought much calamitie and wrought manie daungers to this Empire Wilt thou defend thy countrie with Iustice The Metropolitans questions to the Emperour and with Armes make much of good men and subdue the wicked If thou doo this we thy Citizens here will pray vnto the regall Goddes of supernall and infernall power to blesse thee with much felicitie that in thee we may see our Countrie flourish This being done the people make great ioy and triumph from the highest to the lowest and therewithall much money is throwne among the vulgar people I could not read of any crown nor of any other monuments among the Muscouites for it seemed by the tyranny of the Emperours that they vse very fewe godly ceremonies I should haue set downe at the comming of the great

from thence after some Sacrifice which was to bee vsed all things done and perfourmed the Prince putteth off the Rusticall Garmentes that he put on before to perfourme the custome and ceremonies of the Countrey The Prince sitteth in iudgment on a stone in a medow to heare causes pleaded and weareth his Princelie wonted Attyre and after he had feasted with his Barons and his Nobilytie he retourned to the Medowe againe where the Marble stoane was and sitteth there on his Tribunall Seat to heare causes pleaded and to giue Iudgement accordyng to Iustice this is the maner and strange custome of the election of any Prince in Carynthia So strange were the customs and maners in old time aswell at the election and coronation of Princes The strange Scepters vsed by kings and Princes in times past as also in their ceremonies and Scepters For the first kings of the world vsed for their Scepters long gilded Speares The old kings of Rome vsed a crooked staffe called Lituus Tarquinius Priscus the fift king of Rome had his Scepter of Iuorie The Kings of India had their Scepters of Ebany The Liddians caried before their Kings great Axes The kings of Scicily vsed a siluer staffe for their Scepter The Babylonians vsed diuers kindes of Scepters with sundrie figures as of Lions Eagles c. The great pomp Solemnytie at the Inauguration of the Pope of Rome THE Pope of Rome at his Inauguration excelled all other princes in solempnitie and pompe for after that the Pope is new elected by the whole Colledge of Cardinals he commeth from his Pallace of S. Angelo with great glory The order maner of the inauguration of Pope Gregory the tenth toward S. Peters Church first the Officers as Stewards Comptrollers Tresurers and chiefe rulers apparelled all in red long gownes Secondly the knights of Rome Thirdly the Barons Counties and Marquesses Then the Abbats Then followed the Bishops after the byshops the Archbyshops in their long Pontificall garmentes with rich and sumptuous white siluer Myters beset with stones After followed three degrees of Cardinals Deacon-Cardinals Priest-Cardinals and Byshop-Cardinals The Pope with passing pompe is caried aboue the ground vppon mens shoulders in Cella gestatoria with his triple Crowne on his head full of precious stones and with a most sumptuous and precious robe wrought ouer very artificially with golde and set with diuers stones and so caried to Saint Peters Church vpon Kings Embassadors shoulders Kings Embassadors carieth the pope to his coronation After some praiers and sacrifice done he is hoised againe vpon mens backes and caried from Saint Peters into Saint Andrewes Chappel where after many rites and ceremonies there finished which was there prouided for his inauguration he is taken vp againe into his golden chaire from Saint Andrewes Chappel where Andrew the Apostles head is presented thence hee is caried to the Chappell of S. Peter and S. Paule thence caried from place to place by the Legats and Ambassadors of all the Kings of Christendome then being in Rome representing the states of Kings and Emperors Oh Superbum Animal for betweene golden and siluer Crosses the Myters of Byshoppes and Cardinalles hats shining as starres with diuers kindes of precious stones with Iewels the Popes triumpaunt cariage vnder such a regall Canapie with his triple Crowne his rich and Pontificall garments blessing the people passed farre the pompe of great Xerxes in his voyage into Greece The Popes dinner his banquets after dinner or the Triumphs of great Pompey ouer all Affrica and Asia at Rome Hos iudos et iocos diceres prout rabies Papae with such peales of Gūnes ringyng af Belles sounding Trumpets with such clamours and noise of other brazen Instruments that it farre surmounted the besieging of Carthage or the assaulting of Munantia In the like triumph and pompe hee is againe caried into his Pallace of S Angelo blessing the people from place to place and in euery place as he is caried the people againe crieng out wishing him the felicitie of Augustus and the loue of Traian vsing seuerall solempne ceremonies with the greatest pompe inuented His dinner that day exceeded Ca. Caesar who in his triumph ouer Affrica prepared 22000 tables most royally furnished and his banquets after dinner far excelled the banquets of L. Lucullus or Marcus Antonius His myrth and musicke passed the feast Hyacynthia Of the most happy ioyfull and triumphant day of her Maiesties coronation vpon the 15. of Ianuary I Need not particularly set down the solemnitie of that day neither can I if I would declare the ioyes and triumphs of that day For wheras her Maiesties predecessors studied how one might excell another with roialty pompe and solemnity of ceremonies as Richard the second and after him Richard the 2 Henry the fourth at whose coronation Iohn king of Castels and Legions then being Duke of Lancaster Earle of Leicester and Lincolne who as Duke of Lancaster chalenged to beare the chiefe Sword before the King called Cortana as Earle of Lincolne hee chalenged to be Caruer at the Kings table and as Earle of Leicester he chalenged to be L. high Steward of England Steward Thomas de Woodstocke the Kings Vncle was admitted to be Constable of England Constable Robert Earle of Oxford was admitted to the office of a Chamberlaine Chamberlain Thomas Beauchamp Earle of Warwicke was admitted to beare the third Sword for there were three Swordes assigned to be borne before the King at his coronation but I find but two Swordes in Modius Pandectes Ensis politicus Ensis Ecclesiasticus Vpon the day of the Kings coronation the L. Maior and the Citizens of London by the Recorder made petition to the King that the Maior might serue the King at his dinner in the hall at his coronation The order maner of the coronation of the kings of England The Barons of the fiue Ports were admitted to the Office to beare ouer the Kings head a Canapie of cloath of gold vpon foure Speares couered with beaten Siluer in most solempne order great solempnitie from the Tower through the Citie of London with such magnificent pompe and triumphes as were full equall to the Emperours of Rome or the kinges of Fraunce And in these two thinges passed Fraunce Rome Persea or any other Kingdom of the world The first the noble and general chalenge of Monomachia in Combat with any Knight of the world by the Kinges Champion Sir Iohn Dymmocke Knight vppon the day of coronation armed and mounted on horsbacke readie to performe the chalenge in the behalfe of the King In the second ceremony they excelled for that at the coronation of Henry the fourth nine seuerall Conduites ran for two daies of Claret wine and white wine in nine seueral places of the citie of London as plentie as water to all passers by But the most happie ioyfull and triumphant day of her Maiesties Coronation not onely excelled all her