populus christianus veram pacem servent in" omni tempore. Amen. Alia: Aliud est, ut rapacitates et omnes iniquitates omnibus gradibus interdicat. Amen. Tertium est, ut in omnibus judiciis æquitatem et misericordiam præcipiat, ut per hoc nobis indulgeat misericordiam suam clemens et misericors Deus. Amen. 66 14 omnipotenti Deo." Leofric MS. VOL. III. G THE FORM AND ORDER OF THE SERVICE THAT IS TO BE PERFORMED, AND OF THE CEREMONIES THAT ARE TO BE OBSERVED, IN The Coronation of her Majesty Queen Victoria, In the Abbey Church of St. Peter, Westminster, on Thursday, the 28th of June, 1838. VII. The Oath2 VIII. The Anointing IX. The Presenting of the Spurs and Sword, and the Oblation of the said Sword 97 102 103 106 111 X. The Investing with the Royal Robe, and the 114 XI. The Investiture per Annulum et Baculum 116 118 119 120 123 124 127 136 137 XII. The putting on of the Crown XIII. The presenting of the Holy Bible XIV. The Benediction and Te Deum XV. The Inthronization XVI. The Homage 5 XVII. The Communion XVIII. The final Prayers XIX. The Recess . I do not propose in these notes, as I have already observed in the preliminary dissertation, to do more than notice a few of the most important variations which occur in the Offices which lie before me. These are, the Offices of the coronations of her present Majesty, reprinted in the text of William IV. and Q. Adelaide: of George IV.: of George II. and Q. Caroline. For any remarks on the variations of the preceding and intermediate reigns, I am obliged to rely upon the authority, scarcely to be doubted in such respect, of reprints and accounts of the offices: for example, by Prynne, Sir E. Walker, and Sandford. 2 This is called "The Declaration and Oath" in the Order for K. George II. "The Girding and Oblation," in the Orders until K. William IV. The student must compare the note in the place below. "The Investing with the Armill and the Royal Robe:" until K. William IV. 5 The Order of K. George IV. adds here "xvij. The final Anthem;" which is also the arrangement of the Order for K. George II. As in this last instance, and in that also of K. William IV., a Queen was also crowned, both these orders add "xviij. the Queen's coronation." The Form and Order of her Majesty's X Coronation. N the Morning upon the Day of the Coronation early, Care is to be taken that the Ampulla be filled with Oil, and, together with the Spoon, be laid ready upon the Altar in the Abbey-Church. SECT. I.-THE ENTRANCE INTO THE CHURCH. The Queen, as soon as She enters at the West Door of the Church, is to be received with the following Anthem, to be sung by the Choir. I ANTHEM. WAS glad when they said unto me, We will go into the House of the Lord. For there is the Seat of Judgement, even the Seat of the House of David. O pray for the peace of Jerusalem; They shall prosper that love Thee. Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy Palaces. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son: and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end. 6" by the choir of Westminster." William IV. And the earlier forms add: "who, with the Dean and Prebendaries of that church, are before to fall off from the procession a little to the left Amen. side of the middle aisle, and stay there to attend the coming of his Majesty, [their Majesties] and then going next before the regalia [the Queen's regalia,] to sing:" |