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THE GREAT SOLEMNITYOF THE CORONATIONOF A KING AND QUEENACCORDING TO THE USE OFTHE CHURCH OF ENGLAND

WITH NOTES AND EXCURSUSES, LITURGIHISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE,

BYDOUGLAS MACLEANE, M.A.

CANON OF SALISBURY, PROCTOR IN CONVOCATION, RECTOR OF CODFORDST. PETER, SOMETIME FELLOW OF PEMBROKE COLLEGE, OXFORDAUTHOR OF "LANCELOT ANDREWES AND THE REACTION," "OUR ISLAND CHURCH,

"REASON, THOUGHT AND LANGUAGE," ETC.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BYTHE LORD BISHOP OF SALISBURY

LONDON :GEORGE ALLEN & COMPANY, LTD.44 & 45 RATHBONE PLACE

1911[All rights reserved]


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Printed by BALLANTYNE, HANSON A* Co.At the Kalian tyne Press, Edinburgh


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PREFACESOME four-fifths of the original edition of thisbook, published in 1902 by Mr. F. E. Robinson,having been destroyed, shortly after publication,by a fire at the printers , it has been suggestedto me to reissue it in a cheaper form.The somewhat fully annotated Order of Service now reproduced is the new one for King

George V. and Queen Mary, which has beenput forth while these sheets were passing throughthe press. The Excursuses have been somewhataltered, and the whole book has been revised.It aims at popularising the results of thelabours of scholars, by whom so much has beendone of recent years for the elucidation of theaugust Coronation Rite. D. M.

EASTER, 1911.


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CONTENTSPAGE

PREFACE vINTRODUCTION BY THE BISHOP OF SALISBURY . ixSACRING iTHE PROCESSIONAL ENTRANCE . . . ,12FORM AND ORDER OF THE SERVICE . . .19NOTES ON THE CORONATION SERVICE ... 56EXCURSUSES

A. CORONATION OF THE QUEEN CONSORT . 201B. ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE SOLEMNITY

OF 1902 ...... 210C. Two NINETEENTH CENTURY CORONATIONS 227D. THE PROCESSION FROM WESTMINSTER

HALL . . . 233E. THE BANQUET AND FEUDAL SERVICES . 258F. THE PROGRESS FROM THE TOWER . .278G. THE KNIGHTS OF THE BATH AND THEKING S VIGIL 288H. THE ABBEY AND ST. EDWARD S SHRINE . 294I. THE CONSECRATING PRELATE . . . 304K. " HALLOWING TO KING " AND " TO

BISHOP" 310


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viii CONTENTSAPPENDICES

I PAGEI. THE PLANTAGENET OATH . . . -313II. CORONATION OF THE KING OF HUNGARY. 314III. FORM AND MANNER OF THE CORONATION

OF KING CHARLES 1 316INDEX . ... . 341


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INTRODUCTIONIT is natural that a Bishop of Salisbury shouldwelcome to the foundation of St. Osmund thoseclergy who have shown special interest in theordinances and liturgical offices of the Churchof England. It has therefore been a particularpleasure to myself to admit to it, among itsrecently created prebendaries or canons, two suchexcellent liturgists as our new Sub-dean, Christopher Wordsworth, and our clerical proctor inConvocation, Canon Douglas Macleane. Both ofthem have thrown light on the great solemnityof the Coronation, to which we are all lookingforward this year, the Sub-dean in the twolearned works which he has edited for the HenryBradshaw Society, and Canon Macleane in thefirst edition of this book, which is now issued,on the basis of the service appointed for theCoronation of their present Majesties, with theamendments and corrections which make it suitable for the occasion.

I shall not be surprised if it should prove oneof the most popular books of the year, and one


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INTRODUCTIONwhich its possessors will most care to preserveof all the memorials of this solemn rite.

Mr. Macleane s literary skill is well knownto his friends, and it extends to several ratherseparate fields. He is a logician, as well as ahistorian and a theologian. But he is above alla Churchman ; and many will feel thankful, asI do, that the task of illustrating this splendidnational act of religion has fallen into suchsympathetic hands. In days when the presentsatisfaction of material wants and desires is anabsorbing occupation to so many, it is a happything for the country to be reminded of the highideal of kingly office which has come down tous from the past, and to have it set forth bymeans of the wholesome and expressive symbolismof the successive acts of the Coronation drama.It is a striking spectacle and (I will not say" but ") a deeply religious one. Books like this,which turn men s minds to the inner meaningof what is done, may serve a double purpose.They may be expected to make that action morefruitful of blessing to all who take part in it,and to the country at large. They may alsoopen men s eyes to the value of a sober, dignifiedand solemn ritual, especially on the great festivalsof the Church, and on the great occasions ofindividual life, and to the possibility of teachingeven our simplest folk to enter into the spirit


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INTRODUCTIONof common acts of worship. I think it is nottoo much, for instance, to hope that those Nonconformists who approve of the solemn promisesmade by the King at his coronation, and of thesolemn benediction given to him by the Churchat that great moment of his life as I believemost of them do will also see that the Churchcannot be wrong in treating the individualChristian at his confirmation in a somewhatsimilar manner. The Church is so far insympathy with democracy that it wishes all hersons and daughters to have relatively as high anideal with regard to their own lives and callingsas our gracious Sovereign, thank God, is privileged to have for his. JOHN SARUM.yd April 1911.


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" O wise Helena, thou hast set the Cross upon thehead of Princes that it may be adored in the homagepaid to them." -ST. AMBROSE.

" The pageant of earthly royalty has the semblanceand the benediction of the Eternal King."NEWMAN.


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THE GREAT SOLEMNITYOF THE CORONATION

SACKING" THOU silly fellow, thou dost not know thy ownsilly business " said an eighteenth-century peerto Anstis, the king-of-arms ; and Horace Wai-pole,

who records the words, remarks how uselessit is to know anything about " barbarous ages,when there was no taste." Nevertheless, theCoronation rite impressed the flippant Horacehimself as "awful." It is crowded also withinterest to the historical student.

" The Westminster Coronations," Stanley says,"contain, on the one hand, in the Recognition,the Enthronization, and the Oath the utterancesof the fierce democracy of the people of England ; they contain, on the other hand, in theUnction, the fatal Stone, the sanction of the prelates, and the homage of the nobles the primitiveregard for sacred places, sacred relics, consecratedpersons, and heaven-descended right, lingering onthrough changes in the most opposite direction "(Westminster Abbey, p. 110). A


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2 SOLEMNITY OF THE CORONATIONSince George III. died the subject has been

scientifically studied. Arthur Taylor s eruditeGlory of Regality was published in 1821 oneof the firstfruits of the romanticist movement.The writings of Silver and of Palmer drew further attention to the Coronation. The firstedition of Maskell s great work, the MonumentaRitualia Ecclesite Anglicans^ is dated 1846. Sincethen the early pontificals have been printed,and the Henry Bradshaw Society has issued thetruly scholarly volumes of Prebendary Wordsworth, the Rev. E. S. Dewick and Dr. J. Wick-ham Legg. Planche s Regal Records and Mr.Cyril Davenport s English Regalia deal with non-liturgical aspects of the subject ; and Mr. WilliamJones s Crowns and Coronations is a mine of popular information, not always accurate in detail, ofevery possible kind. It is not necessary to mention the picturesque chapter, disfigured, however,by some blunders, in Stanley s " Memorials " ofthe Abbey. In a different class comes Mr. Leopold Wickham Legg s monumental CoronationRecords , published in 1901. Invaluable, of course,are the works on this subject of the Stuart antiquaries, such as Selden, Sandford and Walker.

" It is meritorious," says Carlyle,

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