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<HEAD>THE FORM
OF HIS
MAJESTIES
CORONATION-FEAST
To be &s;olemnized and kept at
WESTMINSTER-HALL
Up on the 23. of <HI>April</HI> 1661</HEAD>
<P>HIs Maje&s;ty having declared that he will keep
the Fea&s;t of his Coronation in <HI>VVe&s;tmin&s;ter</HI>
Hall in &s;uch manner as mo&s;t of his Royal Pre|dece&s;&s;ors
have done, the preparations en&s;uing,
are to be made in order thereunto, according
to ancient pre&s;idents.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, the Hall is to be hung with hangings &s;uitable to &s;o
great a Solemnity.</P>
<P>At the upper end the Marble Chair is to be adorned, and
a rich State over it, and the floor of the place where the King
dines, and the rayles, to be covered with red Wor&s;ted.</P>
<P>The Order of the whole Fea&s;t is to be appointed by the
Lord Steward, and Officers of his Maje&s;ties hou&s;hold to
whom &s;uch per&s;ons as are to do any &s;ervice by vertue of
their Tenures ought to apply them&s;elves.</P>
<P>There is a Room to be appointed for his Maje&s;ty to re|tire
into, and repo&s;e after his return from the Church untill
the fir&s;t cour&s;e be on the Table.</P>
<P>After his Maje&s;ty is retired, the Earle Mar&s;hal by his Tip|&s;taves
cau&s;eth room to be made in the Hall.</P>
<P>When Dinner is ready, the Lord Steward, between the
Con&s;table and Mar&s;hal mounted on rich Trapped Hor&s;es,
having the Trea&s;urer and Comptrouler, and Serjeants at
Armes on foot before them, ride into the Hall before the
Sewer.</P>
<P>The Sewer ought to be an Earle, and the Servitors that
bring up the fir&s;t Cour&s;e Knights of the Bath, and other
Knights.</P>
<P>The fir&s;t Cour&s;e being &s;et on the Table, the King returns
from his Chamber into the Hall, and &s;tanding before the
Table, the Ba&s;on is brought by two Earls, the high Cham|berlain
and another, and the Towell by another Earle, Ser|jeants
at Armes going before them.</P>
<P>The King having wa&s;hed, &s;its down, and two E&s;quires of
the Body are to &s;it at His feet.</P>
<P>The Arch-bi&s;hop &s;its at the end of the Kings Table, du|ring
the time of Dinner the four Swords are to be held be|fore
the King.</P>
<P>Anciently there were four Tables more in the Hall. At
the right hand of the Hall next the Wall &s;it the Barons
of the Cinque Ports, and below them on the &s;ame &s;ide, the
Ma&s;ters and Clerks of the Chancery.</P>
<P>At the Table on the left hand next the wall, &s;it the Major,
Recorder, Aldermen and principal Citizens of <HI>London.</HI></P>
<P>At the right &s;ide of the Table on the right hand in the mid&s;t
of the Hall, &s;it the Bi&s;hops, and beneath them the Judges,
and Barons of the Exchequer.</P>
<P>At a table on the left &s;ide, the Lords Temporal and other
per&s;ons of quality.</P>
<P>Upon a Scaffold on the right hand of the Kings board are
the Heraulds to be placed, and there to have a Table.</P>
<P>In another on the left hand the Mu&s;itians.</P>
<P>In a Scaffold over the lower door of the Hall, are the
Trumpets to be placed.</P>
<P>The King being at the fir&s;t Cour&s;e, the Champion comes
in armed in the Kings Armor, and mounted on a Courler of
the Kings, richly trapped with cloth of Gold, he is brought
in by the Con&s;table and Mar&s;hal, before him a Trumpet
&s;ounding, and an Herauld at Armes, and in the pre&s;ence of
the King and Audience of all the people, after the Trumpet
hath made three &s;everal Summons, The Herauld is to Pro|claim
the&s;e Words with a high voice.</P>
<P><HI>That there is no man of high or law e&s;tate, who will &s;ay that our
Soveraign Leige Lord <HI>CHARLES</HI> the <HI>II.</HI> Sonne and Heir
apparent of <HI>CHARLES</HI> the <HI>I.</HI> Late King of <HI>England</HI> ought
not to be Crowned King of <HI>England,</HI> again&s;t whom he the &s;aid
Champion is not ready with his body to maintain, and will main|tain,
that he does fal&s;ly lye as a Traytor.</HI></P>
<P>Thereupon the Champion is to ca&s;t down his Gantler,
which lying on the ground a while, the Herauld is to take up,
and to give to the Champion.</P>
<P>The like Proclamation is to be made in the middle of the
Hall, and at the lower end, which done, the Champion is to
ride up to the Kings board, and then the King taking a guilt
or gold Cup with a cover, and drinking &s;ome of the wine,
is to &s;end the &s;ame to the Champion, who drinking off the
wine, is to carry the Cup covered in his hand through the
Hall, and to have the &s;ame for his Fee.</P>
<P>At the &s;econd cour&s;e Garter King of Armes accompanied
with all other Officers of Armes is to Proclaim the Kings
Style in three &s;everal places of the Hall, and then to return
to his State again.</P>
<P>After Dinner the Major of <HI>London</HI> is to pre&s;ent the King
with a Cup of Gold full of wine, and an Ewer of water, and
after the King hath drank he is to have the Cup and Ewer
for his pains.</P>
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<P>London Printed for <HI>R. Crofts</HI> at the Crown in Chancery-lane, 1661.</P>
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