Excerpts from the Book 'Coronation Anecdotes':

... in point of fact, with the first establishment of Christianity in this island, it also perpetuates some of the earliest British notions of ...
... relate. A certain fayre old man having asked alms of St. Edward the Confessor, he had nothing at hand to bestow upon him but his ring. Shortly after, ...
... thereunto belonging, before the union of the two kingdoms[42].] And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of England, and to the churches ...
... doth present to thee The same, ? worthie queene, For that, that words doo flie, But written dooth remaine.. Thus the queene's highnesse passed through ...
... tenements, and as we have appointed to them by the common council of our whole kingdom, and as we have granted to them in fee a right of inheritance[61]. ...
... the Chief Butler in his duties at the coronation feast or that his lordship serves the king after dinner with wine in a gold cup, having the cup ...
... HAROLD II. took place on the day of the funeral of his predecessor-a striking proof of the importance attached to this ceremony at that period. But William, ...
... French king or the primate were appeased. The ultimate issue of this circumstance, in the assassination of Becket, we have noticed in another part of ...
... his head, and another borne before him. But what should I speake, continues Grafton, of the honorable service, the dayntie dishes, the pleasant conceytes, ...
... finally established in the most unbounded sway over the hearts of her people, is from this moment interesting. On entering the Tower she is said to have ...
... divorced from him by the Hanoverian law, was never brought into this country and never, therefore, acknowledged Queen of England. GEORGE II. was ...
... the Staff of the Coro of the Lord High The Patina, The Bible, The Chalice, Lord High Steward. borne by borne by borne by Steward. the Bishop the ...
... our own. He insisted that it was necessary to preserve and to encourage that feeling by a reciprocal attention, on the parts both of the monarch and ...
... even Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. THE PUTTING ON OF THE CROWN. The archbishop, standing before the altar, took the crown into his hands, and ...
... and Drums, as before } Drum Major } Who, on arrival in the Eight Trumpets } Hall, immediately went Kettle Drums } into the Gallery over ...
... it again from the herald, made a low obeisance to the King, The peers had repeated, as if with one voice, God bless the King. God save the King. which ...
... their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent, the Princess Sophia of Gloucester, and the Princess Feodore (daughter of the Duchess of Kent) took their ...
... &c. &c. The very same persons who elected, or recognised, or only crowned him as their monarch, are, in this passage, recorded to have elected, or ...
... the Queen feels it to be her bounden duty to enter her most deliberate and solemn protest against the said determination and to affirm and maintain, ...
... with no obstruction, and yet had received nothing like an invitation to approach. At this moment the feelings of the spectators were wound up to a pitch ...