Præfatio.

Æterne Deus, qui providentia tua cœlestia simul et terrena moderaris, propitiare regi nostro .N. et rebus nostris, ut omnis hostium fortitudo, te pro nobis pugnante, frangatur. Per.

Conjunctio.

Hanc igitur oblationem, Domine, famuli tui N. quam tibi in mysterio officii sacerdotalis offerimus, pro eo quod in ipsum potestatem regni conferre dignatus es, propitius et benignus assume, et exoratus nostra obsecratione concede, ut majestatis tuæ protectione confidens, et ævo augeatur et regno. Per Christum, diesque nostros.

Communio.

Inlumina faciem tuam.
Post communionem.

Deus, qui ad prædicandum æterni regni evangelium christianum imperium præparasti, prætende famulis tuis nunc principibus nostris arma justitiæ cœlestia, ut pax ecclesiarum nulla turbetur tempestate bellorum. Per.

Ad populum.

Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, nostri regni defende regem atque rectores, ut in tua dextera confidentes, fiant hostibus suis fortiores universis. Per.

Primum 13 mandatum regis ad populum hic videre potes.

Rectitudo regis est noviter ordinati, et in solium sublimati, hæc tria præcepta populo christiano sibi subdito præcipere: in primis, ut ecclesia Dei et omnis

13 "Rectitudo regis est noviter dito præcipere." Rubr. Missal. ordinati, et in solium sublimati,

populo tria præcepta sibi sub

Leofric.

14

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.

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 Uictoria,

In the Abbey Church of St. Peter, Westminster, on Thursday, the 28th of June, 1838.

The Contents.1

1. The Entrance into the Church

II. The Recognition

III. The First Oblation

IV. The Litany

V. The beginning of the Communion Service

VI. The Sermon

VII. The Oath2

VIII. The Anointing

IX. The Presenting of the Spurs and Sword, and
the Oblation of the said Sword

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X. The Investing with the Royal Robe, and the
Delivery of the Orb

XI. The Investiture per Annulum et Baculum
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

1 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.

This is called "The Declaration and Oath" in the Order for K. George II.

3 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.

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."