Besides the plate and Jewells aforemenciond in this Inventorye. There is a parcell of plate in w'-hall, Jewell house, of wch an Inventorye was Delivered to this honoble Councell, vppon y 3° of August 1649: ye totall thereof is

/An Inventory of that part of the Regalia which are now [fo. 176

remoued from Westm; to the Tower Jewell house.

Queene Ediths Crowne formerly thought to be of Massy

gould but vpon triall found to be of Siluer gilt Enrichd with Garnetts foule pearle Saphires and some odd stones poz 50 Ounces valued at King Alfreds Crowne of gould wyerworke sett with slight stones, and 2 little bells poz. 79 Ounces at 3 ti per Ounce .

A gould plate dish Enamelld sett with slight stones
weighing 23 Ounces valued at 3 6s per Ounce 0077
One large glass Cupp wrought in figures and sett in
gould with some stones and pearles formerly Calld
an Aggat Cupp poz. 68 oz. 1 valued at 1 10 per

ounce

A doue of gould sett with stones and pearle poz. 8
Ounces in a box sett with studds of siluer gilt
valued at
The gould and stones belonging to a Coller of Crimson
Taffaty wrought with gould and stones sett in plates
of siluer Enamelld wanting 5 weighing 7 Ounces
valued at 21 10: per Ounce

0026 00 00

/One staff of black and white Iuory with a doue on the
top with binding and foote of gould valued at
A large staff with a doue on ye top formerly thought to
be all gould but vpon triall found to be the lower
part wood within and siluer gilt without-weighing
in all 27 Ounces valued at

1 Interlined.

One small staff with a floure de luce on the topp for-
merly thought to be all of gould, but vpon triall
found to be Iron within and siluer gilt without the
siluer valued at
Two Scept one sett wth pearles and stones the vpper
end gould the lower end siluer, ye gould poz
23 Ounces valued at 55 per Ounce the lower end
being horne and a little siluer gilt valued at 12 The
other siluar gilt with a doue formerly thought
gould poz. 7 Ounces at 5° 6d per Ounce

One Siluer spoone gilt poz. 3 Ounces valued at 5o 4a per
Ounce .
The gould of the Tassells of the Liuor Cullrd Robe
weighing 4 Ounces valued at 2 ti per Ounce 8 ti
(and the Coat with the Neck button of gold valued
at 2 ti) the Robe hauing some pearle valued at
3 In all

3li

£ s. d.

All these according to Order of Parliam' are broken and defaced. One paire of siluer gilt spurres with buckles sett with 12 slight stones and Crimson silke strapps weigh

ing 6 Ounces at 5° 4d per Ounce

ΟΟΟΙ 13 04

0118 16 021

/An Inventory of the Regalia now in Westm! Abby in an [fo. 186 Iron Chest where they were formerly kept.

One Crimson taffaty Robe very old valued at

One Robe laced with gould Lace valued at
One Liuor Culled silke Robe very old and worth no-

One Robe of Crimson taffaty sarcenett valued at
One paire of buskins Cloth of siluer and siluer stockins

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XXV.

Necessaries to be Provided for the Coronation of Charles II. and the Procession from the Tower

The following list of necessaries and the description of the Royal "proceeding" from the Tower to Westminster is taken from Sir Edward Walker's manuscript describing the Coronation ceremonies of Charles II. (A circumstantial Account of the Preparations for the Coronation of His Majesty King Charles the Second, etc., London, 1820). It contains a list of the regalia which had to be made to replace those destroyed in 1649, as well as the various vestments necessary for the coronation. Besides the robes of St. Edward, there were also provided the robes which the King wore before the ceremony, which were delivered to the Lord Great Chamberlain, and also those worn after the ceremony, which were laid, with the Imperial Crown, on the altar in St. Edward's chapel. There are no less than seven different chairs: the Throne; the chair of Estate; the chair on the south side of the "area"; the chair in which the King was anointed, for it must be remembered that Charles II. was not anointed, as were the other Kings, in St. Edward's chair; St. Edward's chair, in which the King was crowned; the Archbishop's chair; and the chair in St. Edward's chapel.

All the regalia which were made on this occasion "reteyne the old names and fashion." The document Bodl. Ashm. MS. 863, p. 344 gives a more detailed account of the robes made for the King: but St. Edward's robes are not mentioned: we only have the shirts and tunics with loops for the anointing, and the two parliament robes with their surcotes and hoods, the sandals for the King's feet as he goes in the processions, and also the coif and linen gloves. Lastly mention is made of the girdle for the sword which the King puts on during the service; but the other "girdle and Hangers with a Sword for the King to put on after his coronacion" is not necessary, and the composer of the list himself seems to be doubtful whether these articles were wanted.

The second part of the present document deals with the procession from the Tower to Westminster. The Coronation of Charles II. was the last occasion on which this ceremony took place, and we here have a description showing the condition of the procession in the middle of the seventeenth century. It may be compared with the description given in Liber regalis (Doc. xiii.) in the processus factus of Richard II. (Doc. xiv.) and in the Little Device (Doc. xx.) The route of the procession appears to be still the same: the King must have been covered, if the Duke of York was, and there is no trace of the canopy which was held over the King in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Otherwise the procession appears to be much the same as those described in the documents above. It will be noticed that no mention is made of any Bishops in the procession. Pepys, however, who was an eyewitness, in describing the procession, says: "The Bishops come next after Barons, which is the higher place; which makes me think that the next Parliament they will be called to the House of Lords." (The Diary of Samuel Pepys, ed. Henry B. Wheatley, London, 1893. Vol. ii. p. 17.)

[Heralds' College C. G. Y. 369.]

The preparations for his Maiesties Coronation

by S: Edward Walker Knight Garter Principall King of Armes. /The manner and Solemnity of the Coronation of King [fo. I Charles the Second vpon Tewesday the 23th day of Aprill being

St. George's day, with all preparations in order therevnto. After that the Kingdome of England, and all other his Maties Kingdomes and dominions had many yeares suffered vnder the Tyranny and vsurpation of unparrelledt Rebells, who haveing with the height of Barbarity murthered their Soveraigne Lord King Charles the First of ever glorious and blessed memory, did violently oppose and pursue his Sonne and lawfull Successour King Charles the Second, who notwithstanding by the Divine Providence, and by the generall concurrence of his People, was in the 12th yeare of his Reigne called for from beyond the Seas, and restored to the iust possession of his Crowne and Royall Dignity, most auspitiously with the vniversal ioy and acclamations of his Subjects, makeing his Royall entry into his Capitall City of London vpon the 29th day of May 1660. the day of his Nativity, when he had Compleated 30 years of age.

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/And because through the Rapine of the late vnhappy times, [fo. 2 all the Royall Ornaments and Regalia heretofore preserved from age to age in the Treasury of the Church of Westminster, were taken away, sold and destroyed, the Committee mett divers times, not only to direct the remakeing such Royal Ornaments and Regalia, but even to setle the forme and fashion of each particular; all which doe now reteyne the old names, and fashion, although they have beene newly made and prepared by Orders given to the Earle of Sandwich Master of the Great Wardrobe, and St Gilbert Talbott, Kn. Master of the Jewell House.

Herevpon the Master of the Jewell-House, had Order to provide two Imperiall Crownes sett /with pretious Stones, the one to be [fo. 26 called St Edward's Crowne, wherewith the King was to be Crowned, and the other to be putt on after his Coronation, before his Maties returne to Westminster Hall. Also

'An Orbe of Gold with a Crosse sett with pretious Stones.

A Scepter with a Crosse sett with pretious Stones, called St. Edward's.

A Scepter with a Dove sett with pretious Stones.

1 Designes of all these to be made, in m. struck through.

A long Scepter, or Staffe of Gold with a Cross upon the top, and a Pike at the foote of steele, called St. Edward's Staffe.

A Ring with a Ruby.

A paire of Gold Spurrs.

A Chalice, and Paten of Gold.

An Ampull for the Oyle and a Spoone.

And two Ingotts of Golde, the one a pound and the other a Marke for the Kings 2 Offerings.

The Master of the Great Wardrobe had order also to provide the Ornaments to be called St. Edwards, wherein the King was to be Crowned, viz :—

All these were layed ready vpon

the Altar

in the Quier.

Colobium Sindonis, wch is of fine linnen of fashion of a Surplice with wide sleeves.

Supertunica, a Close Coate of Cloath of Gold, reaching to the heeles lined with Crimosin Taffata, and guirt with a broad Girdle of Cloth of Gold, to be putt over the Colobium.

/Armilla of the fashion of a Stole made of Cloth [fo. 3 of Gold to be putt about the neck and fastned above and beneath the Elbowes with silke Ribbands.

A Pall of Cloth of Gold in the fashion of a Cope.
A Shirt of fine Linnen to be opened in the places for the Anoynting.
Over it another Shirt of red Sarcenet,

And over that a Surcoat of Crimosin Satten, which was made with a Collar for a Band, both opened for the anoynting, and closed with Ribbands.

A paire of vnder Trowses, and Breeches over them, with Stockings fastned to the Trowses all of Crimosin Silke.

A Silke Towell to be held before the King at the Communion by two Bishops.

Three Swords viz! Curtana, and two others with Scabbards of Cloth of Gold.

A Sword of State with a Rich Imbroydered Scabbard.

Two Mantles of Crimosin Velvett furr'd with Ermines, and two Capps of Cloth of Gold lined with Ermine for two persons [fo. 36 representing the Dukes of Normandy and Aquitaine.