NOTES ON THE CORONATION OF KING WILLIAM AND QUEEN MARY. SYMBOLS USED IN THESE NOTES FOR THE CORONATION ORDERS OF THE SEVERAL SOVEREIGNS. The references are given in full for information drawn from other sources: such as the London Gazette, &c. The numbers which follow the symbols in the notes are the numbers of the pages. Anne J. R. Planché, Regal Records, London, 1838. pp. 111-145. In cases of doubt, Add. MS. 6336. fo. 16. in the British Museum has been consulted. Car. I. Chr. Wordsworth, The Manner of the Coronation of King Charles the First, H.B.S. 1892. pp. 13-53. Car. II. Sir Edward Walker, A circumstantial account of the preparations for the Coronation of His Majesty King Charles the Second, London, 1820, pp. 91-120. Geo. I.: A Formulary of that part of the Solemnity which is performed in the Church at the Coronation of His Majestie King George at Westminster Oct. the 20th 1714. A contemporary manuscript written in red and black, 58 pages, paper, 7 by 5 inches. (The property of the Rev. E. S. Dewick.) The rubrics are given in An exact account of the Form and Ceremony of His Majesty's Coronation, London, J. Baker, 1714. Press mark in British Museum: 605. c. 52. Geo. I.*: MS. Heralds' College, unnumbered, labelled on back: Coronations. Queen Anne. George I. Geo. II. : 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 Their Majesties, King George II. and Queen Caroline, in the Abby Church of S. Peter, Westminster, on Wednesday the 11th of October, 1727. London, John Baskett, 1727. Geo. III. 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 Their Majesties King George III. and Queen Charlotte, in the Abbey Church of S. Peter, Westminster, on Tuesday the 22nd of September, 1761. London: Mark Baskett and assigns of Robert_Baskett, 1761. (For a copy of this order I am indebted to the Rev. J. P. Kane.) Geo. III.*: Heralds' College, MS. S.M.L. 30. p. 198. Geo. IV. 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 His Majesty King George IIII. in the Abbey Church of S. Peter, Westminster, on Thursday, the 19th of July 1821. London: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1821. Geo. IV.*: Sir George Nayler, The Coronation of His Most Sacred Majesty King George the Fourth, London, 1839. pp. 120-126. Jac. I. See above, Car. I. The Manner of the Coronation of King Charles the First, pp. 110-137. Jac. II. Francis Sandford, The History of the Coronation of... James II. In the Savoy, Thomas Newcomb, 1687. pp. 82-103. Jac. II.*: the manuscript volume in the Heralds' College which also contains W. and M. Liber Regalis: Missale ad usum Ecclesiae Westmonasteriensis, H.B.S. 1893. fasc. ii. col. 673-col. 725. Stewart Orders: those of Jac. I. Car. I. and II. Victoria: 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 Victoria, in the Abbey Church of St. Peter, Westminster, on Thursday, the 28th of June 1838. London, George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode, 1838. W. and M.: the order of William and Mary printed in this volume. W. and M.*: An Account of the Ceremonial at the Coronation ... of King William and Queen Mary, published by order of the Duke of Norfolk. In the Savoy, Edw. Jones, 1689. Wm. IV. 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 Their Majesties King William IV. and Queen Adelaide, in the Abbey Church of S. Peter, Westminster, on Thursday the 8th of September, 1831. London, George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1831. Wm. IV.*: The Ceremonies to be observed at the Royal Coronation of . . . King William the Fourth [London] 1831. Bearing imprimatur of the Earl-Marshal. NOTES ON THE CORONATION OF KING WILLIAM AND QUEEN MARY. P. 3. The text of the Proclamation is given in Appendix II. p. 68. The Council Register of William III. contains several minutes dealing with matters which concern the coronation, of a date earlier than this report, and they are given above at length, in Appendix II. p. 70. Proclamations and Commissions of like purport may be found in Jac. II. (7-10.) Car. II. (28–42.) and Geo. IV* (1–56.) The bishop of London spoken of in this minute was Dr. Henry Compton. Dr. Sancroft, though still Archbishop of Canterbury, had not taken the oaths. At King James II.'s coronation Dr. Sancroft had been directed to view the earlier forms and abridge them, keeping to the essentials (Jac. II. 4.) and this doubtless served as the unfortunate precedent to Dr. Compton for the changes made by him. P. 4. The warrants for the refitting of the Crowns and the preparation of the rest of the royal ornaments may be found in the Public Record Office, Lord Chamberlain's Record, Coronation accounts, 429. 428 of the same accounts contains the charges and description of all the necessaries for this Coronation. (See Appendix VI. p. 78.) The Warrant for the making of the two Coronation rings is in Appendix V. p. 76. Queen Mary's ring is now in the possession of the Duke of Portland and is figured in a paper on "The Queen's Coronation Ring" in Archæological Journal, 1897, vol. liv. p. 3. What follows is quoted from this paper: 66 Queen Mary II.'s ring, belonging to the Duke of Portland, is of gold and the hoop is narrow, hardly a millimeter broad; the diameter is 18 millimeters, The stones are an oblong ruby, ten millimeters long by eight wide, set flush, facetted, eight sided, and not engraved; a diamond at each end of the ruby, oval, five millimeters by three. None of the stones is à jour. [Here appears a woodcut of the ring.] "This ring was exhibited at the Grafton Gallery in the autumn of 1894. Accompanying it was a paper on which was written: "In this paper is contained Queen Mary's Ruby Coronation ring ye old setting shews how it was when she had it first; ye paper with ye ring is Queen Mary's hand writing and gives a reason why it was set in ye manner. A. A.'” "This must refer to the writing which follows: 'this Ruby so set was given me by the Prince three days after we wear married wch being the first thing he gave me I have ever had a perticular esteem for it when I was to be crowned I had it made big enough for ye finger for ye occasion but by mistake it was put on ye King's finger and I had to put on [his ?] Mine was designed for him, but we changed & I have worn it ever since till last thursday ye 17 of Nov. 1689 ye stone dropt out at diner I was extreamly troubled at it upon the account forementioned, therefore having found it lockit up for fear of ye like mischance againe' COR. ORDERS. K |