shown extraordinary patience in enduring frequent visits from me, not only for the purposes of transcription, but also of correcting proofs and of amending faults afterwards discovered in the proofs. I have also received great kindness at the hands of Mr. Francis B. Bickley, of the British Museum, and Mr. Hubert Hall, F.S.A., of the Record Office. Mr. Thomas Preston, F.S.A., has allowed me to transcribe that part of the Privy Council Register which relates to the Coronation of William and Mary, and he has given me every opportunity for this work and all the assistance in his power.

I have also to thank the Lord Chamberlain for permission to transcribe and print several of the appendices to this volume, which have been taken from the accounts of his office now preserved in the Public Record Office in Chancery Lane.

Dom Cuthbert Butler, O.S.B., was good enough to use his influence at Douai to procure for me the transcription of a coronation order in an English pontifical, preserved in the public library of that town. To Mr. Alfred Rogers I am indebted for the transcription of the two manuscripts now edited which are in the Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. To the Master and Fellows of this Society I am very grateful for the permission so readily given for the editing of the manuscripts in their possession.

December, 1900.

J. WICKHAM LEGG.

INTRODUCTION

I.

ΤΟ THE CORONATION ORDER OF

KING WILLIAM AND QUEEN MARY.

THE book from which the order for the coronation of William and Mary has been edited is MS. L. 19. in the Heralds' College. It is a folio volume, the covers 8 inches broad by 12 inches high. The greater number of the leaves contained in the book are 11 inches high, but some of the papers vary in size.

It is bound in modern half vellum, with marbled paper sides: there is this lettering in black Roman capitals on the back: Coronations. Charles 2nd. James 2nd. William and Mary. As this lettering indicates, the volume contains matter, written or printed, which bears upon the coronations of these sovereigns.

The collection begins with three blank leaves, followed by a series of papers, written and printed, dealing with the coronation of King Charles II. An engraving representing coronation is among them. The tracts belonging to the coronation of King James II. begin with a leaf which would be blank if there were not written on it in a modern hand, underlined: K. James the Second. This set of tracts, besides a printed order of the procession, contains the Coronation Service "prepared by Dr. WiHm Sancroft Ld Arch BP of Canterbury."

The third set of papers belongs to the coronation of William and Mary. It also begins with a leaf blank, except that there is written on it: King William and Queen Mary, in the same modern hand as K. James the Second's introductory leaf, and underlined like his. Many of these papers have no liturgical interest. But after two documents which bear upon the office of the heralds, there are four leaves of paper on three of which is written the Report concerning the coronation, from the minutes of the Privy Council, printed below. These leaves before binding had been folded in four. Immediately after this Report comes The Order and Manner of the Coronation, written on fourteen leaves of paper, the last of which is blank.

Both these tracts are written in ordinary cursive handwriting, excepting that the e is a corruption of a court hand e, common at the time at which the book was written.

The water mark of the paper on which the report is written is a shield displaying, as Mr. Everard Green has kindly informed me, the arms of Amsterdam; this shield is supported by two lions, and surmounted by a crown. The paper on which the order of the Coronation is written has a water mark of a shield on which there is a