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A91273	The second part of The signal loyalty and devotion of Gods true saints and pious Christians under the Gospel, (especially in this our island) towards their Christian kings & emperors, whether orthodox or heterodox, virtuous or vicious, Protestants or papists, protectors or persecutors, ever since their kings and emperors first became Christian, till this present. Expressed in, and evidenced by their publike and private supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, options, acclamations, for their long life, health, safety, prosperity, victory over enemies, temporal, spiritual and eternal felicity; peaceable, just, glorious reign over them, &c. And likewise for their queens, children, royal posterity, realms, armies, counsels, officers. ... Together with the various forms of prayers, supplications, collects, votes, and acclamations used at the coronations of emperors and kings, especially of our ancient and late kings of England and Scotland (not hitherto published.) By William Prynne Esq; a bencher of Lincolns Inne.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1660 (1660)	Wing P4075; Thomason E1037_3; ESTC R203326	204,194	342

extitit Coronatus tuo semper munimine tutus sit et securus per Christum Dominum nostrum Anno 1545 And in Process●●ale ad usus insignis Ecclesiae Sarum P●risiis 1545. f. 6. 124 208. I meet with these short Prayers ejaculations then and formerly publickly used in all Processions for our successive Kings Domine salvum sac Regem Regem nostrum ac Principes c. in omni sanctitate custodi Salvum fac Regem n●strum Famulum tuum Et exaudi nos in die quo invocav●rimus te All our antient Missals Offices Howers Primers in times of Popery containing the like Prayers and such as I have formerly recited out of Cassander his Preces Ecclesiasticae together with Prayers for their Souls after their deaths which according to the modern use of the Church of Rome are popish vain sinfull superstitious implying and presupposing a Purgatory but according to their primitive use and institution pious and religious importing no purgatory at all as learned Bishop Vsher proves at large in his Answer to the Jesuites Challenge of Prayers for the Dead p. 194. to 264. to which I refer the Reader for fuller satisfaction herein and concerning the forementioned Prayers for and Charters of our Kings to Monasteries to pray for their own their Ancestors Successors Heirs and others Souls when departed out of this World I'could adde many Prayers made for King Henry the 8th in sundry Epistles and Dedications of Books unto him but for brevity I shall omit all but 3. The 1. is Pope Leo the 10th his Bull to him in the 22. year of his Reign subscribed with all the Cardinals Hands wherein he conferred on him the Title of Defender of the Faith for writing a Book against Luther in defence of Pardous the Papacy and 7. Sacraments which Bull begins thus Leo Episcopus Servus servorum Dei Charissimo in Christo filio Henrico Angliae Regi Fidei defensori salutem et Apostolicam benedictionem And is closed with this Benediction and Prayer for him and his Posterity Perpetuum hoc immortale gloriae tuae monumentum Posteris tuis relinquere illisque viam ostendere ut si tali titulo ipsi quoque insigniri optabunt talia etiam opera efficere praeclaraque Majestatis tuae vestigia sequi studeant quam prout de Nobis dicta sede optimè merita est unâ cum uxore filiis ac omnibus qui à te ab illis nascentur Nostra Benedictione in nomine illius à quo illam concedendi potesta● Nobis data est larga liberali manu benedicentes Altissimum illum qui dixit Per me Reges regnant Principes imperant in manu sua corda sunt Regum rogamus et obsecramus ut eam in suo sancto proposito confirmet ejusque devotionem multiplicet ac praeclaris pro sancta fide gestis ita illustret ac toti Orbi terrarum conspicuam reddat ut judicium quod de ipsa fecimus eam tàm insigni titulo decorantes à nemine falsum aut vanum judicari possit Demum mortatis ●ujus vitae finito curriculo sempiternae illius gloriae consortem atque participem reddat The 2 is William Wraghton an acute Protestant Writer who in his Epistles to King Henry the 8th before his two Books intituled The Hunting of the Romish Fox printed at Basyl 1543. And his Rescuing of the Romish Fox against Stephen Gardner printed 1545. Wisheth him prosperity both of Body and Soul closing his last Epistle to him with this Prayer God grant you health both of Body and Soul victory over your Enemies and Grace to do in this our matter of Religion as shall be most to the Glory of God and the profit of the Common-wealth Amen And he closeth his last Treatise with this Prayer God save the King The third is our learned Protestant Divine Thomas Beacon who in his Path-way unto Prayer dedicated to the Lady Anne Grey ch 55. hath this Godly exhortation to all private Christians ●et us flee to God at all times with humble O●secrations and hearty Requests Let our Prayers be continual Let us in all our Prayers seek the glory of God the advancement of his most blessed word and the health of our own Souls Let us pray for the prefervation of the Kings most excellent Majesty H. 8. and for the prosperous successe of his intirely-beloved Son Edward our Prince that most Angel-like Impe. Let us pray for all the Lords Spiritual and Temporal specially for those that have the regiment of the Publick-weal under the Kings Graces Highness Let us pray for the Ministers of Gods Word that they may freely speak the truth of Christs Gospel as it becommeth them Let us pray for all men universally chiefly for the Inhabitants of this Realm of England That they may all bear a faithfull heart both towards God and our King Anno 1557 Upon the Reformation of Religion and abolishing of Popish Missals Psalters Howers Processionals and Portuasses by King Edward the sixth in his Parliament 2. 3 Edw. 6. ch 10. the King by advice of his Convocation and Parliament commanded A Book of common-Common-prayer and Administration of the Sacraments in the English Tongue to be used in all Churches and Chapels throughout the Realm by the Statutes of 2 E. 6 c. 1. 5 6 E. 6. c. 1. Wherein there was not only a Prayer for the King in the Letany but in a special Collect agreeing in substance with those in our later Books of common-Common-Prayer hereafter cited In this pious Kings reign the Bishops and Ministers in their Epistles and Dedications to him and in their Prayers before after their Sermons usually prayed most heartily and particularly for his long life religious and prosperous reign and spiritual temporal and eternal felicity And John Bale Bishop of Ossery in his Image of both Churches or Paraphrase upon St. Johns Revelation printed 1550. in the last page thereof exhorts all Gods meek-spirited Servants in their daily Prayer afore all other to remember that most worthy Minister of God King Edward the sixth which hath so sore wounded the Beast that he may throw all his Superstition into the bottomless● lake again from whence they have comen to the comfort of his People Our learned Thomas Beacon in his Preface to The Flower of Godly Prayers dedicated to Anne Dutchesse of Somerset as he doth exceedingly bl●sse God for the extraordinary zeal and piety of King Edward the 6th in delivering his Realm from Antichristian Tyranny and Popery reforming the Church propagating true religion and in giving us this most worthy Prince to be our King So he hath this particular Prayer for the King to be used by all private Christians daily in their respective Families and Closets with zeal and devotion Almighty God e King of Kings and Lord of Lords which by thy divine ordinance hast appointed Temporal Rulers to govern thy People according to equity

everie person and persons inhabiting within this Realm of England and the Dominions of the same shall alwaies upon that day diligentlie and faithfullie resort to the Parish Church or Chapel accustomed or to some usual Church or Chapel where the said Morning prayer preaching or other service of God shall be used and then and there to abide orderlie and soberlie during the time of the said prayers preaching or other service of God there to be used and ministred And because all and everie person may be put in mind of this Dutie and be the better prepared to the said holy service Be it enacted by Authoritie aforesaid That every Minister shall give warning to his Parishioners publikelie in the Church at morning prayer the Sunday before everie such fifth day of November for the due observation of the said day And that after morning Prayer or preaching upon the said fifth day of November they read publicklie distinctlie and plainlie this present Act. Upon this occasion there was a special Book of Prayers and Thanksgivings compiled by the Bishops and Clergy prescribed by Authority to be annually read in all Churches and Chapels on the 5th of November wherein amongst others there were four remarkable prayers and thanksgivings relating to the King Queen Prince all the Royal posterity Nobility and Magistrates which I shall here insert I. ALmighty God who hast in all Ages shewed thy power and mercy in the miraculous and gracious deliverances of thy Church and in the protection of righteous and religious Kings and States professing thy Holy and Eternal Truth against the wicked conspiracies and malicious practises of all the enemies thereof We yield unto thee from the very ground of our hearts all possible praise and thanks for the wonderfull and mighty Deliverance of our gracious Soveraign King Iames the Queen the Prince and all the Royal branches with the Nobility Clergy and Commons of this Realm assembled together in Parliament by popish treachery appointed as sheep to the slaughter and that in most barbarous and savage manner no age yielding example of the like cruelty intended towards the Lords anointed and his people Can this thy goodness O Lord be forgotten worthy to be written in a pillar of Marble that we may ever remember to praise thee for the same as the fact is worthy a lasting monument that all posteritie may learn to detest it From this unnatural conspiracy not our merit but thy mercy not our foresight but thy providence hath delivered us not our love to thee but thy love to thy anointed servant and thy poor Church with whom thou hast promised to be present to the end of the world And therefore not unto us not unto us Lord but to thy Name be ascribed all honour and glorie in all Churches of the Saints throughout all generations for thou Lord hast discovered the snares of death thou hast broken them and we are delivere●d be thou still our mighty Protector and scatter our cruel Enemies which delight in blood infatuate their Counsel and root out their Babylonish and Antichristian sect which say of Ierusalem down with it even to the ground And to that end strengthen the hands of our gracious King the Nobles and Magistrates of the Land with Iudgement and Iustice to cut off these Workers of Iniquity whose Religion is Rebellion whose Faith is Faction whose Practise is murthering of Souls and Bodies and to root them out of the confines and limits of this Kingdom that they may never prevail against us and triumph in the ruine of thy Church and give us grace by true and serious repentance to avert these and the like Judgements from us This Lord we earnestlie crave at thy mercifull hands together with the countenance of thy powerfull protection over our dread Soveraign the whole Church and these Realms and the speedie confusion of our implacable Enemies and that for thy dear Sons sake our onlie mediator and advocate II. ALmighty God and heavenly Father which of thy everlasting providence and tender mercy towards us hast prevented the extreme malice and mischievous imagination of our ensmies revealing and confounding their horrible and devilish enterprise plotted against our Soveraign Lord the King his Royal House and the whole State of this Realm for the subversion thereof together with the truth of thy Gospel and pure Religion amongst us and for the reducing of Popish Superstition and tyranny into this Church and land we most humbly prayse and magnifie thy glorious name for thine infinite gracious goodnesse in this our marvelleus Deliverance we confesse it was and is thy mercy thy mercy alone most mercifull Father that we are not consumed that their snare is broken and our Soul is escaped For our sins cryed to Heaven against us and our iniquities justly called for judgement upon us but thy great mercy towards us hath exalted it self above judgement not to deal with us after our sins to give us over as we deserved to be a prey to our enemies but taking our correction into thine own hands to deliver us from their blood-thirsty malice and preserve from death and destruction our King and State with thy Gospel and true Religion amongst us Good Lord give us true repentance and unfeigned conversion unto thee to prevent further judgements increase us more and more in lively Faith and fruitfull love in all obedience that thou mayest continue thy loving favour with the light of thy Gospol to us and our Posterity for evermore Make us now and alwaies truely thankfull in heart word and deed for all thy gracious mercies and this our special deliverance Protect and defend our Soveraign Lord the King with the Queen and all the Royal Progeny from all treasons and conspiracies preserve them in thy faith fear and love under the shadow of thy wings against all evil and wickednesss prosper their reign with long happinesse on earth and everlasting glory following in the Kingdom of Heaven Bless the whole State and Realm with grace and peace that with one heart and mouth we may praise thee in thy Church and alwaies sing joyfully that thy mercifull kindness is ever more and more towards us and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever through Jesus Christ our only Saviour and Redeemer Amen III. ETernal God and our most mighty Protector we thy people of this Land confesse our selves above all the Nations of the earth infinitely bound unto thy heavenly Majesty for thy many unspeakable benefits conferred and heaped upon us especially for planting thy Gospel among us and placing over us a most gracious King a faithfull Professor and Defendor of the same both which exasperate the enemies of true Religion and enrage their thoughts to the invention of most dreadfull designs all which notwithstanding it hath pleased thee hitherto either to prevent or overthrow at this time principally thou hast most strangely discovered an horrible and cruel plot and device for the m●ssacring as well of thy dear Servant and

and for that cometh of thee all Counsel and equity all understanding and strength grant unto us here gathered together in thy name that wisdom which is alwaies assistant to thy seat to give knowledge to our feeble and ignorant minds Send down we beseech thee the same wisdom out of thy holy heavens and from the throne of thy Majesty that is may be now with us and labour with us whereby we surely knowing what is acceptable unto thee may be led through it to the debating weighing and final determining of those matters by the which thy blessed Name may be glorified thy Catholick Church of England confirmed and increased the Kings assurance established the common tranquillity of this Realm safely maintained and last of all all estates and people thereof in true obedience and charity united and knit together Grant this O God for thy only Sons sake Jesus Christ our Lord Amen In the Lords House the Collects and Prayers in the Common Prayer Book and Letany for the King Queen Prince and Royal Posterity with other prayers were daily used by the Bishops and Peers during their Session To mention all the particular Prayers for the King Queen and Royal posterity comprised in Books of private Prayers and Devotion as the Practice of Piety and the like and Epistles Dedicatory perfixed to hundreds of B●oks and Sermons dedicated to King James by Bishops Ministers and others of all sorts and in usual Graces before and after meals would be both infinite and nauseous being commonly known and obvious to all and therefore I shall wholy pretermit them the substance of them being comprised in those Prayers already mentioned Anno 165 I shall now proceed to the reign of our late King Charles who as he had constant Supplications and Prayers made for him in all Cathedral and Parish Churches Chapels Colledges most private families and in our Parliaments themselves by name during all King James his reign as Duke of York and Prince of Wales so after his comming to the Crown March 27. 1625. till January 1648. he had the like publike and private Prayers Intercessions and Supplications made for him throughout his 3. Realms as King and for his Queen and royal Posteritie not only by our preaching Ministers in their prayers before their Sermons and by most others in their morning and evening family and closet prayers Graces before or after meales as our own experience attests but likewise these special set Prayers Petitions and Collects in our Letany and common Prayer Book which I shall here transcribe because almost quite forgotten by above 12. whole years discontinuance in most Churches Families too In the publike L●tany ordered to be read thrice every week or oftener upon occasion there are these several Prayers and Petitions to God That it would please thee to keep and strengthen in the true worshipping of thee in righteousnesse and holinesse of life thy servant Charles our most gracious King and Governor That it may please thee to rule his heart in thy faith fear and love and that he may evermore have affiance in thee and ever seek thy honour and glory That it may please thee to be his defender and keeper giving him the victory over all his Enemies That it may please thee to blesse and preserve our gratious Queen Mary Prince Charles and the rest of the Royal Issue After every of which several Prayers and Supplications all the People severally answered We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. After which followed these two Prayers for the Kings Majestie the Queen Prince and Royal Issue and read twice every day in most places O God our heavenly Father high and mighty King of Kings and Lord of Lords the only Ruler of Princes which dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers upon earth most heartily we beseech thee with thy favour to behold our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles and so replenish him with the grace of thy holy Spirit that he may alwaies incline to thy will and walk in thy way endue him plentifully with heavenly gifts Grant him in health and wealth long to live strengthen him that he may vanquish and overcome all his Enemies and finally after this life he may attain everlasting joy and felicity through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Almighty God the Father of thine elect and of their seed which Bishop Laud changed into the fountain of all goodnesse we humbly beseech thee to blesse our gracious Queen Mary Prince Charles and the rest of the royal issue Endue them with thy holy Spirit enrich them with thy Heavenly grace prosper them with all happinesse and bring them to thine everlasting Kingdom through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen In the Prayer for the whole Estate of Christs Church there is this Clause relating to Kings in general and King Charles in particular We beseech thee also to save and defend all Christian Kings Princes and Governors and Specially thy servant Charles our King that under him we may be godly and quietly Governed When these Prayers and Collects with the Book of common-Common-Prayer were suspended by the Directory of the publike worship of God in most places throughout the 3 Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland Printed by order of both Houses 13 Martii 1644. yet the substance of them was still continued by the very Directory it self during the heat of the late Wars between the King and Parliament witnesse p. 10 11. of publike Prayer before the Sermon wherein all Ministers are directed To pray for all in Authority especially for the Kings Majesty that God would make him rich in blessings both in Person and Government establish his Throne in Religion and righteousnesse save him from all evil Counsel and make him a blessed and glorious Instrument for the Conservation and Propagation of the Gospel for the Encouragement and Protection of those that do well and the terror of all that do evil and the great good of the whole Church and of all his Kingdoms for the Conversion of the Queen the Religious education of the Prince and the rest of the Royal seed for the comforting of the afflicted Queen of Bohemia sister to our Soveraign and for the Restitation and Establishment of the Illustrious Prince Charls Elector Palatine much more then now of our Illustrious long-exiled King CHARLES to all his Dominions and Dignities To pretermit all Prayers made for King Charles in Epistles perfixed to hundreds of Books of all sorts dedicated to him whiles Prince of Wales and King of England Scotland and Ireland I shall Conclude only with 3. short Prayers of this Nature in 3. of our learnedest late deceased Antiquaries Dedicatory Epistles to his Majesty being of 3. several professions The first is Mr. John Seldens in the cloze of his Dedicatory Epistle to His Mare clausum Londini 1635. Inexuperabilem Tibi felicitatem sanctissima illa Majestas quae Tuae ●rchetypa est praestet conservetque The 2. is Sir Henry Spelmans in

THE SECOND PART OF THE Signal Loyalty and Devotion of Gods true Saints and Pious Christians under the Gospel especially in this our Island towards their Christian Kings Emperors Whether Orthodox or Heterodox Virtuous or Vicious Protestants or Papists Protectors or Persecutors ever since their KINGS and EMPERORS first became CHRISTIAN till this present Expressed in and Evidenced by their publike and private Supplications Prayers Intercessions Thanksgivings OPTIONS Acclamations for their long life Health Safety Presperity Victory over Enemies temporal spiritual and elernal Felicity peaceable just glorious reign over them c. And likewise for their Queens Children Royal Posterity Realms Armies Counsels Officers Largely manifested both in point of Theory and Practice in a Chronological method by Fathers Councils Ecclefiastical Histories Liturgies Missals Books of publike and private Prayers Poems Panegyricks Epistles Records Charters and Authors of all sorts and ages Together with the various Forms of Prayers Supplications Collects Votes and Acclamations used at the Coronations of Emperors and Kings especially of our ancient and late Kings of England and Scotland not hitherto published By WILLIAM PRYNNE Esq a Bencher of Lincolns Inne Psal 132. 1. Lord remember David and all his afflictions Psal 46. 6 7. Sing Prayses unto our God sing prayses sing Praises unto our King sing praises For God is the King of all the Earth sing ye Praises with understanding 2 Sam. 19. 24 15. And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah even as one man so as they sent this word unto the King Return thou and all thy servants So the King returned and came to Jordan and all Judah came to Gilgal to go to meet the King to conduct the King over Iordan LONDON Printed by T. Childe and L. Parry and are to be sold by Edward Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little Britain 1660. To his most Illustrious over-long Exterminated but now happily Restored Soveraign CHARLS the SECOND By the Miraculous Grace of God and indubitable Hereditary Birthright and Succession of ENGLAND SCOTLAND FRANCE and IRELAND KING the invincible constant Professor and DEFENDOR of the truly Antient Catholick and Apostolick FAITH in the midst of manifold Persecutions Provocations Solicitations Temptations and Fiery Tryals the Magazin of all Christian and Royal Virtues and Miracle of Gods preserving and restoring Mercies Most gracious Soveraign THe only potentate and KING OF KINGS who removeth Kings and SETTETH UP KINGS and ruleth in the KINGDOM OF MEN TO GIVE IT TO WHOMS OEVER HE PLEASETH having by his own Omnipotent out-stretched arm and successive Miraculous Providences unexpectedly cut-off cast down subverted dissipated without hands or bloodshed the most Execrable Perfidious Trayterous Murderers of your Royal Father KING CHARLS the first of Glorious Memory and Unjust disinheriters and proscribers of your Sacred Majestie out of all your own Hereditary Kingdoms and some forein States by Violence War and inhumane Tyranny enforcing your Majesty oft to cry out with the Exiled Kingly Prophet We is me that I am constrained to dwell in Mesech and to have my habitation among the tents of Kedar c. who by rigorous Edicts debarred your Majestie not only of the Charitable Relief of your own Protestant Subjects but likewise of the Christian Aid and Evangelical Tribute due to all Pagan as well as Christian KINGS by divine and common natural Right of their daily Supplications Prayers and Intercessions to God for your Personal Preservation and Restitution under severest Penalties imposed many insupportable new Yoaks of Bondage on all your Subjects necks and worse than Aegyptian Burdens upon their galled backs for sundry yeares almost to their Irrecoverable ruine it pleased this Soveraign King over all the earth and God of the Spirits of all flesh by strange Miracles of mercy through the preparatory loyal Endeavours of some of your Majesties most inconsiderable faithfull Subjects upon the very first Reception and reading of your Majesties most gracious Letters and Declarations to the Lords Commons City of London Army and Navy immediately to bow the hearts and spirits of both your Houses of Parliament and all your Subjects yea of the very Military Officers Forces by Land and Sea formerly raised engaged against your Majesties Cause and Kingship as the heart of one man as he bowed the hearts of the men of Judah after rebellious usurping Absoloms death in the ●ase of exterminated King David so that they immediately and unanimously voted your Majesties speedy return dispatched their several Letters Votes Messengers Fleet and Monies to your Majesty without one dissenting voice to hasten your Majesties return and transport you with honour and safety to enjoy your KINGLY AUTHORITY and PATRIMONY contending with a most cordial aemulation who should be first and forwardest to bring back and conduct your Majesty together with your Princely Brothers and Followers from your long most deplorable exile to your Royal City and Palace with all possible demonstrations of their publike joy and dutifull Allegeance to your Majesty and farr greater Magnificence Solemnity Triumph and multitudes of Conductors than any of your most Victorious Royal Progenitors enjoyed when they returned into England from their greatest Forein Conquests And that which crowned this Miracle of Mercies was its celerity and season it having both its inception and perfection within the limits of one Month and its completion on Your Majesties Birth-day May 29. whereon as You were first born a Prince You were now re-born A MOST GLORIOUS KING and most magnificently invested in the possession of Your Royal Throne at Whitehall in the presence of all your Majesties Lords Commons and thousands of your People there assembled who with their united Shouts Prayers Praises Acclamations Benedictions and Panegyricks congratulated your Maties Natural and Political Nativity thereon both as a Man and Monarch together with the new Birth and Resurrection of Your three United Kingdoms and Churches of ENGLAND SCOTLAND and IRELAND and their respective Dominions being all raised from their Graves of Death and Misery wherein they had for some years space before been interred and were new born AS KINGDOMS and Churches too on that joyful day worthy to be celebrated by them in all succeeding Generations and to have this Divine motto engraven thereon The stone which the builders refused is this day become the Head of the corner This is the Lords doing and it is marvellous in our eyes THIS IS THE DAY WHICH THE LORD HATH MADE WEE WILL REJOYCE AND BE GLAD THEREIN What the elegant Prophet Isaiah records of Gods miraculous Mercies towards his Church and people Before she travelled she brought forth before her pain came she was delivered of a man-child Who hath heard such a thing WHO HATH SEEN SUCH THINGS Shall the Earth be made to bring forth in ONE DAY OR SHALL A NATION BE BORN AT ONCE For as soon as ZION-travelled she brought forth her children Was now verified both of your Majesty and

apud Altissimum de quo omnis gratia procedit tota mentis solicitudine preces orationes devotissimè infundant devotis precibus intercessionibus ac Processionibus Missarum celebrationibus ad specialem gratiam Dei impetrandam pro expeditione Nostra ac aliorum Magnatum fidelium nobiseum in excercitu nostro in partibus praedictis existentium qui corpora nostra propter salvation● terrae illius pericusis ponere non evitamus assiduè infistant apud Deum ut ipse Deus statum nostrum Ecclesiaeque Regni ac terrae praedictorum conservare dignetur prosperum tranquillum Nobisque fidelibus nostris in actibus nostris in terra nostra praedicta alibi expeditionem felicem pro sua magna pietate misericorditer tribuat concedat Teste Edmundo Duce Eborum Custode Angliae apud Westm xv die Octob. Consimile breve dirigitur Th. Episcopo Eborum Angliae Primati sub eadem Data Rex venerabili in Christo patri R. eadem gratia Episcopo London salutem Cum propter bonum regimen c. ut suprae usque ibi consideratis et tunc sic universos singulos clericos subditos vestros tam regulares quam seculares vestrae dioc ad devotionem suam erga summum Regem c. ut super Teste ut supra Consimilia brevia diriguntur subscriptis sub eadem data viz. W. Episcopo Wynton I. Episcopo Lincoln I. Episcopo Sarum R. Episcopo Bath Well R. Episcopo Covent Lich. I. Episcopo Elien W. Episcopo Dunolm Th. Episcopo Karliol R. Episcopo Cicest W. Episcopo Roffen I. Episcopo Hereford H. Episcopo Wygorn Th. Episcopo Exon. I. Episcopo Meneven H. Episcopo Norwicen I. Episcopo Bangoren T. Episcopo Landaven Custodi spiritual Episcopatus Assaven King Richard the 2d in the 22. year of his reign consirmed by his Charter to the Abby of Graces near the Tower of London founded by King Edward his Grand-Father sundry Lands and Tenements in respect of the various dangers to which he and the Kingdom were in humane reason exposed to by Land and Sea beyond recovery Ad Missas et alia divina officia singulis diebus celebrandas et faciendas in Abbatia praedicta pro salubri statu et prosperitate Nostra dum vixerimus Et pro anima nostra dum ab hac luce migraverimus pro anima ejusdem A●i nostri specialiter animabus omnium aliorum Progenitorum Haeredum Successorum nostrorum omnium fidelium defunctorum in perpetuum And Michael de la Poole founded the Monastery at Kingston upon Hull confirmed by King Richard the 2d granting sundry Lands to the Prior Monks and their successors upon this condition Volumus itaque ordinamus quod praefati Prior Monachi eorum successores habeant specialiter in Missis orationibus aliis divinis serviciis recommendatum statum nobilissimi Domini Regis Ricardi praedicti nostrum and of several others particularly mentioned dum vixerimus cum ab hac luce migraverimus orent celebrent celebrari facient pro animabus nostris ac specialiter et continuè pro anima dicti Domini nostri Regis Edwardi defuncti and of several others particularly mentioned pro quibus orare tenemur et omnium fidelium defunctorum I could adde many more Writs and Mandates of the former nature upon extraordinary Occasions out of the Clause Rolls of King John Hen. the 3d. Edw. the 3d. Henry the 4 5 6. Edward 4. H. 7 8. Edward 6. Queen Elizabeth King James and King Charles which because they would rather surfit than delight or instruct the Readers I shall wholy pretermit King Henry the 5th founded a Monasterie at S●ene the grounds and ends whereof he thus expressed in his Charter C●m excelsae Majestatis exennia quae gloriam nostri regiminis de die in diem ubertim ut ipsi videmus extollant ritè à Nobis gratiarum vendicant actiones justissimum credimus ut eo ●●dio in a●ctor●m tendant quo nobis ab auctore fl●●●runt nomine Salvatoris ut sicut per M●diatorem Deiet hominum Dominum Jesum ad Nos indignos depatre luminum bon● cuncta procedunt ità nostrae laudes quamvis inutiles per eundem Jesum Christum et datorem gratiarum omnis boni principium revertantur Whereupon he granted and confirmed for him and his Heirs sundry Lands to this Monastery free from all secular exaction and service Pro orationibus et aliis divinis Officiis inivi faciendis pro salubri statu nostro dum vixerimus ac anima nostra cum ab h●c luce migraverimus animabus parentum progenitorum nostrorum omnium fidelium defunctorum Necnon pro pace tranquillitate et quiete populi et Regni nostri ac insuper pro aliis pietatis operibus ibidem sustinendis ministrandis et supportandis juxta ordinationem nostram haereredum et executorum nostrorum in hac parte plenius faciendam which was accordingly executed King Edward the 4th by his Charter of 17 Febr. in the first year of his Reign granted the Priory of Shirburn to the Hospital of St. Julian called Domus Dei in the Town of Southampton In augmentationem divinae cultus infra hospitale nostrum sancti Juliani c Necno● ut dilect● Nobis in Christo Magister Jahannes P●reson nunc Custos Hospitalis praedicti ac nunc Capellani et Fratres ejusdem Hospitalis ac successores sui pro salubri statu nostri et Haeredum et Successorum nostrorum dum agimus in humanis Necnon pro animabus nostris cum universae carnis viam ing●essi fuerimus necnon pro animabus recolendae memoriae Principis Ricardi nuper Ducis Eb●rici Patris nostri c. Et omnium aliorum Primogenitorum nostrorum Imperpetuum specialiter exorare teneantur King Henry the 7th appropriated the Churches of Potterspiry and Eggemond to the Priory and Covent of St. Anne by Coventre founded by his Ancestors Ut iidem Prior Conventus Pro bono statu nostro ac Consortis nostrae liberorumque nostrorum ac carissimae matris nostrae Deum altissimum deprecentur indies et exorent ac missam de Spiritu sancto pro Nobis semel in ebdomade durante vita nostra faciant celebrari et quendam solempnem annualem obitum pro anima nostra cum ab hac luce migraverimus custodiant et observent Anno 1519 Anno 10 H. 8. In the Book entituled Horae beatissimae Mariae ad ligituum Ecclesiae Salisburiensis ritum printed Parisiis 1519. the 10. year of King Henry the 8th but generally used throughout England some hundreds of years before f. 12. there is this set form of Prayer for the King of England for the time being Deus regnorum et Christiani maximè Protector Imperii Da Servo tuo H. Regi nostro de Hoste triumphum ut qui tua providentia

and justice and to live among them as a loving Father among his natural Children unto the advancement of the good and punishment of the evil we most humbly beseech thee favourably to behold Edward thy Servant our King and Governour and to breath into his heart through thy holy Spirit that Wisdom that is ever about the Throne of thy Majesty whereby he may be provoked moved and stirred to love fear and serve thee to seek thy glory to banish Idolatry Superstition and Hypocrisy out of this his Realm and unfeignedly to avance thy holy and pure Religion among us his Subjects unto the example of other forein Nations O Lord defend him from his enemies send him long and prosperous life among us and give him grace not only in his own Person godly and justly to rule but also to appoint such Magistrates under him as may be likewise affected both toward thy holy Word and toward the Common-weal that his Subjects living under his Dominion in all godlinesse peace and wealth may passe the time of this our short pilgrimage in thy fear and service unto the glory of thy blessed name which alone is worthy all honour for ever and ever Amen Next after this follows one Prayer for the Kings Council And after that a Prayer for the common peace and quietnesse of all Realms very seasonable for our times And in his Pomaunder of Prayer he hath this Prayer of Subjects or Commons As it is thy godly appointment O Lord God That some should bear rule in the world to see thy Glory set forth and the common peace kept so is it thy pleasure again that some should be Subjects and Inferiours to others in their vocation although before thee there is no respect of Persons And for as much as it is thy good will to appoint me in the number of Subjects I beseech thee to give me a faithfull and an obedient heart unto the High Powers that there may be found in me no Disobedience no Vnfaithfullnesse no Treason no Falsehood no Dissimulation no Insurrection no Commotion no Conspiracy nor any kind of Rebellion in Word or Deed against the Civil Magistrates But all Faithfulnesse Quietnesse Subjection Humility and whatsoever else becommeth a Subject That I living her● in all lowlynesse of mind may at the last day through thy favour be lifted up into everlasting Glory where thou with the Father and the Holy Ghost liv●st and reignest very God for ever Amen These were the Godly Loyal fervent daily publick and private Prayers of Protestant Ministers and Subjects for King Edward the 6th in that Age. Anno 1554 Queen Mary a Popish Prince succeeding King Edward set aside the Book of common-Common-prayer and introduced Popish M●ssals Processi●nals Howers Prim●rs and Popery again wherein they publickly prayed for her in the forecited manner under our Popish King● her zealous Protestant Bishops Ministers and Subjects likewise making ●ervent constant Prayers for her But some over-zealous Anabaptistical Fanaticks using some unchristian expressions in their Prayers against her That God would cut her off and shorten her daies of which there was complaint made in Parliament Whereupon there was this special Act made against such Prayers Anno 1555. 1 2 Phil. Mar. ch 9. Anno 1555 Forasmuch as now of late diverse noughty seditious malicious and heretical persons not having the fear of God before their eyes who in a divellish sort contrary to the duty of their Allegiance congregated themselves together in Conventicles in divers and sundry prophane places within the City of London esteeming themselves to be in the true Faith where indeed they are in Errors and Heresies and out of the true trade of Christs Catholick Religion and in the same places at several times using their phantastical and schismatical services have of their most malicious and wicked Stomachs prayed against the Queens Majesty That God would turn her Heart from Idolatry to the true Faith which was good and Christian or else to shorten her daies or take her quickly out of the way Which Prayer was never heard or read to have been used by any good Christian man against any Prince though he were a Pagan and Infidel and much lesse against any Christian Prince and especially so virtuous a Princess as our Soveraign Lady that now is is known to be c. For reformation whereof it is enacted That every such person and persons which since the beginning of this Parliament have by expresse words and sayings prayed required or desired or hereafter shall pray by express words or sayings That God would shorten her daies or take her out of the way whose life Almighty God long preserve or any such like malicious Prayer amounting to the same effect their Promoters Abetters therein shall be taken reputed and judged Traytors and every such praying requiring and desiring shall be judged taken and reputed High Treason And the Offendors therein their Procurours and Abetters being thereof lawfully convict according to the Laws of this Realm shall have suffer and forfeit as in Cases of High Treason Provided alwaies and be it enacted that if any Person or Persons shall be indicted for any the offences aforesaid done and perpetrated during this Session of this present Parliament and upon his or their arraignment shall shew him or themselves penitent for their offence and submit him or themselves to the Kings and Queens mercy and humbly desire the same before such Justices or Commissioners before whom he or they shall be arraigned that then no judgement of conviction or attaindour of Treason shall be given against any such Person or Persons so being penitent and submitting themselves And in every such case the Justices or Commissioners before whom such Person or Persons shall be arraigned shall have authority by virtue of this Act to prescribe adjudge and appoint such corporal punishment other than death to such offender and offenders as to them by their discretion shall seem convenient and upon that penance prescribed and done to be discharged of the said Treason comprised in that Judgement These prayers were much against and directly contrary to the Judgement of Archbishop Cranmer Bishop Farrer Bishop Hooper Rowland Taylor John Philpot John Bradford Edward Crome John Rogers Laurence Saunders Edward Laurence Miles Coverdale Bishop of Fxon and other of our godly Protestant Bishops and Ministers who soon after suffered as Martyrs they in their Letter the 8. of May Anno Dom. 1554. professing That as obedient Subjects we shall behave our selves towards Queen Mary and all that be in Authority and not cease to pray to God for them that he would govern them all generally and particularly with the spirit of wisdom and grace and so we heartily desire and humbly pray all men to do in no point consenting to any kind of rebellion or sedition against our Soveraign Lady the Queens Highnesse but where they cannot obey but they must disobey God there to submit themselves

with all patience and humility to suffer as the will and pleasure of the higher powers shall adjudge as we are ready through the goodness of the Lord to suffer whatsoever they shall ●djudge us unto And Bishop Hooper writ an Apology against the slanderous Report made of him that he should encourage and maintain such as cursed Qu. Mary printed 1552. wherein his innocency and loyalty to the Queen in praying for her are vindicated at large In this Parliament there being a general opinion that Queen Mary was with child by King Philip her husband there was a special Act made that in case Queen Mary should die during her childs Minority that King Philip should have the education and protection of him In which Act The Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons assembled in Parliament have firm hopes and confidence by the goodnesse of Almighty God that he will of his infinite goodnesse give the Queens Majesty and Highnesse strength the rather by our continual prayers so passe well the danger of deliverance of Child c. Upon this occasion the Popish Bishops Clergy and Churchmen made many Processions Masses Collects and Prayers to be daily said in all Churches for Qu. Maryes safe deliverance and her issue recorded at large by Mr. Fox where you may peruse them in one of which prayers there were these expressions Give unto our Queen thy servant a little infant in fashion and body comely and beautifull in pregnant wit notable and excellent Grant the same to be in obedience like Abraham in chastity and Brotherly love like Joseph in meeknesse and mildnesse like Moses in strength and valour like Sampson let him be found faithfull as David after thy heart let him be wise among Kings as the most wise Solomon let him be like Job a simple and an upright man fearing God and eschewing evil let him finally be garnished with the comlinesse of all virtuous conditions and in the same let him wax old and live that he may see his Childrens Children to the third and fourth generation And give unto our Soveraign Lord and Lady King Philip and Queen Mary thy blessings and long-life upon earth and grant that of them may come kings and Queens which may stedfastly continue in faith love and holinesse And blessed be their seed of our God that all Nations may know thou art only God in all the earth which art bl●ssed for ever and ever Amen Anno 1550 After Queen Maries decease Anno 1558. Masses and Popish Prayers being again abolished and the Book of Common Prayer restored by the Parliament of 1 Eliz. ch 2. there were the same prayers publickly used for the Queen both in the Letany and Collects as were formerly used for King Edward and in sundry Books dedicated to her Majesty and Prayers published during Her reign there were many loyal and zealous Prayers Supplications and Intercessions made to God for her long life and Prosperous reign over-tedious to recite at large and vulgarly known and in all or most Prayers Morning and Evening for Private Families and Christians there were special Petitions to God for her Majesty some of them being Printed with the Bibles themselves then in use and likewise at the end of most Quarto Bibles under King James and King Charles I shall touch only upon some few presidents of many Anno 1564 In the 2. year of her reign John Veron Divinity Lecturer at Pauls in the close of his Dedicatory Epistle to Her Majestie before his Fruitfull Treatise of Predestination prayes thus Christ Jesus of his tender mercy and goodnesse vouchsafe to defend and preserve your most Gracious Highnesse from all your Enemies and with his holy Spirit so to fill strengthen and comfort your Princely heart that ye may at all times boldly set forth his glory and maintain it to your lives end Which the Lord long continue to his Honor. Anno 1569 In the 7th year of Queen Elizabeth there was a Collection of Prayers in Latin intituled Preces privatae printed by William Seres and published by the Queens special Privilege and Authority wherein not only the Duty of Subjects is set down out of Mat. 22. 17. Rom. 13. 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3. Tit. 3. 1. 1 Pet. 2. but these special Prayers Psalms and Hymnes made to God to be used daily in private Closets and Families for the Queen Domine Pater coelestis Rex Regum Dominus Dominantium omnium Principum gubernator rector intimis votis te suppliciter quaesumus Reginam nostram Elizabetham benigno vultu respicias eique singulari gratia spiritu sancto ità semper assistere digneris ut voluntatem tu●m ubique exequatur secundum saluberimam normam mandatorum tuorum omnem vitam transigat Accumul● in illam coel●stia tua dona ut diu feliciter Nobis imperet Hostes sortiter devincat tandemque in Coelesti gloria vivat in aeternum qui vivis regnas Deus per omnia saecula saeculorum Amen After which follow the same Prayers for her in Latin in the Letany as in the English Letany in the Book of common-Common-prayer And the same Collects for her in Latin as for her and the King in English Then there ensue Psalmi selecti peculiares pro Rege vel Regina to wit Psalm 20 21 72. applyed to the King and Queen litterally with Domine salvum fac Regem exaudi nos in die in qua invocaverimus After that Precatio ad exemplum orationis Salomonis pro Regina Domine Deus qui serenissimam nostram Reginam super nos regnare fecisti eamque in medio populi tui ut in aequitate Nos regat in cordis integritate subditos suos judicet constituisti Mitte illi quaeso de coelis sanctis tuis à sede majestatis tuae assistricem tuam sapientiam ut ei semper adfit apud eam perpetuò refideat ut sciat quod tibi acceptum sit Dies praetereà super Dies ejus adjicito eique tàm benignè Principali tua gratia adesto ut in hac vita grata sint tibi opera ejus in futuro tecum regnet in omnem aeternitatem per Christum Dominum et Servatorem nostrum Amen Salvam fac Domine Reginam nec unquam avertas faciem tuam ab ea Vitam longaevam tribus illi et sub umbra tuarum alarum protege eam Amen After these follow this Prayer Pro Christianis Magistratibus Misericors Deus ac Coelestis pater in cujus manu est omnis terrena potestas Magistratus per te constitutos ad supplicium malorum defensionem bonorum in cujus potenti dextera fita sunt omnia jura leges imperatorum Te supplices oramus pro Principe nostro proque eis qui sunt ei à consiliis qui rempublicam administrant ut gladium ipsis per te commissum in side vera timore Dei rectè gerant eoque pro tua

voluntate jussu utantur Obumbret eos virtus sapientia Altissimi Illuminet conservet eos in amore Dei divina tua gratia Da illis ô Domine sapientiam intellectum Concede quietam gubernationem ut omnes subditos in veritate sidei dilectione justitia quae tibi cordi sit regant dicto audientes conservent Proroga ipsis Dies vitae suae et annos multos largire ut prospera laudata ipsorum functione nomen tuum sanctificetur laudetur in omne aevum Amen Towards the end of the Book follow certain Latin Prayers and Graces to be used before and after meals to which there is this Conclusion added Gratiarum actiones à Cibo semper concludantur hac precatiuncula Deus servet Ecclesiam Regem vel Reginam custodiat Consiliarios ejus regat populum universum tueatur pacem Nobis donet perpetuam Amen In imitation whereof this Prayer was commonly used in all Colleges Schools Hospitals Families throughout the Realm in their Graces after every Meal GOD SAVE his Church our King Queen Prince the rest of the Royal Issue when there were such living and Realms God send us Peace in Jesus Christ our Lord. Am●n The like Prayers in English for the Queen to be used in i● Christian Families were published by John Field in his Prayers and Meditations for the use of private Families 1581. The Kings Psalms and Queens Prayers 1590. in Christian private prayers by Edw. Deering 1590. in the Manuel of Prayers set out by Iohn Rogers Anno 1591. in ●hristian Prayers set out by Henry Bull Anno 1592. in Tho. Sampsons Prayers 1592. with sundry others But I shall close up all with Bishop Iewels Prayer for the Queens Majesty in his Epistle to her prefixed to his Apology of the Church of England printed 1570. and after re-printed God evermore enflame and direct your Majesty with his holy Spirit that the zeal of his House may sincerely devour your Gracious heart that you may safely walk in the wayes of your Father David that you may utterly abandon all Groves and Hill-Altars That you may live an old Mother in Israel that you may see an end of all Distractions and stablisht Peace and Unity in the Church of God Amen And with the Prayer of Doctor Thomas Bilson in the close of his Epistle to her Majesty before his Books of The true difference between Christian Subjection and Unchristian Rebellion A very learned and seasonable Treatise wherein he produceth some Testimonies of Fathers praying for Heretical and persecuting Emperors The King of Kings and Lord of Lords bless and preserve your Majesty and as he hath begun a good and glorious work in you and in the Realm by you so continue the same by lightening you with his holy Spirit and defending you with his mighty Arm as he hath done from the day that he chose you to be the Leader and Guider of his People that you may long keep them in truth and peace by the assistance of his Grace to the prayse of his glory increase of the Godly and grief of his and your Subjects Even so Lord Iesus The Clergy of England assembled in Convocation Anno 1603. the first year of King Iames his Reign in their Constitations and Canons Ecclesiastical then agreed upon by them ratified and published by the Kings Authority under his Great Seal did thus evidence to the world their loyalty to the King and his Royal posterity Can. 1. As our Duty to the Kings Most excellent Majesty requireth we first decree and ordain That the Arc●bishop of Canterbury from time to time all Bishops of this Province or Deans Archdeacons Vicars and all other Ecclesiastical persons shall faithfully keep and observe and as much as in them lyeth shall cause to be observed and kept of others all and singular Laws and Statutes made for the restoring to the Crown of this Kingdom the antient Jurisdiction over the State Ecclesiastical and abolishing of all forein power repugant to the same Furthermore all Ecclesiastical persons having cure of Souls and all other Preachers and Readers of Divinity Lectures shall to the uttermost of their wit knowledge and learning purely and sincerely without any colour or dissimulation teach manifest open and declare four times every year at the least in their Sermons and other Collations and Lectures That all usurped and forein power forasmuch as the same hath no establishment nor ground by the Law of God is for most just causes taken away and abolished and that therefore no manner of obedience and subjection within his Majesties Realms and Dominions is due unto any such forein power but that the Kings power within his Realms of England Scotland and Ireland and other his Dominions and Countries IS THE HIGHEST POWER VNDER GOD to whom all men as well Inhabitants as born within the same do by Gods Laws owe most loyalty and obedience afore and above all other Powers and Potentates in the earth Canon II. Impugners of the Kings Supremacy censured Whosoever shall hereafter affirm that the Kings Majesty hath not the ●ame authority in causes Ecclesiastical that the godly Kings had among the Jews and Christian Emperours in the primitive Church or impeach in any part his Regal Supremacy in the said causes restored to the Crown and by the Laws of this Realm therein established let him be excommunicated ipso facto and not restored but only by the Archbishop after his repentance and publick revocation of those his wicked errors Canon XXXVI Subscription required of all such who are to be made Ministers No person shall hereafter be received into the Ministry nor either by Institution or Collation admitted to any Ecclesiastical living nor suffered to preach to Chatechize or to be a Lecturer or Reader of Divinity in either Universities or in any Cathedral or Collegiate Church City or Market-Town Parish-Church Chapel or in any other place within this Realm except he be licenced by the Archbishop or by the Bishop of the Diocesse where he is to be placed under their Hands and Seal or by one of the two Universities under their Seal likewise and except he shall first subscribe to these three Articles following in such manner and sort as we have here appointed 1. That the Kings Majesty under GOD is the only supreme Governour of this Realm and of all other his Highnesse Dominions and Countries aswell in all Spiritual or Ecclesiastical things or causes as Temporal and that no forein Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate have or ought to have Jurisdiction Power Superiority Preeminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within his Majesties said Realms Dominions and Countreys c. And Can. 55. They prescribed this form of prayer to be used by them in their prayers before all their Ser-Lectures and Homilies And herein I require you most especially to pray for the Kings most excellent Majesty our Soveraign Lord CHARLES King of England Scotland France and Ireland Desendor

adsint medici adsint clientes familiares Proceres Milites Duces non ars medicorum non amicorum praesentia non familiarium administratio non medicamentorum copia non apparatus magnificentia non pecuniarum facultas non aliud quicquam rerum humanarum possit reddere infestantem morbum leviorem At si quis valens familiaritate apud Deum accesserit ac corpus languidum duntaxat tetigerit et syncere pro eo oraverit languorem omnem expellet quod non divitiae non numerus Ministrorum magnus non medecinalis scientia non Regius fastus efficere possit hoc unius pauperis atque egeni oratio potuit Oratiouem dico non tamen illam desidiosam sed eam quae intenta ex amino dolente corde contrito proficiscatur Haec enim est quae in coelum scandere valeat To pretermit all passages to this effect in his 15 17 20. Homilies Ad Populum Antiochiae and in his two Homilies De Davide Saul I shall conclude with these set forms of Prayers for Kings in the Liturgy or Masse which is attributed to Chrysostom and printed with his works Memento Domine Augustissimorum et Dei observantium Regum nostrorum Diaconus Pro Augustissimis et Deo deditis Regibus nostris toto palatio et exercitu illorum Dominum rogemus Populus Domine miserere Diaconus Ut illos in bello adjuvet subjiciat pedibus illorum omnem hostem inimicum Dominum rogamus Populus Domine miserere Adhuc te invocamus pro fidelissimis et Christum amantibus nostris Regibus omni palatio et exercitu illorum Da illis Domine pacificum robur ut nos in tranquillitate illorum pacatam quietam vitam agamus in omni pietate religione Pacem mundo tuo da Ecclesiis tuis Sacerdotibus Regibus nostris exercitui omni populo tuo c. Amen St. Augustin de Civitate Dei l. 19. c. 26. thus presseth this duty and the reasons of it Quoniam quamdiu permixtae sunt ambae Civitates utimur nos pace Babylonis Ex qua ita per fidem Dei populus liberatur ut apud hanc interim peregrinetur Propter quod Apostolus admonuit Ecclesiam ut oraret pro Regibus ejus atque sublimibus addens dicens ut quietam tranquillam vitam agamus cum omni pietate charitate Et Propheta Jeremias quum populo veteri Dei venturam praenunciaret captivitatem divinitus imperaret ut obedienter in Babyloniam irent Deo suo etiam ista patientia servientes monuit ipse ut oraretur pro illis dicens Quia in pace ejus erit pax vestra utique interim temporalis quae bonis malisque communis est Pax autem nostra propria hic est cum Deo per fidem in aeternum erit cum illo perspeciem In his book De Catechezandis rudibus He prosecutes this more largely Extiterunt Reges Babyloniae subquibus illi serviebant qui ex eorum occasione commoti quibusdam miraculis cognoscerent colerent coli juberent unum verum Deum qui condidit universam creaturam Jussi sunt autem pro cis orare a quibus captivi tenebantnr eorum pace pacem sperare ad gignendos filios domos aedificandas plantandos hortos vinea● Post septuaginta autem anos promittitur eis ab illa captivitate liberatio Hoc autem totum figurat● significat Ecclesiam Christi in omnibus sanctis ejus qui sunt cives Hierusalem coelestis servituram fuisse sub Regibus hujus seculi Dicit enim Apostolica doctrina ut omnis anima sublimioribus potestatibus subdita sit ut reddantur omnibus omnia cui tributum tuibutum cui vectigal vectigal c. Quae salvo Domini nost●i cultu constitutionis humanae Principibus ●edditur Quando ipse Dominus ut nobis hujus sanae doctrinae praebe et exemplum pro capite hominis quo erat indutus tributum luere non dedignatus est Jubentur autem etiam servi Christiani boni fideles Dominis suis temporalibus aequammiter fideliterque servire quos judicaturi sunt si usque in sinem iniquos invenerint aut cum quibus aequalicer regnaturi sunt si illi ad verum Deum conversi fuerint Omnibus autem praecipitur servire humanis potestatibus atque ter●enis quousque post tempus praefiuitum ab istius saeculi confusione tanquam de captivitate Babyloniae sicut Hierusalem liberetur Ecclesia Ex cujus captivitatis occasione ipsi etiam terreni Reges relictis idolis pro quibus persequebautur Christianos unum verum Deum Christum Dominum cognoverunt colunt Pro quibus Apostolus Paulus jubet orare etiam cum persequerentur ecclesiam Sic enim dicit 1 Tim 2. 1 2 3. Obsecro c. Itaque per ipsos data est Pax Ecclesiae quamvis temporalis tranquillitas temporis ad aedificandas spiritualiter domos plantandos hortos vineas Nam ecce modo per istum sermonem aedisicamus atque plantamus hoc fit per totum orbem terrarum cum pace Regum Christianorum sicut idem dicit Apostolus Dei agricultura Dei Ecclesia estis In his Book Ad Paulum Episcopum paraphrasing upon the 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3. shewing the differences between Supplications Prayers Intercessions and Thanksgivings He addes Pro omnibus hominibus pro Regibus c. ne quisquam sicut se habet humanae cogitationis infirmitas existimaret ista non esse facienda pro his à quibus persecutionem patiebatur Ecclesia cum membra Christi ex eorum essent hominum genere colligenda Unde addit adjungit Hoc enim bonum est acceptum coram Salvatore nostro Deo qui omnes homines vult salvos fieri in agnitionem veritatis venire Anno 430 Theodoret Bishop of Cyrene in his Interpretation in 1 Tim. 1. 2 3. pro Regibus omnibus qui in sublimitate sunt thus descants Valdè sapienter hominum commune p●aeposuit ne quis orationem pro Regibus assentationem existimaret Quia enim erant Impii qui tunc Dominatum obtinebant pietatis aperti hostes docet Iustam esse causam cur pro eis oretur Vt quietam t●anquillam vitam agamus in omni pietate castitate Si enim illi in pace degant nos quoque sumus tranquillitatis participes ac in quiete ac silentio leges pietatis adimplemus Ita e●iam captivi Judaei qui erant Babyloniae ad eos qui in Judaea relicti erant scripserunt ut pro Nabuchodonosor et Baltasar ejus filio Deo preces funderent Dominus autem Apostolus non solum ubi est causa praecipit pro eis fieri orationes sed etiam ut ab impietate cessantes ediscant pietatem as he proves by the subsequent words Sanctorum enim deprecatio

largitori grates quas possumus agimus et ut hoc ad effectum perducere satagatis votis omnibus exoramus Epist. 39. Glorioso Principi et magnifico Constantinopolitanae urbis Imperatori Ioan ui Calo he wisheth Salutem ab eo qui dat salutem Regibus beginning with this Thanksgiving Gratias omnipotenti Regi Regum cujus Regnum Regnum est omnium seculorum qui Imperatoriam Majestatem vestram super omnes Christiani nominis Principes exaltavit et ad tenendam toto orbe Ecclesiam suam velut in medio Orientis Occiedentis Aquilonis constituit c. Et ut aliquid beneficii spiritualis vobis istud facientibus rependamus sicut Praedecessores nostri ac nos ipsi Reges Francorum Reges Anglorum Reges Hispanorum Reges Romanorum ipsos Imperatores ac vicinos vobis Reges Vngarorum confratres et comparticipes omnium beneficiorum Cluniacensis congregationis fecimus by their daily Prayers for them it à sublimitatem vestram ex parte omnipotentis Dei c. in eisdem et spiritualibus beneficiis plenè et perfectè in quantum licet suscipimus ut omnipotens Salvator et hîc temporale Regnum vobis adaugeat et conservet et in futuro cum sanctis Regibus vos ad sempiternum perducat Amen He begins his 46. Epistle to the King of ●rusalem with the like Salutation and Thanksgiving to God Epistola l. 3. Epist 3. Illustri et religioso Regi Siciliae Domino et amico Rotgerio he useth the very same Salutation blesseth God for him and ends with this prayer for him Inde laetamur inde in domino gloriamur inde Celsitudinem vestram etsi vultu incognitam verae dilectionis brachiis amplectimur et ut ad honorem nominis sui et ad salutem populi sui omnipotens Salvator vestram regalem potentiam magnificet et con●ervet humiliter et frequenter precamur Epist l. 4. Epist. 37. to the same King Rotgerio he wisheth Bonorum Regum dignitatem et honorem beginning it with Gratias omnipotenti Regi Regum qui sublimitatem vestram inter universos Christiani orbis Reges ac Principes quadam specialis magnificentiae gloria insignivit quadam gloriosi nominis fama singulariter exaltavit Adding Personam vestram Regnumque Omnipotenti Deo Religiosisque tam nostris quam aliis congregationibus studicsissime commendavi Epistola 36 Illustri ac magnifico Principi Domino Ludovico Regi Francorum is prefaced with this option Feliciter hic regnare Regemque Regum in Regno ac decore suo videre and begins with Licet Regis aeterni militiam quam per te Regem terrenum contra inimicos crucis suae armare disposuit ad peregrina euntem comitari non valeam Devotione tamen oratione consilio et auxilio quali quantoque potero prosequi concupisco c. I shall only adde Epist l. 6. Epist 16. Magnifico Principi domino Rotgero Regi Siciliae Frater Petrus humilis Cluniacensium Abbas Salutem praesencem et Regnum sempiternum Audientes obitum ●iliorum vestrorum valdè doluimus et t●m pro sosyitate vestra quàm pro omnibus illorum Missas celebrari orationes ad Deum sundi eleemosynas fieri in conventu nostro praecepimus Non solum autem nunc sed et saepe diebus solempnibus et majoribus capitulis nostris inter alios Reges amicos et Benefactores nostros vestri memoriam frequentamus Anno 1160 Stephanus Tornacenfis Episcopus thus ends his Epistola 39. Illustri R. Hungariae Regi Valeat sanctitas vestra et Regnum vestrum coram Domino And he inscribes his 170 Epistle thus Canuto Illustri Dacorum Regi Salutem vitam et victoriam and concludes it in this manner Valeat et crescat in dies semper Magnificentia vestra I could draw down a continual series of Authorities almost every year from the year of our Lord 1200. till this present pressing and practicing this duty of Prayer for Kings in publick and private in their Commentaries Epistles and other writings but to avoid Prolixity I shall refer the Readers to Hugo de sancto victore Petru● Lombardus Nicholaus Gorrhan Anselmus Laudensis Petrus Commestor Hugo Cardinalis Dion Carth●sianus Nicholaus Lyranus Hugo de sancto victore Isiodor Clarius Vitus Theodorus Johannis Sarisburiensis Alexander Alesius Jo. Arbor●us Jo. Bradmyllerus Tho. de Vio Cajetanus Calvin Bulinger Gualther Hemmingius Arrias Montanus Nic. Hemingius And. Hyperius And. Scaynus Nic. Selneccerus Dan. Tossanus Fran. Titeburamus Jo. Brand myllerus Jo. Faber Egidius Hunnius Jo. Miyer Alf. Salmeron Guil. Estius Jo. Gagneius Claud. Guilliandus Cornelius a Lapide Junius Beza Marlorat Lamb. Danaeus Cl. Espencaeus Ant. Fayus Phil. Melancthon Wolf Musculus Jo. Piscator Frid. Balduinus Deodatus Georg. Dibuadius Georg. Wenirichius Adam Sasbout Pet. Steuartius Jodoc Willichius Hugo Grotius Dr. Hamond and others in their Commentaries Explanations and Annotations on the 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3. the Harmony of Confessions Chapter of the Civil Magistrate who all presse this duty in point of precept and practice as well for Pagan as Christian vitious and tyrannical as Virtuous and Gracious Heretical and Popish as well as Orthodox and Protestant Kings and Emperors As for the Forms of publick and private Prayers for them I shall refer you to all antient and modern Missals Processionals Pontificals Ceremonials Psalters Primers Letanies Manuals Books of Prayers and Devotions which are almost infinite in all Popish and Protestant Kingdoms throughout the World I shall only recite a few publick Prayers of this Nature for Example sake The 1. is Missa Aethiopum Or the usual Forms of Common Prayers used in all the Aethiopian Churches wherein there are these Preces pr● Rege Da Domine pacem Regi nostro Claudio et Principibus ejus Judicibus ejus subditis ejus orna eos omni genere pacis Rex pacis pacem da Nobis quoniam omnia dedisti Nobis The 2. is the antient Prayers used for the Roman Emperors in Churches Deus Regnorum omnium Christiani maximè Protector Imperii Da servo tuo Imperatori nostro R. triumphum virtutis tuae scienter excolere ut qui tua constitutione est Princeps tuo munere sit Potens Per eundem Dominum nostrum Deus qui ad praedicandum aeterni Regis Evangelium Romanorum Imperium praeparasti praetende famulo tuo Imperatori nostro R. arma coelestia ut pax Ecclesiarum nulla turbetur tempestate bellorum Per eundem Dominum nostrum These two Forms of publick Prayers are still retained in Missale Romanum ex decreto Concilii Tridentini Princed Salamanticae 1588. Orationes ad diversa p. 81 82. and Missale Romanum ex decreto Pii quinti Antuerpiae 1630. Orationes ad diversa p. 76 77. to which there are these two Prayers pro Rege subjoyned Quaesumus omnipotens Deus ut famulus tuus N. Rex noster qui tui miseratione suscepit Regni gubernacula virtutum etiam omnium

Jesus Christ may open to thee the dore who saith of himself I am the dore by me if any man enter in he shall be safe and let him be thy helper who is the key of David and the Scepter of the house of Israel who openeth and no man shutteth who shutteth and no m●n openeth who bringeth forth the captive ou● of prison where he sate in darkness and in the sh●dow of death that in all things thou mayest follow him of whom the Prophet David saith Thy seat O God endureth for ever the Scepter of thy Kingdome is ● right Scepter thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity Wherefore God even thy God hath anointed thee with the oyl of gladness above thy Fellows even Jesus Christ our Lord. After this he blesseth the King saying Benedicat tibi c. Dominus custodiatque te sicut te voluit super Populum suum esse Regem ita in presenti seculo faelicem aeternae faelicitatis tribuat esse consortem Amen The Lord blesse and keep thee and as he hath made thee King over his people so he still prosper thee in this world and make thee partaker of his eternal felicity in the world to come Amen Grant O Lord that the Clergy and People gathered together by thy Ordinance for this service of the King may by the gracious assistance of thy goodnesse and the vigilant care of thy servant and King be continually governed and preserved in all happinesse Amen Grant that they obeying thy holy will may be freed from all adversities and enjoying the riches of thy grace may with fervent love walk in the waies of thy Commandements that in this life being made partakers of thy peace they may be Citizens of thy Kingdome in the life that is to come through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The King kisseth the Archbishop and the Bishops then Assistant After this the King goeth up from the Altar to the Stage all the Peers solemnly attending his Majesty in their places In the mean time the Quire sing Te deum laudamus c. Which being ended the Archbishop inthronizeth the King into his throne there saying Sta retine à modo locum quem huc usque paterna successione tenuisti hareditario judicio tibi delegatum per autoritatem Dei omnipotentis praesentem traditionem nostram omnium Episcoporum caeterorumque Dei servorum quanto Clerum sanctis altaribus propinquiorem prospices tanto ei potiorem in locis congruis honorem impendere memineris quatenus mediator Dei hominum te mediatorem Cleri Plebis in hoc regni Solio confirmet in regnum aeternum regnare faciat Jesus Christus Dominus noster Rex Regum Dominus Dominantium qui cum patre spiritu sancto vivit regnat in secula seculorum Amen Stand and hold fast from henceforth that place whereof hitherto thou hast been heir by the succession of thy fore-fathers being now delivered unto thee by the authority of Almighty God and by the hands of Us and all the Bishops and Servants of God and as thou seest the Clergy to come nearer unto the Altar so remember that in places convenient thou give them greater honour that the mediator of God and Man may establish thee in this Kingly throne to be the mediator betwixt the Clergy and the Laity and that thou maist raigne for ever with Jesus Christ the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords who with the Father and the holy Ghost liveth and reigneth for ever Amen Which done all the Peers do their homage to the King His verbis I become your Leige-man of Life and 〈◊〉 and of Earthly Worship and Faith and Troth shall bear unto you to live and dye with you against all manner of folk So God m● help And after put their hands and touch the Crown b● way of ceremony as promising to support it with all their power Then the King to ease himself of the Scepter and Rod in his hands giveth them to carry to such as it please●●● his Majesty The Archbishop kneeled down and made his 〈◊〉 as followeth Out of the Coronation of Edward the 6. J. A. Shall be faithfull and true and Faith and Troth bear unto you our Soveraign Lord and to your Heires Kings of England and I shall do and truly knowledge the service due of the Lands I claim to hold of you as in the right of your Church as God shall help me And so kissed the Kings left cheek c. Or these words taken out of another book I become your man Leige of life and Limb and Troth and hearty Honour to you shall bear against all men that now live and dye So help me God c. The A●chbishop goeth down to the Altar and begins the Communion The Prayer Quaesumus omnipotens c. Quaesumus omnipotens Deus ut famulus tuus Jacobus Rex noster qui tua miseration● suscepit Regni gubernacula virtutum etiam omnium percipiat incrementa Quibus decenter ornatus vitiorum voraginem devitare hostes superare ad te qui veritas vita es gratiosus valeat pervenire per Dominum Iesum nostrum Amen O Almighty God we beseech thee that this thy Servant James our King who by thy mercy hath received the government of this Realm may also receive an increase of all Vertues whereby he may be acceptable to thee and avoid the gulfe of vice and overcome all his enemies and finally come to thee in glory who art the Way the Truth and the Life thorough Christ our Lord. The Epistle 1 Pet. 2. By two Bishops The Gospel Matth. 22. The Nicene Creed The Offertory The King cometh down from the Throne to offer He offereth twice 1. Bread and Wine 2. A Mark of Gold Then the Prayer Omnipotens Deus c. Omnipotens Deus det tibi de rore coeli de pinguedine terrae habundantiam frumenti vini ol●i serviant tibi populi adorent te tribus Esto Domixus fratrum tuorum incurventur ante te filii matris tuae qui ben●dixerit tibi benedictionibus repleatur Deus erit adjutor tuus Opus benedicat tibi benedictionibus coeli desuper in montibus in Collibus benedictionibus abyssi jacentibus deorsum benedictionibus uberum uvarum Pomarumque benedictiones Patrum antiquorum Abraham Isaac Jacob confortatae sint super te Almighty God give thee of the dew of Heaven and of the fat of the Earth abundance of Corn and Wine Let the Nations serve thee and the Tribes ado●e thee and let him be blessed that blesseth thee and God shall be thy helper Almighty God blesse you with the blessing of Heaven above in the Mountains and Hills and with the blessings of the Earth beneath with the blessings of Corn and Wine and Fruit and let the blessings of the old Fathers Abraham Isaac and Jacob be established upon thee through Christ our Lord.

Seigneurs Commones en ceft Parleament assembles au nom de touts vous autres subjects Remercient tres humblement vostre Majesty Prient deiu vous doner en sante bone vie longe And with these Prayers and Collects for the King of England in the Book of Common Prayer Priest O LORD SAVE THE KING Answer by all the people And mercifully hear us when we call upon thee Almighty God whose Kingdome is everlasting and power infinite have mercy upon the whole congregation and so rule the heart of thy chosen Servant CHARLES OUR KING AND GOVERNOUR that he knowing whose minister he is may above all things seek thy honour and glory and that we his Subjects duly considering whose authority he hath may faithfully serve honour and humbly obey him in thee and for thee according to thy blessed word and ordinance through Jesus Christ our Lord who with Thee and the holy Ghost liveth and reigneth one God world without end Amen Almighty and everlasting God we be taught by thy holy word that the hearts of Kings are in thy rule and governance and that thou dost dispose and turn them as it seemeth best to thy godly wisdome we beseech thee so to dispose and govern the heart of CHARLES THY SERVANT OUR KING AND GOVERNOR THAT IN ALL HIS THOUGHTS WORDS AND WORKS HE MAY EVER SEEK THY HONOUR AND GLORY AND STUDY TO PRESERVE THY PEOPLE COMMITTED TO HIS CHARGE IN WEALTH PEAGE AND GODLINESSE Grant this O merciful Father for thy sons sake Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen 1 Sam. 2. 6 7 8 9 10. The Lord killeth and maketh alive he bringeth down to the grave and bringeth up again The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich he bringeth low and lifteth up He raiseth up the poor out of the dust and lifteth up the beggu● srom the dung hil to set them among Princes and to make them inherit the Throne of glory c The Adversaries of the Lord shall be broken in pieces out of heaven shall he thunder upon them the Lord shall judge the ends of the earth AND HE SHALL GIVE STRENGTH UNTO HIS KING AND EXALT THE HORN OF HIS ANOINTED GOD SAVE KING CHARLES THE SECOND AMEN FINIS ERRATA COurtcous Reader Correct these mistakes at the Press pag. 15. line 22. read finierunt p. 16. l. 1. r. Catholicae l. 38. r. seculi p. 32. l. 8. r. stabilitate p. 4. l. 23. r. liberatus p. 45. l. 3. r. subventionis p. 60. l. 14. r. processionale p. 73. l. 26. sermons l. 30. Charles r. James p. 82. l. 32. countenance r. continuance p. 129 l. 34. multip●cetur p. 133. l. 22. firmet p. ●●7 l. 24. r. ci●●unda●us p. 158. l. 8. perfunde p. 234. ●risone p. 239. l 37. ●ille p. 240. l. 13. penetrassent p. 275. l 34. r. liberis tribue p. 2 77. l. 21. r. populis p. 277. l. 11. r. nos p. 282. l. 4. vivis l. 22. corona p. 284. l. 19. profectuum p. 292. l. 13. r. salvatore p 293. l. 28. pice Margin p. 25. l. 1. 298. ● 292. p. 104. l. 5. fection p. 13. l. 7. Ibidem a 1 Tim. 6. 15. Rev 19. 16. b Dan 2 41. c. 4. 25. Job 12. 19 20 21. 1 ●am 2 8. Psa ● 13. 7. 8. c Psal ●● 1. Exod 15. 16. ●eat 4. 34. d Dan. 2. 34. 43. e Psal 120. 4 5 6. f 1 T●m 2. 1 2 3. g ps 46. 7. h Num. 16. 22. c. 27. 16. i 2 Sam. 16. 9. to 10. a Psal 118. 22 23 24. b Isa 66. 7 8 9. c Bellarmin de Notis Ec●les c. 14. B●shop Jewels Def. of the Apology of the Ch. of Engl. ch 16. Divis 1 D. John White his Way to the true Church Sect. 42 Dig●ess 44. * Psal 43. 10. ‖ See ●urius ●i●●omanes Ri●ade●● a in thei● lives of the Saints * Deut. 32. 31. a Exod. 15. 11 12 13 21. b Psal 21. 1 2 3. c. * Psal 106. 48. * 2 Chron 9. 5 6 7. * Regis ad exemplum totus componitur orbis Claudian a Usserius De B●itan Ecclefiarum Primordiis p. 49. and the Authors there quoted b Lambardi Archaion Antiquit Eccl. Brit. p. 5 6. Spelman Concil p. 32 to 38 Bishop Jewels Reply against Harding Art 3. divis 24. p. 141 142. Fox Acts and Monuments vol. 1. Ha●risons Description of England ● 1. c. 9. Bishop usher De Eccl. Brit. Primordiis p. 3 4 5. c Eutropius Hist l. 10. Orosius l. 7. c. 25 28. Socrat. Eccl. Hist l. 1. c. 1. ●umenius Panegyr 9. Cambdens Brit. Essex p. 325. Vsserius De Brit. Eccl. Primordiis c. 8. c Eusebius de vita Constantini l. 2. c. 12 13 14 19. d Euseb de vita Constantini l. 4. c 14 15. e Euseb de vita Constant l. 4. c. 19 20. f Ni●ephorus Eccles Hist l. 8. c. 25. Spelman Concil p. 43 44 45. g Ma●ore Chronico l. 1. c. 6. Wintoni●nsis Ecclesiae Hist c. 7 8. Usserius De Brit. Eccles Primordiis c. 8. p. 19● * Mat. Westm Anno 435. p 143 149. i Mat. Westm An. 488. p. 173 174. k Ma● Westm Anno 491. p. 177. Usleri●s De Brit. Eccl. Primo●diis p. 854 865. * Epist l. 9. Ep●st 59. Spelmanni Concilia p. 85. * Epist l. 9. Epist 60. Beda Eccles Hist l. 1. c. 32. Spelmanni Concilia p. 86 * Hen●i●i Huntindon Hist l. 3 p. 323. * Will. Malmes●urienfis De Gestis Pontif. Angl. l. 1. p 208. m Beda Ecclesiast Hist l. 2. c. 9. 11. Mat. West 〈◊〉 626. n Idem l. 2. c. 11. n Beda Eccl. Hist l. 2 c. 17. Spelman Concil p. 237 139. Hen Huntindon Hist l 3. p. 327. n Beda Eccl. Hist l. 3. c 16. o Mat. Westm p. 221. p Beda Eccl. Hist l. 3 c. 2. q Beda Eccl. Hist l. 3. c. 24. a Gulielmus Malm. DeGest Pontif. Angl. l. 1. p. 265. b Spelmanni Concil p. 164. c Monasticon Angl. p●rs 1. p 51. Londini 1655. d ●pelmanni Concil p. 194. e Monast Ang. pars 1. p. 12. * Beda Eccl. Hist l. 5. c. 22. Spelmanni Concil p. 220 226. * Ingulphi Hist p. 851 852 853. * Operum Coloniae Agrip. 1612. Tom 5. Col. 379 380. * Spelmanni Concil p. 243 254 255. Bibliotheca ●atrum Tom. 8. p. 74 83. Malm. De Gestis Regum Angl. l. 1. c. 4. p. 28. * Bibl. Patrum Tom. 8. p. 111. * Bibl. Patrum Tom. 8. p. 114 115. Anno 760. Anno 787. * Spelmanni Concil p. 296 297. a Dan 2. 21. c. 4. 25. c. 5. 21. b 1 Pet. 2. 17 13. c Rom. 13. 1 2 3. d Eccles 10. 20. a Rom. 1. 32. b Esther 2. 21 22 23. c. 6. 2. c 1 Kings 24. 5 7. d 2 Sam. 1. c. 4. 10. e See Balaeus Scriptorum Brit. Cent. 2. c. 17. * Epist 3 4 6 7 8 10 to 24. 106. * Ephes 5. * Mat. Paris in Vita Offae secundi p. 16. M●t. Westm An. 794. a

Silver Vessel Cloath of some colour red or blew must be prepared and spread on the Ground from the Palace Hall dore to the Stage in the Church for his Majesty to walk upon all the way which Way must be rayled on every side This must be done in the Morning of the Coronation by some Nobleman that his Majesty will make Almoner for that day And this concerning the Preparation The Morning of the Coronation The Bishops Noblemen and Commissioners of Burroughes to the number of six are at that Morning to come unto the Presence The Constable and Marshal who are to carry their Buttones in their hands all that day having brought the King from his Bed chamber to the Presence and after he is placed in his Chaire they all making the Reverence that becomes Some one of the Church or Noblemen speaks to this purpose Sir the Estates of this your native and ancient Kingdom calling to mind the great happiness they enjoyed under the Goverment of your Majesties Father of blessed memory and acknowledging your Highness to be the rightful Heir of this Crown by a long and lawful descent do beseech your Majesty to receive them into your Highness protection to govern them by the Laws of the Kingdome and defend them their Rightes and Liberties by your Royal power Offering their Service in most humble manner to your Majesty with their Vows to bestow Land Life and what else is in their power for the safety of your Majesties sacred Person and maintenance of your Crown which they intreat your Majesty to accept and pray Almighty God that you may happily and for many years enjoy the same The King Answers I do esteem your affections more then the Crowns of many Kingdomes and will by Gods assistance bestow my life for your defence wishing to live no longer then I may see this Kingdom slourish in all happiness Then kissing his Majesties hands they prepare all to go in their ranks as they are appointed towards the Church The Lyon ● of Arms having an open Crown upon his Head carries in his hand the Vessel containing the sacred Oyl Two of his Brethren walk on either of his hands one The srumpets sound and so they march The Receiving of the King into the Church THe Arch-Bishop and Bishops with the Musitians of the Chappel are to meet the King at the Entry in Procession wise The King is received under a Canopy supported by four Barons Two Bishops walk one on his Majesties one hand and another upon the other The Dean of the Chappel is alwayes by to inform the King of the Rites of the Solemnity as need shall be The King is received with an Anthem into the Church Protector noster c. Behold oh Lord our Protector and look upon the face of thine Anointed because one day in thy Court is better then a thousand c. Quam dilecta c. The King passing up the Church goeth to the Stage and reposeth himself a little The Regal Crown Scepter Sword Great Seal and Spurs are laid down on a Taffel besides the Altar or Table The sacred Oyl is delivered by Lion K. of Armes to the Dean of the Chappel who brings it ●o the Arch-bishop and he sets the same on the Table Then the King comes down from the Stage and the Sermon begins Which ended the King ascends again to the Stage and sits down in the Chair of State Then the Arch-bishop the Marshal of Scotland going before him goeth to all the Quarters of the Stage and speaks to the People in these words Sirs I do present unto you King Charles the rightful and undoubted Inheritor of the Crown and dignity of this Realm This day is by the Peers of the kingdome appointed for his Coronation And are you not willing to have him for your King and become subject unto him and his Commandements The King stands up in this time and as the Arch-bishop goes from one part of the Stage to another turneth himself that he may be seen of the People The People declare their willingness by their Acclamations and Shouts crying God save King Charles or Let the King live Then is sung this Anthem Firmetur manus tua c. Let thine Hands be strengthened and thy right Hand be exalted let Judgment be the preparation of thy Seat mercy and truth go before thy face Hallelujah Psal 89. Misericordias Dei c. Glory be to the Father c. Whilest the Anthem is singing the Arch-bishop goeth down to the Altar or Table and resteth there Then is the King supported by two Bishops brought to the Altar and makes his Oblation After which he kneels at his Fald-stool and the Arch-bishop sayes this Prayer Deus visitator humilium O God who dost visit those that are humble and dost comfort them by thine Holy Spirit send down thy Grace upon this thy Servant King Charles that by him we may feel thy presence amongst us through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Prayer ended the King sits down in his Chair and the Archbishop goeth unto him and asketh if he be willing to take the Oath appointed to be given at the Coronation of Kings His Majesty declaring his willingness the Archbishop ministreth the Questions following Archbishop Sir will you promise to serve Almighty God and as every good King in his Kingdom ought to do maintain the Gospel of Iesus Christ in this your Kingdom against all Atheism Profaneness Heresy Schism or Superstition whatsoever Rex I promise faithfully so to do Archbishop Sir will you promise to rule this People subject to you and committed to your Charge according to the Laws Constitutions and Customes of this your Kingdom causing asmuch as in you lyeth Iustice and Equity to be ministred without partiality And to endevour the Peace of the Church of Christ and all Christian People Rex I grant and promise so to do Archbishop Sir will you likewise promise to preserve the Rights and Priviledges of the Crown of Scotland Rex I promise so to do Archbishop Sir We do also beseech you to grant and preserve unto us of the Clergy and to the Churches committed to our Charge all Canonical Priviledges and that you will defend and protect us as every good King ought in his Kingdom to defend his Bishops and the Churches that be under their Government The King answers With a willing heart I grant the same and promise to maintain you and every one of you with all the Churches committed to your charge in your whole Rights and Priviledges according to Law and Justice Then the King rising from his Chair is led to the Altar where in sight of all the people laying his hands upon the Bible he takes his Oath and sayes All the things which before I have promised I shall observe and keep So God me help and by the Contents of this Book After the Oath the King returns to his Chair of State and then is sung the

Hymn Veni Creator c. The Hymn finished the King kneeleth at his Fold-stool and the Archbishop sayes this prayer We beseech thee O Lord holy Father almighty and everlasting God for this thy Servant King Charles that as at the first thou broughtest him into the world by thy Divine Providence and in the flower of his youth hast preserved him untill this present time So thou wilt evermore enrich him with the gift of Piety fill him with the grace of Truth and daily increase in him all goodnesse that he may happily enjoy the seat of supreme Government by the gift of thy supernal grace And being defended from all his Enemies by the Wall of thy mercy may prosperously govern the people committed to his Charge After the Prayer the Letany is sung and at the close thereof this is to be added That it may please thee to keep and strengthen in the true Worshiping of thee in Righteousnesse and Holiness of life this thy servant Charles our King and Governor and so to the end Then is said this prayer by one of the Bishops that sings the Letany O Almighty and everlasting God Creator of all things Ruler of Angels King of Kings and Lord of Lords who madest thy Servant Abraham triumph over his Enemies didst give many victories to Moses and Joshuah the Governors of the people didst raise and exalt David thy Servant to be a King over them didst enrich Solomon his Son with the gift of Wisdome and Understanding and blessedst him with peace and great prosperity Give ear we beseech thee unto our humble Prayets and multiply thy blessings upon this thy Servant who is now to be consecrated our King that He being strengthned with the faith of Abraham endued with the mildness of Moses armed with the fortitude of Joshuah exaited with the humility of David and beautified with the Wisdom of Solomon may please thee in all things and ever walk uptightly in thy wayes Defend him by thy mighty arm compass him with thy protection and give him to overcome all his and thine Enemies Honour him before all the Kings of the Earth Let him rule over Countries and let Nations adore him Establish his Throne with Judgement and Equity let Justice flourish in his dayes and grant that He underpropped by the due obedience and hearty love of his People may sit on the Throne of his Forefathers for many years and after this life may reign with thee in thine everlasting kingdome through Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour Amen The Letany thus ended the Archbishop beginneth to say aloud Lift up your Hearts and give thanks unto the Lord. Answer By the Bishops that sings the Letany We lift them up unto the Lord and to give thanks unto him it is meet and right Then the Archbishop says It is very meet and right and our bounden duty so to do and at all times and in all Places to give thanks to thee O Lord holy Father almighty and everlasting God the strength of thy Chosen and the exalter of the humble who in the beginning by sending the sloud of Waters didest punish the sins of the World and by a Dove bringing an Olive branch in her mouth didst give a token of Reconcilement to the Earth Who afterwards didst consecrate thy Servant Aaron a Priest by the anointing of Oyl as also by the pouring out of the same didst make Kings Priests and Prophets to govern thy People Israel And by the voice of the Prophet David didst foretel that the Countenance of thy Church should be made joyful with Oyl We beseech thee to bless and sanctifie this thy Servant King Charles that he may minister Peace unto this People that he may attain to the perfection of Government in Counsel and Judgment and that his Countenance may be alvvayes cheerfull and amiable to all his People through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen This Prayer said the King rises from his devotion and reposeth himself awhile in the Chair of State in which he is to be Crown'd Afterwards he goeth to the Altar and standeth with his Back close unto it disrobes himself of his upper Garment his under Coat having the loops opened in the Places vvhere he is to be anointed Then he comes to the Pulpit side and sitting in a Chair a Canopy is held over his Head all the time of his Anointing The Archbishop first anoints his Hands in the Palms saying In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost which wordes he repeats in all the several Anointings let these hands be anointed with Oyl as Kings and Prophets have been anointed And as Samuel did anoint David to be King that thou mayest be blessed and established a King in this Kingdome over the People whom the Lord thy God hath given thee to rule and govern Which he vouchsafe to grant who with the Father and the Holy Ghost is one and reigns in glo●y everlasting Amen In this time the Singers do sing the Anthem S●d●●ke the Priest and Nath●n the Prophet anointed Solomon King and all the People rejoyced and said God save the King for ever Then the Archbishop says this Prayer Look down Almighty God upon this thy Servant our dread Soveraign King Charles with thy favourable countenance and as thou didst bless Abraham Isaac and Jacob so vouchsafe we beseech thee to water him plentifully with the Blessing of thy Grace give unto him of the dew of Heaven and of the fatness of the Earth abundance of Corn Wine and Oyl with all plenty of fruites and other good things Grant him long to continue and that in his time there may be health and peace in this Kingdome Grant O Almighty God that he may be a mighty Protector of this Country a bountiful Comforter of Churches and holy Societies the most valiant of Kings terrible to Rebels and Infidels amiable to his Nobles and to all his faithful Subjects Make his Royal Court to shine in Princely dignity as a most cleer Lightning far and wide in the Eyes of all men Finally let him be blessed with happy Children that may reign as Kings after him and rule this Kingdom by Succession of all Ages and after the glorious and happy dayes of present life give him of thy mercy an everlasting Kingdome with thee in the Heavens through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Prayer ended the Archbishop proceeds in the Anointing 1. His Breast 2. Betwixt the Shoulders 3. Both the Points of the Shoulders 5. Boughs of his Arms. 5. The Crown of his Majesties head The Anointing done the Dean of the Chappel closeth the loops again which were opened Then the Archbishop reads this Benediction God the Son of God Christ Jesus our Lord who was anointed of his Father with Oyl of gladness above his fellows pour down upon thy Head the Blessing of the Holy Ghost and make it enter into the inward parts of thy Heart so that thou mayest reign with him in the Heavens