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A56163	The first and second part of the signal loyalty and devotion of Gods true saints and pious Christians (as also of some idolatrous pagans) tovvards their kings, both before and under the law, and Gospel especially in this our island. Expressed in and by their private and publike private loyal supplications, prayers, intercession, thanksgiving, votes, acclamations, salutations, epistles, addresses, benedictions, options of long life, health, wealth, safety, victory, peace, prosperity, all temporal, spiritual, eternal blessings, felicities to their kings persons, families, queens, children, realms, armies, officers, chearfull subjections and dutifull obedience to them: whethe [sic] good, or bad, Christians, or pagans, orthodox, or heterodox, protectors, or persecutors of them. With the true reasons thereof from Scripture and policy. Evidenced by varieties of presidents, testimonies and authorities in al ages, ... Whereunto the several forms, ceremonies, prayers, collects, benedictions and consecrations, used at the coronations of Christian emperors, kings, queens (more particularly in England and Scotland, not formerly published) and of the Mahometan and Ægyptian kings, are annexed. By; Signal loyalty and devotion of Gods true saints and pious Christians, towards their kings.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1660 (1660)	Wing P3955; ESTC R217939	286,462	453

Anth. Brown Will. Paget Anthony Denny William Herbert The Order of bringing the King and Queen into the Church with other Ceremonies touching their Coronation 2. BIshops to support the King 2. Bishops to support the Queen 2. Bishops to sing the Letany 1. Bishop to carry the Paten 1. Bishop to bear the Regal The Dean of Westminster to be in the whole Action 2. Bishops to attend the Archbishop 1. Bishop to Preach 1. To demand the fourth Question of the King 1. Nobleman to carry the Spurs before the King 3. Special Noblemen to carry the 3. Swords before the King 2 To carry the 2. Scepters before the King 1. To carry the Rod with the Dove before the King 1. Nobleman to carry the Crown before the Queen 1. Nobleman to carry the S●…epter before the Queen 1. To carry the Ivory-rod before the Queen The Ma●…shal of England is to go before the Archbishop to the 4. sides of the Stage when he demandeth the Question of the people touching their willingnesse c. The Archbishop undoeth the Loops of the Kings Apparel and shirt and openeth the Places to be anointed The anointing ended The Dean of Westminster closeth the Loops again which were opened Then a shallow quoiff is put on his head because of the anointing oyl Then the Collobium or Dalmatica is put on him by the Dean of Westminster And after a Prayer ended The said Dean arrayeth the King First with the Supe●…tunica or close Pall. Then with the Tynsin hose Then with the Sandals Then are the Sp●…rs put on by a Nobleman appointed by his Majestie After the Archbishop hath delivered the Sword unto the King the same Sword is girded about him by a Peer thereto appointed by his Majesti●… Then the Armil is put about his neck and tied to the boughts of his Arms by the Dean of Westminster So is likewise the Mantel or open Pall put on him by the said Dean Then the King putteth on the Linnen gloves Then the King offereth up his Sword wherewith 〈◊〉 was girt before Then a Peer redeemeth the Sword taketh it again from the Altar draweth it out and carrieth it before the King so drawen from that time during the whole solemnitie The Coronation Inthoronization and other Ceremonies ended and Homage done by the Archbishop Bishops and Noblemen the King delivereth the Scepter and the Rod with the Dove hiis qui stirpi Regali sunt proximiores who ease the King of them and carry them before him Touching the Solemnity for the Queen THe Solemnitie of the Kings Inthoronization and Coronation being performed the Archbishop leaveth the King in his Throne and goeth again down to the Altar Then the Queen who hath all this while reposed her self in her Chair beneath ariseth and commeth to the steps of the Altar and kneeleth down c. And when the Queen ariseth from her prayer the chiefest Lady present taketh off her Coronet and after that done openeth her breast for the Anointing c. Then the Queen kneeleth down again and the Archbishop anointeth her c. Then the chiefest Lady attendant clozeth the Queens Robe at her breast and after putteth on her head a Linnen quoiff c. Then the Archbishop putteth on her Ring and then Crowneth her And after that putteth the Scepter into her Right ●…and and the Ivory Rod into her left hand The Communion ended and other Ce●…emonies performed the King and Queen with all solemnitie return to their Thrones above from whence after a while they return down again in all solemn manner into St. Edwards Chapel c. Where the King in the Traverse is disrobed of St. Edwards Robes by the Lord Great Chamberlain which Robes are then delivered to the Dean of Westminster Then the King is newly arrayed by the Lord Great Chamberlain with his Robes royal prepared for his Majesties wearing that day Then the Archbishop setteth the Crowns Imperial provided for the King and Queen to wear that day upon their heads The King and Queen so Crowned taking into their hands each of them their Scepter and Rod a●…ter the train is set in order before them go from St. Edwards Altar out to the great Altar and so up to the Stage and so thorough the midst of the Quire and Church and return the same way they came The Scepters and Rods of St. Edward which the King and Queen carried in their hands are after Dinner to be re-delivered to the Church of Westminster to be kept with the Residue of the Regalia It hath pleased his Majestie to give order to me the Archbishop for the appointing of these Bishops 2. Bishops to support the King 2. Bishops to support the Queen 1. Bishop to carry the Regal 1. Bishop to carry the Paten Your Lordships are to understand the King his pleasure which of the Noblemen it will like his Majestie to appoint 1. To carry the Spurs before the King 3. To bear the 1 2 and 3. Sword before the King 2. To bear the 2. Scepters before the King 1. To bear the Rod with the Dove before the King 1. To carry the Crown Imperial which the King is to wear that day 1. To bear the Crown before the Queen 1. To bear the Scepter before the Queen 1. To bear the Ivory Rod before the Queen 1. To put on the Kings Spurs 1. To girt on the Kings Sword 1. To redeem the Sword after it is ●…ffered and to bear it drawn before him 2. To ease the King of the carriage of his Scepter and Rod. The manner of the proceeding at the Coronation GEntlemen and Esquires 2. and 2. Knights having no Liveries Sewers of the Chamber Aldermen of London Esquires of the body Clerks of the Signet Clerks of the privy Seal Clerks of the Counsel Clerks of the Markets of England Chaplin●… having Dignity Secretarie●… of the Latin and French Solicitor Attorny and the Kings Sergeants Masters of the Requests Lord chief Baron of the Exchequer Lord chief Justice of the common Plea●… Master of the P●…olls Lord chief Justice Popham Nunc privati consilii Knights of the Bath Sergeant Porter Sergeant of the vestry The Kings Chapel in Copes The P●…bends of Westminster Master of the Jewel-House Master of the Gardrobe Counsellors being Knights Bishops in their Robes Barons in their Robes Secretary Controuler Thresorer Earls in their Robes Their Coronets on their caps in their han●…s Clarencieux Lion Vlster Lord Keeper Lord Archbishop alone An Earl with the Spurs An Earl with Saint Edwards Scepter An Earl with the pointed Sword An Earl with the Sword called Curtana An Earl with the third Sword The Mayor of London with his Mace Garter principal King at Arms. Gentleman usher of the Privy Chamber The Lord Great Chamberlain of England The Constable with his Mace The Sword in the Scabbard The Ma●…shal with his Rod. An Earl bearing the Scepter of the Dane An Earl bearing the Crown An Earl bearing the Orb. Barons of the Cinqueports for the Canopy His Majestie

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 tam insigni titulo decorantes à nemine falsum aut vanum judicari possit Demum mortatis bujus 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 Reseuing 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 Let u●… flee to God at all times with h●…mble Obsecrations 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 preservation of the Kings most excellent Majesty H. 8. and for the prosp●…rous successe of his ●…ntirely-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 Upon the Reformation of Religion and abolishing of Popish Missals Psalters Howers 〈◊〉 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-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-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 Iast 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 bottomlesse 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 blesse 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 King of Kings and Lord of Lords which by thy divine ordinance hast appointed Temporal Rulers to govern thy People according to equity 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-we●…l 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 follow●… 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 Unfaithfullnesse 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 here in all lowlynesse of mind may at the last day through thy favour be lifted up into everlasting Glory wh●…re ●…hou with the Father and the Holy Ghost livest 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. Queen Mary a Popish Prince

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 assi●…tance of his Grace to the prayse of his glory increase of the Godly and grief of his and your Subjects Even so 〈◊〉 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 wor●…d 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 Archbishop 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 Ecclefiastical 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 UNDER 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. Impug●…ers of the Kings Supremacy censured Whosoever shall hereafter affirm that the Kings Majesty hath not the same 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 ●…or 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 Univerfities 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 Defendor of the Faith and Supreme Governour in these his Realms and all other his Dominions and Countries over all persons in all causes aswell Ecclesiastical as Temporal Ye shall also pray for the Kings most honourable Councel and for all the Nobility and Magistrates of this Realm that all and every of these in their several callings may serve truly and painfully to the glory of GOD and the edifying and well governing of his people remembring the account that they must make Also ye shall pray for the whole Commons of this Realm that they may live in true Faith and Fear of God in humble obedience to the King and brotherly charity one to another Which all Ministers and Preachers duly observed usually adding this clause thereunto That God out of his infinite mercy would grant so to blesse the Kings Majestie and his Royal issue with a perpetual Posterity that there might never want a Man of that Royal race to sway the Scepter of these Realms so long as the Sun and Moon should ●…ndure and till all Scepters and Kingdoms should be resigned at the last day into the hands of Jesus Christ the King of Kings The Lords Spiritual Temporal and Commons of the Realm of England assembled in Parliament in the first year of King James do thus expresse and declare their own and the whole Kingdoms unspeakeable joys acclamations and thanksgivings unto God and their own and their posterities Signal Loyalty affection and Devotion to King James his Heirs and Royal progeny for ever in the Statute of 1 Jacobi ch 1. intituled A most joyfull and just Recognition of the immediate lawfull and undoubted succession descent and Right of the Crown●… Great and manifold were the benefits most dread and most gracious Soveraign wherewith almighty God blessed this Kingdom and Nation by the happy union and conjunction of the two Nobles houses of York and Lancaster thereby preserving this noble Realm formerly torn and almost wasted with long and miserable dissention and bloodie Civil War But more inestimable and unspeakable blessings are thereby powred upon us because there i●… derived and grown from and out of that union of those two Princely families a more famous and greater ●…nion or rather a re-uniting of two Mighty Famous and antient Kingdoms yet antiently but one of England and Scotland under one Imperial Crown in your most Royal Person who is lineally rightfully and lawfully descended of the body of the most excellent Lady Margaret eldest daughter of the most renowned King Henry the 7th and the high and noble Princesse Queen Elizabeth his wife eldest daughter of King Edward the 4th The said Lady Margaret being eldest sister of King Henry

consecration enunction and Coronation of the said most excellent Prince James Will you serve him at this time and give your wills and assents to the same Consecration E●…ction and Coronation Or thus Will you take this worthy Prince James right Heir of the Realm and have him to your King and become Subjects to him and submit your selves to his Commandements This while the King standing up turneth himself to every of the four sides as the Archbishop is at every of them speaking to the people The people signifying their willingnesse by answering all in one voice Yea Yea God save King James The Quire singeth the Anthem Firmetur manus Firmetur manus tua exaltetur dextra tua justitia judicium pr●…paratio sedis tuae Misericordia veritas precedent faciem tuam Alleluiah Firmetur manus tua Let thy hand be strengthned and thy right hand be exalted Let Justice and Judgement be the preparation ●…f thy Seat and Mercy and Truth go before thy Face Alleluia Ps. misericordias Dei Glory be to the Father c. While the Quire singeth the Anthem the Archbishop goeth down to the Altar and revesteth himself there The Archbishop being there ready the King supported by the two Bishops as before and attended by the Abbot of Westminster goeth down from his Throne to the Altar The Kings Offering and the Sermon There he maketh his first Oblation which is Pallium ●…nm una libra auri After the King hath Offered he kneeleth down at his Fald-stool The Archbishop saith the Prayer Deus humilium Deus humilium visitator qui nos Sancti Spiritus illustratione consolaris pretende super hun●… famulum tuum Jacobum gratiam tuam nt per eum tuum in nobis addesse sentiamus adventum per D●…minum Christum nostrum c. Deus visitator humilium O God which dost visit those that are humble and dost comfort us by the light of thy Holy Spirit send down thy Grace upon this thy Servant James that by him we may feel thy presence amongst us through Jesus Christ. Then doth the Sermon begin which the King heareth in his Chair of Estate by the Altar on the South side of it The Sermon being done the Archbishop goeth to the King and a●…keth his Majesty concerning his willingness to take the Oath usually taken by his Predece●…ors The King shewing himself willing therewithall ariseth and cometh to the Altar The Archbishop ministreth the three first questions and the King answereth them severally Scilic●… 1 Quaestio Si leges consuetudines ab antiquis justis Deo devotis Regibus Flebi Anglorum concessas cum sacrame●… confirmatione eidem Plebi concedere servare voluerit praesertim leges consuetudines libertates à glorioso Rege Edwardo Clero populo concessas c. Dicto autem Principe se promittente omnia praemissa concessurum servaturum Tunc exponat ei Metropolitan●… de quibus jurabit Ita dicendo c. Prima quaestio Servabis Ecclesiae Dei cleroque populo pacem ex integro concordiam in Deo secundum vires tuas Respondebit servabo Secunda quaestio Facie fieri in omnibus judiciis tuis equam rectam justitiam discretionem in misericordia veritate secundum vires tuas Resp. Faciam Tertia quaestio Concedis instas leges consuetudines esse tenendas promittis per te eas esse protegendas ad honorem Dei corroborandas quas vulgus elegerit secundum vires tuas Respondebit Concedo promitto Sequitur admonitio Episcoporum ad Regem legatur ab 〈◊〉 Episcopo coram omnibus Clara voce Sic dicendo Domine Rex à vobis perdonari petimus ut unicuique de nobis Ecclesiis nobis commissis Canonicum Privilegium ac debitam legem atque justitiam conservetis defensionem exhibeatis ●…ut Rex in suo regno debet unicuique Episcopo Ecclesiiis sibi commissis Respondebit Animo libenti devoto promitto vebis perdono quia unicuique de vobis Ecclesiis vobis commissis Canonicum Privilegium debitam legem atque justitiam Servabo defensionem quantum potuero adjuvante Domino Exhibebo ●…cut Rex in suo Regno unicuique Episcopo Ecelesiis sibi commissis quod rectum exhibere debet Adjiciantur praedictis Iuterrogationibus quae justa fuerint Pronunciatis omnibus supra dictis dictus Princeps confirmet se omnia pr●…dicta esse servaturum Sacramento super alt●…re coram cunctis protinus praestito Juramentum Gallice SIre voulez vous granter garder per vostre serment confirmer au peuple de Angleterre les leys les custumes a eulx granteé par les Roies de Angleterre voz predecesseurs droictereulx devoutez a dieu nommement les leys les custumes les Franchisez granter au Clergie au peuple par le gloriens Roy Saint Eduard vostre predecesseur Responsio Regis Ie les grant promet Episcopus Sire garderez vous a Dieu au seinte Eglise au Clergie au peuples paix accord en dien entirement selonque vostre poer Resp. Regis Ie le garderay Episcopus Sire ferez vouz faire en toutz voz jugements droit justice discretion in misericorde verite a vostre poer Resp. Regis Ie le feray Episcopus Sire granterez vouz a tenir a garder les leys les custumes droicturelles les quelux la Communaute de vostre Reaume auera es leus lez defenderez 〈◊〉 al honor de dien a vostre poer 〈◊〉 Regis Ie les grant promet The Kings Oath in English SIR Will you grant and keep and by your Oath Confirm to the People of England the Lawes and Customes to them granted by the Kings of England your Lawful and Religious Predecessors and namely the La●… C●…mes and Franchises granted to the Clergy and to the People by the glorious King St. Edward your Predecessor Rex Resp. I grant and promise to keep them Episcopus Sir Will you keep Peace and Agreement entirely according to your power both to God the holy Church the Clergy and the People Rex I will keep it Episcopus Sir Will you to your power cause Law Iustice and Discretion in Mercy and Truth to be executed in all your judgements Rex I will Episcopus Sir Will you grant to hold and keep the Lawes and rightfull Customes which the Commonalty of your Kingdom have and to defend and uphold them to the honour of God so much as in you lye Responsio Regis I grant and promise so to do This done the King 〈◊〉 to the observation of what he hath promised them upon the Altar After the O●…th thus taken the King returneth to his Chair of Estate ag●…in The Archbishop beginneth the Hymn Veni Creator spiritus and the Quire sing it The Hymn ended the King kneels down at his Fald-stool and the Archbishop saith

sanctam Dei Ecclesiam ejusque fideles propugnando protegas Non minus sub fide falsos quam Christiani nominis hostes execreris ac destruas viduas pupillos clementer adjuves ac defendas desolata restaures restaurata conserves ulciscaris injusta Confirmes bene disposita quatenus haec in agendo virtutum triumpho gloriosus Justitiaeque cultor egregius cum mundi salvatora cujus typu●… geris in nomine sine fine merearis reg●…are Qui cum patre ●…piritu Sancto c. Receive this Kingly Sword which is hallowed for the defence of the Faith of Christs holy Church and delivered unto thee by the hands of Bishops though unworthy yet Consecrated in the place of the holy Apostles and remember of whom the Psalmist did prophe●… saying Gird thy self with thy Sword upon thy Thigh O thou most mighty and with this Sword exercise thou the force of Equity and mightily destroy the growth of Iniquity protect the holy Church of God and his faithful people and pursue Hereticks no lesse then Infidels defend and help Widdows and Orphans Restore the things that are gone to decay and maintain those things that are restored be revenged of injustice and confirm things that are in good order that doing these things thou maist be glorious in the triumph of Vertue and excellent in the ornament of Justice and reign for ever with the Saviour of the world whose image you bear who with the Father and the Holy ghost Then the Armill is pu●… about his neck in the manner of a Stole and tyed to the boughts of his two Arms. The Archbishop saying Accipe armillas sinceritatis sapientiae divinaeque circumdationibus judicium quibus intelligas omnes operationes tuas contra hostes visibiles invisibiles posse esse munitas per Dominum nostrum c. Recive the Armill as a token of Gods embracing whereby all thy works may be defended against thy enemies both bodily and ghostly through Christ our Lord. Then the Mantle or open Pall is put on by the Abbor of Westminster The Archbishop saying Accipe pallium quatuor initiis formatum per quod intelligas quatuor mundi partes Divinae potestati esse subjecta●… Nec quenquam posse feliciter regnare i●… terris nisi cui potestas regnandi fuerit collocata de Coelis Receive this Pall which is formed with four Corners to let thee understand that the four quarters of the world are subject to the power of God and that no man can happily reign upon Earth who hath not received his authority from Heaven Then the Archbishop taketh the Crown into his han●…s and saith this prayer Deus perpetuatis Du●… virtutum cunctarum hostium victor benedic hunc famulum tuum Jacobum tibi caput suum inclinantem prolixa sanitate prospera felicitate eum conserva ubicunque auxilium tuum invocaverit cito adsis protegas ac defenda●… Tribue ei quaesumus domine divitia●… gratiae tuae●… comple in bonis desiderium e●…us corona eum in misericordia tua tibique domino opia devotione jugiter famuletur per Dominum nostrum Iésum Christum filium c. O God of Eternity the commander of all Powers the vanquisher of all Enemies blesse this thy servant who boweth his head unto thy Majesty preserve him in long health and prosperous felicity be present with him pro●…ect and defend him whensoever he calleth upon thee Give him we beseech thee the riches of thy Grace fill his soul with goodnesse and crown him with thy mercy and let him alwaies in godly devotion wait upon thee through thy Son our Lord Iesus Christ. The Archbishop Crowneth the King saying Coronet te Deus cor●…na Gal●…aque justi●…iae honore opere fortitudinis ut per officium nostrae benedictionis cum fide recta multiplici bonoram operum fructu ad Coronam pervenias regni perp●… Ipse largiente cujus reg●…um permanet in secula seculorum God Crown thee with a Crown of Glory and Righteousnesse with the honor and work of Fortitude that thou by ou●… Ministery having a right Faith and manifold fruit of good works ●…aist obtain the Crown of an everlasting kingdome by the gift of him whose kingdome ind●…eth for ever In the mean time the Quire singeth the Anthem Confortare Be strong ●…nd os a good courage and observe the Commandem●… of the Lord to walk in his wayes and keep his Ceremonies Precepts Testimonies and Iudgements and almighty God prosper and strengthen thee whithersoever thou goest The Lord is my Ruler therefore I shall want nothing Deus in virtute The King shall rejoyce in my strength O Lord exceeding Then he putteth the Ring on his Wedding finger saying Accipe regiae dignitatis a●…nulum per hun ●…e Catholicae fidei signaculum quatenus ut hodie ornaris ●…aput Princeps regni ac Populi ita perseveres auctor stab●… Christianitatis Christianae fidei ut felix in opere locuples in fide cum rege Regum glorieris Cui est honor gloria per aeterna secula seculorum Amen Receive the Ring of Kingly dignity and by it the seal of Christian Faith that as this day thou art adorned the head and Prince of this Kingdome and People so thou maist persevere as the Author and establisher of Christianity and the Christian Faith that being rich in Faith and happy in Works thou maist reign with him who is King of Kings to whom be glory and honour for ever and ever After this the Archbishop saith this prayer Deus cujus est c. omnis potestas dignitas da f●…mulo tuo propriae suae dignitatis effectum in qua te remunerante permaneat semperque te timeat tibique jugiter placere contendat per Dominum nostrum c. O God to whom belongeth all Power and Dignity give unto thy Servant the Fruit of his Dignity wherein grant he may long continue and fear ●…ee alwaies and alwaies labour to please thee through Christ our Lord. The King cometh to the Step of the Altar to receive the Sacrament The Archbishop ministreth the Bread The Abbot of Westminster the Cup. The King returneth to his Throne and there staieth the end of Service The Communion being done the King cometh down in Estate to the Altar Thence into King Edwards Chappell The King taketh off his Crown and delivereth it to the Archbishop who ●…aieth●… it on the Altar there The King withdraweth himself into the Traverse There the great Chamberlain of England disrobeth him of the Robes of King Edward the Confessor These Robes he immediately delivereth to the Abbot of Westminster The King is arrayed with his own Royal Robes provided for his Majesty to wear that day The King being newly arrayed cometh forth of the Traverse and goeth to King Edwards Altar There the Archbishop putteth on him the Crown which is provided for his Majesty to wear that day The King taketh again his Scepter with the Cross into his hand

THE FIRST SECOND PART OF THE Signal Loyalty and Devotion of Gods true Saints and Pious Christians as also of Idolatrous Pagans towards their KINGS Both before and under the Law and Gospel Especially in this our Island Expressed in and by their publike private loyal Supplications Prayers Intercessions Thanksgivings Votes Acclamations Salutations Epistles Addresses Benedictions Options of Long life health wealth safety victory peace prosperity all temporal spiritual eternal blessings felicities to their KINGS Persons Families Queens Children Realms Armies Officers chearfull Subjection and dutifull Obedience to them Whethe●… Good or Bad Christians or Pagans Orthodox or Heterodox Protectors or Persecutors of them With the true Reasons thereof from Scripture Policy Evidenced by varieties of Presidents Testimonies and Authorities in al ages worthy the Knowledge Imitation and serious Consideration of all Christian Kings and Sub●…ects comprising both their Duties towards each other especially of our present degenerated dissoyal Antimonarchical Generation Whereunto the several Forms Ceremonies Prayers Collects Benedictions and Consecrations used at the Coronations of Christian Emperors Kings Queens more particularly in England and Scotland not formerly published and of the Mahometan and Ae●…yptian Kings are annexed By WILIAM PRYNNE Esq a Bencher of Lincolns Inne Psal. 72. 1 2. Give the King thy Judgements O Lord and thy Righteousnesse unto the Kings Son Then shall he Judge thy p●…ople with Righteousnesse and thy poor with Judgement Tertulliani Apologia adversus Gentes c. 32. Hoc agite boni Praesides ex●…rquete animam Deo supplicantem pro Imperatore Hoc erit crimen ubi veritas Dei Devotio est LONDON Printed by T. Childe and L. Parry and are to be sold by Edward Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little-brittain 1660. THE Signal Loyalty and Devotion of Gods true Saints and Pious Christians TOVVARDS THEIR KINGS AS ALSO Of some idolatrous Pagans both before under the Law and Gospel expressed by their private and publike Prayers Supplications Intercessions Thanksgivings well-wishes for the health safety long life prosperity temporal spiritual eternal felicity of the Kings and Emperors under whom they lived whether Pagan or Christian Bad or Good Heterodox or Orthodox Persecutors or Protectors of them and likewise for their Royal Issue Posterity Realms and by their dutifull conscientious Obedience and Subjection to them with the true Reasons thereof from Scripture and Policy Evidenced by Presidents and Testimonies in all ages worthy the knowledge imitation and serious consideration of our present degenerated disloyal antimonarchical Generation By William Prynne Esq. a Bencher of Lincolns Inne Psal. 72. 1 2. Give the King thy Judgements O Lord and thy Righteousness unto the Kings Son Then shall he judge thy people with Righteousness and thy poor with Judgement Tertulliani Apologia adversus Gentes c. 32. Hoc agite boni Praesides extorquete animam Deo supplicantem pro Imperatore Hoc erit crimen ubi veritas Dei devotio est LONDON Printed by T. C. and L. P. 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 indubitab●…e Hereditary Birthright and Succession of ENGLAND SCOTLAND FRANCE and IRELAND KING the 〈◊〉 c●…stant Pro●…ssor and DEFENDOR of the truly A●…nt Catholick and Apostolick FAITH in the midst of manifold Persecutions ●…rovocations Sol●…ations T●…ions and Fiery T●…yals the Magazin of all Christian and Royal Virtues and Miracle of Gods preserving and restoring Mercies M●…st gracious Soveraign THe on●…y potentate and KING OF KINGS who removeth Kings and SETTETH UP KINGS and ru●…eth in the KINGDOM OF MEN TO GIVE IT TO WHOMSOEVER HE PLEASETH having by his own Omnipotent out-stretched arm and successive Miraculous Providences unexpectedly cut off cast down subverted d●…ipated 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 Wo 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 case 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 h●…sten your Majesties return and transport you with honour and sa●…ety 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 o●… 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 se●…son 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 magnificen●…ly invested in the poss●…ssion of Your Royal Throne at Wh●…tehall in the presence of all your Majesties Lords Commons and thousands of your People there assembled who with their united Shouts Prayers P●…aises 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 Uni●… Kingdoms and Churches of ENGLAND SCOTLAND and IRELAND and their respective Dominions being all ●…ised from the●… Graves of D●…th and Misery wherein they had for some years sp●…ce b●…re been in●…red and were new ●…rn AS KINGDOMS and Churches too on that joy●… d●…y 〈◊〉 to ●…e celebrated by them in all succeeding Generations and to have this Divine motto engra●…n thereon The stone which the bu●…lders refused is this day become t●…e Head of the corner This is the Lords doing and it is marvello●… in our eyes THI●… IS THE DAY WHICH THE LORD HATH MAD●… WEE WILL REJOYCE AND BE GLAD THEREIN What the ●…gant Prophet Is●…h records of God●… mira●… M●…cies towards his Church and people B●…e she 〈◊〉 she broug●…t 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 〈◊〉 she brought 〈◊〉 her childre●… Was now verified b●…th of your M●…jesty and you●… three whole Kingdoms Churches all brought forth and born together in this one DAY Wherefore R●…yce ye with 〈◊〉 with England and he glad with her all ye that love her rejoyce fo●… joy with h●…r all ye that mourned for her I●… hath been the antient 〈◊〉 O●… our●… Rom●…sh Adversaries against our Reformed Protestant Churches Religi●…n that they are false and spurious because they have no mi●…cles wr●…ght in them And they have daily upbraided your s●…cred Majesty your followers yea pierced your souls during your Exile among them w●…th this soul-piercing Quaere * Where is now the God of the Prot stants He can neither p●…rve nor ●…store You to ●…our Crowns and King●…ms 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nounce your Protestant God Ch●…ch 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 our Rom●…n Catholike God Church R●…ligion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hope nor 〈◊〉 of your rest●…on and th●…t 〈◊〉 ●…y th●… Arms of your Catholike ●…yes and subjec●… But blessed and for ever 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of ou●… great God who hath now vindicated his own Glorie and O●…ncie against their 〈◊〉 wrought so many Miracles in your Maties restitution to justifie b●…th the Truth of the Prote●…ant Religion Churches your Subj●…s that all their spurious Miracles and Impostures wherewi●…h they abuse their over-c●…edulous Proselytes and fraught their Legends even to n●…sse are no more to be compared with them than a Glo-worm●…o ●…o the Noon day Sun And their God and rock is not as our God and ro●…k our Enemies themselves being now Judges Verily your Majesty with all your Protestant Subjects after such a stupendious glorious deliverance from their la●…e usurping Pharaohs w●…rse t●…n Aegyptian Tax masters Burdens and servitude have just cause to sing aloud to the God of their Salvation this triump●…ant song of Moses and the Children of Israel and King David after them a Who is l●…ke unto thee O Lord amongst the Gods who is like unto thee glorious in holynesse fearfull in prayses doing wonders Thou str●…tchest out thyright hand the earth swallowed them Thou in thymercy hast led forth thy p●…ople which thou hast redeemed Sing ye unto the Lord for he hath triumphed gloriously The King shall joy 〈◊〉 thy str●… O Lord and in thy salvation how greatly shall he ●…joyce for thou hast now given him his hearts desire thou hast not with-holden the request of his lips For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodnesse thou settest a Crown of pure gold on his head His glory is great in thy salvation Honor and Majesty hast thou laid upon him Thou hast made him most Blessed for ever thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy Countenance For the King trusteth in the Lord and through the mercy of the most High he shall not miscarry Blessed be the Lord God of England from everlasting to everlasting for th●…s unexpressible mercy and let all the people say Amen Praise ye the Lord. Yea they all now joyntly and severally apply to your Majestie the blessing and words of the Q●…een of Sheba to King Solomon after she beheld his transcendent Wisdom Virtues and Magnificence which far exceeded the report thereof as your Majesties royal wisdom and graces of all kinds much transcend their fame Bl●…ssed be the Lord thy God who delighted in thee to set thee upon his Throne to be King for the Lord thy God Because the Lord thy God lov●…d Israel England Scotland and Ireland TO ESTABLISH THEM FOR EVER THEREFORE MADE HE THEE KING OVER THEM TO DO JUSTICE AND JUDGEMENT yea to restore them to their pristine Liberty Peace Plenty Traffick Renown Prosperity and make them the happiest of all Subjects in the world In the contempl●…tion of which inchoated common Felicity I humbly presume to dedicate to your Majesty this now compleated Treatise of The Signal Loyalty and Devotion of Gods true Saints and pious Christians in all ages and lik●…wise of Pagans to their KINGS both before and under the Law and Gospel more especially within this your first Christian Realm of Britain wherein I have most expa●…ted expressed both by their publike and private Prayers Supplications and Intercessions unto God for their long life health sa●…ety victory prosperity temporal spiritual and eternal felicity and all sorts of blessings both on their Royal Persons Queens P●…ogenies Families Government Kingdoms Armies Counsels by their Thanksgivings to God for their advancement to their Royal Thrones Victories Successes Deliverances Piety Justice and Gratious reigns over them by their loyal Acclamations Salutations Addresses Panegyricks Epistles to them and their dutiful Subjection and Obedience under them which I have evidenc'd by presidents and Testimonies in all ages never formerly collected into one Manual To which I have super added the antient and modern Forms of the Coronations of Christian Emperors Kings Queens and of some Pagans with the Ceremonies Solemnities Prayers Collects and Benedictions used at them especially those relating to England and Scotland not hitherto published as a President for and Prologue to your Majesties much desired and shortly-expected Coronation The first Part of this Treatise I lately Printed in January last for Your Majesties service to inthrone You in the Hearts publike Prayers and Supplications of all Your loyal Subjects to prepare the way for Your Majestyes speedy Restauration to Your Hereditary Crowns and Kingdoms which blessed be God you now actually enjoy to their unspeakable comfort of the accomplishment whereof without Armes or Blood I had such full assurance then and since in my own apprehensions from the Observation of Gods admirable Providences of Your Majesties Opposites intollerable Extravagances and Infatuations of Your Subjects late dutiful Inclinations tending thereunto through the loyal Endeavour of some Faithfull Friends to your

this their obstinate opposition of and rebellion against their Kings Monarchy and Kingship Prov. 24. 21 22. so no doubt He that sitteth in the Heavens if they therein still proceed will laugh at them and their Antimonarchical Votes the Lord shall have them in derision yea he shall speak unto them in his wrath and vex them in his sore displeasure He shall break them with a rod of Iron and dash them in pieces like a Potters vessel maugre all their forces votes counsels confederacies and make good those general promises Yet have I set my King upon my holy Hill of Sion Rule thou in the middest of thine enemies The Lord reigneth let the Earth rejoyce let the mul●…de of the Isles be glad thereof Yea the Lord reigneth be the p●…ple never so impatient He ●…tteth between the Cher●…bine be the Earth never so unquie Great deliverance giveth he unto his King and sh●…th mercy to his Anointed to vid and to his Seed for evermore And that which is most considerable their own transcendent unpresidented tyrannical illegal unrighteous violent proceedings against the whole House of Peers the majority of their own secluded ejected old Fellow-Members the City of London and their Common Council their former chief Supporters whom they have now made the scorn and derision of the World by voting down their Common Council and pulling down their Gates Percullises and Posts before any hearing or Judgement and putting higher affronts upon them after all their former Obligations and the late Kings large Privileges granted to them in the Isle of Weight than ever any Kings of England formerly did or durst attempt Their dis-obliging and dis-carding all or most of those Army-Officers and Souldiers who first created them a Parliament without a King or House of Lords and restored them to their present power in May last and engaging others of them in such displeasing services as do render them odious for the present and infamous to posterity Their exasperating the generality of the Nobility Gentry Ministers and Commons of our three Kingdoms against them by their peremptory denyal to admit and forcible seclusion and voting out the old secluded Members the Majority of the House to monopolize all Parliamentary power and Offices into their own hands and refusing the convening of a free and full Parliament without prelimitations to settle our Distractions according to the general Desires and Addresses of most Counties and Cities of the Kingdom and imprisoning some worthy Gentlemen Swordmen only for presenting at their Counties requests these their Desires in Letters directed to their Speaker and unjustly refusing to bayl them upon Habcas Corporaes in Courts where they sit both as Members and Judges and Parties which none ever did before thereby leaving the subjects in greater Vassalage than ever they sustained under the late King whom they branded and beheaded as the worst of all Tyrants And yet doubling and trebling their Taxes in their exhausted condition and losse of all Trade for those very 6. Months space for which they were taxed and forced to pay in before hand by them without their Common consent in Parl d●…ring their Representatives forcible seclusion against their own Act Oct. 11. 1659. contrary to all their former late Declarations no Kings of Engl●…nd having been so extra vagant arbitrary unjust oppressive in their Governments and proceedings as they have been and that in the very midst of their own private sears and unsettlement and our publick dangers after all the late vast expences of blood and treasure to maintain our Laws Liberties Propertys against all arbitrary and tyrannical powers nor yet daring to attempt against their Subjects what they have boldly acted against their fellow Members and the People whom they once voted the Sovereign power of the Nation whose servants not Lords they pretend themselves which desperate violences oppressions and extravagances without any hopes of ease peace liberty or settlement will render our Kings and Kingshi●… more amiable and desirable than ever and more promote and accelerate their restitution than all Royallists Counsels and endeavours whatsoever in wise mens Judgements Cum duplicantur lateres Venit Moyses 1 Tim. 1. 17. Now unto the King eternal immortal invisible the only wise God be Honor and Glory for ever and ever Amen FINIS ERRATA p. 4. l. 24. last r. middle p. 43. l. 19. 500 r. 300. p. 68. l. 31. discis ●… dejicis l. 34. r. dolori p. 77. l. 32. dele si p. 78. l. 1. r. orationis l. 19. nuncupari l. 34. Antoninus Margin P. 78. l. 9. Antoninus l. 10. P. 10 ●… 49. 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 Largely manifested both in point of Theory and Practice in a Chronological method by Fathers Councils Ecclesiastical 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. 133. 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 14 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. THE SECOND PART OF THE Signal Loyalty and Devotion of Gods true Saints and pious Christians towards their KINGS HAving lately presented the world with the first part of the Signal Loyalty and Devotion of Gods true Saints and Pious Christians as likewise of Idolatrous Pagans towards their Kings and Emperors both before and under the Law and also under the Gospel whiles their Emperors and Kings were Idolaters and Ethnicks expressed both by their private and publick Supplications

Christ and commending himself Sanctae matris Eccl●…siae precibus to the ●…rayers of his holy Mother the Church and particularly to the Pray●…s of St. G●…blac the Confessor and Anchorite Whence a Poet'thus writ of him Ethelbaldus c. Dret pro nobis sanctissimus iste Sacerdos Guthlacus Ad tumbam cujus haec mea dona dedi A c●…ear evidence that the Churches and Ministers of Christ in England did then constantly pray for their Christian Kings who specially recommended themselves to their prayers Our venerable and most learned Beda doth very much p esse this Duty of Prayer for Kings though Pagans and Persecutors from sundry Texts of Scripture on which he comments In his Expositiones allegoricae in Ezram l. 2. c. 7. Et offerant oblationes Deo Coeli Oren●…que pro vita Regis et Filiorum ejus He thus comments Offerunt autem ea Sacer dotes iidem pro vita Regis et Filiorum ejus j●…xta illud Ap●…stoli 1 Tim. 2. Obsecro igitur primò omnium fieri obsecrationes orationes postulationes gratiarum actiones pro omnibus hominibus pro Regi●…ns omnibus qui in sublimitate sunt ut quietam tranquillam vitam agamus c. And in his Fxposition on the 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3. Tom. 7. p. 708 709 710. he recites and approves the passages of St. A●…gustin at large recited in the next Chapter commanding Prayers Supplications Intercessions and Thanksgivings to be made not only for Christian and pious Kings but even for ●…agans and Idolaters though vitious though Persecutors of the Gospel and fincere Professors thereof Our famous Council of Clov●…sho under Archbishop Cuthbert Anno Dom. 747. cap. 30. De orando pro Rege decreed 〈◊〉 deinceps per ●…anonic as Orationum hor●… non solum pro se Ecclesiastici sive Monasteriales sed etiam pro Regibus ac Ducibus totiusque populi Christiani incolumitate Divinam incessan●…èr exorent clementiam quatenus Duictam et Tranquillam Uitam sub corum pia defensione mereantur agere Et ut ita post haec unanimes existerent in Deum fide spe caritate seipsos invicem diligerent etiam post hujus peregrinationis pericula ad supernam pervenire pariter mereanter patriam The reason of making this Canon for incessant Prayers for Kings Dukes and Princes is thus expressed in the preceding part thereof that there was a scandal and suspition raised amongst the Priests of God inferiour Clergy that they had an ill opinion of Kings Dukes and Princes as too many have now Hoc est quod Reges cum Ducibus Principibus suis ac deind●… minoris potetestatis persuasi plurimi de eis dicere soleant quod non tantum sincero eos non diligant affectu sed insuper eorum bonis prae●…entibus ac prosperitatibus quibusque foelicioribus magis invideant animo nimis infesto quàm devoto satis congaudeant corde eorum que conversationis statum Odibili quadam detractatione dilacerare non desinant A very good ground to revive and re-enforce this Duty both on Ministers and people now Ut horis canonicis Pr●…ces fiant pro Regibus as the Margin of this Canon prescribes as well as the body thereof Boniface Archbishop of Mentz an Englishman by birth thus inscribes and begins his 19. Epistle to our King Ethilbald Domino charissimo in Christi amore caeteris Regilus praeferendo inclyta Anglorum imperii sceptra gu●…ernanti Ethilbaldo Regi Bonifacius c. Wera Burckart Warbeth Abel Wilibald Coepiscopi Perennem in Christo charitatis salutem Confitemur coram Deo sanctis Angelis quia quamcumque prosperitatem vestram video opera bona Dee coram homini●…us per nuncios fideles audivimus quod inter gaudentes et pro vobis orantes gratias agimus Deo postulantes et obsecrantes Salvatorem nostrum ut vos sospites et in side stabiles et in operibus coram Deo rectos in Principatu Christiani populi longo tempore custodiat And King Ethilbert thus closeth his Epistle to Boniface the Archbishop who prayed for him in those times Orantem pro Nobis beatitudinem tuam longaevam divina pietas faciat His 14. Epistle to Pippin King of France begins thus C●…lsitudinis vestrae clementiae magnas gratias agamus et Dominum Iesum Christum precantes ut vobis in regno Coelorum aeternam merced●…m retribuat Most of his and Lu●…us his Successors Epistles conclude with Prayers Cenewlphus King of the East-Saxons with his Bishops and Nobles in their Epistle to L●…llus Successor to this Boniface as they pray for him so they likewise entreat him and his Clerks to pray to God for them in thei●… Congregation Ut pro nostra parvitate proque ●…ace congregationis nostrae Domino supplicare cum eis qui tecum invocant nomen Domini Iesu memineris Omnipotens Deus qui dispersa congregat congregata ●…stodit ipse vos sua gratia prot●…gat et v●…stri laboris fructum in aeterna patria nos 〈◊〉 concedat The renowned Council of Calchuth held in the year 787. under Alfwold King of Northum 〈◊〉 and Offa King of Mercians their Prelates and Nobles and P●…pe Adrians two Legates Gr●…gory and Th●…ophylact c. 12. De Ordinatione honore Regum amongst other things prescribed constant Prayers for and subjection to Kings prohibiting all Treasons and Conspiracies against them in these words and from these Scriptures Scitore quia Dominus dominator est in regno hominum ipsius est regnum cuicu●…que voluerit dabit illud Ideo Omnes generaliter admonuimus ut consona voce et corde Dominum rogent ut qui eum eligit in Regnum ipse ei tribuat regimen Disciplinae sanctae suae ad regendam plebem suam Honor quoque eis ab omnibus impendatur dicente Apostolo Regem ●…onoroficate alibi sive Regi qua●…i praecellenti five Ducibus tanquam ab co missis ad vindictam male●…actorum laudem verò bonorum Item Apostolus Omnis anima sublimioribus potestatious subdita sit quia non est potestas data nisi 〈◊〉 Deo Q●…ae autem sunt à Deo ordinata sunt Igitur qui 〈◊〉 potestati Dei ordinationi resistit qui autem resist●…nt ipsi ●…ibi damnationem acquirunt Nulius Regi detrahat dicente Salomone in ore tuo ne detraxeris Regi in corde tuo ne maledixe●… 〈◊〉 Principi●… quia aves Coeli portant illud qui habet pennam a●…ntiabit verbum In necem Regis Nemo communicare audeat quia Christus Domini est Et si quis tali sceleri adhaeserit si Episcopus est aut ullus ex Sacerdotali gradu ex ipso detrudatur et â sancta haereditate dejiciatur sieut Judas ex Apostolico gradu ejectus est omnis quisquis tali sacrilegio assenserit aeterno anathematis vinculo

significat Judaei autē cives supernae Jerusalem qui in hoc seculo pe●…egrinantur inter malos et Regibus atque Principibus tributa xeddant et ●…aetera quae salvo Dei cultu constitutio secularis exigit Idcirco debet orare pro pace eorum quia in pace eorum erit illis pax ●…tique interim temporalis quae bonis malisque communis est Utimur ergo et nos pace Babylonis ex qua per fidem et coe●…stis patriae d●…siderium ità populus Dei laetabitur ut apud hanc interim peregrinetur Pax autem nostra propria et b●…um Deo est per fidem in aeternum cum illo per speciem Orate inquit pro pace Principum et pro salute omnium quia hoc agere est bonum id est utile Ecclesiae acceptum id est gratum atque placitum coram Deo salvatore nostro qui-s●…ut nos salvat ita omnes homines vult salvos fieri ad agnitionem veritatis venire c. Omne genus hominum intelligan●…us per quascunque differentias distributum Reges Principes Nobiles ignobiles sublimes humiles c. Hoc enim bonum est coram Salvatore id est ut pro talibus 〈◊〉 Hoc quippe Deus bonum judicavit ut oratione humilium dignaretur salutem praestare sublimibus This was the received Doctrine of this great learned Arch-bishop of Canterbury Anselme both under King W●…ll Rufus and H. the I. Queen Maud his daughter and heir to the Crown by her Charter founded and granted to the Abby of Bardesley sundry Lands Pro Dei amore pro anima H. Regis Patris mei Et M. Reginae Matris meae parentum antecessorum meorum pro salute G. Comitis Andegaviae Domini mei mea H. Haeredis mei et aliorum filiorum meorum et pro pace et stabilitate Regni Angliae In her Charters of confirmation and grant to the Abbyes of Kingeswood Stoneley Cogeshale and St. Frideswide in Oxford she hath the like expressions for all which the Monks there were obliged to pray King Stephen by his respective Charters of grant and con●…mation to the Monasteries of Feversham Billewas Sibeton and other Abbies gave and confirmed Land●… and Liberties to them pro salute animae meae Mathi●…dis Re ginae 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 E. filii mei et aliorum puerorum meorum et 〈◊〉 meorum Regum Angliae et nominatim pro anima Regi●… Hen●…ici et fratr●…m meorum by prayers to be made in t●…em by the Monks therein ●…or that purpose King Henry the II. by his Charters of grant and confirmation of Lands and Liberties to the Abbies and Monasteries of St. Maryes in York Eton Abberbury Feversham Q●…arrera St. Maryes near Dublin in Ireland Mir●…val Flexley Croxd●…n W●…teham and Tavystock granted sundry Lands and Franchises to them Pro Dei amore pro salute animae meae et reginae meae et haeredum meorum et pro anima Regis Henrici avi pro animabus antecessorum nostrorum et omnium parentum majorum et antecessorum meorum Regum Angliae et Successorum nostrorum et matris meae Imperatricis et puerorum meorum to be obtained by their Prayers inserting this Clause into his Charter of Confirmation to St. Maries in York Ne aliquis haeres vel successor quaerat relevamen vel aliquod Dominium praeter orationes et preces et eleemosynam animae suae de beneficiis vel eleemosynis quas aliquis dedit praedictae Abbathiae King Henry the 2d comming into England to be crowned after King Stephens death ut decebat tantum tàm beatum virum cum summa laetitia et multis prae gaudio lachrymantibus in Regem benedictus est in throno Regni splendidissimè collocatus est De cujus temporis beatitudine sic diximus heroicè writes Henry Huntingdon Anglia lethali jamdudum frigore torpens Nunc solis fervore novi rediviva calescens Erigis impressum terrae caput vacuatis Tristitiae lachrymis pro laetitia lachrymaris Cum lachrymis haec verba tuo profundis alumno Spiritus es caro sum Tu nunc intrante revixi Anno 1166. there falling out a difference between this King and Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury Pope Alexander thus begins all his Epistles to the King on Beckets behalf Alexander c. Dilecto filio Henrico illustri Regi Anglorum Salutem et Apostolicam benedictionem Advising him so to govern his Realm to the honour of God and tranquillity and peace of his Church Ut Regnum temporale conservet et p●…st illud det tibi Deus ●…ine fine mansuram And Archbishop Becket though in exile begins his Epistle to the King the same year in these words Reverendissimo Domino suo Henrico Dei gratia illustri Anglorum Regi c. Salutem et utinam per omnia benefacere And ends it thus Bene valeat semel et semper Dominus meus Anno 1171. Robert Abbot of Wallatia and 4. other Ambassadors of King Henry sent to Rome about Reckets Businesse began their Epistle to the King with Charissimo Domino Henrico illustr Angliae Regi c. Salutem facile in omnibus et ubique servitium Closing it thus Ualeat et vigeat sublimitas vestra confortamini in Domino exultet cor vestrum Reginald elect Bishop of Bath begins his Epistle from Rome to this King with Salutem in eo qui dat salutem Regibus And Manuel Emperor of Constantinople thus salutes him in the beginning of his Epistle to him Salutem et omne bonum Pope Lucius in his Epistle to him Anno 1185. wisheth him Salutem et Apostolicam benedictionem The Patriark of Antioch begins his Epistle to him with this option in illo regnare per quam Reges regnant The Master of the Temple Tricius in his Epistle wisheth him Salutem in eo q●…i dat salutem Regibus Stephanus Tornacensis Episcopus inscribes his first Epistle to this King thus Henrico R●…gi Anglorum cum omni prosperitate gloriam sempiternam Petrus Blesensis Arch-deacon of Bath thus begins his 12 41 42 62 and 153. Epistles to him Henrico Dei gratia illustrissimo Anglorum Regi c. Salutem in eo per quem Regesregnant His 41. Epistle to him is thus concluded Bene valeat charissimus Dominus meus diuque ac faeliciter vivat et regnet Richard Archbishop of Canterbury his Epistle to him begins with Salutem et in Regno temporali ●…egni Coelestis memoriam et amorem And the Archbishop of Rhoane the 153. Epistle of Petrus Blesensis beginning with the Salutation used in his 1. Epistle ends with this Prayer Bene valeat altissimus Dominus et Deus qui se contra eum in superbia et abusione erigunt reportet in virtute altissimi gloriam et triumphum King Richard the 1. by his respective

Charters granted and confirmed several Lands Liberties and Privileges to the Monasteries and Churches of Stratford Halwiel Frampton Wells Budesley Revesly Boxele and Homecoltram pro amore Dei et pro salute nostra et A. Reginae matris nostrae in liberam et perpetuam elemosynam for which the Monks were to pray King John by several Charters granted and confirmed several Lands and Liberties to the respective Monasteries of F●…ssa St. Katherine near Exeter Thikehued St. Neth D●…re Farendon Shaftesbury and Wolfraughauton pro salute animae H. Regis avi Patris nostri pro salute nostra et 〈◊〉 nostrorum et omnium ancecessorum et successorum nostrorum pro salute animo H. Regis patris nostri et matris sui Imperatricis et antecessorum et 〈◊〉 nostrorum Which the Monks in all these Monsteries were obliged constantly to pray for in all their publike and private Masses and Devotions King Henry the 3 d. granted and confirmed several Lands and Privileges to the Abbies and Monasteries of Danington F●…ssa Flamsted Cesthont Wilburt●…sse Lillichurch Wotton New-Minster near Morpeth Parcolude Kemmer Jorevall Holmcoltram Bynedone Leiselege Lenton and Tarente pro salute animae nostrae et H. Regis et ●…aeredam nostrorum et omnium ●…egum Angliae et omnium fidelium et animarum ante●…rum nostrorum et patris mei et matris meae et pro totius nostri progen in remissionem peccatorum et salvationem et pro statu Regni mei Which the Abbots Priors and Monks in these respective Churches we●… constantly to pray for both in publike and private The Prior and Covent of St. Alba●… in their Letters to King Henry the 3d. touching the Election and presentation of a New Abbot Anno 1235. used this ●…tile and prayer Excellentissimo Domino suo in Christo Reverendissimo Henrico Dei gratia Regi Angliae c. E. Prior Sancti Albani ejusdem loci Conventus cum omni humilitate devotione aeternam in Domino salutem The Prior and Covent of Bath Anno 1242. begin and end their Letters to King Henry the 3d. and his Queen concerning the Election of the Bishop of Bath and Wells in this form and with these Prayers for them Serenissimo Domino Henrico Dei gratia Regi Angliae c. devoti sui ●…umilis Th. Prior conventus Ba●…honiae Salutem et debitam cum orationibus 〈◊〉 reverentiam et fidelitatem c. In omnibus quae nostrae erunt possibilitatis vestris pa●…ati sumus affec●…uose parere mandatis ●…alvat et vigeat Dominatio vestra per tempora longa 〈◊〉 Regia 〈◊〉 ●…estra semper in Domino Conservet vos 〈◊〉 et populo suo Altissimus per ●…pora longiora Ualeat et tigeat Serenitas vestra et ●…liorum vestrorum per tempora longa Ualeat Serenitas vestra semper in Domino Which were their daily prayers for thē in their publike and private Devotions in their Churches and Cells as well as in their Letters And likewise for King Adelstan Edwar●… Edgar Ethelred Kenulphus Henry the I. and King Stephen Benefactors to the Priory of B●…th whose Anni●…rsaries they solemnized every year with Solemn prayers and Alms as the Leger book records In the Vigil o. St. Matthew Anno 1247. when Prince Edward eldest son and heir of King Henry the 3. was sick the said King writ to all the religious persons remaining within the circuit of London where the said Edward lay sick ut 〈◊〉 orarent pro Pueri incolumitate●… that they should devoutly pray for the recovery and health of the child Whereupon amongst others he writ specially to the Abbot and Covent of St. Alban ut pro ipso orantes that praying for him all the Monks should solemnly sing a Masse whose first Collect should be of St. Alban but the second for the sick Prince namely Omnipotens sempiternè Deus salus aeterna credentium c Which being done per Dei gratiam puero sanitas est restituta Haec idcircò dixerim writes the Historian propter murmur populi dicentis ecce laici orant Dominum et exaudiuntur et quare non orat Papa facit pro causa sua imò nostra universalis Ecclefiae Orare imò rapinis inhiat pecuniae indefessus Dictumque est affirmatum quod non sine lac●…rymis scribo plus confidit in pecuniae thesauris quam fidelium precibus vel Eleemosy●…is The Abbots of the Order of Black Monks assembling at the Abby of Bermond●…shie in the year 1249. Ordained by Common-Council Quod ipse Dominus Rex ab ipsis omnibus impetravit ut pro ipso et Regina dicatur quotidie in missa quae in veneratione beatae Virginis canitur in eorum Ecclesiis Collecta celebis Deus in cujus manu For the preservation and welfare of the King and Queen King Henry the 3d. being very sick at Westminster in the Lent Anno 1270. and despairing of his recovery se orationibus Ecclesiae commendavit recommended himself to the Prayers of the Church Whereupon the Monks of Westminster fearing to lose such a Patriot went in Pilgrimage bare-foot in a rainy season to the new Temple and there singing a Masse for the King and returning thence in the same manner as they went it was told them that the King had recovered of his sicknesse Whereupon he commanded the Monks by his Mandates that they should ●…ing Gaude at in coelis quod convaluit precibus monachorum George Cassandar in his h Preces Ecclesiasticae hath sundry forms of Prayers for Christian King●… Emperors Princes and Kingdoms collected out of several antient Liturgies Missals Letanies and Canonical Houres used antiently in most Monasteries and Churches as well in England as in other Kingdoms during the reign of King Henry the 3d. and in the Kings reigns preceding and succeeding him which I shall here insert Deus qui populis tuis virtute consulis amore dominaris da huic f●…mule tuo spiritum sapientiae cum regimine disciplinae ut tibi toto corde devotus in Regni regimine maneat semper idoneus tuoque munere ipsius temporibus securitas Ecclesiae dirigatur ut in tranquillitate devotio Christiana permaneat ut in bonis operibus perseverans ad aeternum Regnum te duce valeat pervenire per eundem Dominum Omnipotens sempiterne Deus qui famulum tuum Regni fastigis dignatus es sublimare tribue ei quaesumus ut ita in hujus seculi cursu in commune salutem disponat quatenus a tuae veritatis tramite non recedat Per eundem Dominum nostrum Deus qui scis humanum genus nulla virtute posse subsistere concede propicius Ut famulus tuus N quem populo tuo voluisti praeferri ita tue fulciatur adjutorio quatenus quibus potui praeesse valeat prodesse Per Dominum Omnipotens sempiterne Deus coelestium terrestriumque moderator qui famutuum

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 divi●… serviciis recommendatum statum nobilistimi 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 Monaste●…ie at Shene the grounds and ends whereof he thus expressed in his Charter Cum 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 medio in auctorem tendant quo nobis ab auctore fluxerunt nomine Salvatoris ut sicut per Mediatorem Dei et hominum Dominum Jesum ad Nos indignos de paetre luminum bona cuncta procedunt ità nostrae laudes quamvis inutiles per cundem 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 〈◊〉 et aliis divinis Offictis inibi faciendis pro salubri statu nostro dum vixerimus ac anima nostra cum ab hac luce migraverimus animabus parentum progenitorum nostrorum omnium fidelium defunctorum Necnon pro pace tranqutilitate et qutete 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 Necnon ut dilecti Nobis in Christo Magister Jahannes Pereson nunc Custos Hospitalis praedicti acnunc 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●…uper ●…uper Ducis Eborici Patris nostri c. Et omnium aliorum Primogenitorum nostrorum Imperpetuum specialiter exorare tene●… King Henry the 7th appropriated the Churches of Potte●… spiry 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 〈◊〉 matris n●…strae Deum altissimum deprecen●… indies et exorent 〈◊〉 missam de Spiritu sancto pro Nobis semel in ebdomade duran●…e vita nostra faciant celebrari et quendam solempnem annualem obitum pro anima nostra cum ab hac luce migraverimus custodiant et observent In the Book entituled Horae beatissimae Mariae ad ligituum Ecclesiae 〈◊〉 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 extitit Coronatus tuo semper munimine tutus sit et securus per Christum Dominum nostrum And in Processinale ad usus insignis Ecclesiae Sarum Parisiis 1545. f. 6. 124 208. ●… 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 stram Famulum tuum Et exaudi nos in die quo 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 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 Eeclesiasticae 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 Usher 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 ●…or fuller satisfaction herein and concerning the forementioned Prayers for and Charters of our Kings to Monasteries to pray for their own their Ancestors Saccessors Heirs and others Souls when departed out of this World I could adde many Prayers made for King Henry the ●…th 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 sub●…cribed with all the Cardinals Hands wherein he conferred on him the Title of Defender of the Faith for w●…iting 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 〈◊〉 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 ins●…gniri optabunt talia etiam opera efficere praeclaraq●…e Majestatis 〈◊〉 vestigia sequi studeant quam prout de Nobis dicta sede optim●… merita est unâ cum uxore filiis ac omnibus qui à te ab illis nascentur Nostra Benedictione in nomine illi●…s à quo illam concedendi potestas Nobis data est larga liberali manu benedicentes Altissimum illum qui dixit

the 8th father of the high and mightie Princesse offamous memorie Elizabeth late Queen of England In confideration whereof albeit we your Majesties l●…yal and faithfull Subjects of all Estates and Degrees with all possible publike Joy and Acclamation by open Proclamations within few houres after the decease of our late Soveraign Queen acknowledging thereby with one full voice of tongue and heart that your Majesty was our only lawfull and rightfull Leige Lord and Soveraign and by our unspeakable and general rejoycing and applause at your Majesties most happy inauguration and Coronation by the affectionate desire of infinite numbers of us of all degrees to see your Royal Person and by all possible outward means have indeavoured to make demonstration of our inward love zeal and devotion to your most excellent Maj●…stie our undoubted rightfull Leige Soveraign Lord and King yet as we cannot do it too often or enough so can there be no means or way so fit both to sacrifice our unfeined and heartie thanks to Almighty God for blessing us with a Soveraign ador●…ed with the rarest gifts of mind and body in such admirable peace and quietnesse and upon the knees of our hearts to agnize our most constant faith obedience and loyalty to your Majestie and your Royal Progenie as in this high Court of Parliament where all the whole body of the Realm and every particular Member thereof either in Person or Representation upon their own free Elections are by the Laws of this Realm deemed to be personally present To the present acknowledgment whereof to your Majestie we are the more deeply bounden and obliged as well in regard of the extraordinarie care and pains which with so great wisdom knowledge experience and dexteritie your Majestie since the Imperial Crown of this Realm descended to you have taken for the continuance and establishment of the blessed peace both of the Church of England in the true and fincere Religion and of the Common-wealth by due and speedy administration of justice as in respect of the gracious care and inward aff●…ction which it pleased you on the first day of this Parliament so lively to expresse by your own words so full of high wisdom learning and virtue and so repleate with Royal and thankfull acceptation of all our faithfull and constant endeavours which is and ever will be to our inestimable consolation and comfort We therefore your most humble and loyal Subjects the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled do from the bottom of our hearts yield to the divine Majestie all humble thanks and prayses not only for the said unspeakable and inestimable benefits and blessings above mentioned but also that he hath further enriched your Highnesse with a most Royal Progenie of Most rare and excellent gifts and forwardnesse and in his goodnesse is like to increase the happy number of them And in most humble and lowly manner do beseech your most Excellent Majestie that as a memorial to all posterities amongst the Records of your high Court of Parliament for ever to endure of our Loyalty Obedience and harty and humble Affection it may be published and declared in this high Court of Parliament and enacted by authority of the same That we being bounden thereunto both by the Laws of God and Man do recognize and acknowledge and thereby expresse our unspeakable Ioyes That immediately upon the dissolution and decease of Elizabeth late Queen of England the Imperial Crown of the Realm of England and of all the Kingdoms Dominions and Rights belongiug to the same did by inherent Birthright and lawfull and undoubted Successien descend and come to your most Excellent M●…jestie as being Lineally Iustly and Lawfully next and sole Heir of the Blood Royal of this Realm as is aforesaid And that by the goodnesse of God Almighty and lawfull Right of descent under one Imperial Crown your Majestie is of the Realms and Kingdoms of England Scotland France and Ireland the most Potent and migh●…y King and by Gods goodnesse more able to protect and govern us your loving Subjects in all Peace and Plentie than any of your noble Progenitors And thereunto we most humbly and faithfully do submit and oblige our selves our heirs and posterities for ever until the last drop of our Bloods be spent And do beseech your Majestie to accept the same as the first fruits in this high Court of Parliament of our Loyalty and faith to your Majestie and your Royal Progenie and posterity for ever Which if your Majestie shall be pleased as an argument of your gracious acceptation to adorn with your Majesties Royal Assent without which it can neither be complete and perfect nor remain to all posteritie according to our most humble desire as a memorial of your Princely and tender affection towards us we shall adde this also to the rest of your Majesties unspeakable and inestimable benefits In which Act there are these particulars very seasonable and observable in respect of the present posture of our publike affairs 1. That the happy union and conjunction of our divided Kingdoms formenly torn and wasted with long and miserable dissentions and bloody civil wars between Competitors for the Crown and the King and Subjects is a great and unspeakable benefit and blessing to the Kingdom and Nation bestowed on them by God himself 2. That the re-uniting not only of the two but three mighty famous and antient Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland under one Imperial Crown and Heredirary King is a far more inestimable and unspeakable blessing to all 3. Kingdoms and Nations 3. That there is no Interregnum in Law in the Realm and Crown of England but that immediately upon the decease of the King thereof the Imperial Crown of the Realm of England and of all the Kingdoms Dominions and Rights belonging to the same do by inherent bi●…thright and lawfull and undoubted Succession Lineally Justly and lawfully descend to the next heir of the blood Royal before he be publikely crowned King As this Act in direct Terms declares and all the Judges of England unanimously adjudged in the case of Watson and Cleark 2. Popish Priests who held King James no lawfull King before he was Crowned and thereupon conspired to imprison him in the Tower c. for which they were both condemned and executed as Traytors Hill 1. Jacobi as had been oft adjudged before in the first 7. years of King H. 6. and in the cases of Queen Jane the Dukes of Northumberland and Suffolk the Lord Rochford Sir John Gates Sir Thomas Palmer and others condemned in levying War against her and executed 1 Mariae for Treason against Qu. Mary before she was Crowned to deprive her of the Crown which both the Peers and Judges of the Realm and the Parliament of 1 Mariae ch 16. adjudged Treason within 25 E. 3. against the mistaken Doctrine of Mr. Thomas Scot and some temporizing Lawyers of late years 4. That it is

all our conferences that those things may be propounded conceived allowed and confirmed which may best please thee and most directlie and soundly uphold the honour of thy Name the ●…nceritie of thy worship the safety of our King and peace of thy people even for thy Son our Lords sake And that we may not our selves be any hinderance to the obtaining of these our defires either by means of any sin formerly committed or of any corruption yet remaining in us we humblie pray thee to forgive our sins and blot out all our iniquities and to stand reconciled unto us in an everlasting covenant of peace as if we had never sinned against thee And because our hearts by nature are not fit for good cogitations create a new heart and renew a right spirit in us remove far from us all vain-glorious humour of advancing our private profit all envious humour of disgracing other mens gifts all malicious humour of hurting anie mans person and finally all froward humour of opposing our selves against just needfull and godly things by whomsoever propounded Furnish us with knowledge wisedom and zeal by sending down thy spi●…it into our hearts that we may understand discern prefer and set forward all things tending to the advancement of thy glorie and such as may be thought worthie our assent and furtherance And because all good things are not of equal goodness nor all needfull things of equal necessitie let our care and zeal be equallie proportioned to the degrees of things in g●…nesse and necessitie different And therefore first make us carefull of the glory of thy Name which is the high end of all thy counsels and works and ought to be the last and first respect of all our purposes and doing●… And therein let our especial care be to provide for the continuance of thy word and religious practice of thy worship by the Ministery and means that Christ hath planted in his Church next let the good of this whole Island move our care and zeal which consisting in the safety and honour of the King and the enacting and executing of good Laws let us be wisely carefull and faithfully zealous for the Person of our King whom thou the King of Kings hast in mercy set over us And because no Law can be good that is not agreeable to thy Law which containeth the Fundamental equity of all Laws in making Laws to govern thy people let us alwaies have an eye unto thy Law not digressing from the holy equity thereof and what through thy mercy we shall here profitably enact we pray thee through the whole Kingdom it may be truly executed that our great labour may not be disgraced with little fruit And forasmuch as we all and every one of us have in this place with wonder and astonishment and without any merit of ours found a most evident assurance of thy mercy and goodnesse in a miraculous deliverance from the greatest danger by Popish treachery tha●… ever was attempted or threatned towards our King our State and Us give us good Lord hearts above the hearts of men to offer unto thee in the same place a daily sacrifice of thanksgiving in the highest measure together with a fervent and incessant zeal care and diligence in all our proceedings for the setling of the peace and happy estate of thy Church amongst us the preservation of our King his royal Progeny our selves and our Posterity and for the preventing suppressing and final rooting out of the spring issue and fruit of all such hellish and popish hearts intentions and practices to the everlasting praise and glory of thy blessed name Hear us we pray thee O Father of mercy in these our most humble and needfull petitions forgive and answer us according to thy fatherly and great goodnesse for Jesus Christ his sake to whom with thee and the Holy Ghost three Persons and one God be all praise glory and power now and forever Amen A Prayer for the Parliament used also in the House II. ALmighty God which by thy holy Prophet David art most truly said to stand in the Congregation of Princes and givest judgement in the midst of the mighty men of the world and through whom Princes do reign Law-makers do disce●…n j●…st things Lords bear rule and all Judges of the earth execute judgement 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 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 M●…jestie 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 〈◊〉 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 besee●…h and defend all Christian Kings Princes and Governors and Specia●…y 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-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 Restitution and Establishment of the Illustrious Prince Charls Elector Palatine much more then now of our Illustrious long-exiled King CHARLES to all his Dominious 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 archetypa est praestet conservetque The 2. is Sir Henry Spelmans in the end of his Dedicatory Epistle before the first Tome of his Councils Londini 1639. Dei Vicario Ecclesiae Nutricio Fidei Defensori Carolo Dei gratia Magnae Britaniae Franciae Hiberniae Regi c. Magno Pio Augustissimo Deus optimus maximus Regi am vestram Majestatem sobolemque Sere●…ssimum Ecclesiae et Britaniis Imperpetuum sospitet beatissime The 3 is most learned renowned and pious Archbishop Ush●…r who thus winds up his Epistle to King Charls perfixed to his Britannicarum Ecclesiarum Antiquitates Dublini 1639. Deus optimus maximus Regum suorum custos et vindex vitam ●…ibi det prolixam imperium securum domum tutam exercitus ●…rtes Senatum fidelem populum probum Veteris Ecclesiae pro Imperatoribus s●…is vota haec solemnia pro tua et tuorum salute Redintegrat et toto animi affectu numini divino nuncupat Serenissimae Tuae Majestatis servus humilimus Iacobus Armachanus The very next day after the most illegal Trial Condemnation and bloody Execution of our late Soveraign Lord King Charles by that Prodigy of Lawyers John Bradshaw and his Assessors in the new created High Court of Injustice against the Votes and Protests of the Secluded Lords and Secured Commons one of the then secured Members out of his Loyalty to his Majesty and his royal Heir and Successor whose rights he strenuously asserted in his Speech in the House for which he was seized and imprisoned by the Army Dec. 6. 1648. at his own charge Printed 350. of the ensuing Proclamations which he caused to be sent to most Sheriffs and Mayors throughout England and Wales and some of them to be pasted up at Westminster and elsewhere in and about London notwithstanding the Anti-Parliamentary and Antimonarchical Junctoes strict Proclamation to the contrary under pain of High Treasons and the most Capital Punishments which deterred others both from crowning and proclaiming their Hereditary Soveraign according to their former Oathes Covenants and printed Remonstrances A PROCLAMATION PROCLAIMING CHARLES Prince of VVales King of Great Britain France and Ireland WEE the Noblemen Iudges Knights Lawyers Gentlemen Free-holders Marchants Marchants Citizens Yeomen Seamen and other freemen of England doe according to our Allegiance and Covenant by these presents heartily joyfully and unanimously acknowledge and proclaim the Illustrious Charles Prince of Wales next heir of the Blood Royal to his Father King Charles whose late wicked and trayterous Murther we doe from our souls abominate and all parties and consenters thereunto to be by hereditary Birthright and lawfull succession rightfull and undoubted King of Great Britain France and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging And

sapientia in protectione clypeus 〈◊〉 Sequatur pacem diligat caritatem abstineat se ab omni impietate loquatur justitiam custodiat veritatem Sit cultrix justitiae pietatis amatrix religionis vige at que praesenti benedictione in hoc aevo annis plurimis in sempiterno sine fine aeternis Praestante Domino nostro Jesu Christo qui cum Patre Spiritu sancto vivit regnat Deus Per omnia saecula saeculorum Amen Post istam Orationem Barones qui Coronam ejus sustentant deducunt eam ad solium ubi in sede parata collocatur circumstantibus eam Baronibus et Matronis Nobilioribus in oblatione In pace ferenda in communione penitùs est ordo Regis superius annotatus observandus Notandum quod antequam Archiepiscopus dicat Pax Domini c. debet dicere hanc benedictiouem super Regem et super populum Sic. Benedicat tibi Dominus custodiatqus te sicut voluit te super populum suum constituere Regem ita in praesenti saeculo faelicem aeternae faelicitati tribuat esse consortem Amen Alia Benedictio Clerum ac populum quem sua voluit opitulatioue tua sanctione congregari tua dispensatione tua administratione per diuturna tempora facias faeliciter gubernari Amen Alia Benedictio Quatenus Divinis monitis parentes adversitatibus omnibus carentes bonis omnibus exuberantes tuo ministerio fideli amore obsequentes in praesenti saeculo pacis tranquillitate fruantur tecum aeternorum Civium consortio potiri mereantur Amen Quod ipse par are dignetur cujus regnum imperium sine fine permanet in saecul●… saeculorum Amen Et benedictio Dei Omnipotentis Patris et Filii et Spiritus sancti vos descendat et ●…aneat semper Amen Explicit ordo et officium in Consecratione Regis et Reginae Having given you this Account of the Ceremonies and Prayers used at the Coronations of Forein Christian Emperors and Kings I shall next present you with the Order Prayers Ceremonies and Solemnities used at the Coronations of our antient Saxon and English Kings especially with those in later ages since our Kings and Queenes became Prot●…ants never formerly published in print For the manner and ceremonies of the Unction Benediction and Coronation of the Kings of England the Oaths then taken by them with the Oaths and Homages made by the Prelates Nobles to them mentioned in our Histories being not so pertinent to my Theam I shall reserr the Readers to peruse them at their leisure in Mat. Westm. Flores Hist. part 1. Anno 435 445 454 465 498 516. Galfridus Monumetensis Histor. Regum Brit. l. 9. c. 7 8. c. during the British Kings reigns Willielmus Malmesburiensis de Gestis Regum Angl l. 2. c. 4. 6. 9. 13. Mat. W●…stminster Flores Hist. pars 1. Anno 855 871 924 940 946 959 973 974 975 979 1016 1035 1042. Leges Edwardi Confessoris Lex 17. in Mr. Lambards Archaion Fox Acts and Monuments London 1641. Vol 1. p. 214. for our Saxon and Danish Kings Malmesburiensis Hoveden Brompton Mat Paris Mat Westminster Tho. Walsingham Speed Holinshed Grafton Stow in the Lives of King William 1 2. Henry 1. King Stephen Henry 2. Rich. 1. King John H. 3. Edw. 1 2 3. R. 2. H. 4 5 6. Edward 4. Richard 3. H. 7 8. Edward 6 Queen Mary Queen Elizabeth and King James whose respective Coronations Oathes and Solemnities they recite To which I shall adde Rot. Parl. anno 1 R. 2. n. 44. 1 H. 4. n. 17 53. to 62. and Robertus Holcot in lib Sapientiae Lectio 74. fol. 73. A. B. where he mentions both the O●…th Unction Ceremonies and some prayers used at our Kings Coronations I shall present you 1 With the antient Form of our Saxon Kings Coronations and the prayers used at them recorded by Mr Selden out of the old Saxon Ceremonial 2ly With the Ceremonies and prayers used at the Coronation of King Richard the 2. 3ly With the usual Form of the Coronation of the Kings of England and their Queens and of the Prayers used thereat never hitherto published and omitted by Mr Selden in his Titles of Honor extracted out of Liber Regalis being the form used at the Coronations of Henry the 7 8. and their Queens King James and Queen Anne and our late King Charles 4ly With the Form of the Coronation of the Kings of Scotland used at the Coronation of our late King Charles anno 1633. For the 1 Mr Selden our most learned Antiquary informs us That there remains in an old imperfect Pontifical of the Saxon times a piece of a Ceremonial for the Coronation of the Kings and Queens of England or of the English-Saxons wherein after divers Prayers and Benedictions this follows for the Anointing OMnipotens sempiter●…e Deus Creator ac Gubernator Coeli Terrae conditor dispositor Angelorum Hominum Rex Regum Dominus dominantium qui Habraham fidelem famulum tuum de hostibus triumphare fecisti Moysi Josue populo tuo Praelatis multiplicem victoriam tribuisti humilem quoque David puerum tuum Regni fastigio sublimasti eumque de ore Leonis de manu Besti●… atque Goliae sed de gladio maligno Saul omnium inimicorum ejus liberasti Salomonem sapientiae pacisque ineffabili munere ditasti respice quaesumus Domine ad preces nostrae humilitatis super hunc famulum tuum illum quem supplici devotione in Regem Anglorum vel Saxonum pariter eligimus Benedictionum tuarum dona multiplica Hunc dexterâ tuae potentiae semper ubique circunda quatenus praedicti Abrahae fidelitate firmatus Moysi mansuetudine fretus Josuae fortitudine munitus David humilitate exaltatus Salomonis sapientia decoratus tibi in omnibus complac●…at per tramitem justitiae inoffenso gressu semper incedat Hic totius Regni Anglo-Saxonum Ecclesiam deinceps cum plebibus sibi annexis ita enutriat ac doceat muniat instruat contraque omnes visibiles invisibiles hostes idem potenter regaliterque tuae virtutis regimen amministret ut regale solium videlicet Anglorum vel Saxonum * Sce●…tro non des●…rat sed ad pristinae fidei pacisque concordiam eorum animos te opitulante reformet ut populorum debitâ subjectione fultus condigno amore glorificatus per longum vitae spatium paternae apicem gloriae tuae miseratione unita stabilire gubernare mereatur Tuae quoque protectionis galea munitus scuto insuper abili jugitèr protectus protectus coelestibus circundatus optabilis victoriae triumphum de hostibus foeliciter capiat terroremque suae potentiae infidelibus inferat pacem tibi militantibus laetantèr reportet Uirtutibus Christe hune quibus praefatos fideles tuos decorasti multiplici honoris benedictione condecora in regimine regni sublimitèr colloca et oleo gratiae

led by the Bishops of Duresm and Wells The Chamberlain assisting the Train Master of the Horse Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber to the King Grooms of the privy Chamber Gentlemen-Ushers to the Queen An Earl bearing the Queens Scepter An Earl bearing the Queens Crown An Earl bea●…ing the Queens Ivory Rod. A Bishop The Queen in a purple Robe Her hair dependent under a Canopie borne by the Barons of the Cinqueports A Bishop Train-bearer The Queens Chamberlain supporting the Train Marquesses Countesses Baronesses Ladies of the Privy Chamber Gentlemen of the Queens Privy Chamber Captain of the Guard with all the Guard following For the third I shall present you with the Ceremonies and Prayers used at King James Queen Annes and our late King CHARLES their Coronations at Westminster of which I have two Authentick Copies never formerly Printed Processio ad Templum de Palatio Ascentio ad Thronum Interrogatio Populi Descentio ad Altare Himnus veni Creator Litaniae Unctio Regis Investitura Regis Benedictio Regis Ascentio ad Thronum Inthronizatio Homagium Caeremoniae supportationis Coronae Communio Sacra Descentio ad oblationem Communicatio Regis Ascentio ad Thronum Finis Communionis Oblatio Concio Juramentum Regis Colobii c. Tunica Gladii Armillae Pallii Coronae Annuli Oblatio Gladii Sceptri Virgae Descentio ad Tumulum Edwardi Confessoris Depositio Coronae sacrae vestium Indutio Coronae Novae vestium Discessio de Templo ad Palatium A Brief out of the Book of the Rites of the Coronation called Liber Regalis 1. THE person that is to Annoint and Crown the King is the Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury 2. The place is the Church of VVestminster to which it is by divers Charters granted to be Locus constitutionis Coronationis Regiae Repositorium Regalium 3. The time if it may well be some Sonday or Holy-day The Preparation 1. There is a Stage set up square close to the four high Pillars between the Quire and the Altar railed about which Stage is to be spread with Tapestry and the Railes of it to be richly covered 2. It is also to have Stairs out of the Quire up to it and down from it to the Altar other Staires Eastward 3. There is a Throne of Estate for the King to be erected on the said Stage adorned in all points as is meet 4. There is also another Chair of Estate for the King to be set below by the Altar on the right side of it and a Fald-stool with Cushions for the King to pray at 5. There is a traverse also to be made in St. Edwards Chappell for the King to disrobe himself in after the Ceremonies of his Coronation ended The Evening before the Coronation 1. The Evening before the Coronation the King is to be put in minde to give himself a certain space to contemplation and prayers In what sort it is set down in Libro Regali It appertaineth by office to the Abbot of Westminster to remember his M●…jesty of this and other observances 2. There is then also to be delivered by his Majesties appointment to such persons as he shall like to assigne to carry them 1. The Regall 2. The Paten 3. The two Scepters 4. The Rod with the Dove 5. The Spurs 3. There is then also to be delivered to his Majesty the Tuniea or Shirt of red Silke with the places for the annoynting opened and looped close which he is to wear next over his Shirt The morning of the Coronation 1. It is to be provided that all the Regalia that is King Edward the Confessors Crown and other Ornaments together with the Ampull wherein is the Oyle with which antiently the Kings and Queens have been anoynted be laied ready upon the Altar 2. It is to be provided that the Crown and other Robes Royal which the King is to put on and wear after the Rites of the Coronation ended be brought and laid ready in the Traverse within Saint Edwards Chappel 3. There is cloth to be spread on the ground from the Pallace Hall door unto the Stage in the Church for his Majesty to tread on all the way by the Heir of the Lord Beauchamp of Bedford Almoner for the Coronation day The receiving of the King into the Church 1. The Archbishop and Bishops of the Realm then present together with the Church and Quire of Westminster onely are to meet the King at the Pallace gate in procession wise 2. Two Bishops assigned by the King are to bear the one the Regal the other the Paten 3. After them three Peers by the King likewise to be appointed are to bear the one the Scepter with the Crosse the other the long Scepter the third the Rod with the Dove 4. After them the three Swords to be born per Comitem Cestriae 2. Hunting don 3. Warwick 5. After them a Peer by the King appointed to bear the Spurs 6. Then the King under a Canopy born by the Barons of the Cinque Ports The King supported by the two Bishops of Durham and Bathe 7. Abbas Westomonaster semper lateri Regis adhaerendo praesens debet esse pro dicti Regis informatione in hiis quae dictae Coronationis concernunt solennitatem Ad ipsum vero hoc officium solummodo spectat The King is to be received into the Church with an Anthem Protector noster Protector noster aspice Deus respice in faciem uncti tui quia melior est dies una in Atriis tuis super Millia Quam dilecta c. Gloria patri c. Behold O Lord our Protector and look upon the face of thine Anointed because one day in thy Court is better then a thousand Psal. quam dilecta c. 84. 11. Gloria patri c. The King passing up the body of the C●…ch and so through the Quire goeth up the Stai●…s u●… his Throne of Estate and there r●…poseth hi●…lf The King set in his Throne the Arc●…bishop going to every of the four fides of the Stage viz. North South East and West the Marshall of England going before him to all the said places asketh the people if they be willing to accept of the King as thei●… Soveraigne that he may be Anointed and Crowned His verbis The people demanded if they be willing Sirs here I present unto you King James the rightful Inheritor of the Crown of this Realm wherefore all you that be come this day to do your homage service and bounden duty be ye willing to do the same Or thus Sirs here present is James rightfull and undoubted Inheritor by the Laws of God and Man to the Crown and Royal dignity of England with all things thereunto annexed and appertaining elect chosen and required by all three Esta●…es of this same Land to take upon him this said Crown and Royal dignity whereupon you shall understand that this day is fixed and appointed by all the Peers of the Land for the

his 〈◊〉 giveth them to carry to such as it 〈◊〉 his Majesty The Archbishop kneeled down and made his Hom●…ge 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 ●…amulus tuus Jacobus Rex noster qui tua miseration●… suscepit Regni guberna●…ula virtutum etiam omnium percipiat incrementa Quibus decenter ornatus vitiorum voraginem devitare hostes superare ad te qui veritas vita es gratiosus v●…leat pervenire per Dominum Iesum nostrum Amen O Almighty God w●… 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 ●…o 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. By two Bishops 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 habund●…ntiam srumenti vini olei serviant tibi populi ad●…rent te tribus Esto Dominus fratrum tuorum incurventur ante to filii matris tuae qui benedixerit tibi benedictionibus repleatur Deus erit ●…djutor tuus Opus benedicaet tibi benedictionibus coeli desuper in montibus in Collibus benedictionibus abyssi jacentibus deorsum benedictionibus uberum uvarum Pom●…rumque benedictiones Patr●…m antiquorum Abraham Isa●…c 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 Natio●…s 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. Blesse O Lord the vertuous cou●…age of this King and accept the work of his hands●… replenish his Realm with the increase of thy Blessings with the fruit of the Heavens and the dew of the Water and the depths Let the influence of the Sun and the Moon drop down fatnesse upon the high Mountains and the Clouds rain plenty upon the low Vallies that the Earth may abound with store of all things Let the blessings of him that appeared in the Bush●… descend upon his head and the fulnesse of his blessings fall upon his Children and posterity Let his Feet be dipped in Oyl and his horn be exalted as the hor●… of an Unicorn by which he may scatter his enemies from on the sace of the Earth the Lord that sitteth in Heaven be his defender for ever and ever through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Bl●…sse we beseech thee O Lord these thy gifts and fanctifie them unto this holy use that by them we may be made partakers of the Body and Blo●…d of thy only begotten Son Jesus Christ. And thy servant our King James may be sed unto everlasting life of Soul and Body and inabled to the discharge of his great place and osfice where●…nto thou hast called him of thy great goodnesse grant this O Lord for Jesus Christs sake our only mediator and advocate Amen Deus Rex Regum dominus domina●…tium per quem Reges regnant legum ●…onditores ●…ura 〈◊〉 dignare 〈◊〉 benedicere ●…ic reg●…le ornamen●…um presta ut famulus tuus Rex noster qui 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 orna●…ento bonorum morum sanctarum 〈◊〉 in conspectu tu●… sulgeat post te●…pora alieni vitam 〈◊〉 glori●…m quod tempus non habet ●…ine fine possideat per Dominum nostrum c. O God the King of Kings and Lord of Lords by whom Kings do rei●…n and Law-givers do make good Lawes 〈◊〉 in thy favour to blesse this Kingly ornament and gr●…nt that thy servant our King who shall wear it may shine in the spi●…it with the ornament of good life and holy actions and after this life ended he may forever enjoy that life and glory which hath no end through Christ our Lord. The prayer done the Abbot of Westminster arrayeth the King 1. With the supertunica or close Pall. 2. Then with the Tynsin hose 3. Then with his Sandalls The Spurs are put on by a Nobleman thereto by the King appointed Then the Archbishop taketh the Sword and layeth it before him on the Altar and s●…ith the Prayer Exaudi Domine c. Quaesumus Domin●… preces nostras hunc ensem quo ●…ic famulus tuus Jacobus se circumcingi desiderat majestatis 〈◊〉 dextera benedicere 〈◊〉 dignare quatenus defenfio atque protectio eccle●…iarum esse viduarum Orphanorum omniumque Deo Servientium contra saevitiam paganorum 〈◊〉 insidiantibu●… sit pavor terror formido per Dominum nostrum c. Hear our prayers we beseech thee and vouchsafe by thy right hand of majesty to blesse and sanctifie this Sword wherewith this thy servant James desireth to be girt that it may be a defence and protection of Churches Widows Orphans and all the Servants of God against the savage cruelty of Pagans and Infidels and that it may be a fe●…r and terror to all those that lye in wait to do mischief through Christ our Lord. Then the Archbishop delivereth the Sword into the Kings hands saying Accipe gladium Which Sword is girt about him by a Peer thereto appointed Accipe gladium per manus Episcoporum licet indignas vice cum auth●…ritate sanctorum Apostolorum consecratas tibi regaliter impositum nostraeque benedictionis ●…fficio in defensiouem sanctae fidei Ecclesiae divinitus ordinatum Et ●…sto memor de quo Psalmista prophetavit dicens Accingere gladio tuo super femur tuum potentissime ut per eundem vim aequitatis exerceas molem iniquitatis pote●…er destruas

fuit ut non legislator sed Medicorum optimus ad sanam valetudinem omnia referens eam instituisse videatur Whereupon their Kings strictly conforming themselves to their Laws in all things without the least deviation he subjoyns Hâc ergà subditos justitiâ cum Reges uterentur majore in se ●…ives benevolentià quàm amore cognaios propensos habebant Non enim sacerdotum duntaxat collegia sed universa Aegyptiorum Natio adeòque singuli non tàm de uxoribus liberisque boni●…●…uis privatis quàm de Regis incolumitate solliciti ●…rant QUOCIRCA LONGISSIMO ETIAM TEMPORE SUB REGIBUS MEMORATIS INTEGRUM REIPUBLICAe STA●…UM CONSERVARUNT IN SUMMA VITAM FELICITATE EXIGEN●…ES QUAMDIU HAeC LEGUM CONSTITU●…IO V GEBAT Ad h●… plurim●… ab eis gentes s●… maxima vis opum co●… provinciae inimitabili operum magnificentiâ illustratae urbe●… variis sumptuosissimis donariis exornat●… Which God grant may be Englands condition for the future as well as theirs and its 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p●… by a speedy happy cordial legal restitution conjunction o●… 〈◊〉 and Subjects in the 〈◊〉 bonds of mutual love and loyalty without any adulation or self-seeking on either part Then shall we sing with the elegant Poet Non quaerit pretium vitam qui debet amori O quantum popul●… secreti numi●… addit Imperii praesens species quantamque rependi●… Majestas alterna vicem cum Reg●… Circi Connixum gradibus veneratur purpura vallis Plebis 〈◊〉 reb●…at fragor Unaque rotis In●…onat Augustus ●…eptenis Arcibus echo Fallitur egregio quisquis sub Principe credit Servitium nunquam libertas gratior extat Quam sub Rege pio●… quos praeficit ipse regendis Rebus ad arbitrium plebis Pa●…rumque reducit C●…ncorditqus libens meritis seu praemia p●… Seu punir●… veliut posito jam purpura fastu De s●… judicium non indignatur haberi Si●… do●…uit regnare Pa●…er si●… casta juventa Froena dedit teneros his moribus imbuit annos Verior Augusti genit●…r fiducia belli Pacis consilium per quem squalore rem●…to Pristina Romuleis infloruit artibus aetas Per quem fracta diu translataque penè potestas In proprium reducta Larem victricia reddit Fata solo fruiturque iterum quibus h●…serat olim Auspiciis Capitique errantia Membra Reponit I shall conclude this whole Treatise with the usual thanks and Prayer of the Prelates Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament in the name all of other Subjects of England whom they represent entred upon every general Pardon of the King passed in Parliament wherein they pray God to give him a peaceable good and long life in these words Les Prelates Seigneurs Commones en ce●…t Parleament assembles au nom de touts vous autres subjects Remercient treshumblement 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 ●…hee 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 PEACE AND GODLINESSE Grant this O merciful Father for thy sons sak●… Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ●… Sam ●… 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 beggar from the dunghil 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 COurteous Reader Correct these mistakes at the Press pag. 〈◊〉 line 22. read ●…erunt p. 16. l. 1. ●… Cath●…lua l. 38. r. ●…eculi p. 32. l. 8. ●… stabilitate p. 4. l. 23. ●… siberatus p. 45. l. 3. ●… sub●… p. 60. l. 14. ●… processionale p. 73. l. 26. sermons l. 30. Charles r. James p. ●…2 l. 32. countenance ●… continuance p. 129. l. 34. multi●… p. 133. l. 22. ●…rmet p. 157. l. 24. ●… circunda●… p. 158. l. 8. perfand p. 234. 〈◊〉 p. 239. 137. ●…ille p. 240. l. 13. penetrassent ●… ●…75 l 34. ●… 〈◊〉 ●…ibue p. 2 77. ●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…s p. 27●… ●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 282. l. 4. vi●… ●… 22. corona p. ●…84 l. 19. profectuum p. 292. l. 13. r. salvatore p. 293. l. 28. pice Margin p. 23. l. 1. 298. 1. 292. p. 104. l. 5. ●…ection p. 13. l. 7. Ibidem a 1 Tim. 6. 15. Rev 19. 16. b D●… 2 21. c. 4. 25. Job 12. 19 20 21. 1 ●…m 2. 8. Psa. 113. 7 8. c Psal. 98. 1. Exod. 15. 16. Deut. 4. 34. d Dan. 2 34. 4●… e Psal. 120. 4 5 6. f 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3. g Ps 46. 7. h Num. 16. 22. ●… 27. 16. i 2 Sam. 16. 9. to 16. a ●…sal ●… 18. 22 23 2●… b Isa 66. 7 8 9. ●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jewe's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Apol●…gy of the Ch●… 〈◊〉 ●…h 16. Divi●… 1 D. John White his Way to the true Ch●…ch Sect. 42. 〈◊〉 44. ‖ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their lives 〈◊〉 the Saints * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Exod. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 12 13 ●… b Psal ●…1 1 2 3 c. * Psal 106. 48. * 2 Chron 9. 5 6 7. * Regis ad exemplum to●…us componitur orbis●… Claudian (a) See here p 1. 2. and ch 4. throughout b Histriomap 825. E. 26. 943. 516. to 520. * See The Homelies against Rebellion and on Whitsunday Deus Rex 3 Jac. c. 1. 4. * Page 27. Page 116. ●…age 1117. 1118. * See my Plea for the Lords