The Manner Of The Coronation Of King Charles The First Of England PDF Download

Excerpt from The Manner of the Coronation of King Charles the First of England: At Westminister, 2 Feb, 1626 When the learned editor of Monumenta Ritualia was engaged in making a comparison of the various Orders of Coronation used in the case of successive Kings and Queens of England, he was unable to bring forward any satisfactory authority for the form used at Candlemas, 1626, when Charles I. was crowned. Mr. Maskell therefore was forced to refer his readers to "the very obscure and confused account in Prynne, Signal loyalty (pp. 90, 270)." Thanks to the liberality of His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, and to the great kindness of the authorities of St. John's College, Cambridge, we are now able to print (1) The collation of an order contemplated, and (2) The form actually used upon the memorable occasion above-mentioned. (3) Notes written by Dr. William Laud (then Bishop of St. David's), some immediately before, and others subsequently to the Coronation. The second of these documents (transcribed for the Henry Bradshaw Society, by Mr. Alfred Rogers, from the little volume which the King is said, by an excellent authority, to have held in his hand at the ceremony) forms the basis of our text. The first and third contribute the majority of our annotations. Reference has been made occasionally to a fourth MS. authority, viz., Sancroft's draft made by him for the Coronation of James II., for which purpose he had recourse to the Coronation Service of Charles I. Negotiations for Prince Charles's marriage with the Princess Henrietta Maria of France had been concluded shortly before the death of K. James I., but the nuptial ceremony had not as yet been performed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.