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A COMPLETE

ACCOUNT

Of the CEREMONIES obferved in the

CORONATIONS

Of the KINGS and QUEENS of

ENGLAND.

CONTAINING,

I. The Form of the Royal Letters of Sum- IX. A Defcription of the Royal and Sacred. mons, fent to the Peers and Peereffes, to attend the Solemnity of the Coronation. II. The ufual Difpofition of the Horfe and Foot-Guards, and their refpective Habits, Parades, and Stations on the Coronation. Day.

III The Apparelling and Robing of the King and Queen, and their Majefties repairing to Westminster-Hall.

IV. The Marshalling and Conducting into Westminster-Hall, the feveral Perfons who are to march in the Proceffion.

V. Their Majefties Entring the faid Hall, and the Ceremony of prefenting the Regalia, &c. to the King.

VI. The Grand Proceeding to the CORONA
TION, with the ufual Seating and Placing
of the feveral Perfons after their Entrance
into the Church.

VII. The ufual Ceremony of the CORONA-
TIONS as performed in the Church.
VIII. The Manner of their Majefties Re-
turn to Weftminster Hall.

IX. The Ceremony of the Champion's Chal
lenge, and of the Heralds proclaiming the
King's Style in Latin, French, and English.

Ornaments, and of the Crowns and Scepters, &c. wherewith their Majefties are crowned and invested; together with a brief Hiftory of the Ancient Chair, called St. Edward'sChair, in which the King is crowned.

XI. The Ceremony of the Proceedings at the Coronations of King WILLIAM and Queen MARY, of Queen ANNE, and of his late Majesty King GEORGE I. By comparing which with the preceding Hi ftory, the Reader will be able to form a complete Idea of the Ceremonies which will be obferved at the CORONATION of His prefent Majesty King GEORGE II. and his Royal Confort Queen CAROLINE.

XII. A complete LIST of the Lords Spi-
ritual and Temporal, the Knights of the
Moft Noble Order of the Garter, and of
the Knights of the Bath, Whereby the
Reader will have, at one View, most of the
Names of the illuftrious Persons who will
have Place in the Grand Solemnity of the
CORONATION of Their PRESENT
MAJESTIES.

XIII. A BILL of FARE at a former
Coronation-Feaft.

With many other Notable Particulars, for which the Reader is referred to the INDEX. The whole Adorn'd with Curious C v T s, representing on a Copper-Plate the Manner of the Champion's Challenge, as alfo the Imperial Crowns, Scepters, Orb, Queen's Circlet, the two pointed Swords, and Curtana, the King's and Queen's Rings, St. Edward's Chair, &c. To which is alfo prefix'd a very large and curious COPPER PLATE, exhibiting (in that of King William and Queen Mary) the magnificent Form of the Proceffion ufually obferved in the CORONATION of the Kings and Queens of England.

The FOURTH EDITION.

LONDON:

Printed for J. ROBERTS, in Warwick-Lane; J. STAGG, in Westminster-Hall; and D. BROWNE, without Temple-Bar. 1727. [Price £.6 d.]