THEIR MAJESTIES' CORONATION.

Then the King sitting down in King Edward's Chair, the Archbishop, assisted with other Bishops, shall come from the Altar: the Dean of West­minster shall bring the Crown, and the Archbishop taking it of him shall reverently put it pon the King's head. At the sight whereof the people, with loud and repeated shouts, shall cry, God save the King; the Peers and the Kings of Arms shall put on their Coronets; and the trumpets shall sound, and by a signal given, the great guns at the Tower shall be shot off.

T The acclamation ceasing, the Archbishop shall go on, and say:

Then shall the choir sing: Be strong and play the man: keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways.

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these are the lively Oracles of God.

XIII.

The Presenting of the boly Bible.

Then shall the Dean of West­minster take the Holy Bible from off the Altar, and deliver it to the Archbishop, who shall present it to the King, first saying these words to him:

with a crown

of glory and righteousness, that by the ministry of this our benediction, having a right faith and manifold fruit of good works, you may obtain

the crown of an everlasting THE Lord bless you and keep

as

whose kingdom endureth for

ever.

Amen.

OUR gracious King; we pre­sent you with this Book, the most valuable thing that this world affords. Here is wis­dom; this is the royal Law;

T Then shall the King deliver back the Bible to the Arch­bishop, who shall give it to the Dean of Westminster, to be reverently placed again upon the holy Altar; and the Arch­bishop of York and the Bishops shall return to their places.

XIV.

The Benediction. ¶ And now the King having been thus anointed and crowned, and having received all the en­signs of royalty, the Arch­bishop shall solemnly bless him and the Archbishop of York and all the Bishops, with the rest of the Peers, shall follow every part of the Bene­diction with a loud and hearty Amen.

you King over his people, so may he prosper you in this world, and make you partake of his eternal felicity in the world to come. Amen.

The Lord give you a fruit­ful Country and healthful sea­sons; victorious fleets and ar­mies, and a quiet Empire; a faithful Senate, wise and up­right counsellors and magis­trates, a loyal nobility, and a dutiful gentry; a pious and honest, peaceable, and obe­learned and useful clergy; an dient commonalty. Amen.

T Then shall the Archbishop turn to the people, and say:

mighty grant, that the Clergy and Nobles assembled here for this great and solemn service, and together with them all the people of the