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land, fearing God, and ho­nouring the King, may by the mereiful superintendency of the divine Providence, and the vigilant care of our gracious Sovereign, continually enjoy peace, plenty, and prosperi­ty: through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with the E­ternal Father, and God the Holy Ghost, be glory in the Church, world without end. Amen.

THE FORM AND ORDER OF

XV.

The Intbronization.

Then shall the King go to his Throne, and be lifted up into it by the Archbishops and Bi­shops, and other Peers of the Kingdom; and being Inthro­nized, or placed therein, all the Great Officers, those that bear the Swords and the Sceptres, and the Nobles who carried the other Regalia, shall stand round about the steps of the Throne; and the Archbishop standing before the King, shall

say:

STAND firm, and hold fast from seat and state of royal and impe­rial dignity, which is this day delivered unto you, in the Name and by the authority of Almigh­ty God, and by the hands of us the Bishops and servants of God, though unworthy: And as you see us to approach nearer to God's Altar, so vouchsafe the more graciously to continue to us your royal favour and pro­tection. And the Lord God Al­mighty, whose ministers we are, and the stewards of his mys­teries, establish your Throne in righteousness, that it may

stand fast for evermore, like as the sun before him, and as the faithful witness in heaven. A­

men.

XVI.

The homage.

The Exhortation being ended, all the Princes and Peers then present shall do their Lomage publicly and solemnly unto the King.

The Archbishop first shall kneel down before his Majesty's knees, and the rest of the Bishops shall kneel in their places: and they shall do their Homage together, for the shortening of the ceremony, the Archbishop saying:

I

Randall Archbishop of Canterbury[ and co every one of the rest, I N. Bishop of N. repeating the rest audibly after the Archbishop] will be faithful and true, and faith and truth will bear unto you our Sovereign Lord, and you" heirs Kings of the United King­dom of Great Britain and Ire­land, and of the British Domi­nions beyond the Seas, De­fenders of the Faith, and Emperors of India. And I will do, and truly acknowledge, the service of the lands which I right of the Church.

you, as in

So help me God. Then shall the Archbishop kiss the King's left cheek.

Then the Prince of Wales, taking off his Coronet, shall kneel down before his Majesty's knees, the rest of the Princes of the Blood Royal, being Peers of the Realm, kneeling in their places, taking off their Coronets, and pronouncing the words of Homage after him, the Prince of Wales saying:

I do become your liege

N. Prince, or

man of life and limb, and of earthly worship; and faith and truth I will bear unto you, to