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Title: Coronation Anecdotes

Author: Giles Gossip

Release Date: December 22, 2008 [EBook #27589]

Language: English

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CORONATION ANECDOTES,

ETC. ETC. ETC.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY J. MOYES, GREVILLE STREET.

CORONATION ANECDOTES;

OR,

SELECT AND INTERESTING

FRAGMENTS

OF

ENGLISH CORONATION CEREMONIES

* * * * *

BY GILES GOSSIP, ESQ.

"In pensive thought recal the fancied scene,
See _Coronations_ rise on every green."--POPE.

* * * * *

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR ROBERT JENNINGS,

IN THE POULTRY.

1823.

[Transcriber's Notes:

A letter with a dot over it, is denoted in the following way [.y]
Superscripts are denoted by a carat ^ ]

ADVERTISEMENT.

The coronation of our monarchs presents a wide field of meditation to an
intelligent eye. It is an epitome of the genius of the monarchy, and a
miniature exhibition of the leading events of our annals.

Connected, in point of fact, with the first establishment of
Christianity in this island, it also perpetuates some of the earliest
British notions of public liberty; and while it confirms the hereditary
claims of each succeeding prince, it is introduced by a recognition of
some of the most ancient rights of the people,

"Mighty states, _characterless_, are grated
To dusty nothing,"

says that great dramatist who has so largely alluded to English
coronations in his historical plays. These ceremonies exhibit the
character of each constituent portion of the political body from age to
age; and are chiefly valuable, perhaps, as preserving a chain of
_national identity_, unbroken by conquest, or by civil war; by changing
dynasties, or the most important revolutions of the empire: on the other
hand, they present to us a v