go on to merit the Honours which we have conferr'd on him. Be it known therefore, &c.

On the 1st of October, the King prefent in Council, the following Order was made:

W August laft, feveral Alterations were directed to

Hereas by an Order in Council of the first of

be made in the Prayers for the Royal Family, it is this Day order'd by his Majefty in Council, That inftead of His Royal Highness the Prince, in the Prayers and Suffrages for the Royal Family, there be inferted His Royal Highness GEORGE Prince of Wales; and that his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury do cause the necessary Directions to be given accordingly.

JOHN POVEY.

Directions fent by the Archbishop of Canterbury, October 1,

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N the Order for Morning Prayer, in the Prayer for the Royal Family, inftead of His Royal Highness the Prince, read, His Royal Highness GEORGE Prince of

Wales.

In the Order for Evening Prayer for the Royal Family, inftead of His Royal Highness the Prince, read His Royal Highness GEORGE Prince of Wales.

In the Litany, instead of Preferve His Royal Highness the Prince, and all the Royal Family, read, Preserve His Royal Highness GEORGE Prince of Wales, and all the Royal Famity.

Oct. 4. The King in Council fign'd the following Proclamation, declaring his Majefty's Pleasure touching his Royal Coronation, and the Solemnity thereof, viz.

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7 Hereas we have refolv'd, by the Favour and Blefling of Almighty God, to celebrate the Solemnity of our Royal Coronation upon Wednesday the Twentieth Day of this Inftant October, at our Palace at Westminster; and forafmuch as by ancient Customs and Ufages, as alfo in Regard of divers Tenures of fundry Manors, Lands, and other Hereditaments, many of our loving Subjects do claim, and are bound to do and perform divers feveral Services on the faid Day, and at the Time of the Coronation,

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tion, as in Times precedent their Ancestors, and those whom they claim, have done and perform'd at the Coronations of our famous Progenitors and Predeceffors: We therefore, out of our princely Care for the Preservation of the lawful Rights and Inheritances of our loving Subjects, whom it may concern, have thought fit to give Notice of, and publish our Refolutions therein, and do hereby give Notice of, and publish the fame accordingly: And we do hereby farther fignify, that by our Commiffion under our Great Seal of Great Britain, we have appointed and authoriz'd the moft Reverend Father in Chrift, our right trusty and right entirely beloved Counsellor, Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England, and Metropolitan; our right trufty and well-beloved Counfellor, William Lord Cowper, our Chancellor of Great Britain; the moft Reverend Father in Chrift, our right trufty and right entirely beloved Counsellor, William Archbishop of York, Primate of England, and Metropolitan; our right trufty and right entirely beloved Coufin and Counsellor, Charles Duke of Shrewsbury, our High Treasurer of Great Britain, and Chamberlain of our Houfhold; our right trufty and right well-beloved Coufins and Counsellors, Daniel Earl of Nottingham, Prefident of our Council, Themas Earl of Wharton, Keeper of our Privy Seal; our right trufty and right entirely beloved Coufins and Counsellors, William Duke of Devonshire, Steward of our Houfhold; Charles Duke of Somerset, Master of our Horfe; Charles Duke of Bolton; John Duke of Marlborough, Captain-General of our Forces; John Duke of Argyle; James Duke of Montrofe, one of our Principal Secretaries of State; John Duke of Roxburgh; Henry Duke of Kent; our right trufty and entirely beloved Coufin and Counsellor, Robert Marquefs of Lindsey, Great Chamberlain of England; our right trufty and well-beloved Coufins and Counsellors, Thomas Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery; Henry Earl of Suffolk and Bindon, Deputy to Thomas Duke of Norfolk, EarlMarthal of England; Charles Earl of Sunderland, Lord Lieutenant of our Kingdom of Ireland; Arthur Earl of Anglefey; Charles Earl of Carlile; Montague Earl of Abingdon; Richard Earl of Scarborough; Edward Earl of Orford; our right trufty and well-beloved Coufin and Counsellor, Charles Viscount Townshend, one of our Principal Secretaries of State; the Right Reverend Father in God, our right trufty and well-beloved Counsellor, John Lord Bishop of London; our right trufty and well-beloved Counsellors,

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John Lord Somers; Charles Lord Halifax; Thomas Coke, Efq; Vice-Chamberlain of our Houthold; James Stanhope, Efq; one of our Principal Secretaries of State; Sir Thomas Parker, Kt. Lord Chief Juftice of our Court of King's Bench; Thomas Erle, Efq; Lieutenant General of our Ordhance; and Robert Walpole, Efq; Paymaster-General of our Forces, or any five or more of them, to receive, hear, and determine the Petitions and Claims which fhall be to them exhibited by any of our loving Subjects in this Behalf; and we fhall appoint our faid Commiffioners for. that Purpose to fit in the Painted Chamber of our Palace at Westminster, upon Wednesday the 6th Day of this Inftant October, at Ten of the Clock in the Forenoon of the fame Day, and from Time to Time to adjourn, as to them shall feem meet, for the Execution of our faid Commiffion; which we do thus publish, to the Intent that all fuch Perfons, whom it may any Ways concern, may know when and where to give their Attendance, for the exhi biting of their Petitions and Claims concerning the Services before-mention'd, to be done and perform'd unto us at our faid Coronation. And we do hereby fignify unto all and every our Subjects, whom it may concern, that our Will and Pleasure is, and we do hereby ftrictly charge all Perfons, of what Rank or Quality foever they be, who either upon our Letters to them directed, or by Rea fon of their Offices, or Tenures, or otherwife, are to do any Service at the faid Day or Time of our Coronation, that they do duely give their Attendance accordingly, in all Refpects furnish'd and appointed as to fo great a Solemnity appertaineth, and answerable to the Dignities and Places which every one of them refpectively holdeth and enjoyeth; and of this they, or any of them, are not to fail, as they will answer the contrary at their Perils, unless upon fpecial Reasons by our felf, under our Hand to be allow'd, we fhall difpenfe with any of their Services or Attendances.

Given at our Court at St. James's the 4th Day of October, 1714, in the First Year of our Reign.

The fame Day the King order'd another Proclamation to be publish'd, requiring all Ships and Veffels trading from the Plantations in the Way of the Algerines, to furnish themselves with Paffes.

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The 20th of October being appointed for the Solemnity of the Coronation, the fame was perform'd at Westminster in the following Manner:

His Majefty being come to Westminster about nine of the Clock in the Morning, and having retir'd into the Court of Wards, the Nobility, and those who form'd the first Part of the Proceeding, being put in Order by the Heralds, came down in folemn Proceffion into WestminsterHall, where His Majefty being feated under his Canopy of State, the Swords and Spurs were prefented to him, and laid upon the Table at the upper End of the Hall.

Then the Dean and Prebendaries of Westminster having brought the Crown and other Regalia, with the Bible, Chalice, and Patten, they were prefented feverally to His Majesty, and shortly after were, together with the Swords and Spurs, delivered to the Lords appointed to carry them. Whereupon the Proceflion began in this Manner: The Dean's Beadle of Westminster; the High Conftable of Weftminster, with his Staff; Drums and Trumpets; Six Clerks in Chancery, two a breaft, (as all the former Part of the Proceeding went) Chaplains having Dignities; Aldermen of London; Mafters in Chancery; the King's younger Serjeants; the Solicitor and Attorney General; the King's ancient Serjeants; Gentlemen of the Privy Bedchamber Judges; Children of Weftminfier, and of the King's Chapel; Choir of Westminster, and Gentlemen of the Chapel, Prebendaries of Westminster; Master of the Jewel-house; and Privy Counsellors not Peers, all in their proper Habits, as ufual at Coronations.

Then two Purfuivants of Arms; Barons in their Crimfon Velvet Robes, with their Coronets in their Hands, (two a-breast, as all the Peers went) Bishops; a Herald of Arms; Viscounts; two Heralds of Arms; Earls; two Heralds of Arms; Marqueffes; Two Heralds of Arms; Dukes; two Kings of Arms, with their Coronets; the Lord Privy-Seal; Lord Prefident of the Council; Lord Archbishop of York; Lord Chancellor; two Perfons reprefenting the Dukes of Aquitain and Normandy.

Next the Lords who bore the Regalia, viz. The Earl of Salisbury, St. Edward's Staff; the Lord Viscount Longueville, the Spurs; the Earl of Dorfet and Middlesex, the Scepter with the Crofs; the Earls of Sutherland, Pembroke, and Lincoln, the three Swords; then Garter's Deputy, with his Coronet, between the Ufher of the Black Rod and the Lord Mayor of London; then the Lord Great Chamberlain of England fingle; then his Royal Highness the Prince of

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Wales, in his Robes of Eftate, of Crimson Velvet, furr'd with Ermine, his Coronet fet with precious Stones, and Cap borne by the Earl of Hertford, on a Crimson Velvet Cushion, and wearing a like Cap of Crimson Velvet turn'd up with Ermine by his Majefty's Royal Permiflion, his Train fupported by Auguftus Scutz, and Adolphus Oughton, Efqs. the two eldest Grooms of His Royal Highnefs's Bed-chamber, aflifted by Henry Killegrew, Efq; Gentleman of His Royal Highness's Robes. The Earl of Derby with the Sword of State, between the Duke of Montague, Lord High Conftable for that Day, and the Earl of Suffolk and Bindon, as Earl Marshal of England; the Duke of Grafton, Lord High Steward on that Occafion, with the Crown, between the Duke of Argyle, bearing the Scepter with the Dove, and the Duke of Somerset with the Orb; the Bithop of Salisbury with the Bible, between the Bishop of Litchfield and Coventry with the Patten, and the Bishop of bangor with the Chalice.

Then the King in his Royal Robes of Crimson Velvet, furr'd with Ermine, and border'd with a rich broad Gold Lace, wearing the Collar of the Order of St. George, (as did all the Knights of the faid Order) and the Knights of the Order of St. Andrew wore likewife the Collar of that Order, and on his Head a Cap of State of Crimson Velvet, turn'd up with Ermine, adorn'd with a Circle of Gold enrich'd with Diamonds, fupported by the Bishops of Durham, and Bath and Wells, under a Canopy borne by the Barons of the Cinque Ports; his Train borne by four Noblemens eldest Sons, viz. The Lord Walden, the Lord Mandevile, the Lord Rialton, the Lord Desford, affifted by the King's Vice-Chamberlain, in the Abfence of the Mafter of the Robes; the Serjeants at Arms and GentlemenPenfioners going on each Side.

The Regalia and Canopy,

Next follow'd the Captain of his Majefty's Horfe Guard, between the Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard, and the Captain of the Band of Gentlemen-Penfioners, with the Lieutenant and Standard-Bearer of the Gentlemen-Penfioners on either Hand of them; and the Officers and Yeomen of the Guard clos'd the Proceffion.

Thus the whole Proceeding march'd on Foot upon Blue Cloth to Westminster-Abbey, and being enter'd into the Church, and all duly feated and placed, the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, who perform'd this great Solemnity, began with the Recognition. Then His Majefty made his firft Oblation, and the Lords who bore the Regalia, prefented