Chapters on Coronations Author:William Cooke Taylor Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Chapter VI. PRELIMINARIES TO A CORONATION. The choice of the day on which the ceremony of the coronation is to be performed, belongs of right to the sovereig... more »n; and the time is announced by a royal proclamation. in the textit{Gazette. Its form is as follows:? Victoria R. Whereas we have resolved, by the favour and blessing of Almighty God, to celebrate the solemnity of our Royal Coronation, upon Tuesday the twenty-sixth day of June next, at our Palace at Westminster; and forasmuch as by ancient customs and usages of this realm, as also in regard of divers tenures of sundry manors, lands, and other hereditaments, many of our loving subjects do claim, and are bound to do and perform divers services on the said day, and at the time of the Coronation, as in times precedent their ancestors, and those from whom they claim, have done and performed at the Coronation of our famous Progenitors and Predecessors, Kings and Queens of this realm; 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 resolution therein, and do hereby give notice of, and publish the same accordingly; and we do hereby further signify, that toy our Commission under our Great Seal of Great Britain, we have appointed and authorized all the Lords and others who have been sworn of our most Honourable Privy Council, or any five or more of them, to receive, hear, and determine the petitions and claims which shall be to them exhibited by any of our loving subjects in this behalf; and we shall appoint our said Commissioners for that purpose to sit in the Council Chamber at Whitehall, upon Saturday, the twenty-eighth day of April inst., at eleven o'clock in the morning of the ...« less