The Signal Loyalty and Devotion of Gods True Saints Part 1 and 2, Part 2 · Chapter 8
CHAP. VIII.
I Now proceed in the last place to the Solemn publick Anno 565.Prayers, Acclamations, Supplications, Thanksgivings, Collects, usually made at the Solemn Coronations of Christian Emperors, Kings and Queens, and the Homage and Oaths of Allegiance and Fidelity then commonly sworn to them by their P…elates and Nobles, especially in England.
I shall begin with (aCo…ippus, lib. 2. La Ce… da An…otat. in Tertull. Apologet. Mr. Se…dens Titles of Honor, p. 168. Cedren. Histor. col. 16. Zonaras, Annal Tom. 3 p. ….) Corippus, who poetically relating the manner of the Coronation of the Emperor Justin, and his Empresse Sophia, Anno 565, (he living in that Age) brings in the Patriarch of Constantinople, thus praying for him, and the People supplicating and praying for their happiness, long life, and prosperous Reign, with united reiterated Shouts and Acclamations.
Postquàm cuncta videt ritu praefecta priorum Pontificum summus, plaenaque aetate venustus Adstantem benedixit eum, Coelique potentem Exorans Dominum, sacro diademate jussit Augustum sancire caput, summoque coronam, Imponens apici, &c. After which the People Justinum, Sophiamque pares duo lumina mundi Esse ferunt. Regnate pares in saecula, dicunt; Felices Annos Dominis felicibus orant; Inson…it vox illa diu; tandemque quievit.
Cautacbuthenus, Histor. l. 1. c 41. recording at largeAnno 1330. the Ceremonies used at the Coronation of the Emperors* Se… Mr. Seldens Titles of Honor, part 1. ch. 8. p. 190, 191, 192. of Constantinople, and particularly of the inauguration of Andr…mocis the younger, Anno 1330. informs us, That the Patriarch of Constantinople ascending upon a Scaffold: Patriarcha precationes ad Imperatorum unctionem compositas, alias submissa, alias clara voce, omnibus audientibus ordine recitat, ac Deum, ei qui ungendus est propitiat, &c. Patriarcha verò ad soleam consistens, pro Imperatore, Imperatrice, et eorum populis Preces pronunciat. After which Diaconus sublata voce inquit, Memor sit Dominus Deus potentiae Imperii vestri, in Regno suo ubique, nunc et semper, et in secula seculorum, addens, Amen. Deinceps et reliqui Diaconi ac Sac…rdotes adeuntes, idem comprecantur. After his Consecration he ascends into the Catechumeum, where he may be seen of all, where there is a Hymn Sung to his Prayse, et sanctis Acclamationivus ab omnibus excipitur.
As touching the Ceremonies used at the Coronations of the Roman Emperors, and the several Prayers, Collects, Oaths made at them, you may consult at leisure, Hieromymus Balbus de Coronatione ad Carol. 5. c. 6, & 31. Gunther. lib. 1. Onuphrius de Comitiis Imperatoriis, c. 10, 11. Bartholomeus Chassaneus, Catalog. Glor. Mundi pars 5. consid. 27. Krantzius Saxoniae Hist. l. 4. c. 37. Sigonius de Regno Ital. l. 1, 3, 4, 7. Aventinus Annal. Boyorum, l. 6. Antonius Sabinus, Georgius Flammin. Grimstones Imperial History and others in the lives of the Emperors Charles the 5th. Maximilian 1, & 2. Matthias & Ferdinand. The form of the Emperors coronation in Italian, printed 1558 and above all others Melchior Goldastus Politica Imperialia: Part. 3. Discurs. 3.
The old (bBibliorheca Patrum, Tom. 8. p. 467, 468.) Ordo Romanus Antiqu. de divinis Catholicae Anno 800.Ecclesiae Officiis et Ministeriis, compiled about 800. years after Christ, as Iodocus Coccius, and others apprehend, prescribes this form of Consecration, Prayers, and Collects at the Empe…ors Coronation, which I shall recite, because omitted by Mr. Selden; it begins thus,