The Signal Loyalty and Devotion of Gods True Saints Part 1 and 2, Part 2 · Chapter 8 · Part 18
De Benedictione & Coronatione Regis in Consortem electi.
CUm autem Regina, jampridem, ut Regni Domina benedicta et coronata, deinde Consortem sibi elegerit, quem posteà statuerit coronari, ad diem ordinatam vocantur omnes Praelati Regni; parantur duo thalami, atque omnia alia ordinantur, prout suprà in coronatione Regis posita sunt, f. 163. Die autem statuto, Metropolitano et Praelatis in Ecclesia constitutis, et se vestientibus, Regina Reginalibus vestibus induta, cum corona in capite et sceptro in manu, à suis associata venit ad Ecclesiam, et ascendit thalamum suum. Illis autem paratis, et suo ordine sedentibus, ut suprà in coronatione Regis ordinatum est; Regina de thalamo suo discentens cum corona in capite, et sceptro in manu, venit coram Metropolitano, à quo, facta ei reverentia, petit Regem consor…em suum benedici et coronari, sub his verbis:
REverendissime Pater, postulamus ut consortem nostram nobis à Deo conjunctam benedicere, et corona Reginali decorare dignemini, ad laudem et gloriam Salvatoris nostri Jesu Christi.
Deinde ad thalamum suum revertitur. Interim Rex vestibus militaribus … … ad …, à suis Praelatis domesticis non paratis, o… Comitibus, Magna…bus Regni, et aliis associatus. Qui c…m venerit propè Presbyterium, d… Priores Episcopi … paratis ei obviàm veniunt, et cum mitr…s capita … aliquantulum inclinantes, ipsum, bireto deposito, usque ante Metropolitanum deducunt; coram quo Rex caput inclinans, humilem ei reverentiam exhibet. Dua facta, prior Episcoporum deducentium stans, detecto capite, versus ad Metropolitanum, vo…e intelligibili dicit:
REvereudissime Pater, postulat sancta Mater Ecclesia Catholica, ut praesentem egregium militem ad dignitatem Regiam sublevetis.
Et omnia alia suo ordine fiunt, prout habetur suprà sub prima rubrica de benedictione et coronatione Regis, fol. 163. usque ad aliam rudricam de coronatione Reginae, fol. 174. quae hic omittitur, cùm sit priùs coronata.
These forms of Prayers and Ceremonies are used in most forein Kingdoms, as Spain, Hungary, Bohemia, Poland, &c. with some little variation relating only to their particular Kingdoms.
M. Paulus Stranskie Reipub. Bohemiae, Lugd. Bat. 1634. c. 5. sect. 12, to 20. p. 572, &c. describing at large the manner of the Coronation of the Kings of Bohemia in later times, informs us, That after the Supreme Burgrave of Prague hath in the name of the most blessed and undivided Trinity pronounced such a one to be elected and accepted King of Bohemia, all the multitude hearing this, presently cry out, …vat, vivat, vivat N. Bohemiae Rex: After which h…ving taken his Oath, the Archbishop and Bishops use several set Prayers for him; and all the People, as well those who are present as absent at the Coronation feast, cry out with ingeminated joyfull shouts, Uivat, vivat, vivat, Triumphatis Reipublicae Hostibus N. Bohemiae Rex.
*Seldens Titles of Honor, p. 222. to 25. 5.In France they have a particular Pontifical or form of Prayers, Benedictions and Ceremonies used at the Consecration of their Kings, writen and used in the year 1365. the first year of Charles the 5th. King of France, by his special command, and thus subscribed.
Ce liure du …acre des Roys de France est a nous Charles le v. de nostre nom Roy de France; & le fimes corriger, ordeiner, eserier & istorier l'an 1365. agreeing for the most part with that in …rentius Bochellus, Decretorum Ecclesiae Galli…anae, lib. 5. Tit. 2. De Consecratione & Coronatione Regis Franciae, c. 1. p. 701, to 755.