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offered the said Pollage, and after Went to the Vesternand was thier unarmed. The Ueringe of the Paules. Item, the Ladyes stode oppe within the Hersse, and the Lady Northe came foui th to the Ralle at the Hedd, unio whome Garter delyvered Twoo Paules, whoo, with the ossicersos Armes bes ore her, ment abo ut the Hersse, and at theFeate the said Lady offered the said Paules, the whichwere reseved by the fore id Gai ter, and laid on the Fete of the Corsse acrosse; and when me had don site retorned
Item, ali the Baronesses did offer ij Paules a Pece in lyhe
Item, ali Countesses did offer iiij Paules a Pece in lyhe
Item, The clites Vorner, havinge the ossicers of Howmouldand the ossicers of Armes, with the Noble Men, be reher, beinge assisted by the ij Assistannis, her Trayne borne and assiiled, res eved of Garier at the Hed of the Hersievit Paules, and went abola te the Herse and offered thethe fame as the fyrste Lady did, and were laid on thes ea te of the Corse in lyke Manner as afore. Then offered Counte de Ferio, Embassator for Κing Philippe, Gai ter goinge before him. Then the iiij Nobtemen Assis annis. Then the Rest oi the Morners ij and ij.
Then the Overseers to the Uili. Thera the greatest Eslates. Then offered ali Κnighis, Esqueres, and Gentili men. Item, the offeringe don the Sermoniad hegon, maid by the Bussioppe of Winchester, Doctor White ; and after the Sermoniad the Masse proceded to the End. Item, at St. Johne's Gos peti the Jlanner of Armes and the Banner of St. George mas offere l. Thera thier came vi K nightes and to e the Presentation with great Reverence, and bare the fame in to the Vestery. Then the Archebum oppe of Torke and th other Bussioppes came dori ne and se ficed the Corsita, and the Quere sangCercuundifferunt. Theu the Μorners de parted Dom the Hersse. Then the Cor Te was taken upe by them that be re bare thes a me, and was caryed to the Chappell whiche Was ap-
payn ed for her Buryali, and there the forsaid Arch
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mones ; in the meane tyme of the fainge of thies Piayers, the iiij Gentilimen Usshers tolle awaye the Pall. Thenthe Corsse was let into the Grave, and the Arche Eustioppe caste Earth on the same. Then came the Noblemen, beinge Officers, to the Grave, and brahe thier Staves over thier Hedes, and casse the fame in to the Grave, as the Lord Treas rer, the Lord Chamber- layne, the Treas rer and Compti oller, the Serganni Porter, and the Gentili men Usshers thier Roddes, and then theydeparted agayne to the other Nobtemen ; and the Buryallended, the Arche Bushoppe and th other Bustaoppes didundresse themselves. The Cerymony of the Buryali. don, as is a resaid, of the said nobie Quene, whoes Soulle God pardon, the Nobtemen and Prelates thera there assembled, havinge mitti them the officers of Armes, theycame fourthe into the Face of the Pepoeli, and Gai ter
of the Estates; but thier was Money geven by the Aiam nerfor est the Paris ches in London, and allso in Westminster, andio every Churche aliso for sayinge of Dirge and Μasse. And thus endeth the Cerymony of the sistierment of the
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Book hath been establisiaed by Acts of Partiament, there have been only Two Marriages of the immediate Childrenos the Crown publickly solemni aed Within this Κingdom. The fit st was that of the eidest Daughter of Κing James the First with Frederick Count Palatine of the Rhine, celebratea
I thought proper to rem ark the Ages of the lalter, in that the Ceremonial of that Μarriage, as it is termed, acquaintsus that sonae Forms, as the asscing of the Banns, the disemeveling of the Ha1r in the Procession, the Wafers and Hippocras in the Church, &c. were omitted, whicli probablywere not observed because that Princesse, by a Protestation interposed in proper Time, might have vacated this Contradi; so that upon such a Refusal ait the Solemnities, whateverthey had been, would have been of no Validity. Though these Marriages, for that Term may in this Placebe attributed to the later Solemnity, Were performed with great Splendor and Magnificence, and the Heralds attendedand performed the Functions of their Ossice, Tet no complete Narratives of the Rites used in them are entered in their Books, where there are only to be found a mort imperfectEntry
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Entry of the Marclage of the Count Palatine. This Desecthowever may be supplied by severat ParticuIars, whereos ome are preserved in Μanuscripis, others publimed by Sto 1n his Annais, P. 1 ooς; by Sir Jolin Finet in his Observations
concerning Ambasiadors, P. Io ; as also by the Relations contained in a Pamphlet printed for W1lliam Barclay at London, Io I 3; and in Sandford 's Genealogical History, P. 364, whicli are ali in Englista: And in the FrenchLangvage in Mercure Fransois, Tom. III. C. a. Contin. P. 7I ; for the ColleChor of these Notes liath not had the Fortune to meet with a printed Narrative of this Μarriam in Dutch, at Frankendat, with Cuis, Folio, in I 6i3, and another in French, priu ted at Heidelberg. The Descriptionos the Marriage of the Young Prince of Orange remains in severat loose Papers, and Dom them a Collection hath been
made of the Rites observed, with the Addition of some bries supplemental Notes.
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Frederich Gunt Palatine of the Rhine and the Princes
Gravesend on the 16th of October I 612, was with great State conducted to Whitehali; but the Celebration of the Marriage was deferred because Prince Henry was soon after seired with a Fever, Whereos he di ed upon the Sixth of November. The Palatine was elected into the Order of the Garier, together with Prince Maurice Count of Nassiau, afterwards Prince of Orange) upon the I9th of December ;and on the et th of that Molath the Conditions and Articles of Settiemenis for this Marriage were executed, Wherein is this expressi Clause, Quod Matrimonium verum et legitimum V contrahatur inter eos in Anglia ante Initium Mensis Alab et interim Spolifalia legitima de praesenti, &c. And ac- cordingly he was then assianced to the Princesse in the then Banquetting-hou se at Whiteliali ia this Manner : About T Yards below the Degrees of Estate a large Turkey Carpet was spread, whereon the Count Palatine and the Princesse stood ; to whicli Place the Nobili ty and Prince Charies conducted the Palatine appareited in a black Velvet Cloati capedwith Gold Lace, and the Princesse followed in a black Velvet Gown, Semee of Crosseis or Quarteriails Silver having as mali vitiite Feather on her Head, and accompanted with Ladies. The Κing, after a mori Space, came into the Room, and sate under the State ; and then Sir Thomas Lake who was, TOM. V. T t asa It would he no Dissiculty to inem the antient Custom os suci, Esponsalisbx the Daughters of the Crown of England as distinet Acts Dom the Oseeeos Matrimony, whicli frequently were performed some Montiis or Xears Belare the Marriage was actualty celebrate
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In the solemnia ing of Fspousalis and Μatrimony this Circumstance utas generalty observeti, that nos hing thould occur which could refressa Mourn ingand Misfortune at Festivals, where only the Μarys of Satisfacion and Pleas ure thould be scin : But this Rule had sonae Exceptions.
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to make the Procession more solemn , and in order that it
might be seen by more Peopla, proceeded from his PrivyChamber through the Presetice and Guard Chamber, and through the neN Banquetting-hou se erected of pui posse tosolemnire this Feast, and so down a Pair of Stati s at theupper End thereos by the Court Gate, and went along Upona stately ScasDid to the Great Chamber Stairg, and throughthe Great Chamber and Lobby to the Clos et down the Stai resto the Chapel, into Whicla the Eutry was made in this