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King was then acclaimed and kissed by
the people—the latter, I suppose, an early
form of the homage which still survives.
A second order, written before the Con-
quest, is slightly amplified, and William
of Normandy was almost certainly
crowned according to this form. The
service was further extended in the
twelfth century and again in the four-
teenth, when the “ Liber Regalis,” the
classic Coronation Order, was written.
We have, moreover, in the Chronicle of
Hoveden, a long account of the cere-
monies in 1189 at the Coronation of
Richard I. The essential details of the
Coronation procession here described are,
Dr. Legg says, the same as those of that
which took place at the Coronation of
George IV.
ORIGINS OF THE CORONATION
CEREMONIES
The Coronation rites must derive in
part from old Teutonic custom, especially
so in the form for the King’s election.
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the people—the latter, I suppose, an early
form of the homage which still survives.
A second order, written before the Con-
quest, is slightly amplified, and William
of Normandy was almost certainly
crowned according to this form. The
service was further extended in the
twelfth century and again in the four-
teenth, when the “ Liber Regalis,” the
classic Coronation Order, was written.
We have, moreover, in the Chronicle of
Hoveden, a long account of the cere-
monies in 1189 at the Coronation of
Richard I. The essential details of the
Coronation procession here described are,
Dr. Legg says, the same as those of that
which took place at the Coronation of
George IV.
ORIGINS OF THE CORONATION
CEREMONIES
The Coronation rites must derive in
part from old Teutonic custom, especially
so in the form for the King’s election.
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