Lethaby, William Richard: Westminster Abbey and the antiquities of the coronation (London: Duckworth & Co., 1911)

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moreland, who was Marshal of England,
bare the sceptre.
Thus they entered into the church about
nine of the clock: and in the midst of
the church there was a high scaffold all
covered with red, and in the midst there-
of there was a chair royal covered with
cloth of gold. Then the king sat down
in that chair, and so sat in state royal,
saving he had not on the crown, but sat
bareheaded.
Then at four corners of the scaffold
the Archbishop of Canterbury showed
unto the people how God had sent them
a man to be their king, and demanded if
they were content that he should be con-
secrated and crowned as their king. And
they all with one voice said “ Yea,” and
held up their hands promising him faith
and obeisance.
Then the king rose and went down the
scaffold to the high altar to be conse-
crated ; at which consecration there were
two archbishops and ten bishops; and
before the altar there he was despoiled of
all his vestures of state, and there he was
anointed in six places, on the head, on
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