Add MS 47184

EGMONT PAPERS. Vol. CCLXV. Egmont MS. 257. Collection relating to the coronation ceremony of Charles I, etc., viz.:-(1) Copies by Sir Henry St. George, the elder (d. 1644), Garter King of Arms, of letters patent, 5-30 Jan. 162⁵/6, concerning the creation of knights at the coronation of Charles I. Latin and English. Cf. Cal. State Papers Dom., 1625-1626, pp. 232-233, 239. ff. 1-3b;-(2) 'A brief out of the Rytes of the coronation called the Liber Regalis': the order of coronation of Charles I (2 Feb. 1626); 17th cent. Printed from a MS. in St. John's College, Cambridge, by C. Wordsworth, The Manner of the Coronation of Charles I, Henry Bradshaw Soc., 1892; and from Harley MS. 5222 by L. G. Wickham Legg, English Coronation Records, 1901, pp. 246-271. The present version is closer to that published (1660) by W. Prynne, The Signal Loyalty and Devotion of God's true Saints and Pious Christians towards their Kings, part ii, pp. 263-302 (reprinted by Wordsworth, op. cit., App. vi, pp. 107-137), but differs substantially in order. Prayers, etc., given in English only, with Latin openings: the service for the Queen given separately (ff. 20-23). For other editions, etc., see P. E. Schramm, 'Ordines-Studien III: Die Krönung in England', Archiv für Urkundenforschung, xv, 1938, pp. 305-391. ff. 4-23;-(3) Notarial attestation by Richard Watkins, scribe, of the baptism, 10 Sept. 1533, of the Princess Elizabeth at Greenwich; 17th cent. Latin. Copy. Printed by J. Leland, Collectanea, 1774, ii, pp. 663-665, from a MS. in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; another copy is Harley MS. 3504, ff. 228-230, and an abridged English translation, Add. MS. 27447, ff. 72b-73b. Cf. also Cal. of Letters and Papers Foreign and Domestic 1533, p. 465. ff. 24-25b. Paper (watermark a coat of arms and an eagle similar to E. Heawood, Watermarks mainly of the 17th and 18th centuries, 1950, nos. 479, 1248); ff. ii+25 (one folio missing between ff. 4 and 5). XVII cent. Press mark (?) 'in 73' at f. ii. Brown leather binding with remains of metal clasps gilt-tooled with the initials-'P.H.' on the front and back covers.

includes:

• ff. 1-23 Coronations: Order of coronation of Charles I, etc.: 17th cent.: Lat. and Engl.
• ff. 1-3b Sir Henry St George, Garter King of Arms 1644: Letters patent rel. to the coronation in 1626 of Charles I copied by: n.d.: Partly Lat.
• ff. 4-23 Charles I of England: Coronation order: 1626.
• ff. 4-23 Ceremonials: Order of coronation of Charles I: 17th cent.
• ff. 72-73b Elizabeth I of England: Notarial attestation of her baptism: 1535.: Lat.: Copy, 17th cent.
• ff. 72-73b Ceremonials: Notarial attestation of baptism of Qu. Elizabeth I: 17th cent.: Lat.: Copy.