"But for to heale the sore And cure that is not seene; Which thing the booke of truth, Dooth teach in writing plaine: Shee doth present to thee The same, o worthie queene, For that, that words doo flie, But written dooth remaine." "Thus the queene's highnesse passed through the citie, which, without anie foreigne person, of itself beautified itselfe, and received her grace at all places, as hath been before mentioned, with most tender obedience and love, due to so gratious a queene and sovereigne a ladie." JAMES I. made the most important "progress" for himself and family that we have yet recorded; when, as tranquilly as ever the crown of England had descended from father to son, the house of Stuart succeeded that of Tudor on the throne of Great Britain. Nor was his journey from Edinburgh to London unobserved by the people. They are said to have contrasted his hauteur and reserve at this period with the well-remembered affability and popular manner of Elizabeth on such occasions; but neither does his coronation progress, nor that of his immediate successors, Charles I. or II. (with whom this usage terminated) present any new features of interest. The great object of the conductors of the ceremony was to conform to the ancient precedents; while the personal disposition of each of the sovereigns of this house was to retain as much of the demi-god as possible in these stately movements of the monarch. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 33: Being first given by Sandford to his description of this part of the ceremony of James II.'s coronation.] [Footnote 34: Doleman's Conferences concerning Succession, &c.] [Footnote 35: MS. Cott. Nero, c. ix. p. 172.] [Footnote 36: See his curious Speech in M. Paris, Hist. Major, 1640, p. 197.] [Footnote 37: Hoveden, Walsingham, &c. are quoted to this effect by Taylor.] [Footnote 38: History of the Anglo-Saxons, b. iv. chap. 1.] [Footnote 39: Titles of Honour, p. ii. c. v. 26.] [Footnote 40: Wharton's Troubles of Archbishop Laud, p. 324.] [Footnote 41: Inserted on the union with Scotland, in 1707.] [Footnote 42: In the oath recently taken by His Majesty the latter members of this clause, read 'within England and Ireland, and the territories thereunto belonging.'] [Footnote 43: Stow's Annals.] [Footnote 44: In France we read of the exaltation of king Pharamond on a shield, so early as the year 420; of the chairing of Gunbald, king of Burgundy, A.D. 500, in which that prince fell from the supporting arms of his subjects, nearly to the ground; and of king Pepin being elevated on a target in 751. (Greg. Turon. Hist. lib. vii. cap. 10. Mezeray Hist. de Pepin, &c.) In Navarre, the king and queen, after being anointed, were thrice elevated before the altar on a shield emblazoned with the arms of the kingdom, and upheld by six staves.] [Footnote 45: Thus in the ordo of Henry VII.'s coronation; "the cardinal," it is said, "sitting, shall anoynte the king, kneeling."--IVE'S _Papers_.]