[71] _Haec tria populo Christiano et mihi subdito in Christi promitto nomine. In primis ut ecclesia Dei et omnia populus Christianus veram pacem nostro arbitrio in omni tempore servet. Aliud ut rapacitates et omnes iniquitates omnibus gradibus interdicam. Tertium ut omnibus iudiciis aequitatem et misericordiam praecipiam, ut mihi et vobis indulgeat suam misericordiam clemens et misericors deus. Qui vivit._ [72] In the text of this recension given in Dr Wickham Legg’s _Three Coronation Orders_ (H. B. S. 1900), p. 59, the form with which the verge is delivered is followed by a prayer, _Ineffabilem misericordiam tuam_; and then the pallium is given with the form, _Accipe nunc vestem summi honoris_, and a prayer, _Omn. Deus cuncti honoris iustus dispositor_. None of these forms appear elsewhere. [73] In this prayer occur the words, _quae per manus nostrae impositionem hodie regina instituitur_. These words have been regarded by some as evidence, lingering on only in the forms for the crowning of a queen, that originally there was a laying on of hands at the consecration of a king. The ‘ordinatio’ of King Aidan by St Columba is adduced as further evidence, and the expression of Photius χειροθεσία βασιλείας might also be adduced. Both, if they have any other than a general meaning, doubtless refer to the laying on of hands always anciently observed in blessing. But in this particular passage the words evidently refer simply to the setting of the crown on the queen’s head. [74] See L. G. Wickham Legg, _English Coronation Records_, pp. 30 ff. [75] L. G. Wickham Legg, _English Coronation Records_, pp. 81 ff. For other forms of this fourth recension cp. J. Wickham Legg, _Missale Westmonasteriense_ (H. B. S.), II. coll. 673 ff., and Maskell, _Monumenta Ritualia_, III. pp. 1-81. [76] In this recension the words ‘quem in huius regni regem pariter eligimus’ in this prayer are altered to ‘quem ... consecramus.’ The change was never made in the same prayer in the French rite. [77] J. Wickham Legg, _The Order of the Coronation of King James I_ (Russell Press, London, 1902). [78] The miraculous chrism first appears in the fourteenth century. It was given by the Virgin to St Thomas Becket. Probably the miraculous chrism of England owes its existence to the desire of the English not to be outdone by the French who possessed a chrism supplied by an angel for the coronation of Clovis. [79] Chr. Wordsworth, _Coronation of King Charles I_, 1626, pp. xix, xx. [80] _Faciendo signum crucis_ is struck out, but the queen is anointed ‘in the manner of a cross.’