The Armill was delivered with a form in the case of the four Georges, but is not mentioned in the rite of Victoria, though it was used; it has since been delivered without any form. The vesting with sandals and buskins has been discontinued since the time of George II. At the crowning the prayer _O God, the crown of the faithful_ was restored for Edward VII to the form in which it appears in the rite of James II, and the prayer after the crowning, _God crown you with a crown of glory_, which had been omitted from Anne till George III, restored for George IV and then again omitted, was brought back once more for George V; also the old anthem _Be strong_, which had become an admonition from the time of William and Mary, became once more an anthem for our present king. At the delivery of the Bible only the second section of the form, and that shortened, has been used from the time of King Edward VII. Of the benedictions only two remain, the Aaronic blessing and _The Lord give you a fruitful country_. The final anthem has been subjected to many changes. In the Communion service the benedictions of the king after the Secret have disappeared and a proper preface, which was for some reason omitted from the rite of Edward VII, was restored to the rite of George V. Certain changes have also taken place in the coronation of the queen consort. From the time of Queen Adelaide there has only been one anointing, on the crown of the head. The prayer after the anointing, _Almighty and everlasting God, we beseech thee of thy abundant goodness_, has vanished from the time of Edward VII onwards, and the prayer at the delivery of the sceptre loses its first sentence and begins _O Lord, the giver of all perfection_. The final anthem has also disappeared in the rite of King Edward VII. In the order of George V the _Te Deum_ is ordered to be sung after the Blessing. CHAPTER VI THE FRENCH RITE I As we have seen, there was in all probability a Frankish coronation rite in existence in the time of the Merovingians, and certainly in the time of the Carolingian kings, but it seems to have been very variable and without much stability before the tenth century. A group of orders of the end of the ninth and the beginning of the tenth century may be taken as representing the Frankish or French rite in its earliest and unfixed stage.