VII the enthronisation is followed by two prayers, _Omn. Deus det tibi de rore_ and _Benedic Domine fortitudinem_. As has been remarked, there is a very close similarity between this order and the almost contemporary English rite, and it is evident that the compiler of Ratold’s order had before him one or more English orders; for in the consecration prayer, where in the English order the words occur, ‘famulum tuum N. quem ... in regnum Anglorum vel Saxonum eligimus,’ in Ratold’s order, in the corresponding position, are found the words, ‘quem ... in regnum N. Albionis totius videlicet Francorum,’ and elsewhere in the same prayer the words ‘totius Albionis ecclesiam.’ Probably the passages occur in this form in Ratold’s order as the result of an oversight on the part of the compiler. But this explanation is not altogether satisfactory, for in M. VII and in the order of Louis VIII (1223) the sentence in Ratold’s consecration prayer ‘ut regale solium vid. Francorum sceptra non deserat’ appears as ‘ut regale solium Saxonum, Merciorum, Nordanhymbrorum sceptra non deserat,’ which can only be explained as being retained for the purpose of making a claim to the English throne[96]. A further proof of the English origin of this rite is the occurrence of the name of ‘St Gregory the Apostle of the English.’ The clause ‘Rectitudo regis’ of Egbert is also found here. But while no really satisfying explanation of these features in the French rite of this period has as yet been forthcoming, they at least bear witness to the influence of the English rite on the French at this time. The sacring of the queen is exactly like that of the second English order except that in the French order the prayer _Adesto supplicationibus_, which is said before the anointing, does not appear at all in the English. III The French rite in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries was subjected, as was the English rite of the same period, to considerable Roman influence. Of this recension Martène’s Ordo VI[97], and the order of Louis VIII[98] (1223) may be taken as examples. [Illustration: The Anointing of St Louis of France] In this recension appear first the preliminary prayers as in the Roman order of Hittorp; the prayer _Deus qui scis humanum genus_ on his entrance into church, and on his entrance into the choir _Omn. semp. Deus caelestium terrestriumque moderator_. Between Prime and Terce (the king enters the church after Prime) the Abbot of St Rémi goes in procession to fetch the holy chrism.