There is the short preliminary service. At the end of the prayers said at the king’s entrance into the choir, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, _Veni Creator_ was sung. The king enters the church between Prime and Terce, and while waiting for the arrival of the Sainte Ampoule Terce was sung. The rite begins as usual with the bishop’s petition and the king’s reply, and then follows the oath _Haec populo christiano_, in which is inserted, in this order, a clause, which vanishes finally in 1484, promising to maintain the rights of the French crown (doubtless against English claims). _Te Deum_ is then sung, though a note remarks that this should be sung, according to Roman use, after the enthroning. _Deus inenarrabilis_ is now said, and the Buskins are put on and the Spurs. Then follows the investiture with the Sword in the position it occupies in the Roman orders, with a benediction, and a conflate form combining the old French _Accipe gladium_ with the Roman _Accipe gladium per manus nostras_. Then follow the anthem _Confortare_ and the prayers _Deus qui providentia_, _Prospice omnipotens_, _Benedic Domine quaesumus hunc principem_, and _Deus pater aeternae gloriae_. While the unction is preparing, a series of versicles and responses peculiar to the French rite, and beginning _Gentem Francorum inclitam_, and a collect are said. The Chrism was miraculous. Brought down from heaven by an angel for the coronation of Clovis, it was carefully preserved in the Abbey of St Rémi, and brought in solemn procession from the Abbey at the time of the coronation. A tiny particle of the contents of the ampoule was mixed with Chrism. The Litany is now said, closing with the prayers _Te invocamus_, _Deus qui populis_, (alia) _In diebus eius_. Then comes the consecration. The king is anointed during the prayer _Omn. sempiterne Deus creator ac gubernator_, which is followed by the prayers _Deus electorum fortitudo_ and _Deus Dei filius_, the anthem _Unxerunt Salomonem_ being sung during the anointing. He is anointed on the head, breast, between the shoulders, and at the bend of both arms. The king’s hands are then anointed with the form _Unguantur manus_, and he then puts on gloves blessed with two forms adapted from the benediction of a bishop’s gloves. The investitures follow; the Ring, with a benediction and the old form _Accipe anulum_ restored in place of the Roman form introduced into the last recension, and the prayer _Deus cuius est omnis potestas_; the Sceptre, with the usual form and the prayer _Omnium Domine fons bonorum_; the Verge, with the usual form; the Crown, with the prayer _Coronet te Deus_, and a conflate form combining the French _Accipe coronam_ and the Roman _Accipe inquam coronam_, which is followed by _Deus perpetuitatis_. A series of benedictions are now said, all of which are found elsewhere. After the enthronisation with the usual form the anthem _Firmetur manus_ is sung