The Churches of Paris, from Clovis to Charles XBeale, Sophia
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The Churches of Paris, from Clovis to Charles X
Beale, Sophia
Church buildings -- France -- Paris; Paris (France) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
"On Sunday, the 17th of October, the King sent foure Barons vnto
the Abbey of Saint Remy, to fetch the _holie oyle_. They parted
earlie in the morning, with their Esquires and Gentlemen; either of
them having a banner, with his armes, caried before him, causing a
_white hackney_ to be led, for the Prior of Saint Remy, who was to
carry the said _holie oyle_.
"The Cardinal of Joyeuse, who was to represent the Archbishop of
Rheims, and to doe the office, at the ceremonie, came soone after
into the church, with eight Bishops to assist him, where, attending
the comming of the Peeres, he sat him downe in his pontificall
robes. Two of these Bishops were attired like Deacons, with mitres;
two like Sub-Deacons, with mitres; and foure with copes and mitres.
Soon after arrived the ecclesiasticall Peeres, in their pontificall
robes.... At the same instant there came, from the King's lodging,
the Princes of Condé and Conty ... who were deputed by the King to
hold the places of ... attyred in their robes and coronets,
according to their qualities. Having done their devotions, and
saluted one another, they sent the bishops of Laon and Beauuais to
fetch the King, in their pontificall habits (_having certaine
reliques of the holie Saintes hanging about their neckes_),
conducted by the Master of the Ceremonies; all the Prebendes of
oure Ladies church marching in goodlie procession before them.
Being come to the King's chamber, and finding it shut, the Bishop
of Laon knocked three several times, to either of which the greate
Chamberlaine demanded, '_What would ye?_' The Bishop answered,
'_Lewis the Thirteenth, son to Henrie the Greate_'; whereunto the
Chamberlaine replied, '_He sleepeth_'; then knocking againe, he had
the like answere. But at the third time the Bishop answered,
'_Lewis the Thirteenth, which God hath given us for King_'; then
the door was opened, and the Bishops entered with the cheife
chaunter of Rheims, &c., where they found the King laid on his bed,
_having his shirt slit before and behind_, to receive the holie
Vnction, and uppon it a waistecoat of crimson sattin, _slitted in
like maner_, and thereon a long robe of cloth-of-_siluer_. The
Bishop of Laon having finished a prayer, kissing their hands, they
lifted the King from his bed, with all _shewes of honour_, and then
led him, _singing_, to the church doore. Before him, there marched,
first the greate Prouost, with his archeres; then the Clergie which
had accompanied the two Prelates; the hundrede tall Swissers of his
guard: the drummes, haultbois, and herauldes; the nobilitie; the
great Master of the Ceremonies; the Knights of the Holie Ghoste,
with their great order hong about their neckes, in the middest of
two hundred Gentlemen of the King's house; and _the Scottish
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