your good wills and confents to the fame con"fecration, inunction, and coronation, as by your "duty and allegiance ye be bound to do? The "people to anfwer, Yea, yea, yea; King Edward, "King Edward! All things being prepared for the coronation, the King, being then nine years old, "paffed through the city of London, as hath heretofore been used, and came to the palace of "Westminster; on the next day came to Weft"minster Hall; and it was afked* the people, "whether they would have him to be King; who anfwered, Yea, yea. Then he was "crowned King of England, France, and Ire "land, by the Archbishop of Canterbury." The ceremony of asking the consent of the people at the coronation of the Sovereign, appears to have been discontinued after the reign of Edward the Sixth. In France, according to Duclos, it was left off at the coronation of Louis the Fifteenth. This excellent Prince kept a diary of his life, which is preserved by Bishop Burnet at the end * Firft Diary of King Edward the Sixth, written by himself. of of his Hiftory of the Reformation. Some extracts from it are here given*. March 31, 1549. "A challenge made by r me, that I, with fixteen of my chamber, should "run at base, shoot, and run at the ring, with seventeen of my gentlemen in the court." any April 1. "The first day of the challenge at "base, or running, the King won.” Auguft 1. "Mr. Cook, Master of Requests, "and certain other Lawyers, were appointed to "make a fhort table of the Laws and Acts that "were not wholly unprofitable, and prefent it "to the Board." March 18, 1550. "The Lady Mary, my fifter, came to me at Westminster; where, "after falutations, fhe was called with my "Council into a chamber, where was declared how long I had fuffered her Mafs, in hope of "her reconciliation; and now being no hope, " which I perceived by her letters, except I faw "fome fhort amendment, I could not bear it. "She answered, that her foul was God's, and * Edward was fo fond of his inftructors, that when his tutor, Sir John Cheke, was ill, he prayed to God to grant him his life; and the grateful and pious Prince imagined that his petition had been granted. "her "her faith fhe fhould not change, nor diffemble "her opinion with contrary doings. It was faid, "I constrained not her faith, but willed her, not as a King to rule, but as a fubject to obey, "and that her example might breed inconveni❝ence." 19. "The Emperor's Ambaffador came in "with a fhort meffage from his master, of war, "if I would not fuffer his coufin, the Princess, "to ufe her Mafs. To this no answer was ૬૯ 20. "The Bishops of Canterbury, London, " and Rochester, did confider to give licence to "fin, was fin. To fuffer and wink at it for a "time might be borne, fo all poffible hafte might "be ufed." 26. "The French Ambaffadors faw the "baiting of the bulls and bears." 27. "The Ambaffadors, after they had "hunted, fat with me at fupper." 29. "The Ambaffadors had a fair fupper "made them by the Duke of Somerfet, and "afterwards went to the Thames, where they faw both the bear hunted in the river, and "the *the wild-fire caft out of the boats, and many 66 pretty conceits.” rr June 15. "The Duke of Somerset with five "others of the Council went to the Bishop of "Winchester, to whom he made this answer: "I having deliberately feen the Book of Common Prayer, (although I would not have made "it fo myself,) yet I find fuch things in it as "fatisfieth my confcience, and therefore I will "both execute it myself, and also fee others, my 66 parishioners, to execute it." 20. "The Mayor of London caufed the "watches to be encreased every night, becaufe "of the great frays; and also one Alderman to "fee good rule every night." 22. "There was a privy fearch made through all Suffex, for all vagabonds, gypfies, confpirators, prophefyers, all players, and fuch "like." 66 October 19. "Sir Thomas Palmer confeffed "that the Gendarms (Gens d' Armes) on the mufter-day should be affaulted by two thou"fand footmen of Mr. Vane's, and my Lord's (Lord Gray's) hundred horfe, befides his friends that stood by, and the idle people 66 "which took his part. If he were overthrown "he would run through London, and cry "Liberty, Liberty, to raise the apprentices, &c." KING EDWARD's "Journal," printed in the The Bifhop has likewife added a Difcourfe about the Reformation of many Abuses, written by this incomparable Prince, in which he fays, "As the gentlemen and ferving-men ought to "be provided for, fo neither ought they to have "fo much as they have in France, where the "peasantry is of no value; neither yet meddle "in other occupations, for the arms and legs "doth neither yet draw the whole blood from "the liver, but leaveth it fufficient to work on; "neither doth meddle in any kind of engender"ing of blood; no, nor no one part of the body doth ferve for two occupations: even fo nei"ther the gentleman ought to be a farmer, nor "the merchant an artificer, but to have his art particularly. Furthermore, as no member in a 166 66 well-proportioned body and whole body, is "too big for the proportion of the body; fo "muft there be in a well-proportioned Com"monwealth no perfon that shall have more than "the proportion of the country will bear, for it ❝ is hurtful immoderately to enrich any particular part. 66 |