HIs Majesty having declared that he will keep the Feast of his Coronation in VVestminster Hall in such manner as most of his Royal Pre­decessors have done, the preparations ensuing, are to be made in order thereunto, according to ancient presidents.

First, the Hall is to be hung with hangings suitable to so great a Solemnity.

At the upper end the Marble Chair is to be adorned, and a rich State over it, and the floor of the place where the King dines, and the rayles, to be covered with red Worsted.

The Order of the whole Feast is to be appointed by the Lord Steward, and Officers of his Majesties houshold to whom such persons as are to do any service by vertue of their Tenures ought to apply themselves.

There is a Room to be appointed for his Majesty to re­tire into, and repose after his return from the Church untill the first course be on the Table.

After his Majesty is retired, the Earle Marshal by his Tip­staves causeth room to be made in the Hall.

When Dinner is ready, the Lord Steward, between the Constable and Marshal mounted on rich Trapped Horses, having the Treasurer and Comptrouler, and Serjeants at Armes on foot before them, ride into the Hall before the Sewer.

The Sewer ought to be an Earle, and the Servitors that bring up the first Course Knights of the Bath, and other Knights.

The first Course being set on the Table, the King returns from his Chamber into the Hall, and standing before the Table, the Bason is brought by two Earls, the high Cham­berlain and another, and the Towell by another Earle, Ser­jeants at Armes going before them.

The King having washed, sits down, and two Esquires of the Body are to sit at His feet.

The Arch-bishop sits at the end of the Kings Table, du­ring the time of Dinner the four Swords are to be held be­fore the King.

Anciently there were four Tables more in the Hall. At the right hand of the Hall next the Wall sit the Barons of the Cinque Ports, and below them on the same side, the Masters and Clerks of the Chancery.

At the Table on the left hand next the wall, sit the Major, Recorder, Aldermen and principal Citizens of London.

At the right side of the Table on the right hand in the midst of the Hall, sit the Bishops, and beneath them the Judges, and Barons of the Exchequer.

At a table on the left side, the Lords Temporal and other persons of quality.

Upon a Scaffold on the right hand of the Kings board are the Heraulds to be placed, and there to have a Table.

In another on the left hand the Musitians.

In a Scaffold over the lower door of the Hall, are the Trumpets to be placed.

The King being at the first Course, the Champion comes in armed in the Kings Armor, and mounted on a Courler of the Kings, richly trapped with cloth of Gold, he is brought in by the Constable and Marshal, before him a Trumpet sounding, and an Herauld at Armes, and in the presence of the King and Audience of all the people, after the Trumpet hath made three several Summons, The Herauld is to Pro­claim these Words with a high voice.

That there is no man of high or law estate, who will say that our Soveraign Leige Lord CHARLES the II. Sonne and Heir apparent of CHARLES the I. Late King of England ought not to be Crowned King of England, against whom he the said Champion is not ready with his body to maintain, and will main­tain, that he does falsly lye as a Traytor.

Thereupon the Champion is to cast down his Gantler, which lying on the ground a while, the Herauld is to take up, and to give to the Champion.

The like Proclamation is to be made in the middle of the Hall, and at the lower end, which done, the Champion is to ride up to the Kings board, and then the King taking a guilt or gold Cup with a cover, and drinking some of the wine, is to send the same to the Champion, who drinking off the wine, is to carry the Cup covered in his hand through the Hall, and to have the same for his Fee.

At the second course Garter King of Armes accompanied with all other Officers of Armes is to Proclaim the Kings Style in three several places of the Hall, and then to return to his State again.

After Dinner the Major of London is to present the King with a Cup of Gold full of wine, and an Ewer of water, and after the King hath drank he is to have the Cup and Ewer for his pains.