A Description of the Ceremonial Proceed at the Coronation of their Most Illustrious, Serene, and Sacred Majesties; King JAMES II. and his Royal Consort Queen MARY, Who where Crowned at Westminster-Abby, on Thursday the 23th. of April, 1685.  
UPon the 23th. of April, being St. George's day between 9 or 10 in the morning, the King and Queen took water from the Privy Stairs at White-Hall, and landed at the Parliament Stairs, from whence he went up to the Prince's Lodgings; where, after he had reposed himself he was arrayed in Royal Robes of Crimson velvet surred with Ermine, by which time the Nobility, being come together Robed themselves in the Lord's House and Painted Chamber.  
The Judges also with those of the long Robe, the Knights of the Bath (then in their Robes of Purpel Satin lined with 〈◊〉 Taffeta) and Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber, met in the Court of Requests, and being drawn down into Westminster Hall, where this great solemnity (ordered by the Officers at Arms) began. The Nobilty, in their proper habits carrying their Coronets in their hands proceeded according to their several dignities and degrees, before His Majesty up to his Throne of State, which was raised at the West end of the Hall, placing themselves upon each side thereof.  
The King being set in a rich Chair under a Glorious Cloth of state, the Master of the Jewel House presented the Sword of State, as also the Sword called Curtana, and two other Swords, to the Lord high Constable who took and delivered them to the Lord high Chamberlain and he laid them upon the Table before the King, and in the like manner the Spurs. Immediately after, the Dean and prebend's of Westminster, by whom the Regalia had been brought in Procession from the Abbey to Westminster-Hall, being vested in rich Copes, came up from the lower end thereof in manner following. 

First the Sergeant of the Vestry in a Scarlet Mantle.  
The Children of the King's Chapel in Scarlet Mantles.  
Then the Choir of Westminster in Surplices.  
The Gentlemen of the King's Chapel in Scarlet Mantles.  
The Pursuivants, Heraids and Provincial Kings of Arms.  
Then the Bishop carrying 〈◊〉 Edward's Crown.  
And after him five of the prebend's of that Church.  
The first carrying the Sceptre with the Cross.  
The second the Sceptre with the Dove.  
The third the Orb with the Cross.  
The fourth King Edwards Staff.  
The fifth the Chalice and Curtana.    
Who passing thus through the Hall, and making their 〈◊〉 Reverence's in three places, and towards the upper end, 〈◊〉 Quires and Officers at Arms falling off each side, the can and prebend's ascended the Steps at the top whereof ●rter Principal King of Arms standing, conducted them 〈◊〉 the Table placed before the Throne, where they having made their last Reverence, the Dean first presented the Crown, which was by the Lord high Constable, and Lord Great Chamberlain, set upon the Table, who likewise received from the prebend's the Regalia, which they carried, and said them also by the Crown.  
Then the Lord Great Chamberlain presenting the Regalia severally to the King His Majesty 〈◊〉 of them to the Noble Men which carried them in the Proceeding 

The Queen's Ivory red to the Ear of Dorset  
The Queen's Sceptre to the Earl of Rut●nd.  
The Queen's Crown to the Duke of Beaufort.  
Saint Edward's Staff to the Earl of Ailsbury.  
The Spurs to the Lord de Grey.  
The Sceptre with the Cross to the Earl of Peterborow.  
The Third Sword to the Earl Pembro●●  
The 〈◊〉 Quires to the Earl 〈…〉 bearing Curta●● or the 〈◊〉 Sword.  
The Sword of State to the Earl of Oxford.  
St. Edward's Crown to the Duke of Ormond.  
The Orb with the Cross, to the Duke of Somerset.  
The Sceptre with the Dove to the Duke of Albemarle.    
All things being thus prepared about 11 a Clock the proceeding began, from the Hall into the Palace Yard, through the Gate House along the great Sanctuary to the West end of the Abbey, upon Blue Cloth, which was spread upon the ground from the Throne in Westminster Hall, to the great steps in the Church.  
The proceeding to the CORONATION was in this following Order. 

First 4 Drums,  
16 Trumpets,  
6 Clerks of Chancery,  
Chaplains, having Dignities  
Aldermen of London,  
Master in Chancery,  
The King's Sergeants at Law  
The King's Solicitor,  
The King's Attorney,  
The Kings 2 Ancient Serg.  
Esquires of the Body,  
Masters of Request,  
Gentlemen of the Privy Cham  
Counsel at Law,  
Barons of the Exchequer,  
Judges of both Benches,  
Lord Chief Baron,  
Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas.  
Masters of the Rolls,  
Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench.  
Children of the Chapel.  
The Choir of Westminster.  
Gentlemen of the Chapel,  
prebend's of Westminster,  
Master of the Jewel-House.  
Knight's Privy-Councillors.  
2 Pursivants of Arms.  
Baronesses in their Order,  
Barons in their Order,  
Bishops in their Order,  
2 Pursivants of Arms  
Vice-Countesses in their Order  
Viscount's in their Order.  
2 Heralds of Arms.  
Countesses in their Order,  
Earls in their Order,  
2 Heralds of Arms.  
Marchtonesses in their Order.    

THE ROYAL TRANSIT.  
WHen Time (in Triumph did make way  
To JAMES His Coronation Day,  
His Queen first (like an Angel) came  
Attended with her Anagram  
O lesser Lights, which scarce drew Nigh,  
For ' cl●p●ing of her Majesty.  
The Day at first which gave her Birth,  
Gave likewise vent unto her Worth.  
And Time and Fortune both did play  
The Tropic of Hyperbole.  
She was so Proper and Complete,  
That (as she walked along the Street)  
Her Gate made all Beholders Gaze,  
And pay a Tribute to her Praise:  
She was the Kingdoms comely Bride,  
Decked with the Church on every side:  
So Handsome, that all other Ladies,  
(Her Subsequents seemed but her Shadows:  
Her Beauty with her bright Array  
Did antedate the Flowers in May;  
Yet all the Splendour of her Face  
Was but the Rays of inward Grace,  
Tho Via Lactea did unclose  
The Scarlet Sky within a Rose.  
Then Juno (with her Jealous Eyes)  
Looked through her Spangled Canopies;  
And sent her waiting Maid to try  
What Goddess strove for Deity,  
The Moon Rose from her Watery Bed  
With Laces, Rings, and Pendants; clad  
In Robes, as she had been to Sway  
The Glorious Sceptre of the Day;  
And tripping (when she changed her Gown)  
She to the Horizon came down,  
And Dazzled, peeped with half her Eye  
Out through the Window of her Sky;  
Thinking (to borrow to her Night)  
The Beams that darted from her Light;  
But when she found that every Day  
MARIA did her M. pay,  
Bright Cynthia did the Triumph Bless,  
And praised her by Periphrasis:  
Exhorting all her neighbour Stars  
Not to molest her Reign with Jarrs.  
Then (in the twinkling of an Eye)  
She filled the Orb of Majesty.  
And yet the Plenelunium-bless  
Made no strange Metamorphosis.   

And then the English Peers passed by,  
(As Beams before His Majesty)  
And Admiration thus did Gaze  
'Twixt James his Crown and Charles' Bays;  
The Dancing Spheres turned round to see  
What caused such great Solemnity:  
And Jove came Thundering through Air,  
To see if Archimed was there;  
And Orion was put to Chase,  
By the Successful Pleyades,  
Who kindly came and did commence  
A sweet Successful Influence.  
I lent mine Ear, and heard them Sing  
A Simphonia to the King:  
And every Fish from Shrimp to Whales  
Danced Jigs, and played them with their Tails  
Than Sagittarius Bent his Bow  
To work the Scorpion's Overthrow;  
And Leo with his cruel Paw  
Did keep the other Signs in Awe;  
But none so welcome to the Eye  
As was Latona's Gemini.  
The Aspests (with their frowning Faces)  
Do borrow Vails from Virgin-Graces,  
Which they have set before their Eyes,  
To Laugh at Men that's Weather-wise.  
The 〈◊〉 of the Royal Arms,  
Did feast beholders with their Charms.  
The Harp did Play, the Lion's Dance,  
And snuffed the Garland grew in France;  
The Sun his Chariot did prepare,  
With Ruf●s, Wig and Powdered Hair;  
And (Capering from the Barber's Pole)  
Made all Inferior Lights pay Tole:  
At twelve a Clock he cleared the Skies  
To see another Phoebus Rise.   

Then James the wonder of the Eye,  
(Whose Looks were decked with Majesty)  
In the Horizon did appear,  
With Jo Pa●ans, drawing near;  
And 'scended up (without a Cloud)  
The Crown of England's Altitude.   

Marquesses in their Order,  
2 Heralds of Arms.  
Duchess' in their Order.  
Dukes in their Order.  
2 Provincial King of Arms.  
The Lord Privy-Seal.  
The Lord Precedent of the Co.  
The Lord Treasurer.  
The Lord Archbishop of Yo.  
The Lord Keeper.  
The Lord Archbishop of Ca  
Two Persons representing the Dukes of Aquitain and Normandy.  
The Queen's Vice Chamberlain  
2 Gentleman-ushers.  
The Queen's Ivory Rod.  
The Queen's Sceptre.  
The Queen's Crown.   

The QUEEN  
Assisted by the Bishop of London, and Winchester, under a Canopy, born by 16 Barons of the Cinque-Ports.  
The Queen's Train born up by the Young Duchess of Norfolk, assisted by Four Earls Daughters,  
2 Ladies of the Bed-Cham.  
2 Women of the Bed Chamber.  
St. Edward's Staff.  
The Spurs.  
St. Edward's Sceptre.  
The Third Sword.  
Curtana, or Pointless Sword.  
Garter, Principal King of Arms.  
Gentleman-usher of the Black Rod.  
The Lord Mayor of London,  
The Lord Great Chamberlain  
The Lord High Constable.  
The Sword of State.  
The Duke of Norfolk, Lord  
Earl Marshal of England.  
St. Edward's Crown.  
The Orb with the Cross.  
The Sceptre with the Dove.  
The Chalices.   

The KING  
Assisted by the Bishop of Durham and Bath under the Canopy, born by 16 Barons of the Cinque-Ports.  
His Majesty's Train, born by 4 Earls  Sons, assisted by the Master of the Robes.  
The Duke of Northumberland  
Captain of the Horse-guards  
The Earl of Huntingdon, Captain of the Band of Gentlemen Pensioners.  
The Viscount Grandison Captain of the Yeomen.  
The Lord Churchil, Gentlemen of the Bedchamber.  
2 Grooms of the Bedchamber  
The Captain of the Horse-Guards in waiting.  
Captain of the Pensioners.  
The Yeomen of the Guard closing the Proceeding.   
Thus their Majesties in their Royal Robes, the King with a Velvet Cap, and the Queen a Circle of Gold on her Head: The Nobility in Robes of Crimson Velvet, with their Cap and Coronets in their Hands; with others who form the Proceeding in suitable Robes and Habit did walk a Foot on Blue-Cloth, from the Throne in Westminster-Hall, to the Theatre in the Choir, and thence to St. Peter's Church, which when they had entered, and all present being duly Placed Their Majesties Ascended the Throne and (after their performing their private Devotians at the East end thereof) They seated themselves in their Chairs of State, than followed the Recognition; and after an Anthem Their Majesties went to the Altar, and made Their first Oblation; and the Lords who carried the Regalia, presented them at the Altar, to be there laid down. Then the Litany being Sung, (by two Bishops) the Bishop of Ely began the Sermon: which ended, the King took the accustomed Oath; and Veni Creator being Sung and the King disrobed of his Mantle and Surcoat, was Anointed and Invested with all the Sacred Habits in King Edward's Chair. No sooner was the Crown set on the King's Head, (about three of the Clock in the Afternoon) but immediately the People Shouted, the Great Guns were Discharged, and the Peers did put on their Coronets. The King thus being Crowned, and Invested with the Ring and Sceptre, He made His second Oblation; and being again Seated in King Edward's Chair, He Vouchsafed to Kiss the Arch-Bishops; than Te deum being Sung. He Ascended the Throne, where the said Bishops did their Homage and Kissed His Cheek, the Temporal Lords having done the same in like manner touched His Crown, during which time, the Steward of the Household threw about the Medals. Then afterwards the Queen being Crowned, in like manner the Ladies did put on their Coronets: And Her Majesty having Received the Sceptre and Ivory Rod, was conducted to her Tin.  
Thus Their Majesty's being Enthroned, after an Anthem Sung, the Archbishop ended with the Benediction, and Their Majesties went in State to St. Edward's Chapel where the King being devested of St. Edward's Robes, and arrayed in his Royal Robes of Purple-Velvet, the whole Company (except the Church of Westminster) returned to Westminster-Hall; Their Majesties and all the Nobility wearing Their Coronets on their Heads; and being entered into the Hall, were Conducted to their several Tables to Dinner: The first Course for Their Majesty's Table was served up with the usual Ceremony, the Lord High Steward betwixt The Lord High Constable and the Earl Marshal Riding in before it, on Horseback; and before the second Course was served up, Sir Charles Dymoke the King's Champion, in complete Armour, accompanied with the Lord High Constable, and Earl Marshal, all on Horseback, performed the usual Ceremony of the Challenge; after which the Officers of Arms Proclaimed His Majesty's Style in Latin, French and English, after the accustomed Manner. Their Majesties retired to White-Hall, and all the Nobility and others Departed.   

Published by Authority.  
London, Printed by G. Croom, at the Blue-Ball In Thames-street, over against Baynard's Castle. 1685.