royal blazon or coat of arms C R HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT By the King. A PROCLAMATION Declaring his MAJESTY'S pleasure touching His Royal Coronation, and the Solemnity thereof. CHARLES R. WHeres We have resolved by the favour and blessing of God to celebrate the Solemnity os our Royal Coronation upon the Three and twentieth day of April next, being S. George's day, at Our Palace of Westminster; And forasmuch as by ancient Customs and Usages of this Realm, as also in regard of divers Tenors of sundry Manors, Lands, and other Hereditaments, many of Our loving Subjects do claim and are bound to do and perform divers several services on the said day and at the time of the Coronation, as in times precedent their Ancestors and those from whom they claim, have done and performed at the Coronations of Our Famous Progenitors and Predecessors Kings and Queens of this Realm. We therefore out of Our Princely care for the preservation of the lawful Rights and Inheritances of Our loving Subjects whom it may concern, have taught fit to give notice of and publish Our Resolution therein, and do hereby give notice of and publish the same accodingly. And We do hereby further signify, That by Our Commission under Our Great Seal of England, We have appointed and authorized Our Right trusty ad Right well-beloved Cousins and Councillors, Edward, Lord Hyde Our Chancellor of England, Thomas Earl of Southampton Our high Treasurers, George Duke of Albemarle Master of Our Horse, Henry Marquis of Dorhester, Montague Earl of Lindsey Our great Chamberlain, James Marquis of Ormond Steward of Our Household, Edward Earl of Manchester Chamberlain of Our Household, Aubery Earl of Oxford, John Lord Robert's Baron of Truro, and our Trusty and well-beloved Sir Robert Foster Knight chief justice of Our Court of King's Bench, and Sir Orlando Bridgman Knight and Baronet, chief justice of Our Court of Common Pleas, or any three, or more of them, to receive, hear, and determine the Petitions and Claims which shall be to them exhibited by any of Our, loving Subjects in this behalf: And We shall appoint Our said Commissioners for that purpose to sit in the Painted Chamber of Our Palace of Westminster upon the Six and twentieth day of this instant month of March, in the afternoon of that day, and from time to time to adjourn as to them shall seem meet, for the execution of Our said Commission, which We do thus publish, to the intent that all such person whom it may any ways concern, may know when and where to give their attendance for the exhibiting of their Petitions and Claims concerning their Services beforementioned, to be done or performed unto Us at Our said Coronation. And We do hereby signify unto all and every Our Subjects whom it may concern, That Our Will and Pleasure is, and We do hereby straight charge all persons of what rank or quality soever they be, who either upon Our Letters to them directed, or by reason of their Offices or Tenors, or otherwise, are to do any service at the said day or time of Our Coronation, That they do duly give their Attendance accordingly in all respects furnished and appointed, as to so great a Solemnity appertaineth, and answerable to the Dignities and Places which every one of them respectively holdeth and enjoyeth. And of this, they or any of them are not to fail, as they will answer the contrary at their perils, unless upon special reasons by Ourselves, under Our hand to be allowed, We shall dispense with any of their Services or Attendances. Given at Our Court at Whitehall, the Eighth day of March, in the Thirteenth Year of Our Reign, One thousand six hundred and sixty. GOD SAVE THE KING. LONDON, Printed by John Bill, Printer to the KING'S most Excellent MAJESTY, 1660. At the KING'S Printing-House in Blackfriars.