130 'lhe HI 8T 0 RY of the PuRITANs. VoL. If; K. Charles). It was next objected, " that he had made divers alterations in the king·s 1644· " coronation oath, and introduced feveral unwarrantable innovations with_ ~n" relation to that auguft ceremony; as particularly, that he had infcrted the corona- " thofe words into the oath, ag·reeable to the king's prerogative, with ation oath. " bout twenty other alterations of lefs moment, which they apprehended M. Charge. " to be a matter of moft dangerous confequence. That he had revived Abp. reply, Laud's hi(!. P· 318. Prynne, p. 475· " certain old popifh ceremonies, difufed fince the reformation, as the " placing a crucifix on the altar, the confecrating the holy oil, the anoint– " ing the king in form of a crofs, the offering up the regalia on the altar, " without any rubrick or direction for thefe things, and inferting the fol: " !owing charge taken verbatim out of the roman pontifical, "}land and " holdfofi, from henceforth, the place to which you hm.>e bfen heir by thefoe– " ce/Jion of your firijathers, being now delivered to you by the authority of " almighty God, and by the hands of us and all the bijhops and jervants of " God; and as youfee the clergy come nearer the altar than others, fo remem– " ber, that in place convenient you give them greater honour, that the me– " diator of God and man may eftablijb you in the kingly tbrone, to. be the " mediator between the clergy and tbe laity, and that you may reign for ever " with JejiiS Chr:Jt, the kzng of kings, and lord of lords, who with the fa• " ther, and tbe bo!y ghofi, liveth and reigneth for ever. Amen." The archbifhop replied, that he did n"ot infert the words above-men• ~ioned into the coronation oath, they being firfl: added in king Edward VI. or queen Elizabeth's time, and had no relation to the laws of the king– dom, mentioned before in the beginning of the oath, but to the profef– fion of the gofpel, whereby the king fwears to maintain his prerogative againft all foreign jurifdic:tions: and if this be not the mt!!aning, yet he a– Ters, that the clauie was in the coronation oath of king James. As to the other alterations they are admitted not to be material; but his grace con– feffes, that when they met in the committee, they were forced to mend many flips of the pen in fame places, and to make fenfe and good englijh in others, and, the book being intrufted with him he did it with his own hand, openly in the committee and with their approbation. As to the ceremo– nies ofthe coronation, they are nothing to him, fince his predecelfor crow:1ed andanointed the king, indeed he fupplied the place of the dean ofWeftmin– Jter, and was obliged to look after the regalia-, and conceives the offering them at thealtarcould be no offence. He does not remember the cruci– fix was brought out [tbotJgh Hey/in fays it was] and as to the prayer, it was not taken from the pontifical by him, for it was ufed at king Janm'-s coronati-on, and being a good one 'tis no matter whence it was taken. To all which the mar1agers replied, that it appeared by his own diary, th<tt he had the chief direction- of all thefe in~vations. The
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