Coronation Rites

by Reginald Maxwell Woolley

The English Rite

There are six well-marked recensions of the English rite.

(1) The Order of the so-called Pontifical of Egbert.

(2) The so-called Order of Ethelred II.

(3) The Order of the twelfth century.

(4) The Order of the Liber Regalis, which lasted (in English from the time of James I) until the reign of James II.

(5) The Order of James II.

(6) The Order of William and Mary, which with comparatively unimportant changes has been used down to the present time.