[14] Gen. xlix. 10.
[15] Sandford does not omit to notice, that the dean of Westminster, assisted by the prebendaries, duly performed this office for the coronation of James II., "early in the morning."
[16] Vide Judges, chap. ix.
[17] Titles of Honour, p. i, chap. 8.
[18] 1 Sam. x. 10; xvi. 1; 1 Kings, xiv. 15; &c.
[19] 1 Sam. xxvi. 9, 10.
[20] Selden's Titles.
[21] Marmion, 8vo. Note, p. 456.
[22] "Comite Cestriæ gladium S. Edwardi, qui Curtein dicetur, ante regem bagulante," &c.
[23] Glory of Regality, p. 73, 4.