PLATE III.
THE CORONATION OF KING EDWARD III.
Edward II. being formally deposed in a general assembly of the great Barons, his eldest son was called to the throne, and crowned on Christmas-day, 1326, in the sixteenth year of his age, “during the lifetime of his father.”
The Illumination only represents the group immediately surrounding the King, but is very carefully executed; the white draperies in particular being very elaborately finished. The chair or throne bears sufficient resemblance to that (so called) of Edward the Confessor, in Westminster Abbey, as to lead one to suppose that a description, or perhaps a rough sketch, had been furnished to the artist.
The funeral of Philip of Valois, King of France.