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Hautboys

The Order of the Coronation:
1. A lively flourish of trumpets
2. Then two Judges

3. Lord Chancellor, with purse and mace before him
4. Choristers singing
(Music)
5. Mayor of London, bearing the mace. The Garter, in his coat of arms, and on
his head he wore a gilt copper crown

6. Marquis Dorset, bearing a sceptre of gold, on his head a demi-coronal of
gold. With him the Earl of Surrey, bearing the rod of silver with the dove,
crowned with an earl’s coronet. Collars of Esses

7. Duke of Suffolk, in his robe of estate, his coronet on his head, bearing a
long white wand, as High Steward. With him the Duke of Norfolk, with the rod
of marshalship, a coronet on his head. Collars of Esses
8. A canopy borne by four of the Cinque Ports; under it Queen [Anne] in her
robe; in her hair richly adorned with pearl, crowned. On each side her the

Bishops [Stokesley] of London and [Gardiner] of Winchester.
9. The old Duchess of Norfolk, in a coronal of gold wrought with flowers,
bearing the Queen’s train

10. Certain ladies or Countesses, with plain circlets of gold without flowers

Exeunt, first passing over the stage in order and state and then a great
flourish of trumpets

SECOND GENTLEMAN
A royal train, believe me: these I know.
Who’s that that bears the sceptre?

FIRST GENTLEMAN
Marquis Dorset;

And that the Earl of Surrey, with the rod.

SECOND GENTLEMAN
A bold brave gentleman. That should be [40]
The Duke of Suffolk?