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Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay

CHAPTER IV
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I liked the ways of the family.
I picked up some news from these Cabinet Ministers.

There is to be a Coronation on quite a new plan; no banquet in Westminster Hall, no feudal services, no champion, no procession from the Abbey to the Hall, and back again.

But there is to be a service in the Abbey.

All the Peers are to come in state and in their robes, and the King is to take the oaths, and be crowned and anointed in their presence.

The spectacle will be finer than usual to the multitude out of doors.


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