THE ANOINTING.

(In the morning early, care was taken that the ampula was filled with

oil, and the spoon laid ready upon the altar of the Abbey church.)

The King having thus taken his oath, returned again at the chair; and

kneeling at his faldstool, the archbishop begun the hymn Veni, Creator

Spiritus, and the choir sang it out.

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