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JAMES II
Summons signed ("James R" at head"), to Henry Earl of Clarendon, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, requiring him to attend his coronation, Whitehall, 23 March 1684/5

24 June 2015, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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JAMES II

Summons signed ("James R" at head"), to Henry Earl of Clarendon, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, requiring him to attend his coronation, ("...Whereas Wee have appointed the 23rd day of Aprill next for the Solemnity of Our Royall Coronation; These are therefore to Will and Command you, all excuses sett apart, That you make your personall attendance on Us at the time above mentioned, furnished and appointed as to your Rank and Quality appertaineth, there to do and perform such Services as shall bee required and belong unto you..."); requiring also the attendance of his wife, the Countess ("...And whereas Wee have also resolved, That the Coronation of Our Royall Consort the Queen shall bee solemnised on the same day, Wee do further hereby require the Countesse your Wife, to make her personall attendance on Our said Royal Consort..."); integral address leaf, with papered seal, recipient's docket, 1 page, fine watermark (see below), slight dust-staining and guard to integral leaf, folio, Whitehall, 23 March 1684/5

Footnotes

ʻTHE SOLEMNITY OF OUR ROYALL CORONATION' – JAMES II SUMMONS HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW TO HIS CORONATION; the document written on paper watermarked with the arms of England flanked by the lion and unicorn standing on a cartouche bearing the royal motto ʻDieu et mon Droit', and sealed with a fine papered impression of the royal arms as borne by both Charles II and James II.

Henry, second Earl of Clarendon, was brother of James's first wife, Anne Hyde (and so uncle of James's daughters Mary and Anne, the future Queens of England). He and his brother, Laurence, Earl of Rochester, were both staunch Anglicans and when James succeeded to the throne on the death of his brother Charles II on 6 February 1684/5, he lost no time in appointing them Lord Privy Seal and Lord Treasurer respectively; with Clarendon being made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland that September. However within a few years the influence of both brothers waned as Tyrconnell came into the ascendant in Ireland and Sunderland in England – the eclipse of the Hyde brothers being generally seen as the turning-point in James's reign, when the balance of power shifted from the Anglicans to the Catholics.

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