they
said, as peer of France,[1498] would receive the emoluments.

[Footnote 1495: _Chronique de la Pucelle_, pp. 322, 323, note. "This
ritual dates back certainly as far as the 13th century. It is
preserved in the library at Reims in a MS. which appears to have been
written about 1274." Communicated by M. H. Jadart. Varin, _Archives de
Reims_, vol. i, p. 522. Dom Marlot, _Histoire de la ville de Reims_,
vol. iii, p. 566, and vol. iv, proofs and illustrations no. 142. H.
Jadart, _Jeanne d'Arc a Reims_, p. 7.]

[Footnote 1496: _Chronique de la Pucelle_, p. 321. Perceval de Cagny,
p. 159. Letter from three noblemen of Anjou, in _Trial_, vol. v, p.
128.]

[Footnote 1497: _Pro evitando onus armatorum_, _Trial_, vol. i, p.
91.]

[Footnote 1498: Thirion, _Les frais du sacre_ in _Travaux de
l'academie de Reims_, 1894. See Varin, _Archives de Reims_, table of
contents under the word, _Sacre_. Dom Marlot, _Histoire de la ville de
Reims_, vol. iii, pp. 461, 566, 640, 651, 819; vol. iv, pp. 25, 31,
45.]

[Illustration: CHARLES VII, KING OF FRANCE

_From an old engraving_]

The royal ornaments, which, after the coronation of the late King, had
been deposited in the sacristy of Saint-Denys, were in the hands of
the English. The crown of Charlemagne, brilliant with rubies,
sapphires and emeralds, adorned with four flowers-de-luce, which the
Kings of France received on their coronation, the English wished to
place on the head of their King Henry. This child King they were
preparing to gird with the sword of Charlemagne, the illustrious
Joyeuse, which in its sheath of violet velvet slept in the keeping of
the Burgundian Abbot of Saint-Denys. In English hands likewise were
the sceptre surmounted by a golden Charlemagne in imperial robes, the
rod of justice terminated by a hand in horn of unicorn, the golden
clasp of Saint Louis' mantle, and the golden spurs and the Pontifical,
containing within its enamelled binding of silver-gilt the ceremonial
of the coronation.[1499] The French must needs make shift with a crown
kept in the sacristy of the cathedral.[1500] The other signs of
royalty handed down from Clovis, from Saint Charlemagne and Saint
Louis must be represented as well as could be. After all, it was not
unfitting that this coronation, won by a single expedition, should be
expressive of the labour and suffering it had cost. It was well that
the ceremony should suggest something of the heroic poverty of the
men-at-arms a