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and Princess at Guildford, and in two days they go to 

 Portsmouth. On New Year s day, the ceremony of 

 christening the young Earl of Cambridge for this is to 

 be his title was performed at Worcester House ; the 

 King and Duke of Albemarle godfathers ; the Queen 

 and Marchioness of Ormond godmothers. The Duke 

 and his Duchess then came to Court, and the Queen 

 received them very affectionately. The Coronation is 

 deferred to St. George s day.&quot;* 



The Lord Bishop of Peterborough, 79 in his ecclesias 

 tical and civil register and chronicle of the period, 

 records the following particulars in reference to the 

 order of proceedings at the Coronation of Charles the 

 Second, April the 23rd, 1661 : &quot; The Marquis of Dor 

 chester, the Marquis of Worcester, in their robes, with 

 their coronets in their hands.&quot; 



Then as to the homage paid by the nobles ; after the 

 oath given by the Archbishop of Canterbury ; and other 

 Bishops, saluting the King ; among others came up the 

 Marquises of Worcester and Dorchester. 



That even at the Eestoration the Marquis s religion 

 presented some obstacles to his progress may be inferred 

 from the resolution of the House of Lords, that the 

 indulgence to be granted to the Eoman Catholics should 

 not be extended to the Jesuits. Whereupon that Society 

 drew up a paper, entitled, u Reasons why the Jesuits 

 hope that they should partake of the favours shown to 

 other priests, in taking away the sanguinary laws.&quot; 

 And it is noticed that, &quot; As for noble persons who lost 

 great estates, and endured much hardship for his Ma 

 jesty, the late Duchess of Buckingham, the late Marquis 

 of Worcester,! and the late Earl of Shrewsbury were 

 Penitents of the Society, as other prime nobility yet in 

 being.&quot; 79 



* Cal. State Papers, Dom. Scries, Charles II. 1660-1661, Vol. xxviii. p. 466. 

 79 Peterborough. f Henry Somerset. 



