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at the common law. If the fame perfon be coroner of 
the county, ami alfo of the king’s houfe, an indictment 
of death taken before him as coroner, both of the king’s 
houfe, and of the county, is good. 4 .Rep. 46. 2 In/}. 134. 
By 33 Hen. VIII. c. 12. it is ordained, that all inqui- 
fitions made upon the view of perfons (lain within any 
of the king’s palaces ~or houfes, or any other houfe or 
houfes wherein Ilia majcfty ill all happen to be abiding in 
his royal perfon, fhall be taken by the coroner for the 
time being of the king’s houfehold, without any allilting 
of another coroner of any (hire within this realm, by the 
oaths of twelve or more of the yeoman officers of the 
king’s houfehold, returned by the two clerks controllers, 
the clerks of the checks, and the clerk’s marffial, or one 
of them, of the laid houfehold, to whom the faid coro¬ 
ner of the houfehold (hall direct his precept; and the 
faid coroner (hall cer-ify under his feal, and the feals of 
fuch perfons as (hall be (worn before him, all fuch in- 
quifitions before the maker or lord keward of the houfe- 
liold, who hath the appointment of fuch coroner. 
Coroner of London. 13 )’ the charter of Edward IV. 
the mayor and commonalty of London may grant the of¬ 
fice of Coroner to whom they pleafe ; and no other coro¬ 
ner but he that belongs to the city (hall have any power 
there : alfo the lord mayor may choofe two coroners in 
Southwark. When any one is killed, or comes to an un¬ 
timely death, in London, the coroner, upon notice, (hull 
attend where the body is, and forthwith caufe the beadles 
of the ward to fummon a jury to make the necefiary en¬ 
quiry, how fuch perfon came by his death ; and, after 
inquilition taken, lie (hall give a certificate to the church¬ 
warden, clerk, or fexton, of the paridij to the intent the 
corpfe may be buried : the coroner’s fees here formerly 
amounted to twenty-five (hillings, now to above double 
that fum ; unlefs the friends of the deceafed are poor, 
and then he fhall execute his office for nothing. Cit. Lib.. 
46. The coroners in London and Middlefex, and in other 
cities, may bail felons and prifoners, in fuch manner as 
hath been heretofore accukonied. 1 & 2 P. &c M. c. 13. 
CO'RONET, or Cornet, /, of a horfe’s foot, in the 
Iowek part of the paftern, which runs round the coffin, 
and is diltinguilhed by the hair joining and covering the 
upper part of the hoof. 
CO'RONET, f. \_coronctta, Ital. the diminutive of co¬ 
rona, a crown.] To the blood royal of the united king¬ 
dom of Great Britain and Ireland belong appropriate 
coronets, as alfo to the nobility. That of a duke is com- 
pofed of krawberry leaves; that of a marquis has leaves 
with balls, or pearls, interpofed ; that of an earl raifes 
the balls above the leaves ; that of a vifeount is fur- 
rounded with twelve balls, (feven in light;) that of a 
baron (ix balls, (four in fight:) 
Nor could our nobles hope their bold attempt, 
Who ruin’d crowns, would coronets exempt. Dry den. 
An ornamental head-drefs, in poetical language. The 
rek was drawn into a .coronet of gold, richly fet with pearl. 
Sidney. ~ 
Under a coronet his flowing hair. 
In curls, on either cheek play’d. Milton. 
CO'RONIL, a town of Spain, in the province of An- 
dalufia : thirty miles Couth of Seville. 
CORONIL'LA,/. [diminutive from corona, a crown ; 
the flowers crowning the branches in a corymb.] In bo¬ 
tany, a genus of the clal's diadelphia, order decandria, 
natural order papilionaceae, or leguminofae. The gene¬ 
ric characters are—Calyx : umbellule fimple ; perian- 
thiuni one-leafed, very (hort, comprelied, bifid, erect ; 
the three inferior teeth (mailer; the two fuperior con¬ 
joined ; permanent. Corolla: papilionaceous; kandard 
heart-ffiaped, reflected on all (ides, fcarce longer than 
the wings; wings ovate, converging at the top, gaping 
at the bottom, obtufe ; keel comprelied, acuminate, ai- 
cending, ufually (horter than the wings. Stamina: fila¬ 
ments diadeiphous, ((ingle and nine-cleft,) afeending at 
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almok a right angle, the tips widiffi ; antherx fimple, 
fmall. Pittillum : germ columnar, oblong; (tyle brif- 
tlfed, afeending; kigma fmall, obtufe. Pericarpium : 
legume very long, columnar, ftraight, contracted, with 
an iklnuus between each feed; tv.o-valved, oue-ceHed, 
parting by joints. Seeds : many.-— Ejfential Cbarabler. 
Calyx, two-lipped two-thirds ; the upper teeth connate ; 
kandard lcurcely longer than the wings; legume con¬ 
tracted between the (eeds. 
Species. 1. Coronilla emerus, or fcorpion fena: ffirub- 
by ; peduncles with about three flowers; claw of the 
corolla three times the length of the calyx ; (tern angu¬ 
lar. Height from two to iix feet; eight or nine in gar¬ 
dens; hem not very kraight, branched and brachiate, Co 
weak as lb me times to want lupport ; leaflets three or 
four pair ;, gradually larger, almok cordate, glaucous, 
fmooMi ; peduncles umbelled, with from three to five 
flowers ; corolla yellow ; feeds cylindric. Mr. Miller, 
who kept this fpecies dillinct from the coronillas, under 
its old name of e merits, divided it into greater andlefs. 'I'he 
former, he lays, is very common in the English gardens, 
but the latter in very few, and not known till lie pro¬ 
cured the feeds from Italy. The latter does not rife to 
more than half the height, but has larger leaves; the 
flowers alfo are rather larger, and are on (horter pedun¬ 
cles. Lite leaves, fermented in a vat, in the fame man¬ 
ner as is pvactifed with indigo, will afford a dye very 
nearly equal to what is procured from that plant. Millet- 
lias a third fort, which he names emerus herbacca, dif- 
covered by Plunder in the French Wek-India illands, 
and by Loudoun at Vera Cruz. Stem herbaceous, up¬ 
right, three feet high ; leaflets about twenty pairs, blunt, 
deep green; flowers lolitary, axillary, on peduncles two 
inches long, large, pale yellow ; legumes (lender, com- 
prelied, more than fix inches long, torulofe, with a bor¬ 
der 011 each fide. The common (ort is a native of France, 
Germany, Switzerland, Aukria, Carniola, Savoy ; flower- 
ing in April, about Geneva, &c. 
2. Coronilla juncea, or linear-leaved coronilla : flirub- 
by ; leaflets quinate andternate, linear-lanceolate, fome- 
what flelliy, obtufe.' This riles from two to four feet 
high, with many llender woody branches; the dowers 
Hand upon pretty long axillary peduncles, in fmall 
bundles ; they are ot a bright yellow colour, and ap¬ 
pear for fix or feven months together, but have not pro¬ 
duced feeds. It has branches like broom; and fmall 
leaves, that are lb mew hat flelliy. Native of the 1 'outh 
of France. 
3. Coronilla valentina, or fmall (hrubby coronilla: 
ffirubb'y; leaflets about nine ; kipules fuborbiculate. This 
rifes three or four feet high. It approaches very near 
to the glauca ; but the leaflets are (mailer, more nume¬ 
rous, and more truly glaucous-; the kipules, which in 
the glauca are fmall, narrow, and pointed, in the valen¬ 
tina are large, almok round, and in the young plant 
krikingly confpicuous; as the plant comes into flower, 
they drop off: this is not (0 much dilpofed to flower the 
year through as the glauca, but produces its bloffoms 
chiefly in May, June, and July. The flowers of the 
glauca fmell more krongly in the day-time ; thole of the 
valentina at all times diffufe a very powerful odour ; the 
latter are more difpofed to produce feed-velfels. Lin- 
nacus remarks, that early in the Jpring the leaves have 
the colour of rue ; lienee Mr. Curtis names it, rue-leaved 
coronilla. Native of Spain and Italy. 
4. Coronilla glauca, or great (hrubby coronilla : flirub- 
by ; leaflets feven, very obtufe; kipules lanceolate. This 
is feldom more than three or four feet high, with a woody 
branching Item. This, fays Linnaeus, has little or nq 
fmell in the night ; during the day the flowers are re¬ 
markably fragrant. Native of the fouth of France; 
flowering from September to May ; indeed almok the 
whole year. 
3. Coronilla coronata, or crowned coronilla: flirub- 
by ; leaflets nine, obovate, the inmok approximating to 
the kem ; kipule oppofite to the leaf, two-parted. Stems 
ereft. 
