WHereas We have Resolved by the Favour and Blessing of God to Celebrate the So­lemnity of Our Royal Coronation upon the Eleventh Day of April next at Our Palace at Westminster; and forasmuch as by Ancient Customs and Vsages of this Realm, as also in regard of divers Tenures of sundry Mannors, Lands, and o­ther Hereditaments, many of Our Loving Subjects do Claim, and are bound to do and perform divers several Services on the said Day, and at the time of the Co­ronation, as in Times precedent their Ancestors, and those from whom they Claim, have done and performed at the Coronations of Our Predecessors, Kings and Queens of this Realm: We therefore out of Our Princely Care for the Preserva­tion of the lawful Rights and Inheritances of Our Loving Subjects whom it may concern, have thought fit to give Notice, and Publish Our Resolution therein, and do hereby give Notice of, and Publish the same accordingly. And We do hereby further signifie, that by Our Commission under Our Great Seal of England, We have Appointed and Authorized Our Right Trusty and Right Welbeloved Cousin and Councellor Thomas Earl of Danby, President of Our Council; Our Right Trusty and Entirely Beloved Cousin and Councellor George Marquess of Hallifax, Our Keeper of Our Privy Seal; Our Right Trusty and Right Entirely Beloved Cousin and Councellor Henry Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of England; Our Right Trusty and Entirely Belo­ved Cousin and Councellor Charles Marquess of Winchester; Our Right Trusty and Right Welbeloved Cousin and Councellor Robert Earl of Lindsey, Great Chamberlain of England; Our Right Trusty and Right Welbe­loved Cousin and Councellor William Earl of Devonshire, Steward of Our Houshold; Our Right Trusty and Right Welbeloved Cousin and Councellor Charles Earl of Dorset and Middlesex, Chamberlain of Our Houshold; Our Right Trusty and Right Welbeloved Cousin and Councellor Charles Earl of Shrewsbury, one of Our Prin­cipal Secretaries of State; Our Right Trusty and Welbeloved Cousin and Councellor Francis Viscount Newport, Treasurer of Our Houshold; The Right Reverend Father in God Henry Lord Bishop of London; Our Right Trusty and Welbeloved Councellor Ralph Lord Montague, Master of Our Wardrobe; Our Trusty and Welbelo­ved Sir William Dolben Kt. one of the Iustices of Our Court of Kings Bench; and Our Trusty and Welbelo­ved Sir John Powell Knight, one of the Iustices of Our Court of Common-Pleas; or any Three or more of them, to receive, hear, and determine the Petitions and Claims which shall be to them Exhibited by any of Our Loving Subjects in this behalf, and We shall appoint Our said Commissioners for that purpose, to meet, and ft in the Painted Chamber of Our Palace at Westminster, upon the Twenty eighth Day of this instant March, at Nine of the Clock in the Forenoon of that Day, and from time to time to Adjourn as to them shall seem meet, for the Execution of Our said Commission, which We do thus Publish to the intent, That all such Persons whom it may any way Concern, may know when and where to give their Attendance for the Exhibiting of their Petitions and Claims concerning their Services before mentioned, to be done and performed unto Vs at Our said Coronation. And We do hereby Signifie unto all and every Our Subjects whom it may concern, That Our Will and Pleasure is, and We do hereby straitly Charge all Persons of what Rank or Quality soever they be, who either upon Our Letters to them directed, or by reason of their Offices, or Tenures, or otherwise, are to do any Service at the said Day, or time of Our Coronation; That they do duly give their Attendance accordingly in all re­spects Furnished and Appointed as to so Greater Solemnity appertaineth, and answerable to the Dignities and Places which every one of them respectively holdeth and enjoyeth; And of this, They or any of them are not to fail, as they will answer the contrary at their Perils, unless upon special Reasons by Our Self, under Our Hand to be allowed, We shall Dispence with any of their Services or Attendances.

Given at Our Court at Whitehall, the 16th Day of March, 1688. In the First Year of Our Reign.

God save the King and Queen.