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 Some Curious Facts about the Coronation. sent as Papal Nuncio, and in pronouncing the absolution over the kneeling King, Queen and entire Parliament, he removed, in the Pope's name, all "censures, judgments and pains,'' and it was soon evident

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and in the preface to the acts of the second session the full titles of the monarch are set forth in these words: "Acts made at a Parliament begun and holden at Westminster the one and twentieth

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that it was held the Pope's bar to the title was one of the censures removed. It was customary in those times to print the whole of the acts of a session in one continuous roll, and preface them with the full style and title of the King. In the preface to the acts of the very session in which the act of King Henry was repealed, the title cropped up,

day of October, in the 2 and 3 year of the reign of our most Gracious Sovereign Lord and Lady, Philip and Mary, by the Grace of God King and Queen of England, France, Naples, Jerusalem and Ireland; Defenders of the Faith; Princes of Spain and Sicily,'' etc. It was Henry VIII. who first adopted the title King of Ireland instead of "Lord."