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The Regal Vestments: Scabbard of Purple Velvet

Then the Lord, who carries the Sword of State, delivering the said Sword to the Lord Chamberlain (which is thereupon deposited in the Traverse in Saint Edward's Chapel) he receives from the Lord Chamberlain, in lieu thereof, another Sword, in a Scabbard of Purple Velvet, provided for the King to be girt withal, which he delivereth to the Archbishop; and the Archbishop, laying it on the Altar, saith the following Prayer : EAR our prayers, O Lord, we beseech thee, and so direct and support thy servant in vain; but may use it as the minister of God for the terror and punishment of evildoers, and for the protection and encouragement of those that do well, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Then the Archbishop takes the Sword from off the Altar, and (the Archbishop of York and the Bishops of London and Winchester and other Bishops assisting, and going along with him) delivers it into the King's Right Hand, and he holding it, the Archbishop saith : now from the Altar of God, and delivered to you R ECEIVE this Kingly Sword, brought now from the Altar of God, and delivered to you by the hands of us the Bishops and servants of God, though unworthy. APPENDIX the King.

The King standing up, the Sword is girt about him by the Lord Great Chamberlain; and then, Girt about the King sitting down, the Archbishop saith :

WITH ITH this Sword do justice, stop the growth of iniquity, protect the Holy Church of God, help and defend widows and orphans, restore the things that are gone to decay, maintain the things that are restored, punish and reform what is amiss, and confirm what is in good order: that doing these things you may be glorious in all virtue; and so faithfully serve our Lord Jesus Christ in this life, that you may reign for ever with him in the life which is to come. and Then the King, rising up, ungirds his Sword, and, going to the Altar, offers it there in the Offered Scabbard, and then returns and sits down in King Edward's Chair: and the Peer, who redeemed. first received the Sword, offereth the price of it, and having thus redeemed it, receiveth it from the Dean of Westminster, from off the Altar, and draweth it out of the Scabbard, and carries it naked before his Majesty during the rest of the solemnity. Then the Bishops who had assisted during the offering return to their places. THE INVESTING WITH THE ARMILLA AND IMPERIAL MANTLE, AND THE DELIVERY OF THE ORB and Then the King arising, the Armilla and Imperial Mantle or Pall of Cloth of Gold, are by the The Armilla Master of the Robes delivered to the Dean of Westminster, and by him put upon the Imperial King, standing; the Lord Great Chamberlain fastening the Clasps : The King sits Mantle. down, and then the Orb with the Cross is brought from the Altar by the Dean of The Orb. Westminster, and delivered into the King's hand by the Archbishop, pronouncing this Blessing and Exhortation :