Lives of the Lord Chancellors And Keepers of the Great Seal of ..., volume 4
Lives of the Lord Chancellors And Keepers of the Great Seal of ..., volume 4
Baron John Campbell Campbell
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Digitized by Google A.D. 1673. HIS GRAND EQUESTRIAN PROCESSION. 173 him by the Master of the Rolls, the Dukes of Lauderdale and Ormond, the Earle of St. Alban's, the Earle of Arlington, and several other persons of honour accompanyinge his Lc^ to and in the Co rt untill his Lo p was sworne, all the said persons of honour, with the Judges and Chancery officers, attending his LO* from his house in the Strand, to the Chancery Co rt in Westm'HalL"' There is no further account of this installation. ...Having been got up so suddenly, it could not have been very splendid. But to compensate for the disappointment, Shaftesbury deter- mined to amuse the metropolis with a sight that had not been seen for half a century. Coaches were introduced into Eng- land in the latter end of the reign of Elizabeth, and had fjjr many years become so common that the ancient custom of the Chancellor and the Judges riding on horseback to Westminster Hall to open the term had been entirely laid aside, and the Chancellor had headed the procession in a grand gilt state carriage almost as large as a house, — being followed by the Judges, the King's Serjeants, the King's Counsel, &c, in mo- dern equipages.
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