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<e Royal Palace, though (pacious, was not of Extent“ (ufficient to accommodate fo great a Number, they<f repaired to the Nenjj Temple- y where they erededfC Tents and Pavilions, having firrt cut down the<f Trees in the Orchat, and levelled the Walls of it,“ that they might feparately, and more commodiouf“ Iy drefs themlelves in their fplendid Habits. That“ Nighty as many of them performed their Vigils“ in the Temple- Church, as the Place would well“ contain: But the Prince of Wales 9 by Command<c of the King his Father, kept his Vigils in the Church<c of Wefiminjler , with fome other Per (on s of the firft<c Dignity. There, the Noife of Trumpets and Pipesfi was fo great, and the Acclamations of the People“ fo loud and extended, that the Voices in one Choir<f could not be diftindly heard in another. On the<c Day following, the King inverted his Son with thei( military Belt, and configned to him the Dutchy of“ Aquitain. The Prince being Knighted, went to<c the Church of Wejlminjler , that he might confer“ the like military Honour on his Companions j<c there, the Prels, occasioned by a promifcuous Con-<f courfe of People, was lb great, before the high Al-ff tar, that two Knights were rtifled ; and Several faint-<c ed away; for every Knight had, at leaft, Three other(e Knights to condud and Support him. But the<c Prince was obliged, by ReaSon of the tumultuousf c Croud, to invert his Companions upon the high

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