ENTHRONIZATION OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.

Anglo-Maori Warder, Volume 1, Issue 23, 28 September 1848, Page 3

ENTHRONIZATION OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.

Canterbury, Friday, April 28 —This day being appointed for the enthronization of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the gentry of Kent began to pour into the city at an early hour, it being known that the new Primate proposed to attend in person, and not to be enthroned by prosy. The doors of the cathedral were opened before ten o'clock, and the spacious choir, nearly 200 feet long, was filled almost immediately by those who bad secured tickets of admission. We observed present the Marchioness of Conyngham, Lord A. Conyngham, M.P., the Earl and Countess Detawarr, Lord and Lady Sandes, Sir B. Bridges, Mr. Deedes, M.P., Mr. Rice, M.P., Mr: S. R. Lushington, Mr. B. Hope, Colonel Finch, the High Sheriff, and fome members of nearly all the great county families* About eleven o'clock the ptocession entered the nave, headed by the choristers, who were singing the MSih, 1491b, and 150 th Psalms, and tbe Hallelujah chorus ; producing a singular solemn effect in the choir, as the Hallelujahs from the voices of siugers not yet Been wandered among the forest of pillars and came rolling in louder and louder, whilst the train approached the gate of the choir. The Archbishop was attended by the Dean of the Province (the Bishop of Lichfield, as prosy for the Bishop ot London), the Sub-Deao (the Bishop of Winchester), the Dean and Vice-Dean, and other officers of the Cathedral church, and about 200 clergymen. His Grace having pasted , up the choir, and taken his seat in a chair placed on the north side of the communion table, morning ier* vice was begun. At the end of the first lesson the Archdeacon went down from his stall and conducted , the Archbishop to his throne, on the south side of the : cbutr, opposite to the pulpit. The mandate for the ; enthronization was then produced by the Vicar-General, Dr. Barnaby, and read by the Auditor, and the Archdearon sai.'—" I, James Croft, Master of Arts, Arch. • deacon or Canterbury, do induct, install, and euthn-ne ', you, the Most Rev. Father in God John Bird Sumner, ; Doctor in D.viuity, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, into the archbishopric and archiepUeopal dignity ot the nee ot Canterbury, and into the real, actu.il, and corporal poasesiion of the Same, with all and singular the rights, dignities, honours, pre-eminences, and appurtenaDcts thereof, and the Lord preserve your out and your coming in, from this time lorth for evermore. Amen " Morning service then proceeded; and on its conclusion the Archbishop was conducted to the ancient marble chair, which is mm placed m [rout of the com*

mun'on table, just outside the roils. Here the same form of induction wo* repeal«d ; *nd Lis Grace then passed to the Dean's stall, at the western end of the choir, and was placed in that seat, »* m sigu and token of his taking and having real and actual possession of the eee of Canterbury, and of all the rights and privilege thereof." Ihe Te Dcumwaa next sung, and a prayer for the Archbishop was read—"that he may faithfully serve God in this office, and long live happily to rule this church, and that, having worthily fulfilled his course, af the latter day he may receive the crown of righteousness Ittid up by the Ltfrd the righteous Judge.'' The Archbishop pronounced the blessing, and the proceedings in the choir thus terminated. His Grace went then into the Chapter House, where he was placed in the chief seat, and took the oath "to maintain the rights and liberties of this church, and to observe the approved customs thereof, and, as far as it concerned him, to cause the same to be observed by others, so far as such customs are not repugnant to God's word, tbo law, Btntu'es, provisions, and ordinances of the realm, or to her Majesty's prerogative, and not otherwise.*' The Archdeacon, Deans, and o:her au'horitiop, having next severally " promised to pay canonical obedience to his Grace," an act of the proceedings was signed, and the assembly was dismissed by the Dean. This closed the whole ceremony, and the congregation then dispersed.