VARIOUS FORMS OF COURT ETIQUETTE, TABLES OF PRECEDENCY, RULES TO BE OBSERVED AT LEVEES AND DRAWING ROOMS, ETC. ALSO AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY ON REGAL STATE AND CEREMONIAL, AND A FULL ACCOUNT OF THE CORONATION CEREMONY, BY WILLIAM J. THOMS, FELLOW OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES. SECOND EDITION. LONDON: HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. MDCCCXLIV. SPV I HAVE the honour to dedicate to Your Majesty the following volume, which I have ventured to designate "The Book of the Court;" and I beg leave, most respectfully, to tender my grateful thanks for the distinction which Your Majesty has conferred upon me, by granting me Your Majesty's gracious permission so to do. boast May I be allowed to add to this expression of thanks, my fervent prayer for Your Majesty's long and happy reign, and that, —while under Your Majesty's governance, the country may of the same high honour in arms, and glory in the liberal arts, which distinguished it in the reign of Elizabeth,-Your Majesty may, under Providence, secure those advantages to Your people, without the heavy cares and ceaseless anxieties which their purchase entailed upon that illustrious Queen. I remain, With the profoundest veneration, Madam, Your Majesty's most faithful Subject and dutiful Servant, WILLIAM J. THOMS. b |