The history of the coronation of the most high, most mighty, and most excellent monarch, James II, by the grace of God, king of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. and of his royal consort Queen Mary : solemnized in the collegiate church of St. Peter in the city of Westminster, on Thursday the 23 of April, being the festival of St. George, in the year of Our Lord 1685 : with an exact account of the several preparations in order thereunto, Their Majesties most splendid processions, and their royal and magnificent feast in Westminster-Hall : the whole work illustrated with sculptures
A 1687 London account of the 1685 coronation of James II and Queen Mary, written by herald Francis Sandford and printed in the Savoy for an audience of courtly and antiquarian readers. Its engraved plates show processions of courtiers in ceremonial dress, with a designer able to draw on the layered wigs, long cloaks and staffed officers' costumes of the period.
