The New Hampshire Gazette

The Several Quantities of Plate delivered at the Coronation, according to the Claims.

1. To the Lord Almoner, for the day, 305 oz. of gilt plate, in two large chased basins.

2. A gold cup and cover to the Lord Mayor of London, containing twenty ounces of pure gold.

3. To the chief Cup bearer, a cup and cover, curiously chased and gilt, of thirty two ounces.

4. To the Mayor of Oxford a high gilt bowl, and richly chased of 110 oz. as a gift from the King to that city, with his Majesty's arms engraved on it.

1. To the Champion, a high bowl and cover, finely chased and gilt, of 36 oz.

2. To the Duke of Norfolk, as Chief Butler of England for the Day, a cup of pure gold of 32 oz.

3. To the Lord Great Chamberlain, as Chief Officer of the Ewry, two large gilt basins, and one large gilt ewer.

The Archbishop claims, as his fee, the purple velvet chair, cushion and foot-stool, whereon the King sits at the coronation.

The officers of the removing wardrobe also claim, as their fee, the pall of cloth of gold over the King at the coronation.

Dr. Drummond, Bishop of St. Asaph, will preach the coronation sermon.

August 27. The scaffold in St. Margaret's church yard, to see the coronation, is raised sixteen feet one above another, and some of the old houses have above two or three additional stories clapped on the tops of them. Why should they stop here, when there is so much room between that and the sky, to build higher; and the higher they go, the purer the air; and, with the help of good telescopes, they might be able to see the procession in a fair day, as plain as they did the Transit of Venus over the Sun.

We hear that there are some artificial trees made to decorate the grand dessert for the Coronation, upwards of ten feet high.

There is erected over Westminster hall a reservoir, which is filled full of water, and contrived in such a manner, as to be of infinite service in case of any accident of fire at the approaching grand coronation.