The spoon

part it performs in the hands of political raree-showmen for diverting

another class of spectators.

_Anointing_ monarchs at their coronation has always been deemed indispensable. Barely to touch royal sconces with the holy unguent, as sometimes now practiced, was formerly insufficient. Baker, in his Chronicles, says Richard I. the hero of the Crusades, “put off all his garment...