The entertainment of his most excellent majestie Charles II, in his passage through the city of London to his coronation : containing an exact account of the whole solemnity, the triumphal arches, and cavalcade delineated in sculpture ; the speeches and impresses illustrated from antiquity : to these is added a brief narrative of His Majestie's solemn coronation : with his magnificent proceedings, and royal feast in Westminster-Hall (1662)

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