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Mercurius politicus, Number 260, 31st May-7th June 1655 E.842[7]

The Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal,
the Judges of the several Courts Westminster,
the Lord Major and the Sheriff of London, attended
his Highness the Lord Protector and
Council at White hall; the Occasion you will
hear further the next week, but no more of it
now. His Highness removed from Whitehall to
Hampton Court; and the great business now to
agitation, will be further considered on by his
Highness and Council.
From Compeigne, June 2.
Upon holy Thursday the 27 of the last moneth
their Majesties, whose piery shines no less then
their other vertues, affisted at the Procession,
which by reason of the rain was made only about
the Abbey-Church of St. Corneille. The Bishop
of Soissons who is Abbot (assisted by his Coadjutor
sieur Bourbon-Bishop of Cezaree, together
with those of Noyon and Valence) carried the
holy Sacrament; after which the King (being
ushered by Ico Swisses, each with a light torch)
marched with a white wax-taper in his hand,
with a modesty which rendred him to have persectly
submitted himself to the Soveraign of
Monarchs; and the Queen followed this great
Prince with that piety which hath ever been the
model of her own. Their Majesties at the end of
the Procession assisted at the grand Mass, which
was sung by the Religious of the Abbey, and
celebrated by the Bishop of Soiffons, wherein
his Coadjutor presented them the Peace to kiss.
and the King communicated, as the Queen and
the Monsicur had done that morning, with the
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