Commentary on the Splendor of the Arch-Offices in the Coronations of Charles VII, Maria Amalia, and Francis

he could willingly permit the Bavarian arch-office of archsteward to the Palatine. Nor did this seem to happen unpleasantly for the Elector Palatine, because, by receiving his ancient office to administer, he was able to concede the arch-office of treasurer to the Elector of Hanover, who otherwise would have lacked a function. But now to the temple. In this procession, the Barons of Wachtendonk and Münchhausen are especially to be noted, then the Count of Königsfeld, the first Bavarian legate; on the right, Count Schönberg; on the left, Baron of Schwerin; furthermore, the Baron of Ulner, in place of the hereditary steward, carrying the golden orb; on the right, Baron of Busec with the scepter; on the left, the Count of Stolberg-Geudern with the crown. After them, Pappenheim alone, bearing the gleaming sword of St. Maurice. Finally, the King of the Romans, Charles VII, most magnificent in his hat and the rest of his electoral attire. All of these were riding. The King, however, was accompanied by infantry, his master of the court, the master of the horse, and the captain of the guards, under a canopy of yellow silk, shining inside and out with silver fringes and a double-headed eagle of embroidery, which two consuls, six aldermen, and two Frankfurt senators carried. When the King approached the outer gate of the temple, where the gatekeeper and the quartermaster of the Empire stood, the ecclesiastical Electors with their retinue met him in this manner. First were the canons of the church of St. Bartholomew with their prelate's cross; after them, the archbishop's crosses were carried. Next were the marshals of the Electors of Mainz and Cologne, the Counts of Stadion and Salm-Reiferscheid, carrying the electoral swords with the points downward. There followed the canon Count of Stadion, the bearer of the silver staff, on the tip of which a double-headed eagle with two imperial seals elegantly perched. Subdeacons, acolytes, and those who carried the four miters of the Elector of Cologne—the symbols of the bishoprics of Hildesheim, Paderborn, Münster, and Osnabrück, over which he also presided—followed, as well as the choir director and the assisting priest. Finally came the Elector of Cologne, as consecrator, with the Elector of Mainz on his right, and on his left the Count of Ingelheim, the first orator of the absent Elector of Trier. This sacred procession ended with the assisting mitred bishops and abbots. To the King—