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

Do you wish to be a faithful tutor and defender of the holy churches and the ministers of the churches? Do you wish to govern and effectively defend the Kingdom granted to you by God according to the justice of your predecessors? Do you wish to recover, conserve, and faithfully dispense the rights of the Kingdom and Empire, and its goods that have been unjustly dispersed, for the uses of the Kingdom and Empire? Do you wish to be an equitable judge and pious defender of the poor and the rich, the widows and the orphans? Do you wish to show the due submission and faithful reverence to the most holy father in Christ and lord the Roman Pontiff 9 and to the holy Roman church? To each of these the King responded:

I do!
He added, when he had ascended to the altar and placed his fingers upon the most holy gospels resting there, the oath:
All the things stated before, as much as I shall be supported by divine help, I will faithfully fulfill, so help me God and the holy gospels of God!
The oath having been taken, the consecrator asked those standing around: Do you wish to submit yourselves to such a Prince and Ruler, to strengthen his Kingdom, to stabilize it with faith, and to obey his commands? They responded:
We do.
The King returned to the lowest step of the altar and there, humble on his knees once more, he was graced with repeated blessings from the consecrator. The holy anointing was approaching. Therefore, the legates approached the King, among whom the Brandenburg legate, Baron von Schwerin, with the help of the master and first chamberlain of the royal court, removed the King’s silken electoral robe of purple color and loosened the undergarment where it was braided. Meanwhile, the consecrator, adorned with his miter, had set aside his gloves and ring, and having washed his hands and occupied the faldstool, he took the gremiale a silk cloth placed on the lap of a Bishop while he sits during sacred rites 10 and the oil of the catechumens. Thus prepared, he greeted the King:
Peace be with you!
to which the response was made by the priests:
And with your spirit!
Then he anointed the King crosswise on the crown of the head, on the breast, between the shoulders, and between the palm and the elbow of the right arm, adding to each...

9) Charles VII also sent the Prince of Fondi, Count Mansfeld, to Rome to inform Benedict XIV, Supreme Pontiff, of his election and obedience. See BUDERUS, § 16, summary of events in the interregnum after Charles VI. Under Charles VII, up to Francis.

as the illustrious STRVVIUS added in his Corp. hist. German.
10) The gremiale is a silk cloth which is fitted to the lap of the Bishop performing sacred rites when he is seated, DU FRESNE, p. 956, Vol. III, Latin Glossary.