The Coronation Banquet.
AT WHICH THE KINO'S CHAMPION
SHOUTS DEFIANCE.
The Coronation is followed by a great State Banquet in Westminster Hall. It is during this banquet that the hereditary King's Champion rides into the Hall, fully caparisoned, and ap. proaching the end of the King's table, shouts : "This is our Sovereign Lord, Edward VII. ! If any dispute liis title, there is my gage, and 1 am prepared to do him battle." Needless to say, no one ventures to accept the challenge, though it is said that when the ceremony was performed at the Coronation of George I. someone offered to. A Mr. Taylor, writing in 1820 of the quaint proceeding of the Champion's challenge, says : " The Lord Mayor of S'erivelsby is particularly distinguished by his right to perform the noble and splendid service of King's Champion ; the most perfect, perhaps, and most striking relique of feudalism that has come down to us from the ages of chivalry.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 7190, 25 June 1902, Page 7 (Supplement)
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