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

turned the oats into plunder. With similar equipment, the first Brandenburg legate, Baron von Schwerin, escaped the court and, having mounted a horse, was carried to the railings, where he found a table covered with a cloth near a well. Upon it were a silver cruet and basin, and a towel. He took the basin, into which he had placed the towel, under his arm, and the cruet with water in his right hand. Returning in this manner, he brought the water for the Caesar's hands into the dining room. The order touched upon the arch-office of the steward original: "dapifer", which was the duty of Charles VII himself as the Bavarian Elector, but was now entrusted to the Palatine. For this reason, Baron von Wachtendonc rode to the kitchen, in which an entire ox, filled with birds and other wild and tame animals, had been roasting for several days. From there, he took a piece of the roast onto a silver platter, covered by another similar one, ordered it to be carried before him, and descending to the Roemer, placed it on the Caesar's table 15) The kitchen was soon destroyed and turned into plunder; a flock of butchers carried off the roasted ox with its spit.. Count Stolberg followed, who, in place of Sinzendorf, the hereditary treasurer, scattered the largesse original: "missilia". He had adorned his horse with pouches bulging with coronation coins where they usually fasten the containers for pistols, and he wanted to perform his office when the others were busy with their own. But he could not penetrate to that spot, because the crowd, having broken the railings for the sake of grabbing the oats, had already inundated everything. The sacred hunger for gold had so compelled the multitude that the Count, soon stopping his step at the court itself, found it necessary to empty the purses. Thus, safe from the riot, he returned to the court. The coronation mint, creating gold and silver coins, represented on one side the image of the laureate Emperor up to the chest, with the inscription: "Car. VII. Imp. S. A. El. Francof. d. 24 Jan. 1742." On the other side, it represented an open book inscribed with the word "Decalogus" Decalogue/Ten Commandments, above the Jewish Ark of the Covenant, with the sun shining and the added epigraph: "By union and observance of the laws." The total value of this largesse is estimated at eight thousand florins. A double-headed eagle still adorned the spot within the railings, propelling a yellow and red stream; it stood motionless until the coronation of the Empress. Furthermore, flour was scattered among the people. With all these things thus performed, the Emperor...