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

Saxon, Brandenburg, Palatine, and Hanoverian legates, having received the insignia from the carriers, placed them on the table there and bade farewell to the Emperor. The Nuremberg envoys enclosed the insignia in chests 18) The people of Aachen also wish to assert for themselves the custody of these insignia, and therefore again on Feb. 24, 1742, at Frankfurt: "Instrument of the protest filed by the free imperial city of Aachen against the city of Nuremberg regarding the custody of the Imperial Regalia," while the Nuremberg delegation issued: "Excerpts of the so-rubricated thorough execution of the right of the holy Empire's city of Nuremberg, by the commission of the most august Emperor and Empire, to the custody of the Imperial Regalia, which they have held quietly for several centuries, and the consequent counter-protest, which was set against the recent Aachen protest and claims on the mentioned insignia in the year 1742." and carried them back into their custody after having enjoyed the power of venerating the Caesar's hand with a kiss. This is the end of the day sacred to the coronation of Charles VII and joined with the supreme splendor of the arch-offices. Yet the solemnities did not cease with the day; the night itself still seemed to imitate it, for the houses of the Electors of Mainz and Cologne, of the electoral legates, and of the Most Christian original: "chriſtianiſſimi" and Catholic Kings, of the papal nuncio, of the abbots of Fulda and Kempten, of the Prince of Thurn and Taxis, of the Count of Solms, and of others shone with festive fires, ingenious games, and votive inscriptions, so that the moon throughout the night and many signs of the heavens could be believed to be dimmed.

Formerly, our Emperors were crowned in Germany, in the Kingdom of Arles, in the Kingdom of Lombardy, and in Rome, sometimes also in the patrician circle. Today, no other inauguration of theirs remains except the German one, which is of necessity and to the hastening of which recently created Emperors are accustomed to be bound in their Capitulations. But the coronation of the Empresses is not of necessity...