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Now England, Old England, still hold up their head, who lately by popery long time

has been led, and let the popes actors that played all their pranks be gone in all haste

or will cripple their shanks, for in heart, voice and loyalty Mary will be in the crowning

of William and Brave Queen Mary. So they got up on horseback to Rome for to ride, and God

bless great William that turnered the tide. He kicked those old mass mongers quite out of

door with a downfall forever to Babylon's whore, and now Poper is banished as all men can see

in the crowning of William and Brave Queen Mary. So that Tom Holland is a splendid broadside

ballad, published in 1689 to celebrate the coronation of William III and Mary II.

Was it by any chance written by a Protestant?

I think it possibly was. So that's in the aftermath of the glorious revolution when James

II, I'll ask Catholic King, was kicked out. The coronation oath that King Charles would be

swearing at the weekend reflects the legacy of the glorious revolution. And Tom, we think of

coronations as timeless rituals, but as this reminds us, they are in fact reflections of changing

political and religious passions. And of course, what you make of a given coronation, I suppose,

you know, that reflects who's writing the history, doesn't it?

It absolutely does. And that is something that takes us actually Dominic. Very conveniently,

you were talking about timeless coronations. So in the previous episode, we were talking about

how you can trace the order of service that is going to be used on Saturday all the way back

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