Peter Parley's visit to London - Tim And Angi

VISIT TO LONDON. 73
" An ingot of gold, a pound in weight,
was then handed by
the Treasurer of the
Household to the Lord Great Chamberlain,
by whom it was placed in the hands of the
Queen, who delivered it to the Archbishop,
by whom it was put into the oblation basin,
and set upon the altar.
" The Archbishop then said the following
prayer,
the Queen remaining kneeling before
the altar:
" '
O Grod, who dwellest in the high and
holy place,
humble spirit,
with them also who are of an
look down mercifully upon
this
thy servant Victoria our Queen, here humbling
herself before Thee at thy footstool, and
graciously receive these oblations, which, in