The coronation of Richard I of England

Roger De Hoveden (1174 - 1201), The Annals vol.2., From AD 1180 To AD 1201 (pp. 117 - 120)

translated by Henry T. Riley, London, 1853

First came the bishops, abbots, and large numbers of the clergy, wearing silken hoods, preceded by the cross, taper-bearers, censers, and holy water, as far as the door of the king's inner chamber ; where they received the …