Gentlemen of the Privy Council 

There were twenty-seven Privy Councillors - who were not peers - in the coronation procession. Each was dressed in a blue satin silk suit consisting of doublet (jacket) and hose (breeches), with a blue cloak over.

Emily Cowper wrote that the sight of the Privy Councillors in costume would be expected;

"... to convulse the whole of Westminster Abbey with laughter".

		Sir Walter Scott remarked that: "Separately so gay a garb had an odd effect on the persons of elderly or ill-made men ... But when the whole was thrown into one general body all these discrepancies disappeared".

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