Abstract
iat, fiat, vivat rex! With this acclamation the clergy and laity acknowledge the king presented to them at the opening of the English coronation ceremony in its fourteenth-century 150 version, that of the fourth and for practical purposes the last Latin recension. The three-fold beat of the acclamation, with the weightiest formula at the end, corresponds to the frequent if not normal form of acclamations,l which appear in the liturgy in such items as the Kyrie, whose last musical phrase is conventionally the longest, and the Laudes. The first recension of the coronation ceremony, dating from before the year 1ooo,2 includes recognition of the monarch with a similar formula near the end of the service: Et dicat omnis populus tribus vicibus cum episcopis et presbyteris Vivat rex N. [or ille] in sempiternum.3
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