Abstract
On Tuesday the fifth of June 2012, Queen Elizabeth II journeyed to St. Paul's Cathedral for a thanksgiving service celebrating her sixty years on the throne. Some 424 years earlier, on 24 November 1588 her namesake, Queen Elizabeth I, had likewise attended services at St. Paul's, to thank God for England's victory over the Spanish Armada. The royal participation in these two ceremonies differed in this crucial respect: the first Elizabeth actually composed a part of the service performed at the Cathedral in 1588, something that, Elizabeth II did not attempt last June. In addition to opening and closing prayers, the singing of psalms at Paul's Cross sermons had been introduced during Elizabeth's reign, and Rhodes's title to the hymn of thanksgiving specifies that it was 'performed at Saint Pauls crosse '. The second ballad in the Additional Manuscript confirms that there was, indeed, singing after the sermon. Keywords: England; John Henry Gurney's manuscripts; Paul's Cross; Queen Elizabeth II; Spanish Armada; St. Paul's Cathedral; thanksgiving service
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