That night at the restaurant, the head waiter ( John Le Mesurier ) cannot find Palfrey's booking at first ; he does finally locate it under a slightly different name, but still refuses to seat them, as they are late.

Palfrey's brothers each received lots of sixteen Negroes, and for bookkeeping purposes it was agreed that all lots were to be valued at $6,666.66.

Despite his apprehensions about his personal safety, Palfrey's reception in New Orleans was more than cordial.

Once the question of emancipation was settled to Palfrey's satisfaction, he faced a real problem in placing the freedmen in suitable homes as servants.

This group had been Palfrey's greatest worry since Anna was in bad health, and her children were too young to work for their keep.

Delauney had found out that Potter was Palfrey's guest at the tennis club and got the story out of him.

Palfrey's work on the effect of Internet usage on democratic practice was cited as influential to the dissidents in Iran responsible for the Green Revolution.

Mrs. Child, who had once apologized for sending editor Palfrey a book on slavery, now confided that she had helped one of Henry Palfrey's slaves escape to Canada some years before, but asked him not to advertise the fact in Louisiana.

The slaves appeared to be in good health and at work under John Palfrey's overseer.

Palfrey's autobiography contains a melodramatic account of two perilous days spent among the planters of Attakapas, `` many of whom were coarse & passionate people, much excited by what they heard of my plans ''.

Not all of Palfrey's slaves were aboard the Bashaw.

Two of these were included in Palfrey's lot.

When Raymond Delauney ( Terry-Thomas ), a casual acquaintance of Palfrey's, arrives and sees April, he invites them to his table, where he proceeds to try to seduce April and cast Palfrey in a bad light at every opportunity.

* Irene Handl as Mrs. Stringer, Palfrey's landlady

A coronation is a ceremony marking the formal investiture of a monarch and / or their consort with regal power, usually involving the placement of a crown upon their head and the presentation of other items of regalia.

The overwhelmingly majority Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church has no ceremony of enthronement, although when a bishop is ordained in a church of the diocese he is to head, the principal consecrator invites him, after his investiture with mitre and crozier, to be seated on the cathedra of the church ; if the ordination takes place elsewhere, the principal consecrator invites him merely to take first place among the concelebrating bishops.

In spite of this, he went to Italy in 1132 in the train of the king, and his services there were rewarded in 1134 by the investiture of the Northern March, which was again without a ruler.

A letter of Leo IV shows that Alfred was made a " consul "; a misinterpretation of this investiture, deliberate or accidental, could explain later confusion.

Al-Idirisi ( 1100-1165 / 1166 ) testifies that until as late as the 12th century, a contract of investiture for every Hindu Shahi king was performed at Kabul and that here he was obliged to agree to certain ancient conditions which completed the contract.

Al-Idirisi testifies that until as late as the 12th century, a contract of investiture for every Shahi king was performed at Kabul and that here he was obliged to agree to certain ancient conditions which completed the contract.

These included celibacy of the clergy, end of simony and autonomy of the Church from secular leaders ( lack of autonomy was known as lay investiture ).

A compromise was reached in Worms in 1122, by which the emperor abandoned investiture “ by ring and staff ” to the pope, and promised to respect the freedom of elections and consecrations, but kept for himself the right to invest bishops with the temporalities of their sees “ by scepter ”.

The investiture issue was still contentious, but a compromise at Bec Abbey in 1107 was essentially identical to the Concordat of Worms.

Unlike the situation in Germany, Henry I of England used the investiture controversy was to strengthen the secular power of the king.

The belief after the Concordat was that investiture and the era of theocratic kingship was a discredited doctrine.

There the lay investiture of the clergy ( the practice of the king, especially the Holy Roman Emperor naming bishops and the pope ) was denounced as heretical.

While the other Italian states gradually recognized Sforza as the legitimate Duke of Milan, he was never able to obtain official investiture from the Holy Roman Emperor.

Between 1103 and 1107 Henry was involved in a dispute with Anselm, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Pope Paschal II in the investiture controversy, which was settled in the Concordat of London in 1107.

The conflict between popes and secular autocratic rulers such as the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV and Henry I of England, known as the question of investiture, was only resolved in 1122, by the Concordat of Worms, in which the pope decreed that clerics were to be invested by clerical leaders, and temporal rulers by lay investiture.

However, in 1161, King Géza II of Hungary signed an agreement and recognised Alexander III as the rightful pope and declared that the supreme spiritual leader was the only one who could exercise the rite of investiture.

He was sent in 1119 to deal with Henry V and delegated with powers to come to an understanding concerning the right of investiture.

Lothair was keen to keep Honorius on his side, keeping to the terms of the Concordat of Worms by not attending episcopal elections, agreeing that the investiture should only occur after the bishop ’ s consecration, and that the oath of homage be replaced with an oath of fidelity.

On his return to France, he immediately convened an assembly of French and Burgundian bishops at Vienne, where the imperial claim to a traditional lay investiture of the clergy was denounced as heretical and a sentence of excommunication was now pronounced against Henry V on the grounds that he had extorted the Privilegium from Paschal II by means of violence.

An embassy of three cardinals was sent by Calixtus II to Germany, and negotiations for a permanent settlement of the investiture struggle were begun in October 1121 at Würzburg, where it was agreed that a general truce should be proclaimed in Germany, that the Church should have free use of its possessions, and that the lands of those in rebellion should be restored.

* Royal Family ( 1969 ) is a celebrated and reverential BBC documentary made by Richard Cawston to accompany the investiture of the current Prince of Wales.

Vimala Dharma made a proclamation throughout his capital, that on the following day would be celebrated the marriage and coronation of ' Edirimanne Suriya Bandara ' - which was the name ( It was his wife's family name ) adopted by Corea for his investiture with Royal rank-and ordering that all the grandees of the kingdom should be present in gala dress.

A papal inauguration is a liturgical service of the Catholic Church within Mass celebrated in the Roman Rite but with elements of Byzantine Rite for the ecclesiastical investiture of a pope.

Having established his power in Italy, the Pope resolved to re-open negotiations with Henry V on the question of investiture.

In Burgundy and in Italy the imperial investiture would take place after the consecration ceremony, while in the Papal States the pope alone had the right of investiture, without any interference on the part of the Emperor.

Roger was to be free to appoint bishops as a right of (" lay investiture "), free to collect Church revenues and forward them to the papacy ( always a lucrative middle position ), and free to sit in judgment on ecclesiastical questions.

The investiture of the Captains Regent takes place on April 1 and October 1 in every year.

It is usually said that, at the synod which deposed Benedict V, Leo VIII conceded to the Emperor and his successors as sovereign of Italy full rights of investiture, but the genuineness of the document on which this allegation rests is more than doubtful.

In the long struggle with the Holy Roman Emperors over investiture, he zealously carried on the Hildebrandine policy in favor of papal privilege, but with only partial success.

When Henry V advanced with an army into Italy in order to be crowned, the Pope agreed to a compact in February 1111 which stipulated that the Church should surrender all the possessions and royalties it had received from the Empire and kingdom of Italy since the days of Charlemagne, while Henry V on his side should renounce lay investiture.

After 61 days of harsh imprisonment, during which Prince Robert I of Capua's Norman army was repulsed on its rescue mission, Paschal II yielded and guaranteed investiture to the Emperor.

Unlike Lord Snowdon and Captain Phillips, Sarah has never remarried and still attends some functions with her daughters, such as the investiture of The Duke of York into the Royal Victorian Order, on which occasions she is afforded the courtesy of treatment as a member of the Royal Family, although the Lord Chamberlain's Diamond Jubilee Guidelines mention the Duchess specifically as being a member of the Royal Family in her own right.

However, Ahura Mazda remained a dignified male figure, standing or on horseback which is found in Sassanian investiture.

" I realized that I was watching an ancient ceremony: the investiture of new fellows into the Royal Society, one of the most ancient scholarly organizations on the planet.

As Ninmenna, according to a Babylonian investiture ritual, she placed the golden crown on the king in the Eanna temple.

After the divorce, Sarah still attends some functions with her daughters, such as the investiture of the Duke of York into the Royal Victorian Order, on which occasions she is afforded the courtesy of treatment as a member of the Royal Family, although the Lord Chamberlain's Diamond Jubilee Guidelines mention the Duchess specifically as being a member of the Royal Family in her own right.

In the 11th and 12th centuries the immantatio, or bestowal of the mantum ( a papal vestment consisting of a very long red cope fastened with an elaborate morse ) on the newly elected pope was regarded as especially symbolic of investiture with papal authority, and was conferred with the words: " I invest thee with the Roman papacy, that thou rule over the city and the world.

Another significant event held in Hyde Park was the first Victoria Cross investiture, on 26 June 1857, when 62 men were decorated by Queen Victoria in the presence of Prince Albert and other members of the Royal Family, including their future son-in-law Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia, later Emperor Frederick III.

He received the imperial investiture from emperor Charles V on April 7, 1521.

For over a year after the settlement with Mamluks, calm settled over an-Nasir Yusuf's reign, but on December 11, 1256 he sent two envoys to the Abbasids in Baghdad seeking formal investiture from the caliph, al-Musta ' sim, for his role as " Sultan ".

Gerhard VI died in 1404, and soon afterwards war broke out between his sons and Eric of Pomerania, Margaret's successor on the throne of Denmark, who claimed South Jutland as an integral part of the Danish monarchy, a claim formally recognised by the emperor Sigismund in 1424, it was not till 1440 that the struggle ended with the investiture of Count Adolphus VIII, Gerhard VI's son, with the hereditary duchy of Schleswig by Christopher III of Denmark.

To this day the College of Cardinals selects the pope, and once Rome regained control of the election of the pope it was ready to attack the practice of nobility investiture on a broad front.

The ban on lay investiture in Dictatus Papae did not shake the loyalty of William's bishops and abbots.

Though he returned to his viceregal duties not long after, presiding over an Order of Canada investiture in December 1974, his wife assisted him on many occasions, even reading parts of the Speech from the Throne in 1976 and 1978.

Before being mysteriously assassinated, his father predicted that Dom too would be killed, on the day of his investiture as Chairman of his wealthy home planet of Widdershins.