 | John Watkins - 1832 - 800 pages
...went bareheaded to the Altar, where, kneeling and laying his hand upon the Holy Gospels, he said, " The things which I have here before promised, I will perform and keep; so help me, God." Hereupon the King kissed the book, and signed the oath ; after which he put on his cap of crimson velvet,... | |
 | Arthur Philip Perceval - 1833 - 56 pages
...I promise to do. After this the Prime Minister " laying his hand upon the Holy Gospels shall say, ' The things " which I have here before promised I will perform and keep—So " help me God,' " and then shall kiss the book. PRIME MINISTER LEGISLATES— " I bring in... | |
 | 1834 - 764 pages
...Grgat Britain — " All this I promise to do — (and having laid Jiis hand upon the Holy Gospels], " The things which I have here before promised, I will perform and keep. So help me God" — (and his Majetty kissed the book.) Now, after this solemn compact, thus made between the Protestant King... | |
 | William Allen - 1834 - 552 pages
...to do." After this, they laying each of them their hands upon the book of the gospel, said, " These things which I have here before promised, I will perform and keep. So help me God." Under these punctual and nice questions was more hidden than some would think. For the king having... | |
 | Thomas Edlyne Tomlins - 1835 - 862 pages
...promise to do. After this the King or Queen, laying his or her hand upon the Holy Gospels, shall say : W 1 ! then shall kiss the book." It is also required, both by the Bill of Rights, 1 W. fy M. ft. 2. c. 2.... | |
 | Thomas Stephen - 1835 - 810 pages
...promise to do. After this the king or queen, laying his or her hand on the holy gospels si/all say : The things which I have here before promised I will perform and keep : 80 HELP ME GOD, and then shall kiss the book. At his coronation the king does not swear to protect... | |
 | Robert Gordon (of London.) - 1836 - 72 pages
...I will. " After this, the King or Queen, laying his or her hand on the Holy Gospels, shall say, — The things which I have here before promised, I will perform and keep : so help me God ! and then shall kiss the book." The question to which the king's coronation oath gives birth is, what is... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1836 - 694 pages
...to do."—After this tlic king or queen laying his or her hand upon the holy gospels, shall say, " The things which I have here before promised I will perform and keep: so help me God:" and then shall kiss the book (4). This is the form of the coronation oath, as it is now prescribed by our... | |
 | Calvin Colton - 1836 - 372 pages
...king approaches and kneels at the altar, lays his hand upon the Gospels in the open Bible, and says, " The things which I have here before promised, I will perform and keep. So help me God;" and then kisses the book and signs the oath. Next the Anointing, beginning with the anthem — " Veni,... | |
 | 1836 - 814 pages
...to do. After this the king or queen, laying his or her hand upon the holy gospels, shall say — " The things which I have here before promised I will perform and keep, so help me God," and then shall kiss the book. How can " the appropriation clause" stand for a moment in presence of such... | |
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... of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them?" — King or queen, 
