 | Thomas Allen - 1839 - 604 pages
...from the altar by the archbishop, and tendered to him as he knelt upon the steps, saying these words : The things which I have here before promised, I will perform and keep. So help me God. Then the king kissed the book and signed the oath. The king having thus taken his oath, returned again... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1839 - 1184 pages
...carried in the procession, and now brought to her by the Archbishop of Canterbury, said, kneeling, " The things which I have here before promised I will perform and keep. So help me God." The Queen kissed the book, and signed a transcript of the oath presented to her by the Archbishop.... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1839 - 552 pages
...and, laying his hand upon the book, saith: THIS OATH. The things which I have before promised, I shall perform, and keep : so help me God, and the contents of this book. His majesty said, " all the world might judge, " whether such doctrine, or such conclusions, as " those... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1840 - 476 pages
...promise 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."* The monarch also takes an oath to preserve the settlement of the church... | |
 | William Burder - 1841 - 624 pages
...from the Altar by the Archbishop and tendered to Him as he kneels upon the steps, saying these Words : The things which I have here before promised, I will perform and keep. So help me God. SECT. Vlll.— The Anointing. The king having thus taken His Oath, returns again to His Clnir ; and... | |
 | Jeremy Collier - 1841 - 524 pages
...his hand upon the book, saith, " The things which I have before promised, I shall perform Husband's and keep, so help me God, and the contents of this book." r&"</™ie< * have the ratllcr transcribed this oath, because both the aiiereJ i,y king and Laud were... | |
 | Richard Burn - 1842 - 816 pages
...I promise to do.' After this, laying his or her hand upon the holy gospels, he or she shall say, ' The things which I have here before promised I will perform and keep : So help me God.' And shall then kiss the book." And by the 1 W., sess. 2, c. 2, " Whereas the late king James the Second,... | |
 | John Lavicount Anderdon - 1854 - 452 pages
...hand upon the Evangelifts, took the Oath following ; ' The things which I have here before promifed, I will perform and keep. So help me God, and the contents of this Book.' And then he kifled the Book."* His zeal, however, for the Romifh Church foon prompted him to violate this pledge,... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1854 - 692 pages
...As the queen knelt on the steps of the altar, with her hand on the gospel, she said these words: " The things which I have here before promised I will perform and keep, so help me God \" Then her majesty kissed the book. Having thus taken her oath, the queen returned to her chair, and... | |
 | 1854 - 642 pages
...Answer was, " All this I promise to do." And, then, laying his Hands on the Holy Gospels, he said, " The Things which I have here before promised, I will perform and keep; so help me GOD." 62 And then he kissed the Book. Now these Words are plain and certain, and can have no doubtful meaning... | |
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