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The Coronation Oath and the Church of England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2011

C. L. Berry
Affiliation:
Member of the Church Assembly, for the diocese of Wakefield, England

Extract

The first part of the Oath ‘ministered’ by the archbishop of Canterbury at the coronation of king George V in 1910, as at previous coronations, was the question:

‘Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the People of this United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Dominions belonging thereto, according to the Statutes in Parliament agreed upon, and the respective Laws and Customs of the same ?’

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1960

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