QUEEN VICTORIA'S CORONATION OATH.
THE official oath signed and subscribed to by the queen on her coronation was as follows (according to Florence Hayward, in the Century for June):— Archbishop (of Canterbury)—Madam, is your majesty willing to take the oath? Archbishop—Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the people of this United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the dominions thereto belonging according to the statutes in parliament agreed on and the respective laws and customs of the same? The Queen—I solemnly promise so to do. Archbishop—Will you to your power cause law and justice in mercy to be executed in all your judgments? Archbishop—Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by law? And will you maintain and preserve inviolably the settlement of the United Church of England and Ireland, and the doctrine, worship, discipline, and government thereof, as by law established within England and Ireland and the territories thereunto belonging? And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of England and Ireland and to the churches there committed to their charge all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain to them or any of them? The Queen—All this I promise to do. The things which I have here before promised I will perform and keep. So help me God.