 | John Wickham Legg - 1900 - 268 pages
...Altar, and laying His Hand upon the Evangelists, took the Oath following : The Things which I have here before promised, I will perform and keep. So help Me God, and the Contents of this Book. And then kissed the Book. APPENDIX II. EXTRACTS FROM COUNCIL REGISTER, WILLIAM... | |
 | Leopold George Wickham Legg - 1901 - 574 pages
...ye pmnises ; and laying his Hand upo» ye Holy Gospels, shall say, King. The things, a/* / have here before promised, I will perform and keep : so help me God, and y Contents of this Book. ^ Then ye King kisseth ye Book ; w** was when Charles II. was crown'd, ye... | |
 | Thomas Francis Moran - 1903 - 400 pages
...says Ewald, " the Queen laying her hand upon the Holy Gospels, said: 'The things which I have here before promised I will perform and keep : so help me God ; ' and then her Majesty kissed the book." The chair used at the coronation of Queen Victoria has an interesting... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1921 - 856 pages
...on the cushion placed on the steps, laying her right hand on a great Bible opened at the Gospels. ' The things which I have before promised I will perform and keep ; so help me, God,' so 'she swore. The Bishops dividing the spoil after the ceremony, this Bible fell to the lot of the... | |
 | Sir Henry William Lucy - 1922 - 370 pages
...on the cushion placed on the steps, laying her right hand on a great Bible opened at the Gospels. " The things which I have before promised I will perform and keep; so help me, God," so she swore. The Bishops dividing the spoil after the ceremony, this Bible fell to the lot of the... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1924 - 198 pages
...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. One of the principal bulwarks of our liberty, is the certain and definite limitation... | |
 | 1820 - 714 pages
...King or Queen, laying hisor 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. When the Sovereign is thus acknowledged and admitted to his office, as it becomes... | |
 | 1868 - 802 pages
...Then His Majesty, laying his right hand upon the Holy Gospel, said : " The things which I have here before promised I will perform and keep. So help me God." And His Majesty kissed the Book and subscribed the said Oaths. C. CAHTUAB. May y" 30th, 1823. Memorandum... | |
 | 1889 - 382 pages
...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. [3 Ibid. , Burns, 662 ; Encyclopedia Britannica, V, Oaths.] (3) The municipal... | |
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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 (12). 
