coronation-oath

• “In the meantime the king's sentiments underwent a material change; his coronation-oath would not, he said, allow him to give his royal assent to such a measure.”

  The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria

• “The administration of the coronation-oath of Scotland was a ceremony attended with much awe; the King holding up his right hand high, whilst he swore, and repeated each word with slowness after the person who read it.”

  The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.)

• “Did he break through his coronation-oath, then the pledge of loyalty made by the people was considered to be in consequence without any binding force, and his subjects were released from their obedience.”

  Mediaeval Socialism

• “And there have been many monarchs termed absolute, who yet were bound by their coronation-oath, or by some other agreement with their people, to preserve inviolate certain institutions and to maintain certain laws.”

  Moral Philosophy

• “A people can release their monarch from his coronation-oath in such portions of it as are not binding absolutely by divine law.”

  Moral Philosophy

• “Belisarius seemed to acquiesce in the proposal (though his secretary assures us that he never harboured a thought of disloyalty to his master), and received the oath of the Gothic envoys for the surrender of the city, postponing his own coronation-oath to his new subjects till he could swear it in the presence of Witigis and all his nobles, for Witigis, too, was a consenting, nay, an eager, party to the transaction.”

  Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation

• “The coronation-oath contained a clause by which the king promised to exterminate heretics.”

  The Eve of the French Revolution

• “No true Englishman could have expected, or indeed wished, that the King should purchase permission to become a state-puppet, shackled in all his movements, obliged to sanction the cruel and illegal acts of his enemies by a breach of his coronation-oath, and compelled to abandon the established church and the lives of his faithful friends to their inveterate animosity.”

  The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel

• “Laud's direction, the book of canons which he and the rest of the bishops had compiled for them about 1637, contrary to his coronation-oath taken at Edinburgh 1633.”

  Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies

• “Thus the ancient oaths of allegiance and supremacy were abrogated: the declaration of non-resistance in the act of uniformity was repealed: the new oath of allegiance was reduced to its primitive simplicity, and the coronation-oath rendered more explicit.”

  The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. From William and Mary to George II.

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