coronation-oath

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.) James Pringle Thomson

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 Edward Farr

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 Bede Jarrett 1907

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 Joseph Rickaby 1888

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 Joseph Rickaby 1888

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 Thomas Hodgkin 1872

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

The Eve of the French Revolution 1869

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 Jane West 1805

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 John Howie 1764

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. Tobias George Smollett 1746