After  the  abdication  of  King  James    11.,  the  scukincnt  of


502  Papal  Supremacy

LastPariia-  Tlic   Parliament   which   met  on   23rd    November,

ment  of

Henry  VIII.  1 545,  at  Westminstcf,  was  prorogued  on  24th  Decem-

the  kingdom  was  sealed  by  the  Coronation  Oath  of  King  William
and  Queen  Mary,  in  the  following  solemn  words  : —

'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  preserve  unto  the  bishops  and  clergy  of  this
realm,  and  to  the  churches  committed  to  their  charge,  all  such
rights  and  privileges  as  by  law  do  or  shall  appertain  unto  them,
or  any  of  them  ? '

The  King  and  Queen  answered,  '  All  this  I  promise  to  do.'

After  this  the  King  and  Queen,  laying  his  and  her  hand  upon
the  Holy  Gospels,  shall  say, —

*  The  things  which  I  have  here  before  promised  I  will  per-
form and  keep.     So  help  me  God  !'

Then  the  King  and  Queen  shall  kiss  the  Book.
And  when  Scotland  was  united  with  England,  it  was  pro-
vided by  the  Act  6  Anne,  c.  xi.,  that  the  succeeding  sovereigns
of  England  should,  at  their  coronation,  make  oath,  '  to  main-
tain and  preserve  inviolably  the  said  settlement  of  the  Church
of  England,  and  the  doctrine,  worship,  discipline,  and  govern-
ment thereof,  as  by  law  established,  within  the  kingdoms  of
England  and  Ireland,'  &c.
