Article February 28, 1901 Issue

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The oath taken by King Edward February 14, was the "no popery oath" imposed by the Bill of Rights and the Act of Settlement of the time of William and Mary. It is as follows:—

"I, Edward, do solemnly and sincerely, and in the presence of God, profess, testify, and declare that I do believe that in the sacrament of our Lord's Supper there is not any transubstantiation of the elements of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ at or after the consecration thereof by any person whatsoever, and that the invocation or adoration of the Virgin Mary or any other saint and the sacrific of mass, as they are now used in the Church of Rome, are superstitious and idolatrous, and I do solemnly, in the presence of God, profess, testify, and declare that I do make this declaration and every part thereof in the plain and ordinary sense of the words read unto me, as they are commonly understood by English Protestants, without any evasion, equivocation, or mental reservation whatsoever, and without any dispensation already granted me for this purpose by the Pope or any other authority or person whatsoever, and without any hope of any such dispensation from any person whatsoever, and without thinking that I am or can be acquitted before God or man of any part thereof, although the Pope or any other person or persons or power whatsoever should dispense with or annul the same and declare that it was null and void from the beginning."

The King repeated the oath after the lord chancellor and kissed the scarlet-bound Bible.—London press despatch.

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