trimmed with beautiful lace. The whole effect
was one of harmonized colour and splendour.

After brief prayer, kneeling on faldstools in front of their chairs, the
King and Queen took their seats and then the Archbishop of Canterbury
turned north, south, east and west and, while the King stood, he said to
the people: "Sirs, I here present unto you King Edward, the undoubted
King of this Realm; wherefore all you who have come this day to do your
homage, are you willing to do the same?" Ringing acclamations of "God
save the King," to the sound of trumpets strongly blown, greeted this
part of the ceremony. The Bible, Patina, Chalice and Regalia were then
borne to the Altar, and the Communion service of the Church of England
proceeded with. Then followed the taking of the Coronation Oath, the
Archbishop of Canterbury first asking His Majesty if he was willing to
do so and receiving an affirmative reply. The questions and answers were
as follows, the King holding a Bible in his hands:

_Archbishop._ Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the
people of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the
Dominions thereto belonging, according to the statutes in
Parliament agreed on and the respective laws and customs of the
same?

_The King._ I solemnly promise to do so.

_Archbishop._ Will you to your power cause law and justice, in
mercy, to be executed in all your judgments?

_The King._ I will.

_Archbishop._ 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 maintain and
preserve inviolably the Settlement of the Church of England and the
doctrine, worship, discipline and government thereof as by law
established in England? And will you preserve unto the Bishops and
Clergy of England and to the Church therein committed to their
charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do, or shall
appertain to them or any of them?

_The King._ All this I promise to do.

His Majesty, when he had said these words passed to the Altar, knelt
down and with his hand on the Bible said: "The things which I have here
before promised I will perform and keep. So help me God." After signing
the Oath the King returned to his chair. A hymn, a prayer by the
Archbishop and an anthem followed. Meanwhile His Majesty, af