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From Source Book of English History, Edited by Elizabeth Kimball Kendall; The MacMillan Company; New York; 1900; p. 30.


30

YEAR 979 A. D.

By ETHEL-
RED THE
UNREADY
(†1016).
This oath was
taken at the
bidding of
Dunstan.
No. 11 shows
how little it
was kept.
Coronation Oath of Ethelred II1

In the name of the Holy Trinity, three things do I promise to this Christian people, my subjects; first, that I will hold God's church and all the Christian people of my realm in true peace; second, that I will forbid all rapine and injustice to men of all conditions; third, that I promise and enjoin justice and mercy in all judgments, in order that a just and merciful God may give us all His eternal favor, who liveth and reigneth.


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NOTES

1.  Reliquiæ Antiquæ, II, 194 (cited in English translation by Kemble, Saxons in England, London, 1849, II, 36).





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