CORONATION OATH and MAGNA CARTA
CORONATION OATH
The Statute is 1 Will & Mary C 6 ( Coronation Oath ) (1688) and may be found in Halsburys Statutes of England Vol 4 Constitutional law. Section 3.
Will you solemnly promise and sweare to governe the people of this kingdome of England and the dominions thereto belonging according to the Statutes in Parlyament agreed on and the laws and customs of the same?
The King or Queen shall say: I solemnly promise soe to doe.
Archbishop or bishop,
Will you to your power cause law and justice in mercy to be executed in all your judgments
King and Queene
I will
Will you to the utmost of your power maintaine the laws of God the true profession of the Gospell and the Protestant reformed religion established by law? and will you preserve to the bishops and clergy of this realme and to the churches committed to their charge all such rights and privileges as by law doe or shall appertaine unto them or any of them.
King and Queen
All this I promise to doe.
After this the King and Queen laying His and Her hand on the Holy Gospells shall say,
King and Queene
The things which I have here promised I will performe and keep,
Soe Help me God.
Then the King and Queene shall kiss the booke.
Magna Carta 1297 Statute
Clause 14: [14] A Freeman shall not be amerced for a small fault, but after the manner of the fault; and for a great fault after the greatness thereof, saving to him his contenement; and a Merchant likewise, saving to him his Merchandise; and any other’s villain than ours shall be likewise amerced, saving his wainage, if he falls into our mercy. And none of the said amerciaments shall be assessed, but by the oath of honest and lawful men of the vicinage. Earls and Barons shall not be amerced but by their Peers, and after the manner of their offence. No man of the Church shall be amerced after the quantity of his spiritual Benefice, but after his Lay-tenement, and after the quantity of his offence.
Clause 29: [29] No Freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or be disseised of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed; nor will we pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful Judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the Land. We will sell to no man, we will not deny or defer to any man either Justice or Right.