{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coronation-oath-act-1688/section-III",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coronation-oath-act-1688/section-III.json",
  "legislation": "aep/WillandMar/1/6",
  "legislation_title": "Coronation Oath Act 1688",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coronation-oath-act-1688",
  "path": "section/III",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "III",
  "heading": "Form of Oath and Administration thereof.",
  "text": "The Arch-Bishop or Bishop shall say,\nWill You solemnely 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?\nThe King and Queene shall say,\nI solemnly Promise soe to doe.\nArch Bishop or Bishop,\nWill You to Your power cause Law and Justice in Mercy to be Executed in all Your Judgements.\nKing and Queene,\nI will.\nArch Bishop or Bishop.\nWill 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 unto the Bishops and Clergy of this Realme and to the Churches committed to their Charge all such Rights and Priviledges as by Law doe or shall appertaine unto them or any of them.\nKing and Queene.\nAll this I Promise to doe.\nAfter this the King and Queene laying His and Her Hand upon the Holy Gospells, shall say,\nKing and Queene\nThe things which I have here before promised I will performe and Keepe Soe help me God.\nThen the King and Queene shall kisse the Booke.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMar/1/6/section/III",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:26:38.249717+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}