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Coronation oath. At the public ceremony of crowning a sovereign of this kingdom in acknowledgment of his right to govern the kingdom, the sovereign swears to observe the laws, customs, and privileges of the kingdom, and to maintain the Protestant reformed religion. The exact form of the oath was prescribed by 1 w. & M. s. 2, c. 2, but was altered in 1910: see BILL OF RIGHTS.