Miscellaneous - Queen Elizabeth II's Oath Relating to the Security of the Church of Scotland [1952-02-08]

Miscellaneous - Queen Elizabeth II's Oath Relating to the Security of the Church of Scotland [1952-02-08]

Accession

Church of Scotland

Record of Queen Elizabeth II's oath relating to the security of the Church of Scotland.

Queen Elizabeth II

PC 2/701

1952-02-08

T. Onslow

I, Elizabeth the Second by the Grace of God of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas Queen, Defender of the Faith, do faithfully promise and swear that I shall inviolably maintain and preserve the Settlement of the true Protestant Religion as established by the Laws made in Scotland in prosecution of the Claim of Right and particularly by an Act intituled an Act for securing the Protestant Religion and Presbyterian Church Government and by the Acts passed in the Parliament of both Kingdoms for Union of the two Kingdoms, together with the Government, Worship, Discipline, Rights and Privileges of the Church of Scotland.

(Sgd.) Elizabeth R            So help me God.

On the Eighth day of February in the year of our Lord One thousand nine hundred and fifty-two at Her Majesty's Court at St. James's Her Majesty in Her first General Council did take and subscribe the Oath above written in the presence of the Right Honourable the Lords of the Privy Council hereafter subscribing, vizt:-

(Sgd.) Henry (Sgd.) Philip (Sgd.) Simmonds C. (Sgd.) David Maxwell Fyfe (Sgd.) James Stuart (Sgd.) Buccleuch & Queensberry
(Sgd.) Home (Sgd.) Normand (Sgd.) Reid

Document is written in an ordinary cursive hand much like the Accession Proclamation.

There were two copies of this Instrument. One was sent to the Court of Session to be recorded in the Books of Sederunt while this one was kept in the Books of the Privy Council.