Excerpt from The Dublin Review, Vol. 149: Quarterly Nos; 298, 299, July October 1911 The final section of the Egbertine Order is concerned with a pronouncement to be made by the newly crowned Iing, which may be regarded in the light of a royal harter of liberties. His words are variously described in he texts preserved to us as mandata or praeepta and possi ly they may in their origin have been of the nature of a oluntary proclamation, a gracious exercise on the first ossible occasion, of the regal powers now divinely ratified y the blessing of the Church. But whatever the form m which this edict was couched, and however clear the evi ence that it was originally a supplement to, and not a ledge or guarantee exacted before the ceremony of con cration, there can be no doubt that the three pracepta ontain the germ of the later Coronation Oath, which mbodied the new monarch's undertaking to govern justly md to respect traditional customs and liberties. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.