THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22,, 1936..
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and
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The
Hongkong Telegraph
MAY BE PURCHASED
AT
SELFRIDGE'S
How Edward VII Took. The Declaration of Protestantism
Journalist Recalls Scene when old form of
C
Declaration was used for Last Time.
By
MICHAEL MacDONAGH
Author of "The Pageant of Parliament**
Consort, Queen Alexandra, by his. side. The Throne was surrounded by heralds and pursuivants, officers of the Royal Household, and leading Ministers of the Government who, were peers.
In
Out of this gorgeous group emerged I Was present as a journalist at the Lord Chancellor, distinguished by that históric scene in the House the full-bottomed wig he wore of Lords, 38 years ago, when the addition to his peer's robes, and bend- Declaration against the Mass anding his right knee on the upper step the Invocation of Saints was made of the Throne, presented the King by the Sovereign to Parliament for with one of two coples of the De the last time, and when King Edward VII, who made it, uttered with such claration, retaining the other him- manifest reluctance the words which, as he deeply felt, gave great offence to the millions of his Catholic sub- jects.
s
Eclí.
Then, rising to his feet, the Lord Chancellor, began to read, and the King repeated the words after him from his own copy of the Declara- tion.
The Bill of Rights passed by Parlia- ment in 1600, after the election of King William and Queen Mary
His Majesty looked dissatisfied, and julat sharers of the Throne, following as it mingled with the voice of the his voice was so low and indistinct the flight of James 11, prescribed that the Declaration should be made and Lord Chancellor, that the words of subscribed to by cach new Sovereign the Declaration were for the most at the opening of Parliament or at the part unheard, and, indeed, to many Coronation, which ever should first (including some of my colleagues in happen after Accession. The terms the Reporters' Gallery) the whole of the Declaration were as follows:
proceeding was unintelligible.
in
"Superstitions and Idolatrous"
A conspicuous figure at the Throne was the late Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal, the leading Catholic luyman Chamber with a fixed stare during of the land. He looked down the the Declaration.
I, A. H., de solemnly and sincerely the presence of God profess; testity, and acciare that I do beneve that in the Sacrament of the Lore's The Lord Chancellor next gave the Supper there is not ay King scarlet-bound copy of the substantiation of the Elements 01 New Testament, which His Majesty Breza ong Wine into the Loay ina kissed. Then a pen and ink-bottle Blood of Christ at or alter the conse-
were produced and the King signed eration thereof by any person what the Declaration-not his own copy, I soever. And that the invocation or noticed, but the copy read by the Adoration of the Virgin Mary, or any Lord Chancellor, which the noble other saint, and the Sacrifice of the lord, again kneeling, held with both Mass, as they are now used in the hands while His Majesty oflixed his Church of Rome, ure superstitious signature. and iolatrous. And I do solemnly in the presence of God profess, testify und declare that I do make this De- claration and every part thereof in the plain and ordinary sense of the
A new form of the Declaration was Words read unto me as they
agreed to by Parliament in June, commonly understood by English 1010-the voting in the House of Protestants, without
Evasion,
Comuвons being 383 for, 42 against Equivocation, or Mental Reservation and this was made for the first time whatever, and without any dispensu-by King George V on Accession. It tion alrend
already granted to me for this is in these terms.
nny
purpose by the Pope, or any other authority or person whatsoever, or without any hope of any such dis- pensation from any person or autho- rity whatsoever, or without thinking. that I am or can be acquitted before Ged or man, or absolved of this Dechration or ony part thereof, although the Pope, or any
other
person or persons, or power whatso- ever, should dispense with or cancel the same, or declare that it was null and void from the beginning.
The Declaration was, in fact, the oath provided in the earlier Test Act "for disabling papists from sitting in, either House of Parliament,"
Declaration the New King Will Make
I do solemnly and sincerely, in the presence of God, profess, testify, and declare that I am a faithful member of the Protestant Reform- ed Church as by law established in England, and I will, according to the true intent of the enactments which secure the Protestant Suc- cession to the Throne of my realm. uphold and maintain the sald enactments to the best of my powers recording to law,
It will be made by King George VI when he opens his first session of Parliament.
I
There was no specifle statute debar- OUTLOOK FOR TRADE
ring Catholics from becoming Mem- bers of Parliament, but this oath.just as effectively closed the doors of Legislature to them. In the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829, a new oath was provided for Catholic Members. Daniel O'Connell
Frustrated
"WITH CHINA
Unable To Pay Cash
An optimistic opinion regarding trade with China was expressed by
Frederick Lelth-Ross, Sir
chief Daniel O'Connell, whose election economic adviser to the Government, for Clare in 1828 compelled the recently in an address to the Royal
Government to carry Emancipation, Empire Soclely on his recent financial was not permitted to take the new and economic mission to the oath, on the ground that the Act was
not restrespective-a plece of vindic-East.
tive meanness due, it was said, to the
King, George IV and O'Connell was
For
He said that, considering her size
thus baulked of his ambliton of being and huge population, China was
the first Catholic to take his sent in reasonably tranquil,
the House of Commons, O'Connell had to be re-elected for Clerc.
He thought that manufacturers should do all they could to malatain Meanwhile, the Earl of Surrey, son their position there. A prosperous and heir of the Duke of Norfolk, was China was the largest undeveloped returned for the pocket borough
Of
Horsham and thus gained the dis market in the world for manufactured tinction of being the first Catholle goods.
M.P.
What China particularly needed,
On February 14, 1901, the day that and what we could supply, were rail- King Edward VII opened his first way material; engineering supplies, Parliament, the House of Lords pre-power plant, &c., for her Internal sented a brilliant spectacle. The
ceremony is the most ancient and development. She could not afford splendid associated with the Sover-10 buy for cash, and to obtain capital eignty, and as Queen Victoria had must take the necessary steps to allowed to full into abeyance on improve her credit. account of her old age, its revival by In the past, said Sir Frederick, a King Edward was an event of nation-number of loans had been raised, al Interest.
especially for rallways, on which The peers were in their robes of Government had settled a number defaults had occurred. The present scarlet and ermine, the galleries were of those defaults on a reasonable Occupied by the pecresses wearing basis and in other cases had put far- their coroncis or tiaras, but being in ward proposals which he hoped mourning for Queen Victoria their
ostrich feathers were black. At the would lead to settlements before long. Bar were assembled the Commons, headed by the Speaker, having on his right Balfour, Prime Minister, and on his left Campbell-Bannerman, leader of the Opposition.
It was the largest assembly that
ever was known of the three Estates
LONDON GAZETTE”
TO BE REDRESSED
of the Realm--the Lords, Spiritual Typographical Reform
and Temporal, and the Commons.
་་
For it was a revival of the ceremonial Sir William Codling, Controller of opening of Parliament by the the Station-ry: Omee, speaking at a Sovereign in person, which
Queen
een luncheon at the Peinting Trades Ex- Victoria, on account of her age, had bibition, stated that early in the new allowed to fall in abeyance. More Year Hansard and the London over, for the first time in history the Gazette would follow the example Queen Consort was to be seen on the of certain newspapers who had throne in equal State with the King, recently redressed in new type, Hitherto the Queen Consort sat in . Mr. Crowlesmith, President of the low chair at the foot of the throne.)
In the Reporters' Gallery were 20 industry in this country to-day was ¡Exhibition, said that the printing journalists, the only representatives run by craflemen rather than by of the general public. I was there workers in the ordinary sense. for The Times.
"King's Voice Low
and Indistinct
The King, arrayed in his Imperial Robes; sot on the 'Throne, with his
The prevention of accidents and the cultivation of health-saving: appli- thees: In the factory were to-day the the Government insoactor but of primary considerations:et not only everyone associated with the industry.
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