10. CORONATION OATH OF EDGAR

This writing has been copied, letter by letter, from the writing which 
Archbishop Dunstan gave our lord at Kingston on the day that he was 
consecrated as king, forbidding him to make any promise save this, which at 
the bishop's bidding he laid on Christ's altar: — 

In the name of the Holy Trinity I promise three things to the Christian 
people my subjects: first, that God's Church and all Christian people of my 
realm shall enjoy true peace; second, that I forbid to all ranks of men 
robbery and all wrongful deeds; third, that I urge and command justice and 
mercy in all judgments, so that the gracious and compassionate God who lives 
and reigns may grant us all His everlasting mercy.

                                  (Anglo-Saxon) Ibid., I, 214 f.