page_title: Oath of Allegiance (United Kingdom)
section_title: To George IV
hierarchical_section_title: Oath of Allegiance (United Kingdom) / Historical oaths / To George IV
caption_attribution_description: English: King George IV when Prince Regent (1762-1830), facing left in the red uniform of a Field-Marshal, wearing the badge of the Order of the Golden Fleece, the breast stars of the Order of the Garter, the Saint Esprit, the Black Eagle and St. Andrew and miniature ribbons signed with monogram on the obverse 'HB.' (mid-left) and signed, dated and inscribed in full on the counter-enamel 'His R H the Prince Regent London Augst. 1816 Painted by Henry Bone R.A. Enamel painter in Ordinary to His Majesty &amp; Enl painter to the Prince Regent after Sir Thos Lawrence R A' enamel on copper rectangular with rounded corners, 76 x 60 mm.
context_page_description: The Oath of Allegiance is a promise to be loyal to the British monarch, and his or her heirs and successors, sworn by certain public servants in the United Kingdom, and also by newly naturalised subjects in citizenship ceremonies. The current standard wording of the oath of allegiance is set out in the Promissory Oaths Act 1868.
  Variants of the basic oath of allegiance are also incorporated into a number of other oaths taken by certain individuals.
context_section_description: I A.B.do sincerely promise and swear, That I will be faithful and bear true Allegiance to His Majesty King George the Fourth, and will defend him to the utmost of my Power against all Conspiracies and Attempts whatever, which shall be made against his Person, Crown or Dignity; and I will do my utmost Endeavour to disclose and make known to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, all Treasons and traitorous Conspiracies which may be formed against Him or Them: And I do faithfully promise to maintain, support, and defend, to the utmost of my Power, the Succession of the Crown which Succession, by an Act, intituled An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject, is and stands limited to the Princess Sophia, Electress of Hanover, and the Heirs of her Body, being Protestants; hereby utterly renouncing and abjuring any Obedience or Allegiance unto any other Person claiming or pretending a Right to the Crown of this Realm: And I do further declare, That it is not an Article of my Faith, and that I do renounce, reject, and abjure the Opinion, that Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope, or any other Authority of the See of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their Subjects, or by any Person whatsoever: And I do declare, That I do not believe that the Pope of Rome, or any other Foreign Prince, Prelate, Person, State, or Potentate, hath or ought to have any Temporal or Civil Jurisdiction, Power, Superiority, or Pre-eminence, directly or indirectly, within this Realm. I do swear, That I will defend to the utmost of my Power the Settlement of Property within this Realm, as established by the Laws: And I do hereby disclaim, disavow, and solemnly abjure any Intention to subvert the present Church Establishment, as settled by Law within this Realm: And I do solemnly swear, That I never will exercise any Privilege to which I am or may become entitled, to disturb or weaken the Protestant Religion or Protestant Government in the United Kingdom: And I do solemnly, in the presence of God, profess, testify, and declare That I do make this Declaration, and every Part thereof, in the plain and ordinary Sense of the Words of this Oath, without any Evasion, Equivocation, or mental Reservation whatsoever. So help me God.
caption: King George IV
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