05-18-2009, 04:09 PM
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JAMES THE SECOND, by the Grace of God of Hanover and Varennes King, Defender of the Faith, and of the Church of Hanover Supreme Governor, unto all Our most loving, faithful, and obedient subjects, Greeting.
THE CROWN is a grave and heavy weight, and the Throne an uneasy seat, for in truth do they bear the marks of those great men who have gone before: they embody the greatness and might of the Realm: they carry with them the sacred honour of Hanover, jealously guarded by her Kings. A wise ruler prostrates himself before the commonweal, without enslaving himself to whim and caprice; preserves and protects the state, yet never perpetuates its evils; upholds the law as he would a thing holy, but judges always with mercy. No man takes up the office of a King lightly and carelessly. Rather he must do so with the noble and becoming severity of one who accepts willingly a great burden, for the betterment of all.
IT IS THEREFORE with trembling that We have placed upon Our own head that weighty Crown, left unto Us by Our most beloved and honoured predecessor, the Most Serene and Most Potent Prince, Alexander the First, the third Sovereign to guide Our Realm, whose Reign shall ever be remembered as glorious. Casting aside however any fear or timidity, We do now for Our posterity solemnly signify, proclaim, and declare, that We are in all Law and Right become the King of these Realms; not doubting but that all Our true and faithful subjects will so accept, take Us, and obey Us, and in doing so shall find Us their benign and gracious Sovereign Lord. And We do beseech the Almighty God that He should graciously send down upon Us His divine wisdom and clemency, knowing that We are unto Him but an unworthy servant, charged to execute faithfully the will of his Master.
THE CROWN is a grave and heavy weight, and the Throne an uneasy seat, for in truth do they bear the marks of those great men who have gone before: they embody the greatness and might of the Realm: they carry with them the sacred honour of Hanover, jealously guarded by her Kings. A wise ruler prostrates himself before the commonweal, without enslaving himself to whim and caprice; preserves and protects the state, yet never perpetuates its evils; upholds the law as he would a thing holy, but judges always with mercy. No man takes up the office of a King lightly and carelessly. Rather he must do so with the noble and becoming severity of one who accepts willingly a great burden, for the betterment of all.
IT IS THEREFORE with trembling that We have placed upon Our own head that weighty Crown, left unto Us by Our most beloved and honoured predecessor, the Most Serene and Most Potent Prince, Alexander the First, the third Sovereign to guide Our Realm, whose Reign shall ever be remembered as glorious. Casting aside however any fear or timidity, We do now for Our posterity solemnly signify, proclaim, and declare, that We are in all Law and Right become the King of these Realms; not doubting but that all Our true and faithful subjects will so accept, take Us, and obey Us, and in doing so shall find Us their benign and gracious Sovereign Lord. And We do beseech the Almighty God that He should graciously send down upon Us His divine wisdom and clemency, knowing that We are unto Him but an unworthy servant, charged to execute faithfully the will of his Master.
Given at Our Court of Marchmain Palace, the Fifteenth Day of May,
in the Year of Our Lord Two-thousand and Nine,
in the First Year of Our Reign.
GOD SAVE THE KING!
in the Year of Our Lord Two-thousand and Nine,
in the First Year of Our Reign.
GOD SAVE THE KING!