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Then, the then Leader of the House having informed the House on 5th June last that Her Majesty had, by Letters Patent, appointed Michael Addison John Wheeler-Booth, Esquire, to the Office of Clerk of the Parliaments, in the place of Sir John Christopher Sainty, KCB, the Letters Patent were read. The said Michael Addison John Wheeler-Booth, Esquire, made the prescribed declaration (which declaration is set down in the Roll among the oaths of the great officers) in terms as follows:
I, Michael Addison John Wheeler-Booth, do declare that I will be true and faithful and troth I will bear to our Sovereign Lady the Queen and to Her Heirs and Successors. I will nothing know that shall be prejudicial to Her Highness Her Crown Estate and Dignity Royal, but that I will resist it to my power and with all speed I will advertise Her Grace thereof, or at the least some of Her Counsel in such wise as the same may come to Her knowledge. I will also well and truly serve Her Highness in the Office of Clerk of Her Parliaments making true Entries and Records of the things done and passed in the same. I will keep secret all such matters as shall be treated in Her said Parliaments and not disclose the same
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before they shall be published, but to such as it ought to be disclosed unto, and generally I will well and truly do and execute all things belonging to me to be done appertaining to the Office of Clerk of the Parliaments.
§ After which he took his seat at the Table.