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A85811	The book of oaths, and the severall forms thereof, both antient and modern. Faithfully collected out of sundry authentike books and records, not heretofore extant, compiled in one volume. Very useful for all persons whatsoever, especially those that undertake any office of magistracie or publique imployment in the Common-wealth. Whereunto is added a perfect table.	Garnet, Richard, S.J., attributed name.	1649 (1649)	Wing G264; Thomason E1129_1; ESTC R202149	108,262	410

they shall not be found contrary to our Religion Catholique Greatnesse and Majestie Royall nor to the Stat●tes and Ordinances of our two Orders of the blessed Holie Ghost and of Saint Mich●el In witnesse whereof wee have Signed this present with our owne Hand and caused the same to be sealed with our Privie Seale at Paris the last day of February Anno 1585. Henry Prilart The Oath of a Knight of the Garter at his first admission as it was used in the time of King P. and Queene Mary YOu being chosen to be one of the Honourable Companions of the most Honourable Order of the Garter shall promise and by those holy Evange ifts by you manifestly touched sweare truly and faithfully to observe and keepe all the Statutes of the said Order and every Article in the same contained for so much as to you pertaines and belongs And further That you shall help to defend and maintanine so much as in you lieth the Rights and Liberties of the Colledge of our blessed Ladie and Saint George the Martyr wherein the Honourable Order of the Ga●ter shall be founded The Oath ministred to them of the Kings Chamber by the Lord Chamberlaine in the time of King H. 8. Ia. B. sweare by the holy Evangelist That I faith and truth shall beare unto our Soveraigne Lord Henry 8 King of England and of France and Lord of Ireland and unto the Quene our Soveraigne Ladie his wife and to their issue and in and upon the Office of C. D. I shall duly and truly await and attend unto which at this time I am admitted and received I shall not know any Treason or thing prejudiciall compassed attempted or imagined against our Soveraigne Lord or Soveraigne Ladie or their Issue or any of them but I shall incontinent upon the said knowledge discover it unto our Lord Chamberlaine or unto his Deputie if he have any or in their absence to one of their Ushers in the said Chamber I shall not discover any secrets or things that may happen to come to mine eares that shall touch the Kings Councell or the honour of his Chamber And I shall be obedient unto my said Lord Chamberlaine and unto his said Deputie if he have any and unto the said Ushers and their Commandments diligently faithfully observe and keepe to my power I shall eschiew all manner of Riots making of Bandies Quarrels or Debate either within the said Chamber or without but I shall forbid and let all such inconveniences as far forth as I may And also let the said Officers or one of them have knowledge thereof Also I shall not depart out of the Kings Court without License appointed and had of my said Lord Chamberlaine or of his Deputie if he have any Which Premisses and every of them with all other Commandments to be given on the behalfe of our said Soveraigne Lord by my said Lord Chamberlaine or his said Deputie if he have any or any of the said Ushers I shall faithfully observe obey and keep to the uttermost of my power So help me God and his Saints The Oath ministred to the Clerke of the Councell to Prince Henry Sonne to King James YOu shall sweare That well and truly you shall serve the High and Mighty Prince ●enry Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwall and Earle of Chester in the Office and Clerks of his Councell and matters committed to you or treated of by his Councell to be kept secret you shall faithfully keep And you shall not know nor understand nor suffer any thing tending to the hurt or dis●heriting of his Highnesse be decreased by any meanes so far forth as ye may lett it and if ye may not let it ye shall make it clearely and expresly known to his Highnesse And that ye shall do and procure and purchase his Highnesse profit in all that ye reasonably may As God you help Perused and examined by Mr. Stevens the Princes Attorney The Oath to be ministred to any of King James his Servants in ordinary or extraordinary YOu shall sweare Faithfully and truly to serve our Soveraigne Lord the King James of Great Bri●taine France and Ireland his Heires and Successore You shall serve him in the roome and place of N. N. in ordinary You shall know nothing that shall be prejudiciall to his Person his State his Crowne or Dignitie but you shall with all diligence make it knowne to the Lord Chamberlaine Vice-Chamberlaine or some other of his Majesties mest Honourable Privie Councell You shall be obedient to the Lord Chamberlaine Vice-Chamberlaine and Gentlemen-Ushers in all matters tending to his Majesties service So helpe you God and Jesus Christ The Oath ordained to be miniflred to Princesse Maries Councell when her houshold was established in the 17. yeare of King H. 8. YOu shall be true and faithfull unto the King our Soveraigne Lord King Henry 8 and unto his Heires and Successors Kings of England And ye shall be faithfull and true unto my Ladie Princesse Grace And ye shall according to your wit discretion knowledge and experience give unto her true and faithfull counsell in all things as shall be demanded of you by way of good advice and counsell Ye shall also keepe secret and conserve her said counsell without disclosing of the same to any person except he be of the same Councell And if the matter touch any of the said Councell ye shall not disclose the same unto him Ye shall not also promote nor further any matter in her said Councell for any Meed Reward Favour Affection or Displeasure And in case you shall perceive any thing to be done or attempted contrary to her Honour Estate Degree or Suretie ye shall to the uttermost of your power withstand and let the same And generally You shal do all manner of things that unto a good true and faithfull Councellor shall appertaine So help you God and the holy Contents of this Book The Oath ministred to the Treasurers of Warre for the Receipt and Issues of the three Subsidies and three Fifteens granted by Act of Parliament in the 21. yeare of King James YOu shall sweare That you being appointed one of the Treasurers for the receiving of the three Subsidies and three Fifteenes and Tenths granted by the Temporaltie Shall not issue any part of those Monies which shall be paid unto your hands or unto the hands of any other by your appointment or consent without the speciall Warrants of those Persons which are by his Majesty appointed to be of his Councell for the Warres and in this Act nominated or of five of them at the least whereof two of them to be such as are of His Majesties Privie Councell under their Hands The Oath ministred to the Councell of Warre for the true imploying of the three Subsidies and three Fifteens granted by Act of Parliament in the 21. yeare of King James YOu shall sweare That you being one of the Councell of Warre chosen by His Majesty and nominated in

of Bedford and to the remnant of my said Lords to put the said parties to reason and naught suffer that any of the said parties by them or theirs proceed or attempt by way of feet against the Kings Peace nor helpe assist or comfort any of them hereto but let him with all her might and power and wi●hstand him and assist unto the King and my said Lord of Bedford in keeping of the Kings Peace and redressing of all such manner of proceedings by way of feet and force The Oath of a Bishop J A B Doctor in Divinity late Bishop of D. and now elected Bishop of L. do verily testifie and declare in my conscience that your Majesty is the only supreame Governour of this Realme of England and of all other your Majesties Domions and Countries as well in all Spirituall and Ecclesiasticall Causes as Temporall and that no Forreigne Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Jurisdictory power superiority preeminence or authority Ecclesiasticall or Temporall within this Realme and therefore I doe utterly renounce and forsake all forraigne Jurisdictions Powers superiorities and authorities and doe promise that from henceforth I shall and will beare true faith and allegiance to your Majesty your lawfull Heires and Successors and to my power shall assist and defend all Jurisdictions Priviledges Preeminents and Authorities granted and belonging to your Highnesse your Heires and lawfull Successors or united or annexed to the Imperiall Crowne of this your Majesties Realmes and further I acknowledge and confesse to have the said Bishop of L. and the Possessions there of your Highnesse and after the same I doe my homage presently unto your Majesty to whom and to your lawfull Heires and Successors I shall be faithfull and true So help me God and the contents of this book The Oath of a Privie Counsellor framed now in the time of King James YOu shall sweare To be a true and faithfull Servant unto the Kings Majestie and one of his Privie Councell you shall not know or understand of any manner thing to be attempted done or spoken against his Majesties Person Honour Crowne or dignity Royall but you shall let and withstand the same to the uttermost of your power and either cause it to be revealed unto his Majestie himselfe or to such of his Privie Councell as shall advertise his Highnesse of the same you shall in all things to be moved treated and debated in Councell faithfully and truly declare your minde and opinion according to your heart and conscience and shall keepe secret all matters committed and revealed unto you or that shall be treated of secretly in Councell and if any of the same Treaties or Councells shall touch any of the Councellors you shall not reveale it unto him but shall keepe the same untill such time as by the consent of his Majestie or of the Councell publication shall be made thereof You shall to your utmost beare faith and allegiance unto the Kings Majestie his Heires and lawfull Successors and shall assist and defend all Jurisdictions Preeminences and Authorities granted to his Majestie and annexed to his Crowne against all forreigne Princes Persons Prelates or Potentates c by Act of Parliament or otherwise and generally in all things you shall doe as a faithfull and true Servant and Subject ought to doe to his Majesty So helpe you God and by the holy contents of this book The Oath of the Lord Privie Seale YEE shall as farre forth as your cunning and discretion sufficeth truly justly and evenly execute and exercise the Office of Keeper of the Kings Privie Seale to you by his Highnesse committed not leaving or eschewing so to doe for affection love meede doubt or dread of any person or persons and yee shall take speciall regard that the said Privie Seale in all places where you shall direct unto may be in such substantiall wise used and safely that no other person without the Kings spec●all commandment or your assent or knowledge shall more seale or imprint any thing with the same and generally yee shall observe fulfill and doe all and every thing which to the Office of the Keeper of the Kings Privie Seale duely belongeth and appertaineth So helpe you God and by the contents of this book The Oath of a Secretary of State YOu shall sweare To be a true and faithfull Servant unto the Kings Majestie as one of the Secretaries of his Majesties Highnesse Privie Councell you shall not know or understand of any matter or thing to be attempted done or spoken against his Majesties Person Honour Crown or Dignity Royall but you shall let and withstand the same to the uttermost of your power and either doe or cause it to be revealed either to his Majesty himselfe or to his Privie Councell You shall keepe secret all matters revealed and committed unto you or that shall be secretly treated of in Councell and if any of the said Treaties or Councells shall touch any of the said Councellors you shall not reveale the same unto him but shall keepe the same untill such time as by the consent of his Majesty or of the Councell publication shal be made thereof you shall to your uttermost beare faith and allegiance unto the Kings Majesty his Heires and lawfull Successors and shall assist and defend all Jurisdictions Preeminencies and Authorities granted to his Majesty and annexed to his Crown against all forreigne Princes Persons Prelates Potentates c. by Act of Parhament or otherwise And generally in all things you shall doe as a faithfull and true Servant and Subject ought to doe to his Majesty So help you God and by the holy contents of this booke This clause above noted thus C. C. is the same which is set downe more largely in the Oath of Supremacie in the first Act of Parliament in the first yeare of Queen Elizabeth which Oath must be taken at the same time with this and therefore is not needfull to be here recited The Oath of the Lord Keeper of the Great Seale of England YE shall sweare That well and truly you shall serve our Soveraigne Lord the King and his people in the Office of the Lord Keeper of the Great Seale of England and ye shall doe right to all manner of People poore and rich after the Lawes Usages of this Realm and truly yee shall councell the King and his Councell you shall leave and keepe and you shall not know nor suffer the hurt or dis-heriting of the King or that the rights of the Crowne be decreased by any meane as farre forth as you may let it and if you may not let it you shall make it cleerly and expresly to be knowne unto the King with your true advice and counsell a●d that you shall doe and purchase the Kings profit in all that you reasonably may as God you help and by the contents of this book The Oath of the Clerke of the Signet YOu shall be true to our

this Act shal make no Warrant for any Monies to be issued which are given by this present Act but for some of those ends which are expressed in this Act And that all such Warrants as shall be made by you shal mention in them that those Momies are to bee imployed according to the true meaning of this Act and to the best of your meanes you shal imploy the same accordingly The Oath ministred to Garter King of Armes at his Creation FIrst ye shall sweare To honour and obey the Kings Highnesse as first and Soveraigne of this most noble Order and after him other Knights of the same Order namely in such things as shal belong to your Office which shall bee found reasonable And because you be taken as here to be made privie of Counsel you shall sweare Alwaies to he a man of silence true and faith full in all things here to be done and shall in no wise disclose any part thereof Ye shall sweare also That ye shal be faithfull and diligent to fulfill performe and execute all things that shal be committed to your charge and credit and diligently to enqure of all the Noble Acts of all and every the said Noble Knights of the said Order and shal certifie the Register thereof that he may put the same in perpetuall Memorie Moreover when any Knight of the said Order shal die ye shall strait upon knowledge thereof first make the Soveraigne privie thereof and after him the other Knights of the said Order to be made privie thereunto And finally ye shall sweare That ye shal trusy and faithfully use and exereise this same Office So God you help and these blessed Evangelists The Oath of a King of Arms at the time of his Coronation YE shall sweare by the Oath ye received when ye were made Herauld and by the faith ye owe to our Soveraigne Lord the King whose Armes you be●re That you shall truly keepe such things as bee comprized in those Articles following First when the King shall command you to do any Message either to Enwerour or King Prince or any other Estate of what condition or degree soever he be of either within the Realme or without you shall do it as honourable and truly as your wit reason and discretion shall serve you and as greatly to the advantage of your said Soveraigne and his Realme and true report bring againe to your foresaid Soveraigne of your Message that ye shall do as neere to the charge to you committed in word and in substance as your said reason shall attaine alwaies keeping your selfe secret for any manner of motion except it be to such persons as you are commanded to utter your Charge unto Secondly you shall do your true endeavour every day to be more cunning than other in the Office of Armes so that yee may be the better furnished to teach others under you and execute with more wisdom and eloquence such charges as your Soveraigne or any Noble man of this Realme shall 〈…〉 or give unto you by vertue of the Office which his Highnesse will erect unto you at any time not discovering in no wise such as ye are commanded to keepe close unlesse it be prejudiciall unto the King his Soveraigne Lord and to this Realme Thirdly you shall do your best endeavour to enquire of all the Noblemen and Gentlemen within your Province or Marches which should beare Coats in the Field in the Service of our Soveraigne Lord or Commissioners and them with their Issues truly to Register together with their Armes as they may truly beare with their difference due in Armes to be given and whether they hold any service of Knights Fee whereby they should do the King Service for the defence of his Realme Fourthly yee shall not be strange to teach Heraulds and Pursevants of such doubts as they shall move unto you howbeit you shall ask the Pursevants whether he have moved it and desired any of the Heraulds to instruct him therein and if he say nay ye shall limit him to one of them or else ease him your selfe and if you cannot then you shall shew it to the Constable or Marshall Also you shall keep from moneth to moneth in your Marches your Chapters to the increase of cunning in the Office of Armes and the doubts which cannot there be resolved and answered you shall move to the Constable and Marshall Fiftly ye shall observe and keep to your cunning and power all such Oathes as ye make when ye were created Herauld to the honour and worship of Nobles and great increase of learning and good living and namely in eschiewing of slanders and dis-honest places and persons reproached and to be alwaies readier to excuse than to blame any Noble Person unlesse yee be charged to speake truth by the Kings Highnesse Constable or Marshall or any Peere Judiciall Also you shall promise to Register all Acts of Honour in manner and forme as they are done as farre forth as your power and cunning can extend As God shall you help and by the holy Contents of this Booke The Oath of a Herauld at Armes at the time of his Creation FIrst ye shall sweere to be true to the most High and Mighty Prince our Soveraigne Lord the King that here is And if ye have knowledge or any imagination of Treason in Language or word that moves to the derogative or hurt of his Estate or Highnesse who God defend you shall in that case as honestly and as soone as shall be possible discover and shew to his Highnesse or to his Noble and discreet Councell and it in no wise conceale Secondly ye shall promise and sweare That yee shall be conversant and serviceable to all Gentlemen to do their commandments to the worship of Knighthood and to excuse their Worship by your good Counsell that God hath sent you ever readie to offer your selfe unto them Thirdly ye shall sweare and promise To be secret and to keep the secret of Knights Esquires Ladies and Gentlewomen as a Confessor of Armes and not to discover them in no wise except it be Treason as aforesaid Fourthly yee shall promise and sweare That if it fortune you in any Land or Countrie to go or ride and finde any Gentleman of Name and Arms that hath lost his good in Worship of Knighthood in the Kings Service or in any other place of Worship and is fallen into Povertie ye shall aid support and succour him in that you may if that he ask of you goods to his sustenance ye shall give him part of that which God hath sent you to your power and as ye may beare Fiftly yee shall sweare and promise If ye be in any place where ye heare of any debate or evill Language betweene partie and partie that is not worshipfull profitable nor victuous that ye report it not forth but to their worship and to the best Sixthly if ye be in any place where you heare debate or language dis-honest between

thereof from time to time without any concealment according to the Act made for the establishment of this Court And further shall doe every thing that of right appertaineth to your Office So helpe you God and all Saints The Oath of the Auditors of the Court of Wards and Liveries as in the Statute Anno 32. H. 8. Ca. 46. YEE shall sweare That yee shall truely serve the King in your Office and true Allowance make to everie person which shall be accomptant before you And you shall not take or receive of poore or rich any Gift or Reward in any matter or cause depending or to be discussed in the same Court but such as shall be ordinarie appertaining to your Office whereby the King shall be hurted hindred or dis-herited And yee shall doe all and every thing which shall be appertaining to your Office So helpe you God and all Saints And all Particular Auditors that shall belong to and be appointed to the said Court shall take the same Oath aforesaid before the Master of the said Court of Wards The Oath of the particular Receivers of the Court of Wards and Liveries as in the Statute Anno 32. H. 8. Ca. 46. YEE shall sweare That yee trutly shall serve the King in your Office and nothing conceale but true Accompt make of all such Revenues Rents summes of Money and other Profits wherewith yee shall be lawfully charged by reason of your Office Yee shall make no Petition or aske Allowance but such as shal be good just true and reasonable And also truely content and pay to the King all such summes of Money as shall come to your hands and yee shall doe all and everie thing and things which yee ought to doe by reason of your Office according to the forme and effect of this Act So helpe you God and all Saints The Oath of the Clerks of the Councell of the Court of Wards as in the Statute 32. H 8. Ca. 46. YEE will sweare That yee shall well and truely serve the King in your Offices of Clerks of the Councell of this Court and truely doe and Execute all and everie thing and things which yee ought to doe by reason of your Office according to the forme and effect of this Act So helpe you God and all Saints All Surveyors and Feodaries that shall be appoynted by the said Master Atturney Receiver generall and Auditor of the said Court or three or two of them whereof the Master to be one shall take a corporall Oath before the said Master according to the forme abovesaid The Oath of the Chancellour of the first Fruits and Tenths as in the Statute Anno 32. H. 8. Ca. 46. YOu shall sweare That yee well and truely serve the King in the Office of the Chancellour-ship of the first Fruits and Tenths and shall minister equall Justice to rich and poor to the best of your cunning wit and power And that yee shall diligently procure all things which may honestly and justly be to the Kings best Advantage and Profit and to the Augmentations of the Rights and Prerogatives of his Crown and truely use the Kings Seale appoynted to your Office and also endeavour your selfe to the uttermost of your power to see the King justly and truly answered yearely of all such Rents Revenues and Profits which shall or may arise grow or be due to the King in your Office and from time to time deliver with speed such as shall have to do afore you And that yee shall not take nor receive of any person any Gift or Reward in any case or matter depending before you or wherein the Kings Highnesse shall be Partie whereby any prejudice hindrance losse or dis-herison shall grow or be to the Kings Highnesse So helpe you God and all Saints The Oath of the Treasurer of the Court of first Fruits and Tenths as in the Statute Anno 32. H. 8. Ca. 45. YEE shall sweare That yee shall well and truely serve the King our Soveraigne Lord and his People in the Office of the Treasurer of this Court And yee shall reasonably and honestly procure the Kings Profits and doe right to all manner of people poore and rich in those things which touch your Office and the Kings Receipt of his Mony yee shall truely keepe dispend pay and deliver a true declaration and Accompt thereof shall make from time to time without any concealement according to this Act made for the stablishment of this Court And further shall doe every thing that of right appertaineth to your Office So helpe you God and all Saints The Oath of the Atturney of the Court of first Fruits and Tenths as in the Statute Anno 32. H. 8. Ca. 45. YEE shall sweare That yee shall well and truely serve the King as his Atturney in all Courts for and concerning any matter or cause that shall concerne or touch the Rents Revenues Profits or Hereditaments limited to the Survey and Governance of this Court and procure the King Profit thereof And that yee shall truely counsell the King and Chancellour of this Court in all things concerning the same to the best of your cunning wit and power and with all speed and diligence from time to time at the calling of the said Chancellour you shall endeavour your selfe for the hearing and determination indifferently of such matters and causes as shall depend before the said Chancellour And that yee shall not receive any Gift or reward in any matter or cause depending in the Court or elsewhere wherein the King shall be Partie whereby the Kings Majestie shall be hurted hindred or dis-inherited And further yee shall doe to your power wit and cunning all and everie thing that of right appertaineth to your Office So helpe you God and all Saints The Oath of the Auditor of the Court of first Fruits and and Tenths as in the Statute Anno 32. H. 8. Ca. 45. YEE shall sweare That yee truly shal serve the King in your Office and true Allowance make to everie person which shall be accomptant before you And you shall not take nor receive of poore nor rich any Gift or Reward in any matter or cause depending or to be discussed in the same Court but such as shall be ordinarie appertaining to your Office whereby the King shall be hurted hindred dis-herited And yee shall doe everie thing appertaining to your Office So helpe you God and all Saints The Oath of the Clerk of the Court of first Fruits and Tenths as in the Statute Anno 32. H. 8. Ca. 45. YEE shall sweare That yee shall well and truely serve the King in your Office of Clerke of the Councell of this Court and truely doe and execute all and everie thing and things which yee ought to doe by reason of your Office according to the forme and effect of this Act So helpe you God and all Saints The Oath taken for the suretie of the Succession of the Kings Highnesse by Queene Anne Anno 26. H. 8. Ca.