use of their Weapons and other Feates of Warre convenient for them and at the least you shall cause the same to be done every fourteene daies in Summer once and every twenty daies in Winter You shall not permit any of your Band to take any more Victuals or other Wares within that Towne then his Wages will discharge You shall with your Band Watch and Ward for the defence of this Towne as you shall be appointed by the Marshall and Governour thereof You shall not depart out of the Towne and Marches further then the Orders of the Towne doe permit without leave of the Governour of the Towne or in his absence by his Deputie under their Writings and Seale mentioning the time of your leave to be absent and before your departure if it shall be longer then for three daies you shall present your selfe to the Treasurer or his Deputy giving notice unto them for the time licenced you for absence and at your returne you shall also give notice to the said Treasurer and Clerke of the Checque You shall also be obedient to the Governour and to the other Counsellors of this Towne and shall obey all Statutes and Ordinances of the same The Oath of every private Sauldier in Barwicke YOu shell sweare To be good and true to our Sovereigne Lady the Queene and to the Governour of this Towne for Her Maâ—esties service and truly doe as much as in you shall lye to keepe this Towne alwaies true English and in good obedience to the Governour Marshall and other Officers thereof and you shall be governed by your Captaine within any Debate or Rebellion and if you shall know any thing hut full to the state of this Towne or to any part thereof you shall forthwith disclose the same either to your Captaine or to the Governour or to one of the Courncell of the Towne You shall keepe such Armour and Weapâ—n as you are by your Captaine limited to have without wilfull spoile or selling thereof except it be to provide better You shall keepe all other Ordinances of this Towne that maâ— any waies pertaine to you to keepe The Oath of the Lord President of the Councell in the Mareheâ— of Wales YOu shall sweare To the uttermost of your power will and â—unning that you shall be true and faithfull to the Queenes Highnesse our Soveraignâ— Lady and to her Heires and Successors and that you doe utterly testifie and declare in your conscience that the Queenes Highnesse is the only supreame Governour of this Realme and of all other Her Highnesse Dominions and Countries as well in all Spirituall and Ecclesiasticall things or Causes as Temporall and that no Forraigne Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Jurisdiction Power Superiority Preeminence or Authoritie Ecclesiasticall or Spirituall within this Realme And that you doe utterly renounce and forsake all Forraigne Jurisdictions Powers Superiorities and Authorities and doe promise that from hence forth you shall beare faith and true Allegiance to the Queenes Highnesse her Heires and Successors and to your power shall assist and defend all Jurisâ—â—ctions Priviledges Preeminencies and Authorities granted or belonging to the Queenes Highnesse her Heires and Successors or united and annexed to the Imperiall Crowne of this Realme 2. You shall not know nor hear any thing that may in any wise be prejudiciall to her Highnesse or her Common-wealth peace and quiet of her Highnesse Realme but you shall with all diligence reveale and discover the same to her Highnesse or to such other person or persons of her Graces Privy Councell as you shall think meet and will soonest convey and bring it to her Highnesse 3. You shall serve her Highnesse truly and faithfully in the roome and place of one of her Graces Councell 4. You shall in all things to be moved treated and debated in any Councell faithfully and truly declare your minde and opinion according to your heart and conscience no wise forbearing so to do for any manner respect of favour meed displeasure or corruption 5. You shall faithfully and uprightly to the best of your power cause Justice to be duly and indifferently Ministred to the Queenes Majesties Subjects that shall have cause to sue for the same according to equity and to the Order of the Law Fâ—â—ally You shall be vigilant and circumspect in all your doings and proceedings touching the Queenes Maâ—esty and her Highnesse Affaires All which points and Articles before expressed with all other Articles Signed with the Queens Majesties Hand and delivered to me the Lord President of her Highnesse Councell established in these parts you shall faithfully keepe and fulfill to the uttermost of your power wit will and cunning So God you help and the contents of this Booke The Oath of the Clerke of the Parliament YOu shall be true faithfull and truth you shall beare to our Soveraigne Lord the King and to his Heires and Successors You shall nothing know that shall be prejudiciall to his Highnesse his Crowne State and Dignity Royall but that you shall resist to your power and with all speed ye shall advertise his Grace thereof at the least some of his Councell in such wise as the same may come to his knowledge Ye shall also well and truly serve his Highnesse in the Office of Clerke of his Parliament making true entry and Records of the things done and past in the same Ye shall keep secret all such matters as shal be treated in his said Parliament and not disclose the same before it shall be published but to such as they ought to be disclosed unto And generally ye shall well and truly do and execute all things belonging unto you to be done appertaining to the Office of Clerke of the Parliament as God you help c. The Oath of Allegiance I A. B. Do truly and sincerely acknowledge professe testifie and declare in my conscience before God and the world That our Soveraigne Lord King James is lawfull King of this Realme and of all other his Majesties Dominions and Countries and that the Pope neither of himselfe nor by any Authority of the Church or Sea of Rome or by any other meanes with any other hath any Power or Authority to depose the King or to dispose of any of his Majesties Kingdomes or Dominions or to authorize any Forraigne Prince to invade or annoy him or his Countries or to discharge any of his Subjects of their Allegiance and obedience to His Majesty or to give License or leave to any of them to beare Armes raise Tumults or to offer any violence or hurt to his Majesties Royall Person State or Government or to any of His Majesties Subjects within His Majesties Dominions Also I do â—weare from my heart that notwithstanding any Declaration or sentence of Excommunication or Deprivation made or granted or to be made or granted by the Pope of his Successors or by any Authoritie derived or prieâ—ended to be derived from him or his Sea against
the said King his Heires or Successors or any absolution of the said Subjects from their Obedience I will beare faith and true Allegiance to his Majesty his Heires and Successors and him and them will defend to the uttermost of my power against all conspiracies and contempts whatsoever which shall be made against his or their Persons their Crowne and Dignitie by reason or colour of any such Sentence or Declaration or otherwise and will do my best indearour to disglose and make knowne unto his Majesty his Heires and Successors all Treasons and treacher oâ—â— Conspiracies which I shall know or heare of 〈◊〉 to be against him or them And I do further sweare That I do from my heart abhorre detest and alâ—jure as impious and hereâ—â— call his damnoâ—â— Doctrine and Position this Princes waâ—â— be deprived or Excommunicated of the Pope may be deposed or murthered by their Subjects or any other whatsoever And I doe beleeve and in conscience am resolved that neither the Pope nor any person whatsoever hath power to absolve me of this Oath or any part thereof which I acknowledge by good and full Authority to be lawfully administred unto me and doe renounce all Pardons and Dispensations to the contrary and all those things I doe plainly and sincerely acknowledge and sweare according to these expresse words by me spoken and according to the plaine and common sence and understanding of the same words without any equivocation or mentall evasion or secret reservation whatsoever And I doe make this Recognition and acknowledgement heartily willingly and truly upon the true faith of a Christian So helpe me God c. The Oath of Supremacy J A. B. Doe utterly testifie and declare in my conscience that the Kings Highnesse is the only Supreame Governour of this Realme and all other his Highnesse Dominions countries as well in all Spirituall and Ecclesiasticall things or causes as Temporall And that no Forraigne Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Jurisdiction Power Superiority Preeminence or Authoritie Ecclesiasticall or Spirituall within this Realme And therefore I doe utterly renoune and forsake all Forraigne Jurisdictions Powers Superiorities and Authorities and doe promise that from henceforth I shall beare Faith and true Allegiance to the Kings Highnesse his Heires and lawfull Successors and to my power shall assist and defend all Jurisdictions Priviledges Pâ—eeminencies and Authorities granted or belonging to the Kings Highnesse his Heires and Successors or united and annexed to the Imperiall Crowne of the Realme The Oath of Franck Pledge within the City of London YEE shall sweare That yee shall be good and true to our Soveraigne Lord the King of England and to his Heires Kings and the Kings Peace yee shall keepe and see that it be kept And to all the Ministers of the City yee shall be obedient and at all times yee shall be ready to helpe the Officers of the City in doing of their Offices for resting of Mis-doers in keeping of the Kings Peace and for to follow them from Street to Street and Ward to Ward unto the time they be Arrested and brought to one of the Counters and if yee know any Congregation or Conventicles of any mis doers within the Ward yee shall doe the Aldermen to weete thereof and all other points within the Wardmoote yee shall well and truly keepe So helpe yee God and by this Booke The Oath of the Scavengers of the Ward YEe shall sweare That yee shall well and diligently over-see that the Pavements in every Ward be well and rightfully repaired and not hausted to the noyance of the Neighbours and that the Waies Streetes and Lanes be kept cleane from Dung and other Filth for the honesty of this City and that all the Chimnies Redosses and Furnaces be made or Stone for defence of Fire and if yee know any such yee shall shew it to the Alderman that he may make due redresse thereof and this yee shall not seave So helpe you God c. The Oath for Brokers in London YEE shall sweare That yee shall neither buy nor â—ell nor other for you any manner of Merchandize by fraud or collusion to your owne proper use within the Franchises of this City nor without And that yee neither make nor doe to be made any manner Bargaine betweene Forraigner and Forraigner or Forraigner and Stranger within the Franchises of this City nor without upon paine of forfeiture of one hundred pound to the Chamber of London and losing of your Office for ever Also that yee buy no manner of Merchandize of any person within the Franchises of this City nor without to no persons use that yee bring the Seller and the Buyer together making a rightfull Bargaine betweene them if you be required and that yee shall neither suffer nor counsell any other person to use Brokeage within the said City or the Franchises of the same but if he be admitted and sworne and hath found sufficient Surety to doe well and truly and keepe and observe all these Articles and Ordinances and if yee know any person so doing yee shall open it to the Mayor and Aldermen and else yee shall be deprived of your Office for ever Also yee shall be in no Liverie with any Person nor Host any manner of Stranger or Alien upon paine of losing of your Office for ever Also yee shall doe all your Bargaines that yee shall make betweene any manner of persons to be written in a Booke and that yee shall have the same Booke ready before the Mayor and Aldermen for the time being at all times when he by them shall be required to testifie the Bargaines aforesaid Also that yee shall not be dwelling harboured nor lodged with any Merchant Stranger within the Citie of London or Liberty thereof Also yee shall make no manner Bargaine of Usurie nor exchange of Usurie nor any other false Chevisance nor untrue Bargaine nor Contract nor meddle nor consent to the same in any wise no such Bargaine favour nor counsell or hide but them disclose to the Mayor and Aldermen of the same Citie for the time being and this you shall not leave So God you helpe The Oath of the Sheriffe of Londons Serjeant YEE shall sweare That yee shall well and truly serve the Sheriffe of London in your Office of Serjeantship and the Franchises of London Yee shall sweare and maintaine to your power and all manner persons that yee shall Arrest by Plaint Writ or by Fray or by any other lawfull cause yee shall bring them unto the Counter if yee be of power Also yee shall warne no person to agreewith the Creditors of their Debts but that a Plaint of such Debts be lawfully made Also yee shall wâ—rne no person on whom a Plaint or a Writ is on in the Counter and yee shall well and truly enter such Plaints as yee shall have of your Clients or any other person Also all manner of Mercements and Fines that yee
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 wiâ—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 specâ—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 aâ—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
Gentleman and Gentleman whereunto you are called as a Witnesse or required by Princes Judges or any other unlesse the Law do so compell you ye shall not open without Licence of both Parties and having license yee shall for any love dread or favour of any partie report the truth Seventhly ye shall promise and sweare To be true and secret to all Gentlewoman Widdowes or Maids and in case be that any man would do them wrong or inforce them or disherit them of livelihoods and they having not goods to pursue their Rights if they require you of supportation you shall helpe them with your goods wisdome and counsell and shew their griefes to the Prince and Judges Eightly ye shall sweare and pronounce That ye shall forsake all places dishonest of hasfardie and daily going to common Tavernes and places of debate and all manner of vice and take you to vertues to your power These Articles and all other Articles abovesaid you shall truly keep So God you helpe and by the Crosse of this Sword that belongeth to Knighthood The Oath of a Pursevant of Armes at his Creation FIrst ye shall sweare That ye shall be true to the most High Mightie and most excellent Princesse the Queens most excellent Highnesse that now is and if ye have any knowledge or heare any imagination of Treason of Language or word that should sound to the derogation or hurt of her Estate and Highnesse which God forbid ye shall in that case as hastily and as soone as is to you possible discover and shew it unto her Highnesse or to the Honourable and discreet Councell Secondly ye shall also dispose you to be lowly humbly and serviceable to all those States Universall that be Christians not lying in wait to blame ne hurt none of the said Estates in any thing that may touch their Honours Thirdly ye may dispose to be secret and sober in your Port and not to abuse in Language readie to commend and loath to blame and diligent in your service eschiewing vice and taking you to virtue and true in your reports And so to exercise whiles you be in the Office of Pursevant that your merits may cause your more preferment in the Office of Arms in time to come All such Articles and things as belong to a Pursevant of Armes to keepe you shall well and truly keepe and observe So God you help and Holidome and by the Contents of this Booke The Oath of the Knights of the Round Table in the time of King Arthur NOt to put off your Armour from your Bodie but for requisite rest in the night The search for marvellous adventures whereby to winne renowne To defend the poore and simple people in their right Not to refuse aid unto them that shall ask it in any just quarrell Not to hurt offend or play any lewd part the one with the other To fight for the protection defence and welfare of his friends Not to purchase any goods or particular profit but Honour and the Title of honestie Not to breake faith promised or sworne for any cause or occasion whatsoever To put forth and spend his life for the honour of God and his Countrie and to chuse rather to die honestly than to live shamefully The Oath which the new King of Pelonia made to the Turke in Anno 1573. Promise and sweare by the 〈◊〉 â—nighty God mercifull and â—â—â—ng the maker of Heaven and Earth and of all things that are therein by these holy Evangelists by holy Baptisme and by Christian faith That all those that I know shall be manifested to high and mighty Solomon Emperour of the Turks whose Empire God certefie I will be friend to his friends and enemie to his enemies I will be a redeemer of his Captives out of the hands of his Enemies there shâ—â— be no fraud or deceipt on my part If I shall neglect thus to doe I will be an Apostata a forsaker of the holy Commandments of the Gospell of the Christians I will say that the Gospell is false and untrue I will crosse both Alter and Priest I will slay Swine upon the Fount I will deny the holy Trinity and will worship them I will commit whoredome upon the Altar and will receive the course of the Saints even as God shall behold me from Heaven The Oath of Homage done and performed by an Arch-Bishop IF your Homage by reason of my Tenure in the Mannour of A. in the County of B. become Leidgman of life and limbe and of earthly worship and faith and troth I shall beare unto you to live and die against all manner of men as God me help and all Saints I shall be faithfull and true and faith and truth shall beare to you my Soveraigne Lord King H. and to your Heires Kings of England of life and limbe and earthly worship for to live and die against all people and diligently I shall intend unto your needs and bussnesse after my wit and power and your Counsell I shall keepe and leine and truly I shall knowledge And the service due of the Temporalties of my Arch Bishoprick B. C. the which I claime to hold of you and the which ye gave and yeeld to me And to you and your Commandments in that to me appertaineth and belongeth I shall be obeysant As God me help and all Saints The Oath Appointed by Queene Elizabeth in June 1579. to be ministred by the Lord President of Wales unto the Councell established in those parts c. YOu shall sweare That to the uttermost of your power wit and cunning you shall true and faithfully to the Queenes Highnesse our Soveraigne Ladie and to her Heires and Successors And that you do utterly testifie and declare in your conscience that the Queenes Highnesse is the onely Supreme Governour of this Realme of England and of all other her Highnesse Dominions and Countries as well in all Spirituall or Ecclesiasticall things or causes as Temporall And that no Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Jurisdiction Power Supremacy Preem nence or Authority And do promise That from henceforth you shal beare faith and true Allegiance to the Queenes Highnesse her lawfull Heires and Successors and to your power shall assist and defend all Jurisdictions Priviledges Preeminencies and Authorities granted or belonging to the Queenes Highnesse her Heires and Successors or united and annexed to the Imperiall Crowne of this Kingdome and Realme You shall not know nor have any thing that may any way be prejudiciall to her Highnesse or to her Common-wealth peace and quiet of this her Highnesse Realme but you shall with all diligence reveale and disclose the same to her Highnesse or to such other person or persons of her Graces Privie Councell as you shall thinke meet and will soonest convey it and bring it to her Highnesse knowledge You shall serve her Majestie truly and faithfully in the room and place of her Highnesse Councell You shall in all things to
such Rents Revenues Issue and Profits which shall or â—ay arise or grow in your office and from time to time deliver with speed such as shall have to doe before you And that yee shall not take or receive of any person any Gift or Reward in any cause or matter depending before you or wherein the Kings Highnesse shal 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 Office or Court of the Kings generall Surveyer Anno 33. H. 8. Ca. 39. YEE shall sweare That yee shall well truly serve the King our Soveraigne Lord and his people in the Office of Treasurer of his Highnesse Court of generall Surveyer And yee shall reasonably and honestly procure the Kings Profit and doe right to all manner of people poore and rich in those things which touch your Office and the Kings Treasure Yee shall truly keep and dispend and true declaration accompt thereof shall make from time to time without any concealment to and before such per on and persons as shall be named and appointed by the Kings Highnesse his Heires and Successors for the same And further shall doe everie thing that of right appertaineth to your Office So helpe you God and all Saints The Oath of the Kings Attourney of the Court of generall Surveyer Anno 33. H. 8. Ca. 39. YEE shall sweare That yee well truly shall serve the King in all places for or concerning any matter or cause that shall concern or touch the possessions and Hereditaments limited to the survey and governnance of this Court and procure the Kings Profit thereof And yee shall truly counsell the King and the Surveyer Treasurer of this Court in all things concerning the same to the best of your cunning wit power and with all speed and diligence from time to time at the calling of the said Surveyer and Treasurer you shall endeavour your selfe for the hearing and determination indifferently of such matters and causes as shall depend before the said Surveyer and Treasurer And that yee shall not take any gift or reward in any matter or cause depending in the same Court or elsewhere wherein the King shall be Partie whereby the Kings Majestie shall be hurted hindred or dis-inherited And further doe all and everie thing that shall appertain to your Office So helpe you God and all Saints The Oath of the Master of the Woods of the Court of generall Surveyer Anno 33. H. 8. Ca. 39. YEE shall sweare That yee well truly shall serve the King our Soveraigne Lord in the Office of Master of the Woods in this Court And that yee shall shake true sale and sales of all Wood and under-woods belonging to your Office according to the authoritie given unto you by this Act of generall Surveyer or any other Act or Acts to be made concerning the said generall Surveyers for the Kings most advantage and nothing conceal but true accompt make of all such sums of money received for the same and other Profits wherewith yee shall be lawfully charged by reason of your said Office Yee shall make no Petition nor aske any Allowance but such as shall be good just true and reasonable And yee shall doe all and every 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 Auditors of the Court of the generall Surveyor Anno 33. H. 8. Ca. 39. YEE shall sweare That yee shall well truly serve the King in your Office and 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 your ordinarie Fees And yee shall do all and everie other thing which shall appertaine to your Office So help you God and all Saints The Oath of the Receivor of the Court of the generall Surveyance An. 33. H. 8. Ca. 39. YEE shall sweare That yee shall truly serve the King in your Office and nothing conceale but true accompt make of all such Revenues Rents sums of money and other profits wherewith you shall be lawfully charged by reason of your said Office You shall make no Petition nor aske Allowance but such as shall be good just and true and reasonable and ye 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 by the contents of this Booke The Oath of the Clerke of the Court of the generall Surveyor Anno 33. H. 8. Ca 39. YEE shall sweare That yee shall well truly serve the King in your Office of Clerke of the said Court and truly doe and execute all and every thing and things which yee ought to doe by reason of your Office according to the forme and effect of the Act And yee shall also be attendant unto the said generall Survey or from time to time as they shall require you So help you God and all Saints The Oath of the Messenger of the Court of the generall Surveyor Anno 33. H. 8. Ca. 39. YOu shall sweare That ye shall well and truely serve the King in your Office of Messenger of this Court as well in speedie serving all and singular Processes to you to be delivered without fraud covin guile or deceipt As also making true and speedie Certificate to this Court of the same And that you well and truly doe and execute all and every other thing and things which yee ought to doe by reason of your said Office So helpe you God and all Saints The Oath of Supreamacie Anno 28. H. 8. Ca. 10. IT is Ordained and Enacted by Authoritie aforesaid That all and everie Ecclesiasticall Judge Ordinarie Chancellour Commissarie Officiall Vicar-Generall Mayor Bayliffe Sheriffe Under Sheriff Escheator Alderman Jurate Constable Headborough Thirdborow Bursholder and every other Lay-Officer and Minister to be made created elected or admitted within this Realme or any otheâ— the Kings Dominions of what estate order degree or condition soever he shall be from and after the said last day of July shall before he take upon him such Office make take and receive a corporall Oath upon the Evangelists before such person and persons as have or shall have authoritie to admit him That he from henceforth shall utterly renounce refuse relinquish and forsake the Bishop of Rome and his authoritie power and jurisdiction And that yee shall never consent or agree that the Bishop of Rome shall practise exercise or have any manner of authoritie jurisdiction or power within this Realme or any other the Kings Dominions but that he shall resist the same at all times to the uttermost of his power And that from henceforth he shall accept repute take the Kings Majestie to
be the onely Supreame Head in earth of the Church of England and that to his cunning wit and uttermost of his power without guile fraud or other undue meane He shall observe keep maintain and defend the whole effect and contents of all and singular Acts and Statutes made and to be made within this Realme in derogation execution and extinguishment of the Bishop of Rome and his authoritie and all other Acts and Statutes made and to be made in Reformation and coroboration of the Kings Power of Supreame Head in earth of the Church of England And this he shall doe against all manner of persons of what estate dignitie degree or condition they be and in no wise doe or attempt nor to his power suffer to be done or attempted directly or indirectly any thing or things privily or appartly to the let hindrance dammage or derogation thereof or of any part thereof by any manner of meanes or of any manner of pretence And in case any Oath be made or hath been made to him by any manner of person or persons in maintenance defence or favour of the Bishop of Rome or his authoritie jurisdiction or power yea repute the same as vaine and adnihillate So help him God and all Saints and the holy Evangelists The Oath of a Commissioner for Sewers as in the Statute Anno 23. H. 8 YEE shall sweare That you to your cunning wit and power shall truly indifferently execute the Authoritie given by this Commission of Sewers without any favour affection corruption dread or malice to be borne to any manner of person or persons and as the case shall require yee shall consent and endeavour your selfe for your part to the best of your knowledge and power to the making of such wholesome just equall and didifferent Lawes and Ordinances as shall be made and devised by the most discreet and indifferent number of your fellowes being in Commission with you for the due redresse reformation and amendment of all and everie such things as are contained specified in the said Commission And the same Lawes and Ordinances to your cunning wit and power cause to be put in due execution without favour meed dread malice or affection So God you helpe and all Saints The Oath of an Vnder-Sheriff Bayliffe of Franchies Deputies and Clerke of every Sheriffe and Vnder-Sheriff Statute Anno 27. of Queene Eliz. Ca. 12. I. A. B. Shall not use or exercise the Office of Under-Sheriffe corruptly during the time that I shall remaine there neither shall or will accept rejoyce or take by any colour meanes or device whatsoever or consent to the taking of any manner of fee or reward of any manner of person or persons for the inpannelling or returning of any Inquest Jurie or Tales in any Court of Record for the Queene or betweene partie and partie above two shillings or the value thereof or such Fees as are allowed and appointed for the same by the Lawes and Statutes of this Realme but will according to my power truly and indifferently with convenient speed impannell all Jurours and returne all such Writ or Writs touching the same as shall appartain to be done by my dutie or Office during the time that I shall remaine in the said Office So helpe me God and by the contents of this Book It is Ordained That every Under-Sheriff Bayliffe of Franchizes Deputie and Clerke of every Sheriffe Under-Sheriff and every other person and persons which shall have Authoritie or take upon him to impannell or returne any Inquest Jurie or Tales or entermedle with execution of Processe in any Court of Record untill he or they have taken the Oath of Supreamacie as it is Ordained in the first yeare of Queene Elizabeth Together with the Oath abovesaid The Oath given to the Kings Councell and Judges of his Court of Requests as it is entred in an old Book of Presidents remaining among the Records of that Court Anno 27. H. 6. Fo. 56. YOu shall be faithfull true Councellour to our Soveraigne Lord Henry by the grace of God King of England and of France and Lord of Ireland the 7 and to his Councell be diligently attendant and due and diligent attendance he shall give to the same and in every matter touching our said Soveraigne Lord his honourable suretie or profit that shall come to your knowledge or that shall be communed or treated in his Councell Yee shall to the best of your wisedome give plaine and true Councell not letting so to do for meed dread favour or affection of any person of what degree or condition soever he be the Kings Councell as long as it is Ordained to be Councell yee shall conceale and keepe secret without disclosing it to any person though he be of the same Councell if it touch him and that he may not be made privie there And if there shall come any thing to your knowledge that may be hurtfull prejudiciall or dishonourable to our said Soveraign Lord Yee shall let it to the best of your power and as soone as yee goodly may shew it to our said Soveraigne Lord or such of his Councell as yee shall think will shew it to him All which premisses and every of them yee shall well and truly keep and observe So help you God and all Saints and by his holy Evangelists by you bodily touched The Oath which was given by Henry Garnet the Jesuit to Catesby Piercy Christopher Wright and Thomas Winter and the rest of the Conspirators in the Powder Treason Anno 1605. for secresie as perseverance and constancie in the execution of their Plots YOu shall sweare By the blessed Trinitie and by the Sacrament you now purpose to receive never to disclose directly nor indirectly by word or circumstance the matter that shall be proposed to you to keep Secret nor desist from execution thereof untill the rest shall give you leave The Oath concerning the Office of a Constable in the Countrey Vide Dalton Title Warrants YOu shall sweare That you shall well truly serve our Soveraigne Lord the King in the Office of a Constable You shall see and cause his Majesties Peace to be well truly kept and preserved according to your power You shall Arrest all such persons as in your sight or presence shall ride or go Armed offensively or shall commit or make any Riot Affray or other breach of his Majesties Peace You shall doe your best endeavour upon complaint to you made to apprehend all Fellons Baretors and Rioters or persons Riotous assembled and if any such Offenders shal make resistance with force you shall leave hue and cry and shall pursue them untill they be taken You shall doe your best endeavour that the Watch in your Towne be duly kept and that hue and cryes be duly pursued according to the Statute of Winchester And that the Statutes made for the Punishment of Rogues and Vagabonds and Night walkers and such idle persons comming within your Bounds and
all and every such person or persons within your Parish either knowne commonly reported or vehemently suspected to have committed any Misdemeanour Fault Default Crime Sinne or Offence mentioned or specified within any the Articles in this Booke comprised or in the same omitted which comming to your knowledge are by Ecclesiasticall Authoritie to be reformed So helpe you God in Christ Jesus The Protestation Iâ— B. Doe in the presence of Almightie God Promise Vow and Protest to maintain and defend as farre as lawfully I may with my life power and estate the true Reform'd Protestant Religion expressed in the Doctrine of the Church of England against all Popery and Popish Innovations within this Realme contrary to the same Doctrine and according to the dutie of my Allegiance his Majesties Royall Person Honour and Estate as also the Power and Ptiviledges of Parliament the lawful Rights and Liberties of the Subâ—ect and every person that maketh this Protestation in whatsoever he shall do in the lawfull pursuance of the same And to my power and a far as lawfully I may I will oppose and by all good wayes means endeaâ—our to bring to condigne punishment all such as shall either by Force Practice Councells Plots Conspiracies or otherwise doe any thing to the contrary of any thing in this present Protestation contained And further That I shall in all just and honourable wayes endeavour to preserve the Union and Peace betweene the three Kingdomes of England Scoâ—land and Ireland and neither for hope feare nor other respect shall relinquish this Promise Vow and Protestation The Vow and Covenant appointted by the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament to be taken by every man in the Cities of London Westminster the Suburbs and Liberties thereof and throughout the whole Kingdome IA. B. In humilitie and reverence of the Divine Maâ—esty declare my heartie sorrow for my own sins and the sins of this Nation which have deserved the calamities judgments that now lye upon it And my true intention is by Gods grace to endeavour the amendment of my owne wayes And that I do abhor and detest the said wicked and treacherous Design lately discovered And that I never gave nor will give my assent to the execution therof but wil according to my power Vocation oppose resist the same and all other of the like nature And in case any other like Designe shall hereafter come to my knowledge I will make such timely discoverie as I shall conceive may best conduce to the preventing thereof And whereas I do in my conscience believe That the Forces raysed by the Two Houses of Parliament are raysed and continued for their just Defence and for the Defence of the true Protestant Religion and Liberties of the Subject against the Forces raised by the King I doe here in the presence of Almightie God Declare Vow and Covenant That I will according to my power and Vocation assist the Forces raysed and continued by both Houses of Parliament against the Forces raysed by the King without their consent and will likewise assist all other persons that shall take this Oath in what they shall doe in pursuance thereof and will not directly or indirectly adhere unto nor shal willingly assist the Forces raysed by the King without the consent of both Houses of Parliament And this Vow and Covenant I make in the presence of Almightie God the Search of all hearts with a true intention to perform the same as I shall answer at the great Day when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed 1. T That we shall sincerely really and constantly through the grace of God endeavour in our severall places and callings the prefervation of the Reformed Religion in the Church of Sâ—oâ—und in Doctrine Worship Discipline Government against our common Enemies the Reformation of Religion in the Kingdomes of Englâ—nd and Ireland in Doctrine Worship Discipline Government according to the Word of God the Example of the best Reformed Churches And shall endeavour to bring the Churches of God in the Three Kingdoms to the nearest Conâ—unction and Uniformity in Religion Confession of Faith Forme of Church-government Dâ—rectory for Worship and Catechizing That we and our Posterity after us may as Brethren live in faith and love and the Lord may delight to dwel in the midst of us 2. That we shall in like manner without respect of persons endeavor the extirpation of Poperie Prelacie that is Church-Government by Arch-Bishops Bishops their Chancellors and Commissaries Deans Deans Chapters Archdeacons and all other Ecclesiastical Officers depending on that Hierachy Superstition Heresie Schism Prophanesse and what soever shal be found to be contrarie to sound Doctrine and the power of godlinesse lest we partake in other mens sins thereby be in danger to receive of their plagues and that the Lord may be one and his Name one in the Three Kingdoms 3. We shall with the same sinceritie realitie and constancy in our several Vocations endeavâ—r with our Estates and Lives mutually to preserve the Rights and Priviledges of the Parliament and the Liberties of the Kingdoms and to preserve and defend the Kings Majesties Person and â—uthoritie in the preservation defence of the true Religion and Liberties of the Kingdoms that the world may beare witnesse with our consciences of our loyaltie and that we have no thoughts or intentions to diminish his Majesties just power and greatnesse 4. We shall also with all faithfulnesse endeavor the discovery of all such as have bin or shal be Incendiaries Malignants or evill Instruments by hindring the Reformation of Religion dividing the King from his people or one of the Kingdoms from another or making any Faction or Pâ—rties amongst the people contrarie to this League and Covenant that they maybe brought to publike Tryall and reâ—eive condign punishment as the degree of their Offences shall require or deserve oâ— the Supreme Judicatories of both Kingdoms respectively or others having power from them for that effect shall judge convenient V. And whereas the happinesse of a blessed Peace between these Kingdoms denied in former times to our Progenitors is by the good providence of God granted unto us and hath beene lately concluded and setled by both Parliaments we shall each one of us according to our place and interest endeavor that they may remain conjoyed in a firm Peace and Union to all Posteritie And that Justice may be done upon the wifull Opposers thereof in manner expressed in the present Articles 6. We shall also according to our places and callings in this Common Cause of Religion Libertie and Peace of the Kingdoms assist and defend all those that enter into this League and Covenant in the maintaining and pursuing thereof and shall not suffer our selves directly or indirectly by whatsoever combination perswasion or terror to be divided and withdrawne from this blessed Union Conjunction whether to make defection to the contrary part or give our selves to a detestable indifferency or neutrality in this Cause which so much concerneth the glory of God the good of the Kingdoms and Honor of the King but shall all the dayes of our lives zealously and constantly continue therein against all opposition and promote the same according to our power against all Lets and Impediments whatsoever what we are not able our selves to suppresse or overcome we shall reveal make known that it may be timely prevented or removed all which we shal do as in the fight of God And because these Kingdoms are guiltie of many sins provocations against God and his Son Jesus Christ as is too manifest by our present distresses and dangers the fruits thereof We professe and declare before God and the world our unfeigned desire to be humbled for our own sins and for the sins of these Kingdoms especially that we have not as we ought valued the inestimable benefit of the Gospel that we have not laboured for the puritie and power thereof and that we have not endeavoured to receive Christ in our hearts nor to walke worthy of him in our lives which are the causes of other sins and transgressions so much abounding amongst us And our true unfeigned purpose desire indeavor for our selves and all others under our power charge both in publike and in private in all duties we owe to God and man to amend our lives and each one to go before another in the example of a reall Reformation that the Lord may turn away his wrath and heavie indignation establish these Churches and Kingdoms in truth peace And this Covenant we make in the presence of Almighty God the serarcher of all hearts with a true intention to performe the same as we shall answer at that great day when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed most humbly beseeching the Lord to strengthen us by his holy Spirit for this end to blesse our desires proceedings with success as may be deliverance safetie to his people encouragement to other Christian Churches groningunder or in danger of the yoke of Antichristian tyranny to joyn in the same or like Association Covenant to the glorie of God the enlargement of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ and the Peace and Tranquility of Christian Kingdoms Common wealths FINIS