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A32296 Reports of special cases touching several customes and liberties of the city of London collected by Sir H. Calthrop ... ; whereunto is annexed divers ancient customes and usages of the said city of London. Calthrop, Henry, Sir, 1586-1637. 1670 (1670) Wing C311; ESTC R4851 96,584 264

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Thomas the Apostle next coming you do hold your Ward-mote and that you have afore us at our general Court of Aldermen to be holden in the Guild-Hall the Monday next after the Feast or the Epiphany next coming all the defaults that shall be presented afore you by Inquest in the said Ward-more and the said Inquest shall have full Power and Authority by one whole year to inquire and present all such defaults as shall be sound within your said Ward as oftentimes as shall be thought to you expedient and needful which we will shall be once every moneth at the least 2. And if it happen any of your said Inquest to die or depart out of your said Ward within the said year that then in place of him or them so dying or departing out of your said Ward you cause to be chosen one able person to inquire and present with the other in man and form aforesaid 3. And that at the said general Court you give afore us the Names and Surnames of all them of your said Ward that come not to your said Ward-more if they be duely warned so that due redress and punishment of them may be had as the case shall require according to the Law 4. And that yea do provide that at all times convenient covenable Watch be kept and that the Lanthornes with Light by Nightertaile in old manner accustomed be hanged forth and that no man go by Nightertaile without Light nor with Visard on the peril that belongeth thereto 5. And also that you do cause to be chosen men of the most sufficient honest and discreet men of your said Ward to be for your said Ward of the Common Councel of this City for the year ensuing according to the custome in that behalf yearly used And also that you do cause the said Men so to be chosen to be of the Common Councel to be sworn before you and in your presence according to the Oath for them used and of old time accustomed the Tenor of which Oath hereafter ensueth The Oath YE shall swear that you shall be true to our Soveraign Lord the King that now is and to his Heirs and Successours Kings of England and readily ye shall come when ye be summmed to the Common Councel of this City but if ye be reasonably excused and good and true Councel ye shall give in all things touching the Commonwealth of this City after your wit and cunning and that for favour of any person ye shall maintain no singular profit against the common profit of this City and after that you be come to the Common Councel you shall not from thence depart until the Common Councel be ended without reasonable cause or else by the Lord Mayors License And also any secret things that be spoken or said in the Common Councel which ought to be kept secret in no wise you shall disclose as God you help And that together with the said Oath of their Office you administer to the said persons that shall be chosen of the Common Councel the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and the other Oath hereafter following I A B Do utterly testifie and declare in my Conscience that the Kings Highness is the onely Supream Governour of this Realm and of all other his Highnesses Dominions and Countries as well in all Spiritual or Ecclesiastical things or causes as Temporal And that no forreign Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Iurisdiction Power Superiority Preheminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within this Realm And therefore I do utterly renounce and forsake all forreign Iurisdictions Powers Superiorities and Authorities and do promise that from henceforth I shall bear Faith and true Allegiance to the Kings Highness his Heirs and lawful Successours and to my Power shall assist and defend all Iurisdictions Priviledges Preheminences and Authorities granted or belonging to the Kings Highness his Heirs and Successours or united and annexed to the Imperial Crown of this Realm So help me God and the contents of this Book I AB Do truely and sincerely acknowledge profess testifie and declare in my Conscience before God and the World that our Soveraign Lord King Charles is lawful and rightful King in this Realm and of all other his Majesties Dominions and Countries and that the Pope neither of himself nor by any Authority of the Church or See of Rome or by any other means with any other hath any Power or Authority to depose the King or to dispose any of his Majesties Kingdomes or Dominions or to authorizo any forreign 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 bear Arms raise Tumults or to offer any violence or hurt to his Majesties Royal Person State or Government or to any of his Majesties Subjects within his Majesties Dominions Also I do swear 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 or his Successours or by any Authority derived or pretended to be derived from him or his See against the said King his Heirs or Successours or any Absolution of the said Subjects from their Obedience I will bear Faith and true Allegiance to his Majesty his Heirs and Successours and him and them will defend to the uttermost of my power against all Conspiracies and Attemps whatsoever which shall be made against his and their Persons their Crown and Dignity by reason or colour of any such Sentence or Declaration or otherwise and will do my best endeavour to disclose and make known unto his Majesty his Heirs and Successours all Treasons and traiterous Conspiracies which I shall know or hear of to be against him or any of them And I do further swear that I do from my Heart abhor detest and abjure as Impious and Heretical this damnable Doctrine and Position that Princes which be excommunicated or deprived by the Pope may be deposed or murthered by their Subjects or any other whatsoever And I do beleive 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 do renounce all Pardons and Dispensations to the contrary And all these things I do plainly and sincerely acknowledge and swear according to these express words by me spoken and according to the plain and common sense and understanding of the same words without any Equivocation or mental Evasion or secret Reservation whatsoever And I do make this Recognition and Acknowledgement heartily willingly and truely upon the true Faith of a Christian So help me God c. I. A. B. Do declare and believe that it is not lawful upon any pretense whatsoever to take