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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

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 Ma●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 Weap●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 ma● any waies pertaine to you to keepe The Oath of the Lord President of the Councell in the Marehe● of Wales YOu shall sweare To the uttermost of your power will and ●unning that you shall be true and faithfull to the Queenes Highnesse our Soveraign● 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 Juris●●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 F●●ally You shall be vigilant and circumspect in all your doings and proceedings touching the Queenes Ma●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 ●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 prie●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 o●● 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 al●jure as impious and here●● call his damno●● Doctrine and Position this Princes wa●● 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 P●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 ●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 w●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

sweare That well and truly ye shall serve the Kings people as one of his Serjeants at Law And ye shall truly counsaile them that ye shall be retained with after your cunning and ye shall not deferre tract nor delay their causes willingly forcovetousnes of money or other thing that may turne you to profit and ye shall give due attendance according As God you helpe and his Saints The Oath of the Master of the Rolls YOu shall sweare That well and lawfully ye shall serve the King our Soveraigne Lord and his People in the Office of Clerke or Master of the Rolls to the which ye be called Yee shall not assent ne procure the dis-inheritance ne perpetuall damage of the King to your power ne fraud ye shall do nor cause to be made wrongfully to any of his People ne in any thing that toucheth the Seale and lawfully yee conceale the things that toucheth the King when ye shall be thereto required And the counsell that ye shall give touching him ye shall not disclose And if ye know any thing of the dis-inheritance or damage of the King or fraud to be made upon any thing that toucheth the keeping of the Seale ye shall put your lawfull power that to redresse and amend And if that ye cannot ye shall advise the Chancellor or other which may that amend to your power As God you helpe and his Saints The Oath of the six Clerks in the Chancery YE shall sweare That well and truly ye shall serve the King and his People in the Office of one of the six Clerkes of Chancery whereunto ye be admitted and well and justly order your selfe in the same according to your learning and truly counsell them that ye shall be retained with And ye shall be diligent to further the Kings businesse from time to time as need shall require And ye shall not assent to any fraud or deceit to be had or done by you or any by your consent in any of the Kings Records whereunto ye shall have reeourse but well and truly ye shall entreat the same And ye shall not absent your selfe willingly whereby the Kings businesses or any other shal be undone or hindered without speciall License of the Master of the Rolls or his Deputie for the time being As God you helpe and his Saint The Oath to maintaine the Succession of the Crowne of England YE shall sweare To beare faith truth and obedience all only to the Kings Majestie and to his Heires of his body of his most deere and entirely beloved lawfull wife Queene Anne begotten And farther to the Heires of our said Soveraigne Lord according to the limitation in the Statute made for suretie of his Succession in the Crowne of this Realm mentioned and contained and not to any other within this Realme nor Forraigne Authority or Potentate And in case any Oath be made or hath been made by you to any person or persons that then you to repute the same as vaine and annihilated And that your cunning wits and uttermost of your power without guile fraud or other undue meane yee shall observe keepe maintaine and defend the said Act of Succession and all the whole effects and Contents thereof and all other Acts and Statutes made in confirmation or for due execution of the same or of any thing therein contained And this ye shall do against all manner of persons of what Estate Dignity Degree or Condition soever they be And in no wise do or attempt nor to your power suffer to be done or attempted directly or indirectly any thing or things privily or apartly to be let hinderance damage or derogation thereof or of any part of the same by any manner of meanes or for any manner of pretence So help you God all Saints and the holy Evangelists The Oath of a Clerke of the Petty Bagg YE shall sweare That well and truly ye shall serve the King and his People as one of his Ministers and Clerks in the Office of the Petty-bag whereunto ye be admitted and well and truly order your selfe in the same according to your learning And ye shall be diligent to further the Kings businesse from time to time as need shall require And ye shall not assent to any fraud or deceipt to be had or done by you or any by your consent in any of the Kings Records whereunto ye shall have recourse but well and truly ye shall entreat the same As God you helpe and his Saints The Oath of the Examiner in the Court of Chancery YE shall sweare Well and truly after your cunning and learning to excuse and occupie the Office of one of the Examiners in the Kings Court of Chancerie whereunto you are admitted And dulie justlie and equallie yee shall examine their Causes that shall be committed unto you without any favour or corruption of any person or persons to be had otherwise than shall of right appertain concerning the same And ye shall be attendant as wel to further the Kings businesse as the same Causes from time to time as need shall require And ye shall not publish ne shew the same Depositions to any person afore publication in the Court without the Warrant of the same Court. As God you helpe and his Saints The Oath which the Duke of Bedford and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal tooke in Parliament in Anno 4. H. 6. Nov. 10. for their sincere arbitrating of the variances betweene the Duke of Glocester and the Bishop of Winchester Lord Chancellor of England THat my said Lord of Bedford and my said Lords Spirituall and Temporall and each of them shall as far forth as his cunning and discretions sufficent truly justly and indifferently counsell and advise the King and also proceed and acquit himself in all the said matters and Quarrels withouten that they or any of them shall privilie or apart make or shew himselfe or be partie or parcell therein nought be leaving or schewing so to do for affection love meed or dread of any person or persons And that ye shall in all wise keepe secret all that shall be communed by way of Councell in the Matters and Quarrels abovesaid in the foresaid Parliament withouten that they or any of them shall by word writing or in any wise open it or discover it to any of the said parties or to any other person that is nought of the said Councell but if he have especiall Commandment thereto of the King or of my said Lord of Bedford And that each of them shall with al might and power by him and by his strength aid and assist by way of Counsell and tell unto the King or to my Lord 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 thereto but let them with all her might and