profit and to the Augmentation of the Rights and Prerogatives of his Crowne And also endeavour your selfe to the uttermost of your power to see the King truly answered of all such Rents and Revenues Issues or Profits which shall or may arise or grow in your Office and from time to time deliver with speed such as shall have to do before you And that you shall not take or receive of any person any gift or reward in any cause or matter depending before you wherein the Kings Highnesse shall be partie whereby any prejudice hinderance losse or dis-herizon shall grow or be to the Kings Highnesse So helpe you God and all Saints The Oath of the Treasurer of the Court of Augmentations YEE shall sweare That yee shall well and truly serve the King our Soveraigne Lord and his People in the Office of Treasurer of the Court of the Augmentations according to the Orders hereafter ensuing 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 make from time to time without any concealement according to the Ordinance 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 Master of the Woods of the Court of Augmentation Yee shall sweare That yee shall well and truly serve the King our Soveraigne Lord in the Office of the Master of the Woods of this Court of Augmentations in all things touching your Office according to the Authority given unto you by these Letters Patents for the Kings most advantage And yee shall doe all and every thing and things which you ought to doe by reason of your Office according to the forme and effect of these Letter Patents So helpe you God and all Sainis The Oath of the Attorney and Sollicitor of the Court of Augmentations YEE shall sweare That yee shall well and truly serve the King as his At orney or Solicitor in all Courts for and concerning any matter or cause that shall cuncerne or touch the Possessions and Hereditaments limited to the Survey and governance of this Court of the Augmentation and procure the Kings profit thereof and that ye shall truly counsell the Kings Chancellor and generall Surveyor of this Court 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 Chancellor and generall Surveyor or any of them be diligently attendant to assist the said Chancellor and Surveyor or any of them with good advise and counsell in the hearing and determination of such matters and causes as shall depend before the said Chancellor and generall Survey or of this Court And that ye 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 hindered hurted or dis-herited And further do all and every thing that shall appertaine to your Office So helpe you God and all Saints The Oath of the Surveyor of the VVoods of the Court of Augmentation YE shall sweare That ye shall serve truly the King in your Office of Surveyor of the Woods within the Survey of this Court of the Augmentation and to your cunning and power shall truly do and execute all and every thing and things which ye ought to do by reason of your Office according to the formes and effect of the Ordinance and Establishment of this Conrt So help you God and aâ—l Saints The Oath of the Clerke of the Augmentations YEe shall soeare That ye shall well and truly â—erve the King in your Office of Clerke of this Court of the Augmentation and truly do and execute all and every thing and things which ye ought to do by reason of your Office according to the forme and effect of the Ordinance made upon the erection of this Court. So help you God and all Saints The Oath of the Auditors of the Court of the Augmentation YEe shall sweare That yee shall well and truy serve the King in your Office of Auditorship and true Allegiance make to every person which shall bee Accomptant before you Ye shall not take nor receive of poore or rich any Gift or Reward in any Matter or Cause depending or to be discussed in Court but such that shall be your ordinary Fees and ye shall do all and every thing and things which ye ought to do by reason of your Office according to the forme and effect of the Ordinance made and established upon the erecting of this Court of the Augmentation So help you God and all Saints The Oath of the Receiver of the Gourt of Augmentation YE shall sweare That ye shall truly serve the King in your Office and nothing conceale but true Accompt make of all such revenues Rents Sume of Money and other profies wherewith ye shall be lawfully charged by reason of your Office Ye shall make no Petition nor aske any allowance but such as shall be good just true and reasonable And ye â—hall doe all and every thing and things which ye ought to do by reason of your Office according to the forme and effect of the Ordinance made and established upon the erection of this Court of Augmentation So help you God and all Saints The Oath of Surveyor of Lands of the Court of Augmentation YE shall truly serve the King in your Office of Survey or of Lands within the Survey of this Court of the Augmentation and to your cunning wit and power shall truly do and execute all and every thing and things which ye ought to do by reason of your Office according to the forme and effect of the Ordinance and establishment of this Court. So helpe you God and all Saints The Oath of the Messenger of the Court of the Augmentation YE shall sweare That ye shall well and truly serve the King in your Office of Messenger of this Court of the Augmentation as well in speedie serving all and singular Processe to you to bee delivered without fraud covine guile or deceit as also making true and speedie certificate to this Court of the same And that you well and truly do and execute all and every other thing and things which ye ought to do by reason of your Office So helpe you God and all Saints The Oath of Henry the third French King for observing of the Statutes of the Order of the Garter WEE Henry by the grace of God King of Franoe and Polbgne do sweare vow and protest solemnly upon our Honour and in the word of a King That we shall observe keepe and maintaine the Statutes and Orders of the right Noble Order of St. Geoege called the Garter so far forth as
in the same Shire where you be Sheriffe in or other Justices having power or authoritie to make any Writs unto you by the Law of the Land or Justice of Newgate You shall make your Bayliffe of the true and sufficient men in the Countrey Yee shall bee dwelling in your owne proper person within your Bayliffewicke for the time you shall be in the same Office except yee be otherwise Licensed by the King You shall not let your Sheriffe-wicke nor any Bayliffe-wicke thereof to Farme to any man Yee shall truely set and returne reasonable and due Iusses of them that be within your Bayliffe wicke after their Estate and their Haviour and make your Pannell your selfe of such persons as be most meet most sufficient and not suspect nor procured as it is ordained by the Statute And over this in eschewing and restraining of the Robberies Man-slaughters and other manifold grievous offences that bee done dayly namely by such as name themselves Souldiers and by other Vagarants the which increase in multitude and number So that the Kings true Subjects may not safelie ride nor goe to doe such things as they have to doe to their intollerable hurt and hinderance Yee shall truly effectually with all diligence possible to your power execute the Statutes of Winchester and of Vagabonds All these things yee shall well and truely observe and keepe So help you God c. The Oath with is usually ministred to a Justice of the Peace in the severall Counties of England YEE shall sweare That as Justice of Peace in the Countie of S. in all Articles in the Kings Commission to you directed yee shall doe equall right to the poore as to the rich after your cunning wit and power and after the Lawes and Customes of this Realme and Statutes thereof made And yee shall not bee of counsell with any person in any quarrell hanging before you Yee shall truely cause to be entred without any concealment or imbezelling and truely send them to the Kings Exchequer Yee shall not let for gift or other cause but well and truely yee shall do your Office of Justice of the Peace to be done but of the King and Fees accustomed and costs limited by the Statute And yee shall not direct or cause to be directed any Warrant by you to bee made to the parties but yee shall direct them to the Bayliffes of the said Countie or other the Kings Officers and Ministers or other indifferent persons to do Execution thereof So helpe yee God and by the contents of this Booke The Oath of the Register and Keeper of the Kings Papers and Records of State in his Pallace of White-hall at Westminster YOu shall sweare To beare faith and true Allegiance unto the Kings Majestie and him from henceforth truely and faithfully to serve in the place of Clerke Keeper and Register of his Majesties Papers and Records for matters of State established at his Majesties Pallace of White-hall You shall doe your uttermost endeavour to keepe and conserve the said Papers and Records which either now or hereafter shall be committed to your charge from all harme and dammage You shall not willingly suffer any of the same to be purloyned embezled or defaced You shall carefully and faithfully keepe secret and conceale from the knowledge of others either by writing or relation all such things therein contained as shall be fit either for reason of State or otherwise for his Majesties service to be concealed and kept secret except it be to the Lords and others of his Majesties Privie Councell or such as his Majestie shall be content to have them communicated unto if you shall know of private person or persons that have embezled or doe detaine any such Papers or Records which belong unto his Majestie you shall doe the best to recover the same and bring them to the said Office and doe all things else that belong to the dutie of the Clerke Keeper and Register of the said Papers and Records All these you shall well and truely performe and doe So help you God The Oath to be ministrrd to the Master of the Court of Wards and Liveries YEE shall sweare That well and truely yee shall serve the King in the Office of the Master of the Kings Wards and shall minister equall Justice unto rich and poore 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 Advantage and Profit and to the Augmentation of the Rights and Prerogatives of his Crowne and truely use the Kings Seale appointed to your Office and also endeavour your selfe to the uttermost of your power to see the King justly and truely answered yearely of all such Rents Revenues Issues 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 doe before 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 losse hindrance or disherison shall grow or be to the Kings Highnesse So helpe you God and all Saints The Oath to be ministred to the Atturney of the Court of Wards and Liveries as it is in the Statute 32. H. 8. Ca. 16. YEE shall sweare That yee well and truely shall serve the King as his Atturney in all Courts for or concerning any matter or cause that shall concerne the Possessions and Hereditaments limited to the Surveigh and Governance of this Court and procure the Kings Profit thereof And that yee shall truely counsell the King and the Master of this Court in all things concerning the same to the best of your wit and cunning and with all speed and diligence from time to time at the calling of the said Master ye shall endeavour your selfe for the hearing and determination indifferently of such matters and causes as shall depend before the said Master 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 or hindred or dis-herited And further yee shall doe to your power wit and cunning all and everie thing that shall appertaine to your Office So helpe you God and all Saints The Oath of the Receiver-generall of the Court of Wards and Liveries as in Statute Anno 32. H. 8. Ca. 46. YEE shall sweare That yee shall well and truely serve the King our Soveraigne Lord and his People in the Office of the generall Receiver of this Court 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 Receipt of his Money you shall truely keepe dispend pay and deliver and true declaration and Accompt make
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.
Writings lying in his Treasury not suffering any of them to be harmed lost or altered by your default nor yet to be removed abroad to any place out of the said Treasury but onely by Warrant or Licence from the Lord Treasurer of England And when any such Licence or Command shall be given yet you shall not rudely adventure the carrying thereof by water if you may have convenient passage by Land And you shall to the best of your power conserve all the ancient and laudable Customes of this Court without permitting any new errour to arise if you be able to resist it and where you are not able you shall speedily disclose it to the Lord Treasurer of England for reformation Finally you shall in all things concerning this your Office be obedient faithfull and true to the Lord Treasurer for the time being and shall not bewray the secrets of this Court nor yet any waste make of the Kings goods for any cause So help you God and all Saints and by the Contents of that Booke The Oath of the Writer of the Tallyes and Counter Tallyes YOu shall sweare That you shall truly and faithfully write all the Tallyes and Counter-Tallyes otherwise called the Joyles of the said Tallyes of all manner of payments in the Court of Receipt to be made and to give good attendance to the same helping to dispatch all manner of Accomptants according to the antient customes of this Court and to make Declarations for the declaring of all manner of Receipts and Payments there received and paid from time to time to the Lord Treasurer of England or to the under Treasurer for the time being and especially to regard and so from time to time unto the Entries safe keeping taking out shewing delivery and laying up all manner of Leagues and other Writings of any other parties which remain within the King our Soveraigne Lord his Treasury to whom you shall bee true secret and faithfull during the time of your being in the said Office So help you God and all Saints The new Oath of the Writer of the Pell made in the sixth yeare of King Edward the sixth YOu shall swearee That you shall truly and faithfully keepe the Kings Majesties Book within this his Court called the Pell for the speedy expedition of his Accomptants for their surety And you shall delay none of the Kings Accomptants for favour meed affection or dread and see all wayes that no untrue entry be made in the said Pell And if you know of any errour done within the said Court you shall shew it to the Lord Treasurer or to the under Treasurer without any delay thereof to be made And the secrets of this Court you shall nor bewray So help you God and all Saints The Oath of the Vsher of the Exchequer YEe shall sweare That ye shall well and truly serve the Treasurer and Chamberlaines of the Exchequer in your roome of Ushership to the Lord Treasurer of England within this Court of the Kings Receipts and shall diligently lock and keep the doors of the Kings Treasury in due time for safety of his good And the same doores ye shall be ready to open againe at all times when the same Lord Treasury and Chamberlaines or other their Clerks and Deputies shall have occasion to enter and there shall give your attendance till their departure And ye shall demand no unjust allowance for any necessaries or other kinde of thing by you bought for service of the King within this Court And ye shall to your power helpe and further all such the Kings Accomptants as shall have to do in this Court. So help you God and Holidome and by the Contents of that Book The Oath ministred unto the Souldiers serving under the Earle of Leicester in the Low Countries WEE do sweare and promise To do all loyall true and faithfull service unto the Queene of England her most Excellent Majesty and unto the Provinces and Cities united in these Countries and their Associates under the charge and obedience of the Right Excellent the Earle of Leicester Governour generall of the said Provinces and Cities and their Associates and of her Majesties Armie and Forces within the same and all lawfull and due obedience unto the said Governour and to any other Superiour that shall have charge under him for Government in this Armie And further we do promise to endeavour our selves to keep and fulfill all such lawfull Ordinances as his Excellency hath or shall set forth and establish for the better ordering of this Army as much as concerns us so long as we shall serve under him So help us God by Jesus Christ The Oath of the Governour of Barwick YOU shall sweare To bee faithfull and true to our Soveraigne Ladie Elizabeth by the grace of God Queene of England France and Ireland Defendor of the Faith c. and to keepe and defend to the use of her Majesty her Heires and Successors this Towne of Barwick and the Marchesse of the same to the uttermost of your power and according to your Office you shall not be absent at any time from your Office without her Majesties speciall License containing in the same the names of such to whom your charge shall be committed in your absence except it be upon reasonable causes to go into the Wardencie of the East Marches for the service thereof or to some osher part of Nortbuneberland upon any your needfull causes at which time neverthelesse you shall depute the Marshall or in his absence the next principall Officer to take your charge of this Towne You shall cause all the Officers of this Towne to doe their duties or else see them punished without favour or delay you shall use the advice of all those which be Councellors of this Towne for any matter concerning the Government thereof except the matter shall touch any of themselves in which the same parties shall be excluded for the time you shall see that this Towne and the Garrison be provided of a convenient force of Victuall of all sorts from time to time And that the Mayor and his Brethren shall doe their duties for the Common-weale of the same Towne according to their Jurisdiction You shall administer Justice truly and indifferently to all manner of persons having any Cause depending before you You shall not admit nor suffer to be admitted any manner of person to be of this Garrison that shall be born out of the Realme of England or Ireland nor above the number of fortie that shall be borne within the Realme of Ireland You shall at sundry times visite the Gates and Posternes of this Towne the Locks and Shuttings thereof the Towne Walls Bulworkes Ditches Ordinance Artillery and Munition and the Houses of the Stoage of the same and cause to be redressed to the best of your power any thing therein amisse Finally you shall quarterly puruse the Statutes and Ordinances heretofore made and now remaining in force for the Government of this Towne
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
and answer as the Law will ordaine so that every person that commeth into the Kings Court may have full right and if any person by chance medsy drawing Weapon or smiting that yee lead or cause to be led to Prison there to remaine according to the Lawes Customes and Ordinances of the Towne And that yee Present every fault Presentable and that ought by you to be Presented by vertue of your Office and if yee see any default or that yee be required of any person to take any distresse for doing or cleansing of the said Towne that yee doe it duly and truly and cause it to be done by the Officers under you so that no man have cause to complaine thereof And yee shall make good and true Records of all manner of things that ought to be Recorded tâ—king no other Fees for the same then of right and reâ—son have been used of old time And yee shall not hold with no Party against the other nor none sustaine but yee shall be true Reverentary and Reporter of all that which belongeth unto your Office of Marshall and if yee heare or weet of any Mennaces or debate betweene any parties that yee take or cause to be taken of both said Parties Sureties to the intent that the Peace may be kept and holden for the said Towne and Marches and yee shall see surely to be kept and straitly cause to be observed as much as in you lyeth all manner of Statutes Lawes Ordinances made or to be made by our Soveraign Lord King Hen. 8. or his Heires or by his Councell authorised for the same for the safeguard tuition defence and good order of this Towne of Calice and of the Marches of the same doing due execution upon the Transgressors of any of the same Statutes Lawes and Ordinances having no regard to the person so Transgressing for affection meede dread or any other cause whatsoever The Oath of the Lieutenant of the Castle of Calice ordained by Parliament in Anno 27. H. 8. YEE shall sweare That yee shall be faithfull and true to our Soveraigne Lord King Hen 8. by the Grace of God King of England and of France Defender of the Faith Lord of Ireland and in Earth supreame head of the Church of England and to his Heires and if ye shall know any thing that shall be prejudiciall or hurtfull unto his Highnesse or his Heires or unto his Towne of Calice or Marches of the fame Yee shall reside the same to the uttermost of your power and in case yee cannot yee shall without delay declare the same unto his Highnesse or unto such of his Councell as yee thinke will shew it unto him Yee shall give as it shall need from time to time your true faithfull and diligent counsell to the Kings Deputy of his Towne and Marches of Calice for the time being and to the Kings Councell and Officers of the same Towne and Marches and them shall aid and assist to the uttermost of your power in all things to be done concerning safeguard defence and good governance of the said Towne and Marches Yee shall safely keepe true English to the use and behoofe of our Soveraigne Lord and of his Heires to the uttermost of your power his Castle and Fortresse of Calice by his Highnesse appointed and assigned to your safe keeping Yee shall personally remaine and be resident upon your said roome and Office there and at no time to be absent from the same without the Kings speciall licence for the same obtained And you shall well and truly oversee that all Officers Souldiers and Ministers of the said Castle and Fortresse that shall serve the Kings Highnesse there under you shall diligently doe cause and suffer to be done all and every thing and things that unto them shall appertaine and belong concerning the sure and safe keeping of the said Castle and Fortresse and if any of them be found and proved to be remisse or negligen in doing his or their duty or duties that then yee without favour or delay proceed to the correction and punition of him or them so offending And that you doe your duty to your power to the keeping of the Peace among all and every person or persons of what condition he or they be dwelling within the said Castle or Fortresse or thereunto from time to time repairing not suffering any unlawfull Congregations Conventions or Convenâ—icles to be made within the said Castle or Fortresse against good restfull and Politique Government of the same and duly to correct all and every person and persons offending And that as much as in you shall lye you shall see that the Castle and Fortresse be furnished as well with Victuals and with all other things appertaining to the safe custody of the same that to you belongeth by duty of your Office and that you truly rightfully and indifferently administer Justice to all and every person and persons that hereafter shall have any Cause or matter moved or depending before you in the said Castle or Fortresse without having any manner of respect to any person or persons for dread meed malice or affection And yee shall not appoint neâ— admit any person or persons within the retinue of the said Castle or Fortresse but if the said person or persons be borne within the Realme of England Wales and Ireland or being English borne within the said Towne of Calice or Marches of the same and that the said person to be true Leige-man unto the King our Soveraigne Lord and to his Heires And finally yee shall observe and keepe or cause to be observed and kept as much as in you shall be during the time yee shall be Lieutenant there all manner Statutes Lawes and Ordinances made and to be made by our said Soveraigne Lord his Heires or his Successors or by their Councell authorized for the same for the safeguard tuition defence and good Orders of the said Castle and Fortresse doing due execution upon the Transgressors so offending any of the said Statutes Lawes and Ordinances having no regard to any person so offending for affection meed dread or any other cause whatsoever So God c. The Oath of the Treasurer of Calice as it was ordained by Parliament in the 27. yeare of Hen. 8. YEE shall sweare That yee shall be faithfull and true to our Loveraigne Lord H. 8. by the Grace of God King of England and of France Defender of the Faith Lord of Ireland and in Earth supreame head of the Church of England and to his Heires and if yee shall know any thing that shall be prejudiciall and hurtfull unto his Highnesse or his Heires or unto his Towne of Calice or Marches of the same Yee shall resist the same to the uttermost of your power and in case yee cannot yee shall without delay declare the same unto his Highnesse or unto such of his Councell as yee thinke will shew it unto him Yee shall be diligent obedient and attendant to the Deputy
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
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
any time to your custodie without raysing or imbezling of the same So God you helpe c. The Oath of the Ingrosser of the great Roll as it is entred in the Red Booke of the Exchequer YEE shall sweare Clerke of the Pipe That yee shall well and truely serve the Kings Majestie our Soveraigne Lord in the Office of Ingrosser of the great Roll otherwise called the Clerk of the Pipe of this Exchequer and the Office with all the Rolls Records Accompts and other Mynuments being and remaining in the same and that hereafter shall be committed to your custodie and pertaining to the same Office Yee shall safely and surely keepe or doe to be kept to the use of our said Soveraigne Lord the King And yee shall draw or caufe to be drawn out of the Two Remembrancers Offices with all convenient speed all manner of Femes or other Debts and duties to be engrossed And all the said Femes Debts and Duties yee shall set forth to be summoned at the next Liberate And yee shall true entry make of all Awards made by the Court upon any Opposall of any Sheriffs or other Accomptants for and concerning any Femes Debts or other the Kings Duties And the same Awards yee shall set out in the Scrowles of the Pipes And also yee shall well and truely make and discharge or cause to be made and discharged all Allowances and discharges the same Terme or the next Vacatiâ—n before the first day of the next Terme without any further delay And yee shall not take of any person or persons by promise gift reward or otherwise whereby the King may lose or be hindred or his said Femes Debts or other duties may be prolonged or detained by any time or else by the which the right let to any manner of person and persons And well and truely and with all convenient speed yee shall discharge or cause to be discharged all persons of all such things as the Court shall award belonging to your said Office And all this yee shall doe during such time as yee shall be Officer in the said Office without fraud or guile So helpe you God c. The Oath of the Chancellour of the Exchequer as it is entred in the Red Book of the Exchequer YEE shall sweare That yee shall serve well and truly the King our Soveraigne Lord in the Office of Chancellor of this Exchequer and well and truly yee shall doe all things that appartaineth to that Office And yee shall speed the Kings Businesse before all other And yee shall not enseale any Writ of Judgement of any other Place then of the Exchequer with the Seale of this Place whiles the Chancerie shall be 20. miles about the place where this Exchequer is abiding And also yee shall sweare That if it fortune that if hereafter by reason of your Office to make any Clerks or Ministers to execute any Office or Place within this Court yee shall make such Clerks or Ministers as yee will answer for at your perill and such as shall be sufficient true and intendant unto that to them shall appertaine in speed as well of the Kings Businesses as of his people after the forme of the Statute in that behalfe made in the Parliament holden at Westminster the second yeare of the Raigne of King Henry the fixt So help you God c. The Oath of a Baron of the Exchequer as it is entred in the Red Booke of the Exchequer YEE shall sweare That well and truly yee shallserve the King our Soveraigne Lord in the Office of Baron of this Exchequer and lawfully yee shall charge and discharâ—e the people that have to accompt before you and right yee shall doe to all people as well to poore as to rich and that for highnesse for riches neither for hate nor for the estate of any person for benefit gift nor promise of any person that may be made to you or shall be made to you ne by Art nor Engine the Right of the King nor none other you shall disturbe ne respite contrarie to the Lawes of the Land and the Kings Debts yee shall not put in respite there where they may goodly be Levyed and the Kings Bufinesse yee shall speed before all other and that for gift wages or benefit yee shall not conceale the Kings Profit or Advantage in advantage to other nor for your selfe And that yee shall not take Fee neither Robe of any person but of the King onely And yee shall have nothing of any person for to doe wrong or delay the right or to delude or delay the people that have to doe afore you but in all that ye may ye shall deliver them And there where yee may understand wrong or prejudice to be done to the King yee shall put all your power and diligence to redresse it And if yee may not yee shall tell it to the King or to those of his Councell which may shew it to the King if yee may not come unto him And the Kings Councell yee shall keepe in all things So help you God and all Saints The Oath of the Kings ' Remembrancer in the Exchequer as it is entred in the Red Book of the Exchequer YEE shall sweare That you well and truely serve the King our Soveraigne Lord in the Office of Remembrancer of his Majestie of this his Exchequer And the same Office with all the Rolls Records and other Mynuments now lying and remaining in tâ—e same and that hereafter shall be committed to your custodie and appertaining to the same Office yee shall safely and surely keepe or doe to be kept to the use of our said Soveraigne Lord the King and of his Heires Kings of England You shall true Entry make of all Awards and other things to be entred in the said Office and that with all convenient speed You shall not take of any person or persons by promise gift reward or otherwise whereby the Kings Majestie may leese or be hindred or by which the right may be let to any manner of person or persons and all other things belonging to the Master of the said Office to doe yee shall well and truly do without fraud or guile So help you God c. The Oath of the Clerke of the Pleas in the Exchequer as it is entred in the Rea Book of the Exchequer YEE shall sweare That yee shall well and truly intend that which shall appertaine unto your Office in speed as well of the Kings Businesse as of his people and all such rewards as doe or shall concerne your Office you shall safely keepe or cause to be kept And you shall true Entrie make of all Orders Awards and other things to be entred into your said Office and that with all convenient speed And all other things belonging to the Master of the said Office to doe you shall well and truly do So help you God and all Saints The Oath of the Forraigne Opposer of the Exchequer as it is