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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

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power and withstand them and assist unto the King and my said Lord of Bedford in keeping of the Kings Peace and redressing of all such matter of proceeding by way of Feet and Force The Oath Which the Duke of York and Buckingham the two Arch-Bishops 11. Bishops 6. Earles two Viscounts 18. Abbots 2. Priours 17. Barons tooke in Parliament unto H. 6. in Anno 33. Nov. 25. for their Alleagiance unto the said King I Promise unto your Highnesse by the Faith and truth that I owe to God and you that I shall true and faithfully keepe the Leigeman that I owe unto you most Soveraigne Lord and to put me in my devoire to doe all that may be to the welfare honour and safeguard of your most noble Person and Royall Estate Preeminence and Prerogative and I shall at no time will or consent to that that might in any wise sound to the hurt or prejudice of your said most noble person Dignity Crown or Estate And over that I shall with all my power resist and withstand all them that will in any wise presume to attempt the contrarie So God me helpe and his Saints The Oath which the Duke of York tooke for his Alleagiance to King Hen. the 6. At the High Alter in St. Pauls Church London in presence of the said King which is entered in the Parliament Roll. Anno 38. H. 6. Nov. 9. I Richard Duke of Yorke confesse and know That I am and ought to be humble Subject and Leigeman unto you my Soveraigne Lord the King H. 6. And ought therefore to beare you faith and truth as to my Soveraigne and Leige Lord and so shall doe all the daies unto my lives end and shall not at any time will nor at any thing be attempted or done against your most Royall Person But whensoever I shall have knowledge of any such things imagined or purposed I shall with all the speed and diligence possible to me to make that your Highnesse shall have knowledge thereof and ever do all that shall be possible to come to the withstanding thereof to the uttermost of my life I shall not in no wise any thing take upon me against your Royall obeysance that is due thereto nor suffer any other man to doe as farre forth as it shall lye in my power to let it And also I shall come at your Commandment whensoever I shall be called by the same in all humble and obedient wise But if I be letted by sicknesse or impotency of my person or by such other causes as shall be thought reasonable to you my Soveraigne Lord I shall never hereafter take upon me to gather any Routs or make any Assembly of your people without your Commandment or Licence or my lawfull defence In the interpretation of which my lawfull defence and declaration thereof I shall report me at all time unto your Highnesse and if the case require unto my Peeres nor any thing attempt by way of faith against any of your Subjects of what Estate Degree or Condition they be but whensoever I shall be or when I shall feele my selfe wronged or grieved I shall sue humbly for remedy unto your Highnesse as an humble and true Subject ought to have him to his Soveraigne Lord All these things abovesaid I permit truly to observe and keepe by the holy Evangelists contained in this Booke that I lay my hand upon and by the holy Crosse that I here touch and by the blessed Sacrament of our Lords body that I shall now with his mercy receive and over this I agree me and will that if I at any time hereafter as with the grace of our Lord I never shall any thing attempt by way of fact or otherwise against your Royall Estate or obeysance that ought thereto or any thing I take upon me otherwise then is above expressed I from that time forth be unable to all manner of worship Estate or dignity be it such as I now occupie or any other that might grow unto me in any wise And this that I have promitted and sworne proceedeth of my owne desire and free volunt and by no constraint or cohertion In witnesse of all the which things above written I Richard Duke of Yorke above written Subscribe me with my owne Hand and Seale this with my owne Seale c. The Oath which was taken in the Parliament at Coventry unto King Henry 6. Anno 38. Nov. 26. by the two Arch-Bishops sixteen Bishops five Earles two Viscounts three Dukes in the absence of the Duke of Yorke fourteene Abbots two Pryors and seven Barons J A. B. knowledge you most High and Mighty and most Christian Prince King Henry 6. to be my most redoubted Soveraigne Lord and right-wise by Succession borne to Reigne upon me and all your Liege People Whereupon I voluntarily without cohertion promit and oblige me by the faith and truth that I owe unto God and by the faith truth and Leigiance that I owe unto you my most redoubted Soveraign Lord That I shall be without any variance true faithfull humble and obeysant Subject and Liegeman unto you my most redoubted Soveraigne Lord and that I shall be unto my lives end at all times and places readie and attending at your calling in my most heartie wise and manner as any true Liegeman oweth to be unto his Soveraigne Lord putting me in my true undelayed endeavour to do all that that may be unto the weale and suretie of your most Royall Person of your most Noble Estate and the verie conservation and assurance and continuance of Your most High Authoritie Preeminence and Prerogative To the weale suretie and preserving of the Person of the most Noble and Benigne Princesse Margaret the Queene my Soveraigne Ladie and of her most High and Noble Estate she being your Wife And also to the weale suretie and Honour of the Person of the right High and Mightie Prince Edward my right redoubted Lord the Prince your first begotten Sonne and of the Right High and Noble Estate of the same and faithfully truly and obeysantly in my most humble wise and manner honour serve obey and beare mine Allegiance unto you my most redoubted Soveraigne Lord during your life which God the Father of mercy for my most singular recomfort preserve long in prosperitie to endure and if God of his infinite Power take you from this Transitorie life me bearing life in this world That then I shall take and accept my said redoubted Lord the Prince Edward your said first borne Sonne for my Soveraigne Lord and beare my true Faith and Leigiance unto him as my naturall borne Soveraigne Lord and after him unto his Succession of his bodie lawfully begotten and in default of his Succession which God defend unto any other Succession of your Bodie lawfully comming And that I shall never at any time for any manner of occasion colour affinitie or cause consent give aide assistance or favour or agree to any thing that I may understand or know
your Bayliffes to make such Oath as yee make your selfe in that that belongeth to their occupation yee shall receive no Writ by you or any of yours unsealed or any sealed under any ●eale of any Justice save of Justice in Eyre or Justice Assigned in the same Shire where ye be Sheriffe in or other Justice having power or Authority to make any Writs unto you by the said Law of the Land or any Justice of Newgate yee shall make your Bayliffes of the true and sufficient men in the Country also yee shall doe all your paine and diligence to destroy and make to cease all manner of Heresies and Errors commonly called Lollers within your Bayliffewick from time to time to all your power and assist and be helping to all Ordinaries and Commissaries of holy Church and favour and maintaine them as oft times as yee shall be required by the said Ordinaries and Commissaries yee shall be dwelling in your proper person within your Bayliffewick for the time yee shall be in the same Office except yee be otherwise licensed of the King yee shall not let your Sheriffe-wicke nor any Bayliffewicke thereof to Farme to any man yee shall truly set and returne reasonable and due issues of them that be within your Bayliffewicke after their estate and their honour and make your Pannels your selfe of such persons as be most next most sufficient and not suspect or procured as it is ordained by the Statutes and over this in Eastchining and restrainder of the Mans slaughters Robberies and other manifold grievous offences that have been done daily namely of such as name themselves Souldiers and by other Vagarants the which continually increase in number and multiply so that the Kings true Subjects may not be safe yea ride nor goe to doe such things as they have to doe to their intollerable hurt and hinderance yee shall truly and effectually with all diligence possible to you execute the Statute and the Statutes of Winchester and of Vagabonds these things all yee shall truly keepe as God you helpe and his Saints The Oath of an Attorney at Law YOu shall doe no falshood nor consent to any to be done in the Court and if you know of any to be done you shall give knowledge thereof unto my Lord Chiefe Justice or other his Brethren that it may be reformed you shall delay no man for lucre or malice You shall encrease no Fees but shall be contented with the old Fees accustomed you shall plead no Forraigne Plea nor suffer no Forraigne Suits unlawfully to hurt any man but such as shall stand with order of the Law and your conscience you shall seale all such Processe as you shall sue out of the Court with the Seale thereof and so the Kings Majesty and my Lord Chiefe Justice discharged for the same yee shall not wittingly nor willingly sue nor procure to be sued any false Suit nor give ayde nor consent to the same in paine to be expulsed from the Court for ever And furthermore you shal use your selfe in the Office of an Attorny within the Court according to your Learning and discretion so helpe you God c. The Oath of a Merchaut Adventurer FIrst yee shall sweare To be true to our soveraigne Lady the Queene her Heires and Successors and if any thing may come to your knowledge intended against her Majesties Person or Dominions to discover the same to the Governour of this Fellowship or his Deputy or some other in place convenient Secondly You shal sweare to be obedient and assistant to the Governour and his Deputy and Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers and to keep all Acts and Ordinances by them made or to be made without doing or procuring any thing in prejudice thereof or else offending duly to pay the penalties Thirdy yee sweare To conceale the secrets of the Fellowship and to make knowne unto the Governour or his Deputy from time to time any thing which you shal understand to be pretended against the Fellowship or the Priviledges thereof Lastly you sweare That in no case you shal collour or free any mans Goods whomsoever being either Stranger or one free of this Fellowship The Oath of a Merchant Adventurer taken before the Poqueter for the true Shipping of his Clothes YOu shall sweare That all and every such Clothes and other Commodities whereof you or any of you have made entry are allready bought and within the Walls of London being over and above all former Entries and are not yet Shipped and they are also belonging to those men in whose names they be entered and their Partners being free Brothers of this Company of Merchant Adventurers and that they are entred to be Shipped either for Stiade or Middleborough So God you helpe The Oath which the Honourable George Lord Nevell Baron of Abergaveny used to sweare his Servants by at their first comming into his Houshold YEe shal beare your faith therewith and true service next unto our Soveraigne Lord King Henry 8. unto my Lord and Ladie of this place whom yee intend now to serve also if yee know any hurt harme or hinderance to be done to my said Lord and Ladie to their Bodies or to their Goods or to his Children by any person or persons yee shal give him knowledge or some of his Councel as soone as God wil give you grace Also yee shal not consume nor waste none of his Goods nor suffer them to be wasted negligently by any other person if ye be in power to let it or else give knowledge to his Officers that have the Rule and Charge of his House And also at all times yee shall be obedient requisite and necessary unto my Lords Officers that have the Rule and Charge of my said Lords Houshold aforesaid yee shall well and truly of your behalfe keepe and performe to the best of your power So helpe you God and all Saints The Oath of Treasurer Clerk in the Ezchequer YOu shall sweare That you shall well and truly serve the King your Lord in your Office and Roome of Clerkship to the Lord Treasurer of England within this Court of the Kings Receipt and Treasury And you shall uprightly behave your selfe towards all his Subjects and Accomptants for their speedy expedition without any unjust hinderance or delay for affection meed or dread And you shall make no untrue Entry into any of the Kings Rolls or other Books of Receipt and exitus commonly called the Pelles of Receipt and Exitus whereby the King our Lord or any his Subjects may be hurt or damaged But if you shall know of any errour in them escaped speedily to be amended And you shall from time to time make or cause to be made to the Lord Treasurer of England true and perfect Declarations of all manner of Sums of Money coming in and going out of the Kings Treasury so often as the same Lord Treasurer shall demand And you shall safely preserve and keep the Kings Records Leagues and other
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 Vacati●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 dischar●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 t●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