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 Numb 30.2 If a man vow a vow unto the Lord or sweare an oath to bind his soule with a bond he shall not breake his word he shall doe according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth Heb. 6.16 For men verily sweare by the greater and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife Printed at London for W. Lee M. Walbancke D. Pakeman and G. Bedle. 1649. The Table A. ATtourney at Law 29 Allegiance 63 Attourney of the Augmentation Court 85 Auditor of the Augmentation 88 Alneger 240 Allegiance of the Duke of York and other Lords in Parliament 25 Allegiance of the Duke of York in Parliamen to Henry the 6. 258 Allegiance of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall Arch-Bishops Oath 127 Articles Matrimoniall 271 Ahjure the Land for stealing the Kings Venison Atturney of the Court of Wards 318 Auditor of the Court of Wards 321 Atturney of the first Fruits 327 Auditor of the first Fruits 329 Atturney of the Court of Survey Approver banished 208 Auditors of the Court of Survey 354 Auditor of the Exchequer 376 B. BRoker in London 69 Beadle of a Ward in London 76 Bishops Oath 141 Bayliffe to attend a Jurie 204 Bayle upon Suspition of Murther 207 Bishops Renunciation of the Popes Bull. 243 Bull of the Pope Renounced 243 Baron of the Exchequer 214 381 Bayliffe of Shewers 17 361 Barwick Souldiers â—56 Bishops Fidelitie 244 Bishops Popish 275 C. COuncell Privie 143 Councell Clerke 6 Clerke of the Chancery 9 Constable of London 75 366 Clerke of the Chechue 52 Captaines of a Band. 53 Clerke of the Parliament 61 Constable in London 19 Chancellour ef the Augmentation 80 Clerke of the Augmentation 87 Clerke of the Councell to the Prince 96 Councell of Warre 112 Councell of Wales 12â— Controversie to be compounded in Parliament betweene the Duke of Gloucester and the Bishop of Winchester 139 Councell Privie 4 Clerke of the Signet 150 Comptroller of Calice 185 Councell of Calice Captaines in Zealand 200 Chancellâ—ur of England 211 Church-wardens 393 394 Councell to Princesse Mary 109 Comptroller of the Customes 230 Customer 223 Clerke of the Statutes 236 Chancellour of the Exchequer 237 380 Clerks six of the Chancery 249 Clerks of the Pettie-Baggâ— 252 Commissioners fâ—r Sewers 360 Controversie to be compounded in Parliament betweene the Duke of Gloucester and the Bishop of Winchester 254 Chamberlaine of the Exchequer 388 Comptroller of the Kings Houshold 280 Clerke of the Court of Wards 323 Chancellour of the first Fruits 324 Clerke of the first Fruits 330 Cloths to be valued 345 Clerke of the Signet 150 Clerke of the Liveries 347 Clerke of the Court of Survey 355 Clerke of the Pleas. 385 Comptroller of the Pipe 387 D. DEputie of Calice 151 Doctor of Divinitie according to the Vniversitie of Basill 307 Decay of Castles and Forts to be Surveyed and reported 335 Deputie-Chamberlaine of the Exchequer 392 E EStates of the Subjects to be discovered 337 Esquires for the Body Evidence against a Prisoner 204 Evidence betweene partie and partie 205 Evidence upon Bills of Indictment 204 Escheator 228 389 Examiner in the Chancery 253 Estates of the Subjects to be discovered 338 Estate of the Subject to be examined 340 Estate of the Subject to be examined 341 Estate of the Subject to be examined 344 Estate of the Subject to be discovered Earle in Scotland 369 F. FReemen of London 22 Freemen of Merchâ—nt Adventurers Francke Pleadge in London 67 Fealtie 232 Fidelitie of a Bishâ—p 144 Fidelitie of the Pryor of S Johns 270 Forrester of the Forrest 300 Fealtie of the King of Scots 305 Fealtie of John King of England to the Pope 306 French Kings Oath 92 Forraigne Opposer to the Exchequer 386 G. GArnet the Jesuit 365 Governour of Barwick Garter King of Armes 113 Great Seale 148 H. HEralds of Armes 119 Homage of an Arch Bishop 127 Homage of the King of Scots 201 Homage of a Temporall Lord. 246 I. JVdge 9 Jurie to try a Prisoner at the Barre 203 Jurie to try a Nisi Prius 205 Inquest Grand 206 Judge 216 Justice for Works Weights and Measures 219 Justice to heare and determine 295 Inhabitants rf Forrests 302 Justice of Peace 313 Ingrosser of the great Roll. 377 K. KIng of Scots to King Henry 6. 201 Kings Oath 1 Kings Oath 3 King of France to observe the Statutes of the Garter King James his Servants 108 Knight of the Garter 93 Kings of Armes 115 Knights of the Round Table 125 King of Polâ—â—â—a to the Turke 126 Knights for the Body Knight of Scotland 371 Keeper of the great Seale Knight of the Bath 199 303 Kings Councell and Judges 363 King Edward the seconds Oath 201 King Charles his Oath 272 292 Knight of the Bath Keeper of the Kings Papers of State Knights and Squires 136 L. LEague and Covenant 410 Lieutenant of Guysnesse 159 Lieutenant of Calice 170 Lieutenant of Ruisbanck 179 Lieutenant of Hannues 184 Lieutenant of Newhaven 192 Lieutenant of the Tower 266 Loardisme renounced 267 Lord of Parliament in Scotland 370 M. MErchants for the true shipping Cloth to the Mart Towne 30 31 32 Marshall of Barwick 45 Master of the Woods of the Court of Augmention 84 Messenger of the Augmentation 91 Marshall of Calice 164 Marshall-Deputie of Calice 193 Mayâ—r of the Staple 241 373 Master of the Rolls 248 Mid-wives Oaths 284 Master of the Court of Wards 317 Master of the Woods of the Court of Survey 352 Messenger of the Court of Survey 356 Master of Requests Master of the Ordinance for Barwick 50 Mary Queene her Councell 109 Marshall of Calice 169 N. NVn entring into the Cloyster 290 P. POrter of Barwick 48 President of the Councell 129 Privie Seale 145 Porter of Calice 189 Portage of the Chancery 242 Pursevant at Armes 123 President of Wales 57 Prior of S. John Jerusalem 270 Protestation 405 R. REquests Master 15 Receiver of the Augmentations 89 Ranger of the Forrest 296 Regarder of the Forrest 299 Receiver of the Court of Wards 320 332 Receiver of the Court of Survey 354 Register of the Kings Papers of Estate 315 Remembrancer to the King 383 S. SErvants to the King Seavenger of London 21 Sheriffe of the Counties 24 309 Servants for the true serving of their Lords 33 Souldiers sworne for their true service 41 Supremacie 66 357 Scavengers of the Wards in London 68 Serjeants to the Sheriffe of London 72 Surveyor of the Augmentation Solicitor of the Augmentation Surveyer of the Woods in the Augmentation 86 Surveyer of the Lands in the Court of Augmentation 81 Servants of the Kings Chamber 132 Servants to the King Secretarie of State
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
be moved treated and debated in any Councell faithfully and truly declare your minde and opinion according to your heart and conscience in no wise forbearing so to do for any manner respect of favour meed dread displeasure or corruption 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 the equitie and the Order of the Law Finally You shall be vigilant diligent and circumspect in all your doings and proceedings touching the Queenes Majesty and all her Affaires All which points and Articles before expressed with all other Articles signed with the Queenes Majesties owne hand and delivered to me the Lord President of her Highnesse Councell established in those parts you shall faithfully observe keep and fulfill to the uttermost of your power wit will and cunning So help you God and the Contents of this Book The Oath that a Gâ—ntleman Vsher doth give to any that is sworne the Kings Servant in the time of H. 8. FIrst you shall sweare upon the holy Evangelists That you faith and truth shall beare unto our most gracious and most dread Soveraigne Lord and unto his Issue Kings of England Ye shall be here sworn in and unto the roome of a Gentleman Usher or c. whereunto at this present time by the Kings Highnesse Commandment you are admitted and received you shall from henceforth truly and diligently attend and wait Ye shall not know or conceale any thing prejudiciall compassed attempted or imagined against our said most gracious and most dread Soveraigne Lord the King or his Issue or any of them but you shall incontinently upon the said knowledge discover the same unto my Lord great Chamberlaine or else to Master Vice-Chamberlaine and in their absence to one of the Ushers of the Kings Chamber Ye shall not discover any secrets or other things that may touch the Kings most Honourable Councell or to the Honour of his Chamber Ye shall be obedient unto the Lord Great Chamberlaine Mr. Vice-Chamberlaine and unto the Ushers of the said Chamber and to their Commandments fully and keep to the uttermost of your power Ye shall eschew all manner of Ryots Rowtes unlawfull Assemblies and making of Bands Quarrels Debates Strifes Controversies either within the Kings Chamber or without and ye shall forbid and let the same to the uttermost of your power And yee shall let the said Officers or one of them have knowledge thereof without any further delay Ye shall not weare neither Liverie Cognizance nor Badge of no mans be retained of no man but onely to the Kings Majestie nor ye shall not retaine contrary to the Statute Ye shall not depart out of the Kings Court without License had and obtained of my Lord Great Chamberlaine or else of Master Vice-Chamberlaine or his Deputy in his absence All the which Premisses and every of them with all and singular other Commandements whatsoever they are or shall happen to bee given you in charge on the behalfe of our most Gracious and most Excellent Majestie by my Lord Great Chamberlaine Master Vice-Chamberlaine or any of the said Ushers Ye shall on your behalfe observe performe fulfill and keepe to the uttermost of your power So helpe you God and all his Saints and by the Holy Contents of this Booke The Oath Ministred to the Kings Servants as well Knights and Esquires for the Body as others in the time of Henry 8. YE shall be from henceforth during your life naturall faithfull and true and faith shal beare and faithfully and truly ye shall serve the King our Soveraigne Lord H. 8. by the grace of God King of England and France and Lord of Ireland and in earth Supreame Head of the Church of England and to his Heires of his Bodie begotten against all men that may live or die of what Estate Degree or Condition soever they be Yee shall nothing do or at tempt that in any manner of wise may be hurtfull or prejudiciall to our said Soveraigne Lord or to his Heires And if it shall happen at any time hereafter any thing to come to your knowledge that in any manner of waies be hurtfull or prejudiciall to our said Soveraigne Lord or to his Heires or that may touch the surety or honour of their persons yee shall not onely let it to the best of your power but also in all hast possible shall shew it to our Soveraigne Lord or to some of his Councell attending upon his Person so that the same may come to the knowledge of his Grace Also ye shall not be nor stand confederate nor Banded nor Band your selfe or yet be retained in any cause or matter to or with or towards any manner of person of what estate condition or degree soever he be of privily or openly neither by Promise Signe Indenture Fee nor by any other manner of wise whatsoever it be otherwise then the Law will suffer or permit you You shall also diligently serve the Kings Grace in the roome of N. N. and not depart from the Court where his Grace for the time shall be unlesse yee be licenced so to doe by his Grace or by his Lord Chamberlaine or in his absence by his Vice Chamberlaine and to be obedient in that they shall command you to doe within the Kings House or elsewhere touching the Kings service in that appertaineth to the roome of N. N. well and truly keepe and observe on your behalfe So helpe you God and all his Saints and by this Booke The Oath ministred in Parliament to the Duke of Bedford and other Lords Spirituall and Temporall for the according of all Controversies between the Duke of Glocester and the Bishop of Winchester Chancellor of England in the fourth yeare of H. 6. THat my Lord of Bedford and my said Lords Spirituall and Temporall and each of them shall as farre forth as her cunning and discretion sufficiently truly justly and indifferently counsell and advise the King and also proceed and acquit himselfe in all the said matters and quarrels withouten that they or any of them shall privily or appert make or shew himselfe or be party or parcell therein nought being or eschewing so to doe for affection love meed doubt or dread of any person or persons and that they shall in all waies keepe secret all that shall be conveyed by way of counsell 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 not of the said Councell but if he have especiall commandement thereto of the King or of my said Lord of Bedford and that each of them shall with all his might and power by him and by his strength and assist by way of Councell or else unto the King to my said Lord
of England France and Ireland and to her Heires and Successors You shall be no Thiefe nor Thiefs Feir but if you know of any you shall do the Queenes Majesties Justices to weet of them as soone as you can and you shall live by such good and true occupation as God lent you uprightly and truly so farre as God will give you grace So helpe you God and by the Contents of this Booke The Oath that is to he given to any Jury before Evidence given in against a prisoner at the Barre YOu shall true Deliverance make betweene our Soveraigne Lord the King and the Prisoner at the Barre as you shal have in charge according to your Evidence as neere as God shall give you grace So helpe you God and by the Contents of this Booke The Oath given to a Baylisse or Serjeant that attendeth on any Jury or Inquest at an Assize YOu shall well and truly keep this Inquest from meat and drinke fire and candle you shall not suffer any man to speake with them neither shall you your selfe speak with them more than to aske them If they be agreed untill such time as they be agreed So helpe you God and by the Contents of this Booke The Oath for Evidence upon the Arraignement of the Prisoner at the Barre THe Evidence that you shall give to this Inquest against the Prisoner at the Barre shall be the truth and the whole truth and nothing but the truth as neere as God shall give you grace So help you God and by the Contents of this Booke The Oath to be given by any jury by whom a Nisi prius is to be tried YOu shall truly try this Suit of Nisi prius betweene party and party according to the Evidence as shall be given you in Court as neere as God shall give you grace So help you God and by the Contents of this Booke The Oath to be given to such as are to give Evidence betweene a party and party at an Nisi prius THe Evidence that you shall give to this Inquest concerning the matter in variance shall be the truth and the whole truth and nothing but the truth so neere as God shall give you grace So helpe you God and by the Contents of this Booke The same Oath that your foreman hath sworne you of your part shall well and truly keepe So help you God and by the Contents of this Booke The Oath of the great Inquest YE shall truly enquire and due presentment make of all such things as you are charged withall on the Queenes behalfe the Queenes Councell your owne and your fellowes you shall well and truly keepe And in al other things the truth present So help you God and by the Contents of this Booke The Oath of those that give Evidence upon Bils of indictment THe Evidence that you shall give to the Inquest upon this Bill shall be the truth and the whole truth and nothing but the truth And you shall not let so to do for malice hatred or evill will nor for meed dread favour or affection So helpe you God and the holy Contents of this Booke The Oath of such as are to be bayled upon suspition for Felony or Murder J A. B. shall from henceforth during all my life be true Liegeman and true faith beare unto our Soveraigne Ladie Elizabeth and to her Heires and Successors Kings and Queenes of this Realme and shall commit no Murder Treason or Misprision of Treason nor consent or agree to any such Offence nor shall know any perill or damage to his Grace or to the Realme or other Dominions aforesaid but shall reveale and disclose it with all speed unto such as have the Lawes in Government nor shall commit any Felony or Murder or be accessary to any such Offence or Offences but shall live a good and an obedient Subject during my life So helpe me God and the Contents of this Booke The Oath of the Approver banished HOc Audis due Coronator quod Ego A A. sum Latronius equi vel Alterius Rei vel Homicidia unius per homines vel Plurimorum fel. Dom. Regis H. quia multa Mula Latricinia Perpetram in hac Terra abjura Regnum H. Regis Anglia deheo me festinare versus portum de c. quem dedisse mihi quod non debeo devertere ab altu via et si faciam volo quod sivi captus sicut latro fel. Dom. Regis ut quod apud c. queram diligentur Transitum meum non expectabo ibi visi fluxum et refluxum maris unum si transitus haberi poterit visi Tanto Spatio abire potero iho quolibet die in mare usque ad genua tentane transire visi hoc potero infra 40. dios continues mittum me iterum in ecelesium sicut latero fel. Dom. Regis sic me Deus adjuvet secundum judicium The Oath which Philip Duke of Burgoyne tooke acknowledging and promising to obey King H. 5. as the right Inheritor of the Kingdom of France After Charles the first Kings Death I Philip Duke of Eurgoyne For me and my Heires sweare and make Oath upon these holy Evangelists to Henry of England and Heire Apparant and Regent of France by the Soveraigne Lord King Charles that meekly and faithfully shall obey the same King Henry in all things that appertaine to the King of France as to the Commonweale of the same Realme immediately after the death of the said King Charles our Soveraigne Lord we shall be true and faithfull Leiges to the said King Henry his Heires and Successors and furthermore we shall not be of Councell nor give our consent to no things that may be to the prejudice of the same King H. his Heires and Successors wherein they may suffer any derogation or detriment of their bodies of their Members Possessions or Honours And if we know of any conspiracie against him his Heires or Successors in all the hast to us possible either by our Letters or else by our Trustie Messengers to declare That they may the better provide to eschew the perills thereof When the Dukes Oath was thus finished as many as were present there both of the Kings Councell and also of the Parliaments Bishops Lords Knights and Commons made the same Oath to the King and 23 and 24. dayes of the same moneth of May 14. the Chancellor of France and many other Lords Bishops Prelats and Noblemen of the Realme gave the like Oath to King H The Oath of the Chancellor of England YEE shall swearâ— That well All the Oathes marked with this mark were Copied out of an old Roll in Parchment remaining in the Office of the Petty Bagg in January 1625. and truly yee shall serve our Soveraigne Lord the King and his People in the Office of Chancellor ye shall do Right to all manner of People Poore and Rich after the Lawes and usuages of this Realme and truly
Limits be duly put in Execution You shall have a watchfull eye to such persons as shall maintaine or keepe any common house or place where any unlawfull Games is or shall be used As also to such as shall frequent or use such places or shall use or exercise any unlawfull Games there or elsewhere contrarie to the Statutes at your Assizes Sessions or Leet You shall present all and everie the offences done contrarie to the Statutes made 1. Jacob. 4. Jacob. 21. Jacob. Regis to restraine the inordinate hunting and tipling in Innes Ale-houses and other Victualling-houses and for repressing of drunkennesse You shall true representment make of all Blood-shedding Affraies Out-cryes Rescuous and other Offences committed or done against the Kings Majesties Peace within your Limits And you shall have a care for the maintenance of Archerie according to the Statute You shall well duly execute all Receipts and Wa rants to you directed from the Justices of this Countie And yee shall well and dulie according to your knowledge power and abilitie doe and execute all other things belonging to the Office of a Constable so long as you shall continue in this Office So help you God The Oath of a Duke and Earle in Scotland to their King YOu shall fortifie and defend the true and Christian Religion and Christs holy Evangell presently preached in this Realme and shall be loyall and true to our Soveraigne Lord the Kings Majestie and shall defend his Highnesse Realme and Lieges from all Aliens and Strangers at the uttermost of your power So helpe you God and by the Oath that yee have else made The Oath of a Lord of Parliament in Scotland YEE shall give due andfaithfull Councell to our Soveraign Lord the Kings Majesties Wea le publiquely in Parliament as in all other places needfull and secretly according to you knowledge for the preservation of his Highnesse most noble Person his Royall Estate Lieges and Realme and Common weale thereof And shall never Heile nor conceyle any point of Treason or Crime Leismajestie that shall appeare to be conspired against his said Royall Person but shall incontinent with all possible diligence reveale the same So help you God and by the Oath that yee have else made The Oath of a Knight of Scotland 1. I Shall fortifie and defend the Christian Religion and Christs holy Evangell presently preached in this Realme to the uttermost of my power 2. I shall be Loile and true to my Soveragine Lord the Kings Majestie to all Orders of Chivalrie and to the Noble Office of Armes 3. I shall fortifie and defend Justice at my power and that with favour or feed 4. I shall never flye from my Soveraigne Lord the Kings Majestie nor from his Highnesse Lieutenants in time of Mellay and Battaile 5. I shall defend my Native Realme from all Alieners and Strangers 6. I shall defend the just occasion and quarrell of all Ladies of Honour of all true and friendlesse Widowes of Orphans and of Maidens of good same 7. I shal do diligence wheresoever I hear there is any Murtherers Traytors or masterfull Reavers that Oppresseth the Kings Laeges and poore people to bring them to the Law at my power 8. I shall maintaine and uphold the Noble estate of Chivalrie with Horse Harnesse and other Knightly Habillements and shall helpe and succour them of the same Order if they have need 9. I shall enquire and seeke to have the knowledge and understanding of all the Articles and Points contained in the Booke of Chivalrie All these premisses to observe keep and faithfull I oblige me So helpe me God by my owne hand so help me God c. The Oath of the Mayor of London and Oxford as it is entred in the Red Book of the Exchequer YEE shall sweare That yee shall serve well and truely our Soveraigne Lord the King in the Office of Mayoraltie in the Citie of London or Oxenford and the same Citie Yee shall surely and safely unto the use of our said Soveraigne Lord the King of England and of his Heires Kings of England and the Profit of the King yee shall doe in all things that to you longeth and the Right of the King and that that longeth to the Crowne yee shall truely keepe Yee shall not assent unto decrees nor concealment of the Rights nor of the Franchize of the King or of the Crown be it in Lands Rents or â—n Franchizes or in Suits concealed or withdrawn you shall put your power to call it againe And if yee may not doe it yee shall tell unto the King or to those of his Councell of whom yee shall understand for to be certaine that they shall enform the King thereof And yee shall truly and right-wisely treat the people of your Baylie and right yee shall doe to every person as well to Stranger as to privie to poore as to rich in that that belongeth to you for to doe And that for highnesse nor for riches for gift promise favour nor hate yee shall no wrong doe to any person nor to any man yee shall the right let Yee shal not take whereby the King may leese or by which the right may be letted And also that ye may set good keeping upon the â—â—ssize of Bread Wine Fish Flesh Corne and all other Victuals and also of Weights and Measures in the said Citie doing sad and due execution upon the defaults that there shall be found according to all the Statutes thereof made not repealed and that in all things to the May or of the said Citie longing for to doe well and truely you shall have you and doe So helpe you God and holydome The Oath of the Sub-Treasurer as it is entred in the Red Booke of the Exchequer YEE Shall well and truely serve the King our Soveraine Lord in the roome of Under-Treasurer of this his Exchequer and in the Receipt of the same and well and truly survey and order as wel the Receipts of all sums of money payd and to be payd to the Kings use in the said Receipt as the issue of the same And well and truly behave have your selfe in the same roome So helpe you God and all Saints and the holy Evangelists The Oath of the Auditor of the Exchequer as it is entred in the Red Booke of the Exchequer YEE shall sweare That yee shall truely serve the King our Soveraign Lord in the Office of one of the Auditors of this Exchequer during the time yee shall have the same And well and truly yee shall intreat and with all goodly speed yee shall rid such persons as shall be by this Court Assigned to Accompt before you Yee shall not take of any person whereby the Kings Majestie may lose nor consent to any untruth And right yee shall doe to every Accomptant that shall have to doe before you according to your wit and discretion and safely and surely keepe such Records Writs and other Mynuments of this Court as shall be committed for
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
by any meanes that may be prejudiciall or contrary to the premisses or any of them But that I shall as soone as I may have knowledge put me in my undelayed devovre in most heartie and effectuous wise and manner without colour or faintnesse with my bodie goods might power counsell and advertisements to resist withstand and subdue all them that would in any wise presume to do contrary to the premisses or any of them So God me help and those holie Evangelists In witnesse whereof I set to these Presents my Seale and my Signe Manuell The Oath of the Lieutenant of the Tower of London YOu shall sweare That you shall well and truly serve the Kings Majestie in the Lieutenancie of the Tower of London and the same Tower yee shall faithfully and safely keepe to the behalfe of his Majestie his Heires and lawfull Successors And the profit of the Kings Majestie ye shall do and advance in all things that you as Lieutenant of the Tower belongeth And the Rights and Priviledges of the Towre that to the same lawfully appertaine you shall keepe and preserve You shall heare nothing that may be hurtfull to the Tower or prejudiciall to his Majestie but that with all convenient speed you shall disclose it to some of his Majesties Privie Councell In these and all other things that to a Lieutenant of the Tower belongeth to do well and faithfully you shall according to your best power and knowledge performe fulfill and keepe So help you God c. The Oath ministred to certaine persons for the renouncing of their profession of Lollardisme in Rich. 2. his time vide Claus Anno Rich. 2. Nov. 18. Dorso MEmorandum quod primo die Decembris Anno Regni Regis Rich. 2. Post Conquestum 19 Willus Divet Nichus Taylor Nichus Poncher Will Staynor de Nottingham in Canc. prim Regis Personaliter Constit Sacram. divisim prestiteriut sub eo qui sequitur Tenore I William Deonet before you worshipful Fader Lord Arch-Bishop of Yorke and your Clergie with my free will and full advised sweare to God and all his Saints upon the holy Gospell That for this day forthward I shall worship Images with praying and offering unto them in the worship of Saints that they be made offer And also I shall never despise Pilgrimage ne States of holy Church in no degree And also I shall be Buxim to the Lawes of holie Church and to yhorne as my Arch-Bishop and to my other Ordinaries and Curates and keepe your Lawes upon my power and maintaine them And also I shall never more maintaine ne teachen ne defend a Errour Conclusions ne teachings of the Lollards ne swich Conclusions and Teachings that men clepite Lollards Doctrine ne shall her Bookes ne swich Bookes ne hem or any suspect or defamed of Lollardie receive or company withall wittingly or defend in your matters And if I know any swich and also I shall excite and stirre all tho to good Doctrine that I have hindered with my Doctrine up my power And also I shall stand to your Declaration which is Heresie or Errour and do thereafter and also with Pennance yhe wooke for that I have done for maintaining of this false Doctrine inmyns me I shall fulfill it and I submit me thereto up my power And also I shall make no other glosse of this mine Oath but as the words stand And if it be so that I come againe or do againe this or any part thereof I yeeld me here comptable as an Heretick and to be punished by the Law as an Heretick and to forfeit all my Goods to the Kings will withouten any other processe of Law And thereto I require the Notarie to make of all this the which is my will and instrument against me The Oath of Fidelity by the Priour of St. Johns of Ierusalem in Dorso Claus Anno 14. Edw. 4. Nov. 5. I shall be faithfull and true and faith and truth shall beare to the King our Soveraigne and to his Heires Kings of England of Life and Limbe and of Earthly worship for to Live and Die against all people and diligently I shall be attendant unto the Kings needes and businesses after my wit and power and to him and to his Commandments in that that to me attaineth and belongeth I shall be obeysant As God me helpe and his Saints A Copie of Oath of the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and the rest of the Kings Councell sworne for performance of the Articles Matrimonial treated and had betweene the High and mighty Prince Charles Prince of Wales and the highnesse of the Infanta of Spaine and their commissaries on both Parties the 20 Iuly 1625. I George Archbishop of Canterbury doe sweare that I will Justifie and faithfully observe so much as in me lyeth all and each of the Articles which are contained in the Treaty of Matrimony betweene the most Excellent Prince Charles Prince of Wales and the most Excellent Lady the Lady Mary Infanta of Spaine And I doe also sweare That I will neither Execute nor cause to be Executed any Law made against any Romane Cotholique or exact any paine imposed thereby neither by my selse nor any inferior Ministers serving under me but in all things appertaining unto me I will faithfully observe the orders of the Kings Majestie in this behalfe made and provided The Oath which King Chaarles tooke at the time of his Coronaion AFter the Sermon was done the Archbishop of Cauteebury came to the King and with a low voyce inquires of his Majesty saying SIR will you grant and keepe and by your Oath confirme to the people of England their Lawes and Customes to them granted by the Kings of England your lawfull and religious predecessors and namly the lawes Customes and Franchizes granted to the Clergie and to the People by the King Saint Edward your predecessor according and comformable to the Lawes of God and profession of the Gospell established in this Kingdome and agreeing to the prerogatives of the Kings thereof and to the ancient Customes of this Realme Respons I grant and promise to keepe Sir will you keepe peace and agreement entierly according to your power both to God the holy Church the Clergie and the People Respons I will keepe it Sir will you to your power cause Law Justice and mercie in discretion and truth to be executed in all your Judgements Respons I will Sir will you grant to hold and keepe the Lawes and rightfull Customes which the Communalty of your Kingdome have and to defend and uphold them to the Honour of God so much as in you lyeth Respons I grant and promise so to doe Legatur Admonitio sequens ab uno Episcopo coram omnibus Clars voce sic dicendo Domine Rex a vohis perdonaci petimus vnicuique de nobis Ecclesiis omnis commssis Canonicum Privilegium debitam legem atque justitiam conservetis defentiones exhibiatis sicut Rex in suo Regno debet vnicuique Episcopo