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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

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

they shall not be found contrary to our Religion Catholique Greatnesse and Majestie Royall nor to the Stat●tes and Ordinances of our two Orders of the blessed Holie Ghost and of Saint Mich●el In witnesse whereof wee have Signed this present with our owne Hand and caused the same to be sealed with our Privie Seale at Paris the last day of February Anno 1585. Henry Prilart The Oath of a Knight of the Garter at his first admission as it was used in the time of King P. and Queene Mary YOu being chosen to be one of the Honourable Companions of the most Honourable Order of the Garter shall promise and by those holy Evange ifts by you manifestly touched sweare truly and faithfully to observe and keepe all the Statutes of the said Order and every Article in the same contained for so much as to you pertaines and belongs And further That you shall help to defend and maintanine so much as in you lieth the Rights and Liberties of the Colledge of our blessed Ladie and Saint George the Martyr wherein the Honourable Order of the Ga●ter shall be founded The Oath ministred to them of the Kings Chamber by the Lord Chamberlaine in the time of King H. 8. Ia. B. sweare by the holy Evangelist That I faith and truth shall beare unto our Soveraigne Lord Henry 8 King of England and of France and Lord of Ireland and unto the Quene our Soveraigne Ladie his wife and to their issue and in and upon the Office of C. D. I shall duly and truly await and attend unto which at this time I am admitted and received I shall not know any Treason or thing prejudiciall compassed attempted or imagined against our Soveraigne Lord or Soveraigne Ladie or their Issue or any of them but I shall incontinent upon the said knowledge discover it unto our Lord Chamberlaine or unto his Deputie if he have any or in their absence to one of their Ushers in the said Chamber I shall not discover any secrets or things that may happen to come to mine eares that shall touch the Kings Councell or the honour of his Chamber And I shall be obedient unto my said Lord Chamberlaine and unto his said Deputie if he have any and unto the said Ushers and their Commandments diligently faithfully observe and keepe to my power I shall eschiew all manner of Riots making of Bandies Quarrels or Debate either within the said Chamber or without but I shall forbid and let all such inconveniences as far forth as I may And also let the said Officers or one of them have knowledge thereof Also I shall not depart out of the Kings Court without License appointed and had of my said Lord Chamberlaine or of his Deputie if he have any Which Premisses and every of them with all other Commandments to be given on the behalfe of our said Soveraigne Lord by my said Lord Chamberlaine or his said Deputie if he have any or any of the said Ushers I shall faithfully observe obey and keep to the uttermost of my power So help me God and his Saints The Oath ministred to the Clerke of the Councell to Prince Henry Sonne to King James YOu shall sweare That well and truly you shall serve the High and Mighty Prince ●enry Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwall and Earle of Chester in the Office and Clerks of his Councell and matters committed to you or treated of by his Councell to be kept secret you shall faithfully keep And you shall not know nor understand nor suffer any thing tending to the hurt or dis●heriting of his Highnesse be decreased by any meanes so far forth as ye may lett it and if ye may not let it ye shall make it clearely and expresly known to his Highnesse And that ye shall do and procure and purchase his Highnesse profit in all that ye reasonably may As God you help Perused and examined by Mr. Stevens the Princes Attorney The Oath to be ministred to any of King James his Servants in ordinary or extraordinary YOu shall sweare Faithfully and truly to serve our Soveraigne Lord the King James of Great Bri●taine France and Ireland his Heires and Successore You shall serve him in the roome and place of N. N. in ordinary You shall know nothing that shall be prejudiciall to his Person his State his Crowne or Dignitie but you shall with all diligence make it knowne to the Lord Chamberlaine Vice-Chamberlaine or some other of his Majesties mest Honourable Privie Councell You shall be obedient to the Lord Chamberlaine Vice-Chamberlaine and Gentlemen-Ushers in all matters tending to his Majesties service So helpe you God and Jesus Christ The Oath ordained to be miniflred to Princesse Maries Councell when her houshold was established in the 17. yeare of King H. 8. YOu shall be true and faithfull unto the King our Soveraigne Lord King Henry 8 and unto his Heires and Successors Kings of England And ye shall be faithfull and true unto my Ladie Princesse Grace And ye shall according to your wit discretion knowledge and experience give unto her true and faithfull counsell in all things as shall be demanded of you by way of good advice and counsell Ye shall also keepe secret and conserve her said counsell without disclosing of the same to any person except he be of the same Councell And if the matter touch any of the said Councell ye shall not disclose the same unto him Ye shall not also promote nor further any matter in her said Councell for any Meed Reward Favour Affection or Displeasure And in case you shall perceive any thing to be done or attempted contrary to her Honour Estate Degree or Suretie ye shall to the uttermost of your power withstand and let the same And generally You shal do all manner of things that unto a good true and faithfull Councellor shall appertaine So help you God and the holy Contents of this Book The Oath ministred to the Treasurers of Warre for the Receipt and Issues of the three Subsidies and three Fifteens granted by Act of Parliament in the 21. yeare of King James YOu shall sweare That you being appointed one of the Treasurers for the receiving of the three Subsidies and three Fifteenes and Tenths granted by the Temporaltie Shall not issue any part of those Monies which shall be paid unto your hands or unto the hands of any other by your appointment or consent without the speciall Warrants of those Persons which are by his Majesty appointed to be of his Councell for the Warres and in this Act nominated or of five of them at the least whereof two of them to be such as are of His Majesties Privie Councell under their Hands The Oath ministred to the Councell of Warre for the true imploying of the three Subsidies and three Fifteens granted by Act of Parliament in the 21. yeare of King James YOu shall sweare That you being one of the Councell of Warre chosen by His Majesty and nominated in

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 G●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

the English Seminaries of the Romish institution use to take I John Copley Collegiall of the English Seminary duly considering the great benefits which Almighty God hath bestowed upon me and that especially whereby he hath drawne me out of the Country infected with Heresie and made me a Member of his true Catholike Church and desiring not to shew my selfe altogether ingrate unto Gods so great mercy I have freely decreed to consecrate and offer up my selfe wholly unto his divine service for attaining as much as in me lyeth to the end of the said Colledge And I doe promise confirme by this mine Oath unto Almightie God that I am and shall be ever most readie in mind by the assistance of his holy grace to receive in due time Holy Orders and to returne into England there to gaine Soules whensoever the Superiour of this Colledge shal thinke good by vertue of his Office to command me thereto The Oath of a Knight of the Bathe as it was Ministred at the Coronation of King Charles Anno 162. RIght deare Brother great Worship be this Order unto you And the Almightie God give you the praise of all Knight-hood You shall love God above all things yee shall bee stedfast in the Faith of Christ and the same maintain and defend to your power You shall love your Soveraigne above all earthly creatures and for your Soveraigne and your Soveraignes Right and Dignitie live and dye You shall defend Maidens Widowes and Orphans in their Rights You shall suffer no Extortion so far forth as you may nor fit in place to heare any wrongfull Judgments given to your knowledge And as great Honour be this Noble Order unto you as ever it was to your Progenitors The Oath of Fealtie taken by John Balioll King of Scots to the King of England THis heare you my Lord Edward King of England Soveraigne Lord of the Realm of Scotland that I John de Balioll King of Scotland which I hold and claime to hold of you that I shall be faithfull and loyall and owe faith and loyaltie to you I shall beare of life and member and of earthly honour against all people And lawfully I shall acknowledge and doe the services which I owe to you for the Realme of Scotland aforesaid So God me helpe and his Holy Evangelists The Oath and Fealtie made by King John to Pope Innocentius Anno Dom. 1213. Anno R. Joh. 14 John by the grace of God King of England France and Ireland from this houre forward shall be faithfull to God and to Saint Peter and to the Church of Rome and to my L. Pope Innocentius and to his Successors lawfully entring I shall not be in word nor deed in consent or counsell that they should lofe life or member or bee apprehended in evill manner Their losse if I may know it I shall Impeach and stay so farre as I shall be able or else so shortly as I can I shall signifie unto them and declare to such persons the which I shall believe will declare the same unto you The counsell which they shall commit unto me by themselves their messengers or their Letters I shall keepe secretly and not utter to any man to their hurt to my knowledge The Patrimony of Saint Peter and especially the Kingdome of England and Ireland I shall endeavour my selfe to defend against all men to my power So helpe me God and these Holy Evangelists Amen This Fealtie was done on the Eve of the Ascention of our Lord in the yeare Anno 1213. The Oath of a Doctor of Divinitie according to the practice of the Vniversitie of Basill Ornatissime Vir Sacrarum Literarum canditate D. Doctissime Hodie coram Amplissimo hoc concessu pormittis atque fidem das in conspectu Sacrosancti Adorandae Trinitatis cui te Hactenus Totum Addixisti Consecrati studiis laboribus Vigilliis tuis quod velis doctrinam Puram a Prophetis Apostelis ae Patribus Melioris Notae Acceptam in corrupte in Scolis Ecclesiisque docere Dogmata Pugnantia cum dei verbo quantum vis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 habeant nulla vel Seminare vel tueri per totam vitam eruditioni ac gradui sermone Actionibus morum gravitatem conjungere eam que Theologie docet et sit avera 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 comoda nostrae Reipublicae Symnasii utilitatem ac in Primis Ordinis Theologici salutem quantum in te fuerit Perpetuo promonere Indignes Ambitioses contentioses à dignitatis titula quem docturatam Appellamus longe Abarcere denique cum universis Fratribus sinceram Religionem profitentibus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 insigne conjunctionis vinculum Colore Alere aeternum Amen The Oath of a Sheriffe of a Count●e according as it was reformed by direction of the Kings Councell the 4. of Decemb Anno 1625. YEE shall sweare That well and truely yee shall serve the King in the Office of the Sheriffe of the Countie of B. and doe the Kings Profits in all that belongeth to you to doe by way of your Office as farre forth as you may or can Yee shall truely keepe the Kings and all that be ongeth to the Crowne Yee shall not assent to decrease to lesson ne to concealement of any of the Kings Rights or of his Franchizes And whensoever yee shall have knowledge that the Kings Rights or the Rights of the Crowne bee concealed or withdrawne be it in Lands Rents Franchizes or Suits or any other thing Ye● shall doe your true power to make them be restored to the King againe And if he may not doe it yee shall certifie the King or some of his Councell thereof such as you know for certaine will say it unto the King Yee shall not respite the Kings debts for any gift or favour where yee may rayse them without great grievance of the debtor Yee shall truely and righteously treat the people of your Sheriffe wick and doe right as well to poore as to rich in all that belongeth to your Office Yee shall doe no wrong to any man for any gift or other behest or promise of goods for favour nor hate Yee shall disturbe no mans right yee shall acquit at the Exchequer all those of whom yee shall any thing receive of the Kings debts Yee shall nothing take whereby the King may lose or that right may be letten or disturbed or the Kings debt delayed Yee shall truely returne and truely serve the Kings Writs as farre forth as it shall be in your cunning Yee shall not have to be your Unde-Sheriffe any of the Sheriffes Clerks of the last yeare passed Yee shall take no Bayliffe into your service but such as you will answer for Yee shall make each of your Bayliffs make such Oath as you make your selfe in that that belongeth to their Occupation Yee shall receive no Writs by you nor any of yours unsealed nor any Sealed under the Seale of any Justice save of Justice in Eyre or Justice assigned

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YEE shall sweare To beare Faith Truth and Obedience all only to the Kings Majestie and to his Heires of his bodie of his most deare and entirely beloved lawfull Wife Queene Anne begotten and to be begotten And further 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 Realme mentioned and contained not to any other within this Realme nor for any Authoritie or Potentate And in case any Oath be made or hath been made by you to any person or persons that then yee repute the same as vaine and Adnihillate And that to your cunning wit and uttermost of you power without guile fraud or other undue meane yee shall observe keepe maintaine and defend the said Succession all the whole effects and contents thereof and all other Acts and Statutes made in confirmation or for execution of the same or of any thing therin contained and this yee shall doe against all manner of persons of what Estate Dignitie Degree or Condition soever they be and in no wise doe or attempt nor to your power suffer to be done or attempted directly or indirectly any thing or things privately or appartly to the let hindrance dammage or derogation thereof or of any part of the same by any manner of means or for any manner of pretence So helpe you God all Saints and the holy Evangelists The Oath taken for the establishment of the Succession of the Crown of this Realme in the Kings Highnesse by Queen Jane An. 28. H. 8. Ca. 7. YEE shall sweare To beare Faith Truth and Obedience all only to the Kings Majestie Supreame Head in earth under God of the Church of England during his life and to his Heires of his bodie and of his most deare and entirely beloved lawfull Wife Queen Jane begotten and to be begotten and Procreated And further 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 Realme As the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster the 8 day of June in the 28. yeare of the Kings most gracious Raigne And also for lack of such heires to such person or persons as the Kings Highnesse shall limit and appoint to succeed to the Crowne by vertue and authoritie of the same Act and not to any other within this Realm nor for any authoritie power or Potentate And in case any other Oath be made or hath been made by you to any person or persons that then yee to repute the same as vaine Adninillate and that to your cunning wit and uttermost of your power without guile fraud or other undue manner Yee shall observe keep defend and maintaine the said Act of Succession made in the said Parliament begun and holden at Westminster in the said 8 day of June in the said 28. yeare of the Kings most Royall Raign and all the whole effects and contents thereof and all things that shall be done by the Kings Highnesse by authoritie of the same and all other Acts and Statutes made in confirmation or execution of the same or any thing therein contained And this yee shall doe against all manner of persons of what Estate Dignitie Degree or condition soever they be and in no wise doe or attempt nor to your power suffer to be done or attempted directly or indirectly any thing or things privately or appartly to the let hindrance dammage or derogation thereof or any part of the same or of any thing or things that shall be done by the Kings Highnesse by vertue and authoritie of the said Act by any manner of meanes or for any manner of pretence So help you God all Saints and the holy Evangelists The Oath of the Commissioners appointed for inquiry of the decay of Castles Forts and other places neare Scotland and for Reparation of the same Anno 2. 3. P. 4. M. Ca. 1. YEE shall sweare That to your cunning wit power yee shall truely and indifferently execute the Authority to you given by this Commission without any favour affection corruption dread or malice to be borne to any manner of person or persons and as the case shall remaine you shall consent and endeavour your selfe for your part to the best of your knowledge and power to the making of such wholesome just equall and indifferent Lawes and Ordinances as shall be made and devised by the most discreet and indifferent number of your selves being in Commission with you for the making errection and preservation of all everie such things as are contained and specified in the said Commission and the same Lawes and Ordinances to your cunning wit and power cause to be put in due execution without favour meed malice or affection As God you helpe and all Saints The Oath of such as were Sworne to declare the true value of their Estates towards the payment of the 15. Dismes and Subsidies An. 2. 3. P. M. Ca. 23. I Shall faithfully truely and plainely according to my knowledge shew unto you the King and Queenes Commissioners and to others by you asfigned the best and greatest value of all my goods and chattells and summes of money to me owing according to the grant of this Act of Subsidie and truely answer to that I shall be examined of touching the premisses without coven or deceipt So help me God and the holy contents of this Book The Oath of such as were to make inquirie of the value of Goods and Lands of such persons as were lyable to the payment of Fifteenes Dismes and Subsidies Anno 4. 5. P. M. Ca. 6. I Shall truly enquire with my fellowes that shall be charged with me of the Hundred Wapentake Ward Towne and other places of the best and most value of the substance of every person dwelling and abiding within the limits of the places that I and my fellowes shall be charged with and of other which shall have his or their most resort unto any of the said places and chargeable with any sum of money by this Act of the said Subsidie and of all other Articles that I shall be charged with touching the said Act and according to the intent of the same and thereupon as neare as it may be or shall come to my knowledge truely to present and certifie before you the names fir-names and the best and uttermost substance and values of every of them as well of Lands Tenaments and other Hereditaments Possessions and Profits as of Goods Chattells Debts and other things chargeable by the said Act without any concealment favour love affection dread feare or malice as neare as God will give me grace So help me God and the holy contents of this Booke The Oath of such as were to make enquirie of the value of the Goods and Lands of such persons as were lyable to the payment of Fifteenes Dismes and Subsidies Anno 6.