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A85811	The book of oaths, and the severall forms thereof, both antient and modern. Faithfully collected out of sundry authentike books and records, not heretofore extant, compiled in one volume. Very useful for all persons whatsoever, especially those that undertake any office of magistracie or publique imployment in the Common-wealth. Whereunto is added a perfect table.	Garnet, Richard, S.J., attributed name.	1649 (1649)	Wing G264; Thomason E1129_1; ESTC R202149	108,262	410

use of their Weapons and other Feates of Warre convenient for them and at the least you shall cause the same to be done every fourteene daies in Summer once and every twenty daies in Winter You shall not permit any of your Band to take any more Victuals or other Wares within that Towne then his Wages will discharge You shall with your Band Watch and Ward for the defence of this Towne as you shall be appointed by the Marshall and Governour thereof You shall not depart out of the Towne and Marches further then the Orders of the Towne doe permit without leave of the Governour of the Towne or in his absence by his Deputie under their Writings and Seale mentioning the time of your leave to be absent and before your departure if it shall be longer then for three daies you shall present your selfe to the Treasurer or his Deputy giving notice unto them for the time licenced you for absence and at your returne you shall also give notice to the said Treasurer and Clerke of the Checque You shall also be obedient to the Governour and to the other Counsellors of this Towne and shall obey all Statutes and Ordinances of the same The Oath of every private Sauldier in Barwicke YOu shell sweare To be good and true to our Sovereigne Lady the Queene and to the Governour of this Towne for Her Ma●esties service and truly doe as much as in you shall lye to keepe this Towne alwaies true English and in good obedience to the Governour Marshall and other Officers thereof and you shall be governed by your Captaine within any Debate or Rebellion and if you shall know any thing hut full to the state of this Towne or to any part thereof you shall forthwith disclose the same either to your Captaine or to the Governour or to one of the Courncell of the Towne You shall keepe such Armour and Weap●n as you are by your Captaine limited to have without wilfull spoile or selling thereof except it be to provide better You shall keepe all other Ordinances of this Towne that ma● any waies pertaine to you to keepe The Oath of the Lord President of the Councell in the Marehe● of Wales YOu shall sweare To the uttermost of your power will and ●unning that you shall be true and faithfull to the Queenes Highnesse our Soveraign● Lady and to her Heires and Successors and that you doe utterly testifie and declare in your conscience that the Queenes Highnesse is the only supreame Governour of this Realme and of all other Her Highnesse Dominions and Countries as well in all Spirituall and Ecclesiasticall things or Causes as Temporall and that no Forraigne Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Jurisdiction Power Superiority Preeminence or Authoritie Ecclesiasticall or Spirituall within this Realme And that you doe utterly renounce and forsake all Forraigne Jurisdictions Powers Superiorities and Authorities and doe promise that from hence forth you shall beare faith and true Allegiance to the Queenes Highnesse her Heires and Successors and to your power shall assist and defend all Juris●●ctions Priviledges Preeminencies and Authorities granted or belonging to the Queenes Highnesse her Heires and Successors or united and annexed to the Imperiall Crowne of this Realme 2. You shall not know nor hear any thing that may in any wise be prejudiciall to her Highnesse or her Common-wealth peace and quiet of her Highnesse Realme but you shall with all diligence reveale and discover the same to her Highnesse or to such other person or persons of her Graces Privy Councell as you shall think meet and will soonest convey and bring it to her Highnesse 3. You shall serve her Highnesse truly and faithfully in the roome and place of one of her Graces Councell 4. You shall in all things to be moved treated and debated in any Councell faithfully and truly declare your minde and opinion according to your heart and conscience no wise forbearing so to do for any manner respect of favour meed displeasure or corruption 5. You shall faithfully and uprightly to the best of your power cause Justice to be duly and indifferently Ministred to the Queenes Majesties Subjects that shall have cause to sue for the same according to equity and to the Order of the Law F●●ally You shall be vigilant and circumspect in all your doings and proceedings touching the Queenes Ma●esty and her Highnesse Affaires All which points and Articles before expressed with all other Articles Signed with the Queens Majesties Hand and delivered to me the Lord President of her Highnesse Councell established in these parts you shall faithfully keepe and fulfill to the uttermost of your power wit will and cunning So God you help and the contents of this Booke The Oath of the Clerke of the Parliament YOu shall be true faithfull and truth you shall beare to our Soveraigne Lord the King and to his Heires and Successors You shall nothing know that shall be prejudiciall to his Highnesse his Crowne State and Dignity Royall but that you shall resist to your power and with all speed ye shall advertise his Grace thereof at the least some of his Councell in such wise as the same may come to his knowledge Ye shall also well and truly serve his Highnesse in the Office of Clerke of his Parliament making true entry and Records of the things done and past in the same Ye shall keep secret all such matters as shal be treated in his said Parliament and not disclose the same before it shall be published but to such as they ought to be disclosed unto And generally ye shall well and truly do and execute all things belonging unto you to be done appertaining to the Office of Clerke of the Parliament as God you help c. The Oath of Allegiance I A. B. Do truly and sincerely acknowledge professe testifie and declare in my conscience before God and the world That our Soveraigne Lord King James is lawfull King of this Realme and of all other his Majesties Dominions and Countries and that the Pope neither of himselfe nor by any Authority of the Church or Sea of Rome or by any other meanes with any other hath any Power or Authority to depose the King or to dispose of any of his Majesties Kingdomes or Dominions or to authorize any Forraigne Prince to invade or annoy him or his Countries or to discharge any of his Subjects of their Allegiance and obedience to His Majesty or to give License or leave to any of them to beare Armes raise Tumults or to offer any violence or hurt to his Majesties Royall Person State or Government or to any of His Majesties Subjects within His Majesties Dominions Also I do ●weare from my heart that notwithstanding any Declaration or sentence of Excommunication or Deprivation made or granted or to be made or granted by the Pope of his Successors or by any Authoritie derived or prie●ended to be derived from him or his Sea against

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

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 ●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 ●●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

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