your Bayliffes to make such Oath as yee make your selfe in that that belongeth to their occupation yee shall receive no Writ by you or any of yours unsealed or any sealed under any â—eale of any Justice save of Justice in Eyre or Justice Assigned in the same Shire where ye be Sheriffe in or other Justice having power or Authority to make any Writs unto you by the said Law of the Land or any Justice of Newgate yee shall make your Bayliffes of the true and sufficient men in the Country also yee shall doe all your paine and diligence to destroy and make to cease all manner of Heresies and Errors commonly called Lollers within your Bayliffewick from time to time to all your power and assist and be helping to all Ordinaries and Commissaries of holy Church and favour and maintaine them as oft times as yee shall be required by the said Ordinaries and Commissaries yee shall be dwelling in your proper person within your Bayliffewick for the time yee shall be in the same Office except yee be otherwise licensed of the King yee shall not let your Sheriffe-wicke nor any Bayliffewicke thereof to Farme to any man yee shall truly set and returne reasonable and due issues of them that be within your Bayliffewicke after their estate and their honour and make your Pannels your selfe of such persons as be most next most sufficient and not suspect or procured as it is ordained by the Statutes and over this in Eastchining and restrainder of the Mans slaughters Robberies and other manifold grievous offences that have been done daily namely of such as name themselves Souldiers and by other Vagarants the which continually increase in number and multiply so that the Kings true Subjects may not be safe yea ride nor goe to doe such things as they have to doe to their intollerable hurt and hinderance yee shall truly and effectually with all diligence possible to you execute the Statute and the Statutes of Winchester and of Vagabonds these things all yee shall truly keepe as God you helpe and his Saints The Oath of an Attorney at Law YOu shall doe no falshood nor consent to any to be done in the Court and if you know of any to be done you shall give knowledge thereof unto my Lord Chiefe Justice or other his Brethren that it may be reformed you shall delay no man for lucre or malice You shall encrease no Fees but shall be contented with the old Fees accustomed you shall plead no Forraigne Plea nor suffer no Forraigne Suits unlawfully to hurt any man but such as shall stand with order of the Law and your conscience you shall seale all such Processe as you shall sue out of the Court with the Seale thereof and so the Kings Majesty and my Lord Chiefe Justice discharged for the same yee shall not wittingly nor willingly sue nor procure to be sued any false Suit nor give ayde nor consent to the same in paine to be expulsed from the Court for ever And furthermore you shal use your selfe in the Office of an Attorny within the Court according to your Learning and discretion so helpe you God c. The Oath of a Merchaut Adventurer FIrst yee shall sweare To be true to our soveraigne Lady the Queene her Heires and Successors and if any thing may come to your knowledge intended against her Majesties Person or Dominions to discover the same to the Governour of this Fellowship or his Deputy or some other in place convenient Secondly You shal sweare to be obedient and assistant to the Governour and his Deputy and Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers and to keep all Acts and Ordinances by them made or to be made without doing or procuring any thing in prejudice thereof or else offending duly to pay the penalties Thirdy yee sweare To conceale the secrets of the Fellowship and to make knowne unto the Governour or his Deputy from time to time any thing which you shal understand to be pretended against the Fellowship or the Priviledges thereof Lastly you sweare That in no case you shal collour or free any mans Goods whomsoever being either Stranger or one free of this Fellowship The Oath of a Merchant Adventurer taken before the Poqueter for the true Shipping of his Clothes YOu shall sweare That all and every such Clothes and other Commodities whereof you or any of you have made entry are allready bought and within the Walls of London being over and above all former Entries and are not yet Shipped and they are also belonging to those men in whose names they be entered and their Partners being free Brothers of this Company of Merchant Adventurers and that they are entred to be Shipped either for Stiade or Middleborough So God you helpe The Oath which the Honourable George Lord Nevell Baron of Abergaveny used to sweare his Servants by at their first comming into his Houshold YEe shal beare your faith therewith and true service next unto our Soveraigne Lord King Henry 8. unto my Lord and Ladie of this place whom yee intend now to serve also if yee know any hurt harme or hinderance to be done to my said Lord and Ladie to their Bodies or to their Goods or to his Children by any person or persons yee shal give him knowledge or some of his Councel as soone as God wil give you grace Also yee shal not consume nor waste none of his Goods nor suffer them to be wasted negligently by any other person if ye be in power to let it or else give knowledge to his Officers that have the Rule and Charge of his House And also at all times yee shall be obedient requisite and necessary unto my Lords Officers that have the Rule and Charge of my said Lords Houshold aforesaid yee shall well and truly of your behalfe keepe and performe to the best of your power So helpe you God and all Saints The Oath of Treasurer Clerk in the Ezchequer YOu shall sweare That you shall well and truly serve the King your Lord in your Office and Roome of Clerkship to the Lord Treasurer of England within this Court of the Kings Receipt and Treasury And you shall uprightly behave your selfe towards all his Subjects and Accomptants for their speedy expedition without any unjust hinderance or delay for affection meed or dread And you shall make no untrue Entry into any of the Kings Rolls or other Books of Receipt and exitus commonly called the Pelles of Receipt and Exitus whereby the King our Lord or any his Subjects may be hurt or damaged But if you shall know of any errour in them escaped speedily to be amended And you shall from time to time make or cause to be made to the Lord Treasurer of England true and perfect Declarations of all manner of Sums of Money coming in and going out of the Kings Treasury so often as the same Lord Treasurer shall demand And you shall safely preserve and keep the Kings Records Leagues and other
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
all and every such person or persons within your Parish either knowne commonly reported or vehemently suspected to have committed any Misdemeanour Fault Default Crime Sinne or Offence mentioned or specified within any the Articles in this Booke comprised or in the same omitted which comming to your knowledge are by Ecclesiasticall Authoritie to be reformed So helpe you God in Christ Jesus The Protestation Iâ— B. Doe in the presence of Almightie God Promise Vow and Protest to maintain and defend as farre as lawfully I may with my life power and estate the true Reform'd Protestant Religion expressed in the Doctrine of the Church of England against all Popery and Popish Innovations within this Realme contrary to the same Doctrine and according to the dutie of my Allegiance his Majesties Royall Person Honour and Estate as also the Power and Ptiviledges of Parliament the lawful Rights and Liberties of the Subâ—ect and every person that maketh this Protestation in whatsoever he shall do in the lawfull pursuance of the same And to my power and a far as lawfully I may I will oppose and by all good wayes means endeaâ—our to bring to condigne punishment all such as shall either by Force Practice Councells Plots Conspiracies or otherwise doe any thing to the contrary of any thing in this present Protestation contained And further That I shall in all just and honourable wayes endeavour to preserve the Union and Peace betweene the three Kingdomes of England Scoâ—land and Ireland and neither for hope feare nor other respect shall relinquish this Promise Vow and Protestation The Vow and Covenant appointted by the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament to be taken by every man in the Cities of London Westminster the Suburbs and Liberties thereof and throughout the whole Kingdome IA. B. In humilitie and reverence of the Divine Maâ—esty declare my heartie sorrow for my own sins and the sins of this Nation which have deserved the calamities judgments that now lye upon it And my true intention is by Gods grace to endeavour the amendment of my owne wayes And that I do abhor and detest the said wicked and treacherous Design lately discovered And that I never gave nor will give my assent to the execution therof but wil according to my power Vocation oppose resist the same and all other of the like nature And in case any other like Designe shall hereafter come to my knowledge I will make such timely discoverie as I shall conceive may best conduce to the preventing thereof And whereas I do in my conscience believe That the Forces raysed by the Two Houses of Parliament are raysed and continued for their just Defence and for the Defence of the true Protestant Religion and Liberties of the Subject against the Forces raised by the King I doe here in the presence of Almightie God Declare Vow and Covenant That I will according to my power and Vocation assist the Forces raysed and continued by both Houses of Parliament against the Forces raysed by the King without their consent and will likewise assist all other persons that shall take this Oath in what they shall doe in pursuance thereof and will not directly or indirectly adhere unto nor shal willingly assist the Forces raysed by the King without the consent of both Houses of Parliament And this Vow and Covenant I make in the presence of Almightie God the Search of all hearts with a true intention to perform the same as I shall answer at the great Day when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed 1. T That we shall sincerely really and constantly through the grace of God endeavour in our severall places and callings the prefervation of the Reformed Religion in the Church of Sâ—oâ—und in Doctrine Worship Discipline Government against our common Enemies the Reformation of Religion in the Kingdomes of Englâ—nd and Ireland in Doctrine Worship Discipline Government according to the Word of God the Example of the best Reformed Churches And shall endeavour to bring the Churches of God in the Three Kingdoms to the nearest Conâ—unction and Uniformity in Religion Confession of Faith Forme of Church-government Dâ—rectory for Worship and Catechizing That we and our Posterity after us may as Brethren live in faith and love and the Lord may delight to dwel in the midst of us 2. That we shall in like manner without respect of persons endeavor the extirpation of Poperie Prelacie that is Church-Government by Arch-Bishops Bishops their Chancellors and Commissaries Deans Deans Chapters Archdeacons and all other Ecclesiastical Officers depending on that Hierachy Superstition Heresie Schism Prophanesse and what soever shal be found to be contrarie to sound Doctrine and the power of godlinesse lest we partake in other mens sins thereby be in danger to receive of their plagues and that the Lord may be one and his Name one in the Three Kingdoms 3. We shall with the same sinceritie realitie and constancy in our several Vocations endeavâ—r with our Estates and Lives mutually to preserve the Rights and Priviledges of the Parliament and the Liberties of the Kingdoms and to preserve and defend the Kings Majesties Person and â—uthoritie in the preservation defence of the true Religion and Liberties of the Kingdoms that the world may beare witnesse with our consciences of our loyaltie and that we have no thoughts or intentions to diminish his Majesties just power and greatnesse 4. We shall also with all faithfulnesse endeavor the discovery of all such as have bin or shal be Incendiaries Malignants or evill Instruments by hindring the Reformation of Religion dividing the King from his people or one of the Kingdoms from another or making any Faction or Pâ—rties amongst the people contrarie to this League and Covenant that they maybe brought to publike Tryall and reâ—eive condign punishment as the degree of their Offences shall require or deserve oâ— the Supreme Judicatories of both Kingdoms respectively or others having power from them for that effect shall judge convenient V. And whereas the happinesse of a blessed Peace between these Kingdoms denied in former times to our Progenitors is by the good providence of God granted unto us and hath beene lately concluded and setled by both Parliaments we shall each one of us according to our place and interest endeavor that they may remain conjoyed in a firm Peace and Union to all Posteritie And that Justice may be done upon the wifull Opposers thereof in manner expressed in the present Articles 6. We shall also according to our places and callings in this Common Cause of Religion Libertie and Peace of the Kingdoms assist and defend all those that enter into this League and Covenant in the maintaining and pursuing thereof and shall not suffer our selves directly or indirectly by whatsoever combination perswasion or terror to be divided and withdrawne from this blessed Union Conjunction whether to make defection to the contrary part or give our selves to a detestable indifferency or neutrality in this Cause which so much concerneth the glory of God the good of the Kingdoms and Honor of the King but shall all the dayes of our lives zealously and constantly continue therein against all opposition and promote the same according to our power against all Lets and Impediments whatsoever what we are not able our selves to suppresse or overcome we shall reveal make known that it may be timely prevented or removed all which we shal do as in the fight of God And because these Kingdoms are guiltie of many sins provocations against God and his Son Jesus Christ as is too manifest by our present distresses and dangers the fruits thereof We professe and declare before God and the world our unfeigned desire to be humbled for our own sins and for the sins of these Kingdoms especially that we have not as we ought valued the inestimable benefit of the Gospel that we have not laboured for the puritie and power thereof and that we have not endeavoured to receive Christ in our hearts nor to walke worthy of him in our lives which are the causes of other sins and transgressions so much abounding amongst us And our true unfeigned purpose desire indeavor for our selves and all others under our power charge both in publike and in private in all duties we owe to God and man to amend our lives and each one to go before another in the example of a reall Reformation that the Lord may turn away his wrath and heavie indignation establish these Churches and Kingdoms in truth peace And this Covenant we make in the presence of Almighty God the serarcher of all hearts with a true intention to performe the same as we shall answer at that great day when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed most humbly beseeching the Lord to strengthen us by his holy Spirit for this end to blesse our desires proceedings with success as may be deliverance safetie to his people encouragement to other Christian Churches groningunder or in danger of the yoke of Antichristian tyranny to joyn in the same or like Association Covenant to the glorie of God the enlargement of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ and the Peace and Tranquility of Christian Kingdoms Common wealths FINIS
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
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
Poer 〈◊〉 Respons Jeo les graunte promitte The Oath taken by Charles the first King of great Britaine at his Coronation AFter the Sermon done the Metropolitan commeth to the King and doth wâ—th a low voyce enquire of his Majestie saying Sir Will you grant and keep and by your Oath confirme to the People of England the Laws and Customes to them granted by the Kings of England your Lawfull and Religious Predecessors And namely The Lawes Customes and Franchizes granted to the Clergie and to the People by the glorious King Saint Edward your Predecessor according and conformable 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 Antient Customes of this Relame Respons I grant and Promise to keepe them Sir Will you keepe Peace and Agreement entirely 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 bee Executed in all your Judgements Respons I will Sir Will you grant to hold and keep the Laws and Rightfull Customes which the Commonaltie of the 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 Clara voce sic dicendo Domine Rex a vobis Pardonari Petimus unicuique de nobis Eccliis nobis commissis Cannonicum Privilegium debitam Legem atque Justitiam conservetis defensionem exhibiatis sicut Rex in suo Regno dâ—bet unicuique Episcopo Eccliis sibi commissis Responder Kex Anime Lâ—benti devoto promitto vobis Pardono Quia unacuique de uobis Ecclesiis vobis Commissis Canonicum Privilegium debitam Legem atque justitiam servabo defensionem quantum potuero adjuvante Domino exhibeo sicut Rex in suo Regno unicuique Episcopo Ecclesiis sibi Comissis per rectum defendere debet This being done the King cometh to the Altar and laying his right hand on the Bible saith These things which I have before promised I shall observe and keepe So God me help and by the Contents of this Booke The Oath taken by such as are convicted for stealing the Kings Venison and therefore ordered to abjure the Land MAster Crowner heare you this That I have offended our Soveraigne Lord the King in his Venison for which cause I abjure the Realme of England and hereafter I shall never return into it againe without the leave of our Soveraigne Lord the King So God me helpe and those holy Saints The Oath of a Ranger of the Forrest YOu shall truly execute the Office of a Ranger in the Panralles of W. upon the Borders of the Kings Forrest of Waltham you shall rechuse and with your hand drive back againe the wilde Beasts of the Forrest as often as they shall range out of the said Forrest into your Panralles you shall truly present all unlawfull hunting and hunters of wilde Beasts of Venire and Chase as well within the Pancallees as within the Forrest And those and all other Offences you shall present at the Kings next Court of Attachments or Swanmothe which shall first happen So God you helpe The Oath of a Verderor of the Forrest YOu shall truly serve our Soveraigne Lord the King in the Office of a Verderor in the Forrest of W. you shall to the uttermost of your power and knowledge do for the profit of the King so far as it doth appertaine unto you to do You shall preserve and maintaine the ancient Right and Franchizes of the Crowne you shall not conceale from his Majestie any Right of Priviledges nor any Offence either in Vert or Venison nor any other thing You shall not withdraw nor abridge any defaults but shall endeavour your selfe you shall give knowledge thereof unto the King or unto his Justice of the Forrest Ye shall deale indifferently with all the Kings Liege People You shall execute the Lawes of the Forrest and do equall Right and Justice as well unto the poore as unto the rich that appertaineth unto your Office You shall not oppresse any person by colour thereof for any Reward Favour or Malice All these things you shall to the uttermost of your power observe and keep So help you God The Oath of the Regarder of the Forrest YOu shall truly serve our Soveraigne Lord the King in the Office of a Regarder of the Forrest of Waltham you shall make the Regard of the same Forrest in such manner as the same hath been accustomed to be made You shall range throughout the whole Forrest and through every Bayliwick of the same as the Forresters there shall leade you to view the same Forrest and if the Forresters will not or do not know how to leade you to make the regard or range of the Forrest or that they will conceale from you any thing that is forfeited to the King you your selves shall not let for any thing but you shal see the same forfeiture and cause the same to be enrolled in your Roll You shall enquire of all wasts purprostures and asserts of the Forrest and also of concealemente of any offence or trespasse in the Forrest either in Vert or Venison by any Officers of the same Forrest And all these things you shall to the uttermost of your power do So helpe you God The Oath of a Forrester of the Forrest YOu shall truly execute the Office of a Forrester or Keeper of the Kings wilde Beasts in the Walke called P. within this Forrest of W. You shall be of good behaviour your selfe towards his Majesties wilde Beasts and the vert of the same Forrest You shall not conceale the offence of any other person either in Vert or Venison that shal be done within your Charge but as well the same offence as also all Attachments and Swanmothe other you shall present at the Kings next Court of Attachments or Swanmothe which shall first happen to be holden for the 〈◊〉 Forrest And you shall to the uttermost of your power maintaine and keep the Assizes of the Forrest and in all things the Kings Right defend concerning the same so long as you shall bee Keeper there So help you God c. The Oath of the Inhabitants of the Forrest being of the age of twelve yeares as the same hath been accustomed and used in antient time YOu shall true Liegeman be unto the Kings Majestie You shall no hurt do unto his Beasts of his Forrest nor unto any thing that doth belong thereto the offences of other you shall not conceale but to the uttermost of your power you shall them reveale unto the Officers of the Forrest or to them that may see the same redrest All these things you shall see done So help you God and Holidome The Oath of