be moved treated and debated in any Councell faithfully and truly declare your minde and opinion according to your heart and conscience in no wise forbearing so to do for any manner respect of favour meed dread displeasure or corruption You shall faithfully and uprightly to the best of your power cause Justice to be duly and indifferently ministred to the Queenes Majesties Subjects that shall have cause to sue for the same according to the equitie and the Order of the Law Finally You shall be vigilant diligent and circumspect in all your doings and proceedings touching the Queenes Majesty and all her Affaires All which points and Articles before expressed with all other Articles signed with the Queenes Majesties owne hand and delivered to me the Lord President of her Highnesse Councell established in those parts you shall faithfully observe keep and fulfill to the uttermost of your power wit will and cunning So help you God and the Contents of this Book The Oath that a Gâ—ntleman Vsher doth give to any that is sworne the Kings Servant in the time of H. 8. FIrst you shall sweare upon the holy Evangelists That you faith and truth shall beare unto our most gracious and most dread Soveraigne Lord and unto his Issue Kings of England Ye shall be here sworn in and unto the roome of a Gentleman Usher or c. whereunto at this present time by the Kings Highnesse Commandment you are admitted and received you shall from henceforth truly and diligently attend and wait Ye shall not know or conceale any thing prejudiciall compassed attempted or imagined against our said most gracious and most dread Soveraigne Lord the King or his Issue or any of them but you shall incontinently upon the said knowledge discover the same unto my Lord great Chamberlaine or else to Master Vice-Chamberlaine and in their absence to one of the Ushers of the Kings Chamber Ye shall not discover any secrets or other things that may touch the Kings most Honourable Councell or to the Honour of his Chamber Ye shall be obedient unto the Lord Great Chamberlaine Mr. Vice-Chamberlaine and unto the Ushers of the said Chamber and to their Commandments fully and keep to the uttermost of your power Ye shall eschew all manner of Ryots Rowtes unlawfull Assemblies and making of Bands Quarrels Debates Strifes Controversies either within the Kings Chamber or without and ye shall forbid and let the same to the uttermost of your power And yee shall let the said Officers or one of them have knowledge thereof without any further delay Ye shall not weare neither Liverie Cognizance nor Badge of no mans be retained of no man but onely to the Kings Majestie nor ye shall not retaine contrary to the Statute Ye shall not depart out of the Kings Court without License had and obtained of my Lord Great Chamberlaine or else of Master Vice-Chamberlaine or his Deputy in his absence All the which Premisses and every of them with all and singular other Commandements whatsoever they are or shall happen to bee given you in charge on the behalfe of our most Gracious and most Excellent Majestie by my Lord Great Chamberlaine Master Vice-Chamberlaine or any of the said Ushers Ye shall on your behalfe observe performe fulfill and keepe to the uttermost of your power So helpe you God and all his Saints and by the Holy Contents of this Booke The Oath Ministred to the Kings Servants as well Knights and Esquires for the Body as others in the time of Henry 8. YE shall be from henceforth during your life naturall faithfull and true and faith shal beare and faithfully and truly ye shall serve the King our Soveraigne Lord H. 8. by the grace of God King of England and France and Lord of Ireland and in earth Supreame Head of the Church of England and to his Heires of his Bodie begotten against all men that may live or die of what Estate Degree or Condition soever they be Yee shall nothing do or at tempt that in any manner of wise may be hurtfull or prejudiciall to our said Soveraigne Lord or to his Heires And if it shall happen at any time hereafter any thing to come to your knowledge that in any manner of waies be hurtfull or prejudiciall to our said Soveraigne Lord or to his Heires or that may touch the surety or honour of their persons yee shall not onely let it to the best of your power but also in all hast possible shall shew it to our Soveraigne Lord or to some of his Councell attending upon his Person so that the same may come to the knowledge of his Grace Also ye shall not be nor stand confederate nor Banded nor Band your selfe or yet be retained in any cause or matter to or with or towards any manner of person of what estate condition or degree soever he be of privily or openly neither by Promise Signe Indenture Fee nor by any other manner of wise whatsoever it be otherwise then the Law will suffer or permit you You shall also diligently serve the Kings Grace in the roome of N. N. and not depart from the Court where his Grace for the time shall be unlesse yee be licenced so to doe by his Grace or by his Lord Chamberlaine or in his absence by his Vice Chamberlaine and to be obedient in that they shall command you to doe within the Kings House or elsewhere touching the Kings service in that appertaineth to the roome of N. N. well and truly keepe and observe on your behalfe So helpe you God and all his Saints and by this Booke The Oath ministred in Parliament to the Duke of Bedford and other Lords Spirituall and Temporall for the according of all Controversies between the Duke of Glocester and the Bishop of Winchester Chancellor of England in the fourth yeare of H. 6. THat my Lord of Bedford and my said Lords Spirituall and Temporall and each of them shall as farre forth as her cunning and discretion sufficiently truly justly and indifferently counsell and advise the King and also proceed and acquit himselfe in all the said matters and quarrels withouten that they or any of them shall privily or appert make or shew himselfe or be party or parcell therein nought being or eschewing so to doe for affection love meed doubt or dread of any person or persons and that they shall in all waies keepe secret all that shall be conveyed by way of counsell in the matters and quarrels abovesaid in the foresaid Parliament withouten that they or any of them shall by word writing or in any wise open it or discover it to any of the said parties or to any other person that is not of the said Councell but if he have especiall commandement thereto of the King or of my said Lord of Bedford and that each of them shall with all his might and power by him and by his strength and assist by way of Councell or else unto the King to my said Lord
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
Limits be duly put in Execution You shall have a watchfull eye to such persons as shall maintaine or keepe any common house or place where any unlawfull Games is or shall be used As also to such as shall frequent or use such places or shall use or exercise any unlawfull Games there or elsewhere contrarie to the Statutes at your Assizes Sessions or Leet You shall present all and everie the offences done contrarie to the Statutes made 1. Jacob. 4. Jacob. 21. Jacob. Regis to restraine the inordinate hunting and tipling in Innes Ale-houses and other Victualling-houses and for repressing of drunkennesse You shall true representment make of all Blood-shedding Affraies Out-cryes Rescuous and other Offences committed or done against the Kings Majesties Peace within your Limits And you shall have a care for the maintenance of Archerie according to the Statute You shall well duly execute all Receipts and Wa rants to you directed from the Justices of this Countie And yee shall well and dulie according to your knowledge power and abilitie doe and execute all other things belonging to the Office of a Constable so long as you shall continue in this Office So help you God The Oath of a Duke and Earle in Scotland to their King YOu shall fortifie and defend the true and Christian Religion and Christs holy Evangell presently preached in this Realme and shall be loyall and true to our Soveraigne Lord the Kings Majestie and shall defend his Highnesse Realme and Lieges from all Aliens and Strangers at the uttermost of your power So helpe you God and by the Oath that yee have else made The Oath of a Lord of Parliament in Scotland YEE shall give due andfaithfull Councell to our Soveraign Lord the Kings Majesties Wea le publiquely in Parliament as in all other places needfull and secretly according to you knowledge for the preservation of his Highnesse most noble Person his Royall Estate Lieges and Realme and Common weale thereof And shall never Heile nor conceyle any point of Treason or Crime Leismajestie that shall appeare to be conspired against his said Royall Person but shall incontinent with all possible diligence reveale the same So help you God and by the Oath that yee have else made The Oath of a Knight of Scotland 1. I Shall fortifie and defend the Christian Religion and Christs holy Evangell presently preached in this Realme to the uttermost of my power 2. I shall be Loile and true to my Soveragine Lord the Kings Majestie to all Orders of Chivalrie and to the Noble Office of Armes 3. I shall fortifie and defend Justice at my power and that with favour or feed 4. I shall never flye from my Soveraigne Lord the Kings Majestie nor from his Highnesse Lieutenants in time of Mellay and Battaile 5. I shall defend my Native Realme from all Alieners and Strangers 6. I shall defend the just occasion and quarrell of all Ladies of Honour of all true and friendlesse Widowes of Orphans and of Maidens of good same 7. I shal do diligence wheresoever I hear there is any Murtherers Traytors or masterfull Reavers that Oppresseth the Kings Laeges and poore people to bring them to the Law at my power 8. I shall maintaine and uphold the Noble estate of Chivalrie with Horse Harnesse and other Knightly Habillements and shall helpe and succour them of the same Order if they have need 9. I shall enquire and seeke to have the knowledge and understanding of all the Articles and Points contained in the Booke of Chivalrie All these premisses to observe keep and faithfull I oblige me So helpe me God by my owne hand so help me God c. The Oath of the Mayor of London and Oxford as it is entred in the Red Book of the Exchequer YEE shall sweare That yee shall serve well and truely our Soveraigne Lord the King in the Office of Mayoraltie in the Citie of London or Oxenford and the same Citie Yee shall surely and safely unto the use of our said Soveraigne Lord the King of England and of his Heires Kings of England and the Profit of the King yee shall doe in all things that to you longeth and the Right of the King and that that longeth to the Crowne yee shall truely keepe Yee shall not assent unto decrees nor concealment of the Rights nor of the Franchize of the King or of the Crown be it in Lands Rents or â—n Franchizes or in Suits concealed or withdrawn you shall put your power to call it againe And if yee may not doe it yee shall tell unto the King or to those of his Councell of whom yee shall understand for to be certaine that they shall enform the King thereof And yee shall truly and right-wisely treat the people of your Baylie and right yee shall doe to every person as well to Stranger as to privie to poore as to rich in that that belongeth to you for to doe And that for highnesse nor for riches for gift promise favour nor hate yee shall no wrong doe to any person nor to any man yee shall the right let Yee shal not take whereby the King may leese or by which the right may be letted And also that ye may set good keeping upon the â—â—ssize of Bread Wine Fish Flesh Corne and all other Victuals and also of Weights and Measures in the said Citie doing sad and due execution upon the defaults that there shall be found according to all the Statutes thereof made not repealed and that in all things to the May or of the said Citie longing for to doe well and truely you shall have you and doe So helpe you God and holydome The Oath of the Sub-Treasurer as it is entred in the Red Booke of the Exchequer YEE Shall well and truely serve the King our Soveraine Lord in the roome of Under-Treasurer of this his Exchequer and in the Receipt of the same and well and truly survey and order as wel the Receipts of all sums of money payd and to be payd to the Kings use in the said Receipt as the issue of the same And well and truly behave have your selfe in the same roome So helpe you God and all Saints and the holy Evangelists The Oath of the Auditor of the Exchequer as it is entred in the Red Booke of the Exchequer YEE shall sweare That yee shall truely serve the King our Soveraign Lord in the Office of one of the Auditors of this Exchequer during the time yee shall have the same And well and truly yee shall intreat and with all goodly speed yee shall rid such persons as shall be by this Court Assigned to Accompt before you Yee shall not take of any person whereby the Kings Majestie may lose nor consent to any untruth And right yee shall doe to every Accomptant that shall have to doe before you according to your wit and discretion and safely and surely keepe such Records Writs and other Mynuments of this Court as shall be committed for
THE Book of Oaths AND The severall forms thereof both Antient and Modern Faithfully Collected out of sundry Authentike Books and Records not heretofore extant compiled in one Volume Very useful for all persons whatsoever especially those that undertake any Office of Magistracie or publique Imployment in the Common-wealth Whereunto is added a perfect Table Numb 30.2 If a man vow a vow unto the Lord or sweare an oath to bind his soule with a bond he shall not breake his word he shall doe according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth Heb. 6.16 For men verily sweare by the greater and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife Printed at London for W. Lee M. Walbancke D. Pakeman and G. Bedle. 1649. The Table A. ATtourney at Law 29 Allegiance 63 Attourney of the Augmentation Court 85 Auditor of the Augmentation 88 Alneger 240 Allegiance of the Duke of York and other Lords in Parliament 25 Allegiance of the Duke of York in Parliamen to Henry the 6. 258 Allegiance of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall Arch-Bishops Oath 127 Articles Matrimoniall 271 Ahjure the Land for stealing the Kings Venison Atturney of the Court of Wards 318 Auditor of the Court of Wards 321 Atturney of the first Fruits 327 Auditor of the first Fruits 329 Atturney of the Court of Survey Approver banished 208 Auditors of the Court of Survey 354 Auditor of the Exchequer 376 B. BRoker in London 69 Beadle of a Ward in London 76 Bishops Oath 141 Bayliffe to attend a Jurie 204 Bayle upon Suspition of Murther 207 Bishops Renunciation of the Popes Bull. 243 Bull of the Pope Renounced 243 Baron of the Exchequer 214 381 Bayliffe of Shewers 17 361 Barwick Souldiers â—56 Bishops Fidelitie 244 Bishops Popish 275 C. COuncell Privie 143 Councell Clerke 6 Clerke of the Chancery 9 Constable of London 75 366 Clerke of the Chechue 52 Captaines of a Band. 53 Clerke of the Parliament 61 Constable in London 19 Chancellour ef the Augmentation 80 Clerke of the Augmentation 87 Clerke of the Councell to the Prince 96 Councell of Warre 112 Councell of Wales 12â— Controversie to be compounded in Parliament betweene the Duke of Gloucester and the Bishop of Winchester 139 Councell Privie 4 Clerke of the Signet 150 Comptroller of Calice 185 Councell of Calice Captaines in Zealand 200 Chancellâ—ur of England 211 Church-wardens 393 394 Councell to Princesse Mary 109 Comptroller of the Customes 230 Customer 223 Clerke of the Statutes 236 Chancellour of the Exchequer 237 380 Clerks six of the Chancery 249 Clerks of the Pettie-Baggâ— 252 Commissioners fâ—r Sewers 360 Controversie to be compounded in Parliament betweene the Duke of Gloucester and the Bishop of Winchester 254 Chamberlaine of the Exchequer 388 Comptroller of the Kings Houshold 280 Clerke of the Court of Wards 323 Chancellour of the first Fruits 324 Clerke of the first Fruits 330 Cloths to be valued 345 Clerke of the Signet 150 Clerke of the Liveries 347 Clerke of the Court of Survey 355 Clerke of the Pleas. 385 Comptroller of the Pipe 387 D. DEputie of Calice 151 Doctor of Divinitie according to the Vniversitie of Basill 307 Decay of Castles and Forts to be Surveyed and reported 335 Deputie-Chamberlaine of the Exchequer 392 E EStates of the Subjects to be discovered 337 Esquires for the Body Evidence against a Prisoner 204 Evidence betweene partie and partie 205 Evidence upon Bills of Indictment 204 Escheator 228 389 Examiner in the Chancery 253 Estates of the Subjects to be discovered 338 Estate of the Subject to be examined 340 Estate of the Subject to be examined 341 Estate of the Subject to be examined 344 Estate of the Subject to be discovered Earle in Scotland 369 F. FReemen of London 22 Freemen of Merchâ—nt Adventurers Francke Pleadge in London 67 Fealtie 232 Fidelitie of a Bishâ—p 144 Fidelitie of the Pryor of S Johns 270 Forrester of the Forrest 300 Fealtie of the King of Scots 305 Fealtie of John King of England to the Pope 306 French Kings Oath 92 Forraigne Opposer to the Exchequer 386 G. GArnet the Jesuit 365 Governour of Barwick Garter King of Armes 113 Great Seale 148 H. HEralds of Armes 119 Homage of an Arch Bishop 127 Homage of the King of Scots 201 Homage of a Temporall Lord. 246 I. JVdge 9 Jurie to try a Prisoner at the Barre 203 Jurie to try a Nisi Prius 205 Inquest Grand 206 Judge 216 Justice for Works Weights and Measures 219 Justice to heare and determine 295 Inhabitants rf Forrests 302 Justice of Peace 313 Ingrosser of the great Roll. 377 K. KIng of Scots to King Henry 6. 201 Kings Oath 1 Kings Oath 3 King of France to observe the Statutes of the Garter King James his Servants 108 Knight of the Garter 93 Kings of Armes 115 Knights of the Round Table 125 King of Polâ—â—â—a to the Turke 126 Knights for the Body Knight of Scotland 371 Keeper of the great Seale Knight of the Bath 199 303 Kings Councell and Judges 363 King Edward the seconds Oath 201 King Charles his Oath 272 292 Knight of the Bath Keeper of the Kings Papers of State Knights and Squires 136 L. LEague and Covenant 410 Lieutenant of Guysnesse 159 Lieutenant of Calice 170 Lieutenant of Ruisbanck 179 Lieutenant of Hannues 184 Lieutenant of Newhaven 192 Lieutenant of the Tower 266 Loardisme renounced 267 Lord of Parliament in Scotland 370 M. MErchants for the true shipping Cloth to the Mart Towne 30 31 32 Marshall of Barwick 45 Master of the Woods of the Court of Augmention 84 Messenger of the Augmentation 91 Marshall of Calice 164 Marshall-Deputie of Calice 193 Mayâ—r of the Staple 241 373 Master of the Rolls 248 Mid-wives Oaths 284 Master of the Court of Wards 317 Master of the Woods of the Court of Survey 352 Messenger of the Court of Survey 356 Master of Requests Master of the Ordinance for Barwick 50 Mary Queene her Councell 109 Marshall of Calice 169 N. NVn entring into the Cloyster 290 P. POrter of Barwick 48 President of the Councell 129 Privie Seale 145 Porter of Calice 189 Portage of the Chancery 242 Pursevant at Armes 123 President of Wales 57 Prior of S. John Jerusalem 270 Protestation 405 R. REquests Master 15 Receiver of the Augmentations 89 Ranger of the Forrest 296 Regarder of the Forrest 299 Receiver of the Court of Wards 320 332 Receiver of the Court of Survey 354 Register of the Kings Papers of Estate 315 Remembrancer to the King 383 S. SErvants to the King Seavenger of London 21 Sheriffe of the Counties 24 309 Servants for the true serving of their Lords 33 Souldiers sworne for their true service 41 Supremacie 66 357 Scavengers of the Wards in London 68 Serjeants to the Sheriffe of London 72 Surveyor of the Augmentation Solicitor of the Augmentation Surveyer of the Woods in the Augmentation 86 Surveyer of the Lands in the Court of Augmentation 81 Servants of the Kings Chamber 132 Servants to the King Secretarie of State
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 Maâ—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 Weapâ—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 maâ— any waies pertaine to you to keepe The Oath of the Lord President of the Councell in the Mareheâ— of Wales YOu shall sweare To the uttermost of your power will and â—unning that you shall be true and faithfull to the Queenes Highnesse our Soveraignâ— 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 Jurisâ—â—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 Fâ—â—ally You shall be vigilant and circumspect in all your doings and proceedings touching the Queenes Maâ—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 â—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 prieâ—ended to be derived from him or his Sea against
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 hereto but let him with all her might and power and wiâ—hstand him and assist unto the King and my said Lord of Bedford in keeping of the Kings Peace and redressing of all such manner of proceedings by way of feet and force The Oath of a Bishop J A B Doctor in Divinity late Bishop of D. and now elected Bishop of L. do verily testifie and declare in my conscience that your Majesty is the only supreame Governour of this Realme of England and of all other your Majesties Domions and Countries as well in all Spirituall and Ecclesiasticall Causes as Temporall and that no Forreigne Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Jurisdictory power superiority preeminence or authority Ecclesiasticall or Temporall within this Realme and therefore I doe utterly renounce and forsake all forraigne Jurisdictions Powers superiorities and authorities and doe promise that from henceforth I shall and will beare true faith and allegiance to your Majesty your lawfull Heires and Successors and to my power shall assist and defend all Jurisdictions Priviledges Preeminents and Authorities granted and belonging to your Highnesse your Heires and lawfull Successors or united or annexed to the Imperiall Crowne of this your Majesties Realmes and further I acknowledge and confesse to have the said Bishop of L. and the Possessions there of your Highnesse and after the same I doe my homage presently unto your Majesty to whom and to your lawfull Heires and Successors I shall be faithfull and true So help me God and the contents of this book The Oath of a Privie Counsellor framed now in the time of King James YOu shall sweare To be a true and faithfull Servant unto the Kings Majestie and one of his Privie Councell you shall not know or understand of any manner thing to be attempted done or spoken against his Majesties Person Honour Crowne or dignity Royall but you shall let and withstand the same to the uttermost of your power and either cause it to be revealed unto his Majestie himselfe or to such of his Privie Councell as shall advertise his Highnesse of the same you shall in all things to be moved treated and debated in Councell faithfully and truly declare your minde and opinion according to your heart and conscience and shall keepe secret all matters committed and revealed unto you or that shall be treated of secretly in Councell and if any of the same Treaties or Councells shall touch any of the Councellors you shall not reveale it unto him but shall keepe the same untill such time as by the consent of his Majestie or of the Councell publication shall be made thereof You shall to your utmost beare faith and allegiance unto the Kings Majestie his Heires and lawfull Successors and shall assist and defend all Jurisdictions Preeminences and Authorities granted to his Majestie and annexed to his Crowne against all forreigne Princes Persons Prelates or Potentates c by Act of Parliament or otherwise and generally in all things you shall doe as a faithfull and true Servant and Subject ought to doe to his Majesty So helpe you God and by the holy contents of this book The Oath of the Lord Privie Seale YEE shall as farre forth as your cunning and discretion sufficeth truly justly and evenly execute and exercise the Office of Keeper of the Kings Privie Seale to you by his Highnesse committed not leaving or eschewing so to doe for affection love meede doubt or dread of any person or persons and yee shall take speciall regard that the said Privie Seale in all places where you shall direct unto may be in such substantiall wise used and safely that no other person without the Kings specâ—all commandment or your assent or knowledge shall more seale or imprint any thing with the same and generally yee shall observe fulfill and doe all and every thing which to the Office of the Keeper of the Kings Privie Seale duely belongeth and appertaineth So helpe you God and by the contents of this book The Oath of a Secretary of State YOu shall sweare To be a true and faithfull Servant unto the Kings Majestie as one of the Secretaries of his Majesties Highnesse Privie Councell you shall not know or understand of any matter or thing to be attempted done or spoken against his Majesties Person Honour Crown or Dignity Royall but you shall let and withstand the same to the uttermost of your power and either doe or cause it to be revealed either to his Majesty himselfe or to his Privie Councell You shall keepe secret all matters revealed and committed unto you or that shall be secretly treated of in Councell and if any of the said Treaties or Councells shall touch any of the said Councellors you shall not reveale the same unto him but shall keepe the same untill such time as by the consent of his Majesty or of the Councell publication shal be made thereof you shall to your uttermost beare faith and allegiance unto the Kings Majesty his Heires and lawfull Successors and shall assist and defend all Jurisdictions Preeminencies and Authorities granted to his Majesty and annexed to his Crown against all forreigne Princes Persons Prelates Potentates c. by Act of Parhament or otherwise And generally in all things you shall doe as a faithfull and true Servant and Subject ought to doe to his Majesty So help you God and by the holy contents of this booke This clause above noted thus C. C. is the same which is set downe more largely in the Oath of Supremacie in the first Act of Parliament in the first yeare of Queen Elizabeth which Oath must be taken at the same time with this and therefore is not needfull to be here recited The Oath of the Lord Keeper of the Great Seale of England YE shall sweare That well and truly you shall serve our Soveraigne Lord the King and his people in the Office of the Lord Keeper of the Great Seale of England and ye shall doe right to all manner of People poore and rich after the Lawes Usages of this Realm and truly yee shall councell the King and his Councell you shall leave and keepe and you shall not know nor suffer the hurt or dis-heriting of the King or that the rights of the Crowne be decreased by any meane as farre forth as you may let it and if you may not let it you shall make it cleerly and expresly to be knowne unto the King with your true advice and counsell aâ—d that you shall doe and purchase the Kings profit in all that you reasonably may as God you help and by the contents of this book The Oath of the Clerke of the Signet YOu shall be true to our
Soveraigne Lord the King and his Heires and Successors Kings and Queenes of England and also you shall keepe secret his Councell in all things you shall be privie unto concerning the Office of the Signet without uttering or disclosing the same to any person and if you shall heare or know any thing either in word or deed which shal be in any wiâ—e to the derogation or hurt of his Majesties Person and Royall Estate you shall it let to your power as in you lieth and as honestly as is possible shall discover and shew the same to his Highnesse or to some of his discreet Councell So help you God and by the holy contents of this book The Oath of the Deputy of the Towne of Calice ordered by Parliament in Anno XXVII Hen. 8. YEe shall sweare That yee shall be faithfull and true unto our Soveraigne Lord King Henry 8. by the grace of God King of England and of France defender of the Faith Lord of Ireland and in Earth supreame head of the Church of England And if yee shall know any thing that shall be prejudiciall or hurtfull unto his Highnesse or his Heires or to his Towne of â—aâ—iâ—e or Marches of the same yee shall resist the same to the uttermost of your power and in case ye cannot ye shall without delay declare the same unto his Highnesse or to such of his Councell as ye thinke will shew it unto him and yee shall safely keep to the use of our said Soveraigne Lord and of his Heires and defend to the uttermost of your power this his Towne of Calice and Marches of the same as much as to you by reason of your Office belongeth And in all things to be done that toucheth the safeguard defence and good Governance of the said Towne and Marches Yee shall give as it shall need from time to time your true faithfull and diligent Counsell to the other the Kings Officers of the same Towne and Marches and yee shall at no time be absent from your said Office without the Kings speciall license obtained in that behalfe Yee shall well and truly oversee the Marshall and all other Officers his and their Ministers and Servants and their Charge and every one of them in his degree intreat in his Office as appertaineth not suffering any of them to doe in his said Office or by colour thereof any excesse extortion bribery or exaction and if any of them be found or approved in that case culpable that without favour or delay ye proceed to the punishment of them and every of them to the example of other Ye shall doe your devoyer at your power to the keeping of the Peace among all estates and other persons of what degree or condition soever they be within the said Towne dwelling or thereunto from time to time repairing not suffering any Congregations Assemblies Commotions or Conventicles to be made within the said Towne against the said Peace or against the good restfull and Politique Governance of the said Towne And if any person of what degree or condition soever he or they be within the said Towne that provoketh privily or appartly any such Congregation Assembly Commotion Sedition or Conventicle as be found faulty thereof either else that taketh upon him any unlawfull maintenance to the perturbance or violation of the said Peace or against right to oppresse by might any person Yee shall resist and let with the advice and ayd of the residue of the Kings Councell of the said Towne and doe such punishment thereunto as with reason may serve without any exception of person not sparing so to doe for favour love dread or meede of any person And that as much as in you shall lye to your power you shall foresee that the said Towne be sufficiently Victualled from time to time as unto the same necessarily shall appertaine or belong And yee shall oversee the Rule and Governance of the Mayor and Aldermen of the said Towne touching all manner of Victuall and other things â—ppertaining to their charge for the Common Weale profit and pollicy of the said Towne and if any default yee sinde therein yee shall minister and shew it unto them charging them to amend and redresse it and if they be therein negligent or froward yee shall then by the said advice purvey such remedy by your wisedome and discretion as can be though most expedient with reason And if you and the said Counsell cannot provide remedy in that behalfe that then ye shall disclose the some to the Kings Highnesse or to such of the Kings Councell as yee thinke verily will informe the Kings Highnesse thereof with speed And yee shall administer truly rightfully and indifferently Justice to all manner person and persons that shall have any cause moved or depending before you in the said Towne and Marches without having any manner of respect to any person for love meede cread or favour And yee shall in time conveniable after your said discretion visit and oversee the Locks and shutting of the Gates and Posternes of the said Towne and also the governance of the Watch Tower walls and Ditches of the same and generally all other things necessary for the surety safeguard and defence thereof And yee shall not appoint nor admit any person or persons into any roome within the retinue of the said Towne belonging to your Admission but if the same person or persons be borne within the Realme of England Wales Ireland the said Towne of Calice and the Marches of the same and that the said person or persons be not Artificers except he or they be a Bowyer or Armorour Fletcher Crosse-bow-maker or Smith and the same person so by you named not to be admitted to any such roome nor to enjoy nor exercise the same roome to the time he be viewed examined and enabled thereunto as well by the Treasurer and Comptroller as by the residue of the Kings Councell there then being present And you shall admit nor suffer any Alien borne out of the Kings obeysance to take and inhabit any dwelling house within the Towne of Galice and Marches of the same as much as to you appertaineth except the said person be licenced by the Kings Letters Patents so to doe under his Great Seales any Grant or Grants heretofore made to the contrary notwithstanding And yee shall see surely to be kept and safely and straightly cause to be observed as much as in you lieth all manner of Statutes Lawes and Ordinances made or to be made by the King our Soveraign Lord Henry 8 or by his Councell authorised for the same for the safeguard tuition defence and good orders of his Towne of Calice and the Marches of the same doing due execution upon the transgressors of any of the said Statutes Lawes and Ordinances having no regard to the persons so transgressing for affection meede dread or any other cause whatsoever As God you helpe and the holy Evangelists The Oath of the Lieutenant of Guysnes ordered by
Parliament Anno 27. H. 8. YEe shall sweare That yee shall be faithfull and true to our Soveraigne Lord King Hen. 8. by the Grace of God King of England and of France Defender of the Faith Lord of Ireland and in Earth supreame head of the Church of England and to his Heires and if you shall know any thing that shall be prejudiciall or hurtfull unto his Highnesse or his Heires or his Towne of Caliee or Marches of the same yee shall refist the same to the uttermost of your power and in case ye cannot yee shall without delay declare the same unto his Highnesse or to such of his Councell as yee thinke will shew it unto him And ye shal safely keepe to the use and behoofe of our said Soveraigne Lord and of his Heires and defend to the uttermost of your power the Castle Towne and County of Guysnes by his Highnesse appointed and assigned to your safe keeping and in all things to be done that toucheth the defence and good Governance of the Towne of Calicâ— and Marches of the same yee shall give from time to time your true faithfull and diligent counsell and assistance to the Kings Deputy for the time being and other of the Councell and Officers of the same Towne and Marches and yee shall be personally remaining and be resident upon your room and Office there and atno time to be absent from the same without the Kings special licence obtained And you shall well and truly oversee that all the said Officers and Ministers of the said Castle and Towne and County of Guyjnes that shall serve the Kings Highnesse there under you shall diligently doe cause and suffer to be done all and every thing and things that unto them shall appertaine and belong concerning the sure and safe keeping of the said Castle Towne and County and if any of them be found and approved to be remisse or negligent in doing his or their duty that then yee without any favour or delay proceed to the correction and punition of him or them so offending and that yee doe your duty to your power to the keeping of the Peace among all and every person and persons of what degree or condition he or they be dwelling within the said Castle Towne and County of Guysnes or thereunto from time to time repairing not suffering any unlawfull Congregations Conventions or Conventicles to be made within the said Castle Towne or County of Guysmâ— against good restfull and Politique Governance of the same and duly to correct all and every person or persons so offending and that as much as in you shall lye yee shall foresee that the said Castle be furnished with Victuals as with all other things appertaining to the safe custody of the same that to you belongeth of the duty of your said Office And that you truly rightfully and indifferently administer Justice unto all and every person and persons that hereafter shall have any cause or matter moved or depending before you in the said Castle Towne and County of Guysnes without having any manner of respect to any person or persons for love dread meede malice or affection And that you from time to time as much as in you is foresee that the Kings Highnesse be not deceived or defrauded in any of his Possessions Rents Revenues and Profits which to his Highnesse should appertaine within the said Castle Towne and County And yee shall no appoint ne admit any person or persons within the retinue of the said Castle but if the said person or persons be borne within the Realme of England Wales Ireland the said Towne of Calice or Marches of the same and that the said person be sworne to be true Leigeman unto the King our Soveraigne Lord and unto his Heires And finally yee shall observe and keepe or cause to be observed and kept as much as in you shall be during the time that you shall be Captain there all manner of statutes Lawes and Ordinances made or to be made by our said Soveraigne Lord his Heires or Successors or by his or their Councell authorisâ—d for the same for the safeguard tuition defence and good orders of the Castle Towne and County of Guysnes doing due execution upon the Transgressors offending any of the same Statutes Lawes and Ordinances having no regard to the person so offending for love favour meed dread or other cause whatsoever So help you God Holy-dame and all Saints and by this book The Oath of the High Marshall of Calice ordained by Parliament in Anno 27. Hen. 8. YEE shall sweare That yee shall be faithfull and true to our Soveraigne Lord King H. 8. by the Grace of God King of England and France Defender of the Faith Lord of Ireland and in Earth supreame head of the Church of England and to his Heires And if yee shall know any thing that shall be prejudiciall or hurtfull unto his Highnesse or his Heires or unto his Towne of Calice or Marches of the same yee shall resist the same to the uttermost of your power And in case ye cannot yee shall without delay declare the same unto his Highnesse or unto such of his Councell as yee think will shew it unto him Yee shall be diligent obedient and attendant to the Deputy of the said Towne and Marches for the time being in those things that to the service of the Kings sure good politique Government and defence of the said Towne and Marches appertaineth and in all things to be done that toucheth the defence safeguard and good Government of the said Towne of Calice and Marches of the same shall give as it shall need from time to time your true faithfull and dilicounsell to the Deputy for the time being and to the Kings Councell and Officers of the same Towne and Marches and them aid and assist to the uttermost of your power and yee shall set or doe to be set the Kings Watch and that visit from time to time as unto your Office appertaineth as it is ordained to be used searched And ye can any better order or devize yee shall shew it unto the Deputy and Kings Councell of the said Town and Marches to the intent it may be set in the surest and stricktest way for the safeguard of the said Towne and Marches and that yee present not or doe to be presented nor imprisoned nor cause to be imprisoned any manner of person Watch man or other without reasonable or just cause and if any be imprisoned may be delivered without Fees or Costs paying And that yee shall duly and truly Arrest and doe to be Arrested all and every person and persons according to the Lawes used and accustomed within the said Towne and also all and every other person or persons that yee shall know to be fugitive taking the Fees thereunto limited and accustomed without excesse and also that you take Surety or doe to be taken of each Prisoner as well of the Plaintiffe as of the Defendant to pursue
of the â—aid Towne and Marches for the time being in those things that to the service of the King sure and Politique Governance and defence of the said Towne and Marches appertaineth and in all things to be done that toucheth the safeguard and defence and good governance of the said Towne of Calice and Marches of the same Yee shall give as it shal be need from time to time your true faithfull and diligent counsell to the Deputy for the time being and to the Councell and Officers of the same Towne and Marches and them aide and assist to the uttermost of your power and that to your knowledge wit and power for as much as in you is during the time you shall be in your Office you shall endeavour your fâ—lfe to see his Highnesse answered and truly satisfied of all Rents Revenues issues Profits and Commodities as well casuall as certaine whatsoever they be or shall be which his Highnesse of right ought for to have or hereafter shall have or be or shall be to him belonging by any manner of meane within the said Town County and Marches and that he be in no wise defrauded or deceived thereof by your negligence or default and that yee make no payment of none Wages to none Officer nor other Souldier unto such time as due Muster be had viewed and taken and the same comptrolled by the Comptrollers Booke for the time being And yee shall from time to time during the time yee shall be in your Office see all Artificers which be or shall be in Wages under your Governance and Rule diligently duly and truly exercise and occupy their Occupations and Mysteries in the Kings Workes and that you shall not appoint or admit any person or persons into the Office or roome of a Speare or other Souldier within your retinue but if the said person or persons be borne within the Realme of England Wales Ireland the said Towne of Calice or Marches of the same and that the said person be sworne to be true Leige-man unto the King our Soveraigne Lord and his Heires and be an able person to serve the King for the defence of the said Towne and Marches And sinally you shal observe and keep or cause to be observed and kept as much as in you shall be during the time that you shall be in your Office all manner Statutes Laws and Ordinances made or to be made by our said Soveraigne Lord his Heires and Successors or by his or their Councell authorized for the same for the safeguard tuition defence and good Orders of the said Towne and Marches So help you God c. The Oath of the Lievtenant of Ruisbanke as it was ordained by Parliament in Anno 27. of Hen. 8. YEE shall sweare That yee shall be faithfull and true to our Soveraigne Lord King Henry the eight by the Grace of God King of England and of France Defender of the Faith Lord of Ireland and in Earth supreame head of the Church of England and to his Heires and if yee shall know any thing that shall be prejudiciall or hurtfull unto his Highnesse or his Heires or unto his Towne of Calice or Marches of the same yee shall resist the same to the uttermost of your power and in case yee cannot yee shall without delay declare the same unto his Highnesse or unto such of his Councell as ye think will shew it unto him Ye shall give from time to time as it shall need your true faithfull and diligent Counsell to the Kings Deputy of his Towne and Marches and them shall aide and assist to the uttermost of your power in in things to be done concerning the safeguard defence and good Governance of the said Towne and Marches ye shall safely keep true English to the use and behoofe of our said Soveraigne Lord and of his Heires and defend to the uttermost of your power his Castle and Fortresse of Ruisbanke by his Highnesse appointed and assigned to your said keeping Yee shall be personally remaining and refident upon your said Office and Roome there and at no time to be absent from the same without the Kings speciall license for the same obtained And you shall well and truly oversee that all Officers Souldiers and Ministers of the said Castle and Fortresse that shall serve the Kings Highnesse there under you shall diligently doe cause and suffer to be done all and every thing and things that unto them shall appertaine and belong concerning the sure and safe keeping of the said Castle and Fortresse and if any of them be found and proved to be remisse or negligent in doing his or their duty That then ye without favour or delay proceed to the correction and punition of him or them so offending and that you doe your duty to your power to the keeping of the Peace among all and every person and persons of what degree or condition ye or they be dwelling within the said Castle or Fortresse or thereunto from time to time repairing not suffering any unlawfull Congregations Conventions or Conventicles to be made within the said Castle or Fortresse against good restfull and Politique Governance of the same and duly to correct all and every person and persons offending and that as much as in you shall lye you shall see that the said Castle and Fortresse be furnished as well with Victuall as with all other things appertaining to the safe custody of the same that to you belongeth by duty of your said Office and that you truly rightfully and indifferently administer Justice to all and every person and persons that hereafter shall have any cause or matter moved or depending before you in the said Castle or Fortresse without having any manner of respect to any person or persons for love dread meed malice or affection And ye shall not admit ne appoint any person or persons within the said Castle and Fortresse but if the said person or persons be borne within the said Realme of England Wales Ireland or being English borne within the said Town of Calice or Marches of the same and that the said person be sworne to be true Leige-man unto the King our Soveraigne Lord and unto his Heires And finally you shall observe and keep or cause to be observed and kept as much as in you shall be during the time you shall be Lievtenant there all manner of Statutes Laws and Ordinances made and to be made by your said Soveraigne Lord his Heires or his Successors or by his or their Councell authorised for the same for the safeguard tuition defence and good orders of the said Castle and Fortresse doing due execution upon the transgressors offending any of the said Statutes Lawes and Ordinances having no regard to the person so offending for love favour meed dread or other cause what soever So help you God c. The Oath of the Lievtenant of Hannues as it was ordained by Parliament in Anno 27. Hen. 8. THe said Lievtenant shall take the like
Oath as is ordained for the Lievtenant of Ruisbanke The Oath of the Comptrollor of Calice as it was ordained by Parliament in Anno 27. Hen. 8. YEE shall sweare That ye shall be faithfull and true to our Soveraigne Lord King Hen. 8. by the Grace of God King of England and of France Defender of the Faith Lord of Ireland and in Earth supreame head of the Church of England and to his Heites and if you shall know any thing that shall be prejudiciall or hurtfull unto his Highnesse or his Heires or unto his Towne of Calice or Marches of the same yee shall resist the same to the uttermost of your power and in case ye cannot ye shall without delay declare the same unto his Highnesse or unto such of his Councell as yee thinke will shew it unto him ye shall be diligent obedient and as Tendant to the Deputy of the said Towne and Marches for the time being in those things that to the service of the Kings Suer good Politique Governance and defence of the said Towne and Marches appertaineth And that you shall not be absent from your said Office without the Kings speciall License obtained in that behalfe and in all things to be done that toucheth the safeguard defence and good governance of the said Towne of Cilice and Marches of the same shall give as it shall need from time to time your true faithfull and diligent counsell for the time being and to the Kings Councell and Officers of the same Towne and Marches and them ayd and assist to the uttermost of your power And you shall so much as in you is that due Musters shall be taken at all the whole retinue at two severall times in the yeare before the paying of their Wages and oftner if need shall be thought by the Deputy and the Kings Councell of the said Towne to be needfull and in as much as in you is and shall be from time to time ye shall see that the Deputy Souldiers and all other Officers and Ministers whatsoever be resident attendant and furnished as to them in every degree appertaineth and such as yee shall finde defective or faulty from time to time ye shall reforme and doe therein as to your Office belongeth ye shall also diligently and particularly oversee the Provisions made and to be made of all and every thing and things necessary and expedient for the Kings Works Buildings and Reparat one within the said Towne and Marches and diligently see that all Artificers and Workmen that from time to time shall be retained in the Kings Wages shall doe their duties in all such things for the which they are so retained And that you from time to time as much as in you is foresee that the Kings Highnesse be not deceived nor defrauded of any of his Possessions Rents Revenues Woods Waters Customs Forfeitures and other Profits as well certaine as casuall whatsoever they be which to his Highnesse shall of right appertaine And that ye shall not appoint nor admit any person or persons into the roome of a Souldier within your retinue but if the said person or persons be borne within the said Realm of England Wales and Ireland and the said Towne of Calice and Marches of the same and the said person to be sworne to be true Leige-man unto the King our Soveraigne Lord and to his Heires and to be an able person to serve the King for defence of the â—aid Towne and Marches And finally ye shall observe and keep or cause to be observed and kept as much as in you shall be during the time that you shall be in your Office all manner of Statutes Lawes and Ordinances made and to be made ut supra The Oath of the Master Porter as it was ordained by Parliament in Anno 27. H. 8. YEe shall sweare That ye shall be faithfull and true to our Soveraigne Lord King Henry 8. by the grace of God King of England and of France Defender of the Faith Lord of Ireland and in each Supreme Head of the Church of England and to his Heires and if ye shall know any thing that shall be preâ—udiciall or hurtfull unto his Highnesse or his Heires or unto his Towne of Callicâ— or Marches of the same ye shall resist the same to the uttermost of your power And in case ye cannot ye shall without delay declare the same unto his Highnesse or unto such of his Councell as ye think will shew it unto him Ye shall be diligent obedient and attendant to the Deputie of the said Towne and Marches for the time being in those things that to the service of the King Suer good politique Governance and defence of the said Towne and Marches appertaineth and in all things to be done as toucheth the safeguard defence and good governance of the said Towne of Calice and Marches of the same shall give as it shall need from time to time your true faithfull and diligent counsell to the Deputy for the time being And to the Kings Councell and Officers of the same To â—ne and Marches and them aid and assist to the uttermost of your power Ye shall safely keep duly and truly the Keyes of the Gates of this Towne of Calice at all times as to your Office appertaineth and if that you may heare or espâ— coming by Water or by Land any â—idings you shall do it to be known to the Kings Deputy of the said Town and Marâ—â—es with diligence And yee shall not raise nor suffer to be done or raised any new customs which might turne to prejudice or hinderance of any person And finally ye shall see surely to be kept and straightly cause to be observed as much as in you lieth all manner of Statutes Lawes and Ordinances made or to be made by our said Soveraigne Lord or his Heires and Successors or by his Councell authorized for the same for the safeguard tuition defence and good Orders of this Towne of Calice and Marches of the same doing due Execution upon the Transgressors of any of the said Statutes Lawes and Ordinances having no regard to the person so transgressing for affection meed dread or any other cause whatsoever So God c. The Oath of the Lieutenant of Newenham Bridge as it was ordained by Parliament in Anno 27. H. 8. THe said Lieutenant shall take like Oath as is Ordained before for the Lieutenant of Ruitbanke The Oath of the under Marshall of Calice as it was ordained by Parliament in Anno 27. Hen. 8. YE shall sweare That yee shall be faithfull and true to our Soveraigne Lord King Henry 8. by the grace of God King of England and of France Defend or of the Faith Lord of Ireland and in Earth Supreme head of the Church of England and to his Heires and if you shall know any thing that shall be prejudiciall or hurtfull to his Highnesse or his Heires or unto his Towne of Calice or Marches of the same ye shall resist the same to
the uttermost of your power and in case ye cannot ye shall without delay declare the same to his Highnesse or to such of his Councell as ye think will shew it unto him Yee shall bee obedient to the Kings Deputy for the time being in all things to be done that toucheth the safeguard defence and good governance of the said Towne of Calice and Marches of the same ye shall give as it shall need from time to time your true faithfull and diligent counsell to the Kings Deputy for the time being and to the Kings Councell and Officers of the same Towne and Marches and them aid and assist to the uttermost of your power Ye shall truly fet and do to be set the stand-Watch nightly on the Wals of the said Towne at the Castle hill and shall suffer no person or persons to keepe and furnish the said stand-watch but such person or persons as shall be by you appointed and sworne according to the Oath for the same devised and also take sureties for his or their Abearing in the Watch And that ye neither present nor do to be presented ne imprisoned nor cause to bee imprisoned any manner of person or Watchman nee other whatsoever without reasonable and true cause And if you finde any persons in Chance medly drawing any weapon or smiting that ye do leade or cause to be lead him or them to prison without any let And that ye present or do to be presented every fault that belongeth to your Office to bee presented duly and truly and that ye take not or cause to be taken any other fees of any person or persons then of right and of reason have bin used and of old time accustomed belonging to your Office And also you shal not hold with no party against other nor none sustaine but â—ee shall be true Referender of all that that belongeth to your Office of under Marshall and ye shall nightly be in the Market-place to take the Report of the Typped-staves of the furnishâ—ng of the Watches in the East and West Houses on the Wals and shall certifie the same Report unto the Kings Deputy immediately And all other things do that appertaine to your said Office of under-Marshall during the time you shall continue in your said Office So helpe you God c. The Oath of them that be or shall be made of the Kings Councell of the Towne and Marches of Calice as it was ordained by Parliament in Anno 27. Hen. 8. YEe shall sweare That ye shall be good true and faithfull unto our Soveraigne Lord King Henry the 8. by the Grace of God King of England and of France Defender of the Faith Lord of Ireland and in Earth supreame head of the Church of England and to his Heires and ye shal be ready with good attendance to come to the place of Councel holden for the King where it shall be assigned and appointed by the Deputy of his Towne and Marches of Calice for the time being and not absent you there-from without reasonable cause of excusation and that in all matters causes and questions that by the said Councell be or shall be opened moved stirred or asked you shall say and utter your good advice and opinion clearly after your discretion and understanding shewing and giving in conclusion your true and faithfull counsell not letting for favour affection love affinity hatred wrath had or borne to any party or for corruptions of any goods or other things whatsoever it be And that all manner Languages Reasons Conclusions had moved or uttered in the said Councell ye shall effectually keep them secretly and not discover them in no wise in other forme or manner then by the same Councell shall be ordained devised and accorded and whereas you can devise thinke or purpose any thing forme or rule that might be evident to turne to the honour weale and commodity of the King our Soveraigne Lord or to the good governance of this Towne and Marches ye shall at all times shew and move it to the Councell to the intent that it may be ordained and executed These things abovesaid every of them with all their circumstances and dependances ye shall duly exercise use keep and doe from time to time during your abiding in the said Councell with all the spirits of your good minde So help you God and the Holy dame and by this book The Oath given to a Knight of the Bath at the time of his creation GReat Worship be this noble Order unto you and Almighty God give you Grace well to keep it you shall be strong in the Faith of Holy Church you shall releeve as right requireth Widows Maids and Orphants you shall love and dread God above all things you shall love the King your Soveraigne Lord and him and his right defend to your power you shall suffer no Extortion as farre forth as you may nor sit in any place where wrongfull Judgement shall be given to your knowledge and as great honour be this noble Order unto you as it was to any of your Kinne or Progenitors before you or any others The Oath of the Captaines and Souldiers serving the Estates of Zeland VVEE sweare and promise To be faithfull to the Queenes Majesty of England our Soveraigne and to the generall united Provinces of the Low Countries especially to the Estates of this Province of Zeland to the end to keepe his Towne of Flushing with the Forts belonging to the same for the assurance of her Majesty the profit of the said Estates and the maintenance of the true Christian Religion as it is at this present exercised as well in England as in the Towne and Country of Zeland and to yeeld all due obedience to our Governour chiefe and Captaines So God us help The Oach and Homage made by James the King of Scots unto King Henry 6. in the second yeare of his Reigne over England I Iames Steward King of Scots shall be true and faithfull unto you Lord Henry by the grace of God King of England and France the noble and Superiour Lord of the King of Scotland which I hold and claim to hold of you and I shall beare you my faith and fidelity of life and limbe and worldly honour against all men and faithfully I shall knowledge and shall do to you service due to the Kingdome of Scotland So God help me and these holy Evangelists The Oath of a Tenant that doth Atturne to the Lord of a Mannour YOu shall become true and lawfull Tenant and true faith beare to the Lord of this Mannour for such Lands as you hold of the same Lordship and do such Customes and Services as of right ye ought to do saving the faith that you beare to any other Lands So help you God and by the Contents of this Booke The Oath used in a Court Baron to swedre any to the Queenes Highnesse YOu shall be true Liegeman and true faith beare to our Soveraigne Lady Elizabeth Queen
of England France and Ireland and to her Heires and Successors You shall be no Thiefe nor Thiefs Feir but if you know of any you shall do the Queenes Majesties Justices to weet of them as soone as you can and you shall live by such good and true occupation as God lent you uprightly and truly so farre as God will give you grace So helpe you God and by the Contents of this Booke The Oath that is to he given to any Jury before Evidence given in against a prisoner at the Barre YOu shall true Deliverance make betweene our Soveraigne Lord the King and the Prisoner at the Barre as you shal have in charge according to your Evidence as neere as God shall give you grace So helpe you God and by the Contents of this Booke The Oath given to a Baylisse or Serjeant that attendeth on any Jury or Inquest at an Assize YOu shall well and truly keep this Inquest from meat and drinke fire and candle you shall not suffer any man to speake with them neither shall you your selfe speak with them more than to aske them If they be agreed untill such time as they be agreed So helpe you God and by the Contents of this Booke The Oath for Evidence upon the Arraignement of the Prisoner at the Barre THe Evidence that you shall give to this Inquest against the Prisoner at the Barre shall be the truth and the whole truth and nothing but the truth as neere as God shall give you grace So help you God and by the Contents of this Booke The Oath to be given by any jury by whom a Nisi prius is to be tried YOu shall truly try this Suit of Nisi prius betweene party and party according to the Evidence as shall be given you in Court as neere as God shall give you grace So help you God and by the Contents of this Booke The Oath to be given to such as are to give Evidence betweene a party and party at an Nisi prius THe Evidence that you shall give to this Inquest concerning the matter in variance shall be the truth and the whole truth and nothing but the truth so neere as God shall give you grace So helpe you God and by the Contents of this Booke The same Oath that your foreman hath sworne you of your part shall well and truly keepe So help you God and by the Contents of this Booke The Oath of the great Inquest YE shall truly enquire and due presentment make of all such things as you are charged withall on the Queenes behalfe the Queenes Councell your owne and your fellowes you shall well and truly keepe And in al other things the truth present So help you God and by the Contents of this Booke The Oath of those that give Evidence upon Bils of indictment THe Evidence that you shall give to the Inquest upon this Bill shall be the truth and the whole truth and nothing but the truth And you shall not let so to do for malice hatred or evill will nor for meed dread favour or affection So helpe you God and the holy Contents of this Booke The Oath of such as are to be bayled upon suspition for Felony or Murder J A. B. shall from henceforth during all my life be true Liegeman and true faith beare unto our Soveraigne Ladie Elizabeth and to her Heires and Successors Kings and Queenes of this Realme and shall commit no Murder Treason or Misprision of Treason nor consent or agree to any such Offence nor shall know any perill or damage to his Grace or to the Realme or other Dominions aforesaid but shall reveale and disclose it with all speed unto such as have the Lawes in Government nor shall commit any Felony or Murder or be accessary to any such Offence or Offences but shall live a good and an obedient Subject during my life So helpe me God and the Contents of this Booke The Oath of the Approver banished HOc Audis due Coronator quod Ego A A. sum Latronius equi vel Alterius Rei vel Homicidia unius per homines vel Plurimorum fel. Dom. Regis H. quia multa Mula Latricinia Perpetram in hac Terra abjura Regnum H. Regis Anglia deheo me festinare versus portum de c. quem dedisse mihi quod non debeo devertere ab altu via et si faciam volo quod sivi captus sicut latro fel. Dom. Regis ut quod apud c. queram diligentur Transitum meum non expectabo ibi visi fluxum et refluxum maris unum si transitus haberi poterit visi Tanto Spatio abire potero iho quolibet die in mare usque ad genua tentane transire visi hoc potero infra 40. dios continues mittum me iterum in ecelesium sicut latero fel. Dom. Regis sic me Deus adjuvet secundum judicium The Oath which Philip Duke of Burgoyne tooke acknowledging and promising to obey King H. 5. as the right Inheritor of the Kingdom of France After Charles the first Kings Death I Philip Duke of Eurgoyne For me and my Heires sweare and make Oath upon these holy Evangelists to Henry of England and Heire Apparant and Regent of France by the Soveraigne Lord King Charles that meekly and faithfully shall obey the same King Henry in all things that appertaine to the King of France as to the Commonweale of the same Realme immediately after the death of the said King Charles our Soveraigne Lord we shall be true and faithfull Leiges to the said King Henry his Heires and Successors and furthermore we shall not be of Councell nor give our consent to no things that may be to the prejudice of the same King H. his Heires and Successors wherein they may suffer any derogation or detriment of their bodies of their Members Possessions or Honours And if we know of any conspiracie against him his Heires or Successors in all the hast to us possible either by our Letters or else by our Trustie Messengers to declare That they may the better provide to eschew the perills thereof When the Dukes Oath was thus finished as many as were present there both of the Kings Councell and also of the Parliaments Bishops Lords Knights and Commons made the same Oath to the King and 23 and 24. dayes of the same moneth of May 14. the Chancellor of France and many other Lords Bishops Prelats and Noblemen of the Realme gave the like Oath to King H The Oath of the Chancellor of England YEE shall swearâ— That well All the Oathes marked with this mark were Copied out of an old Roll in Parchment remaining in the Office of the Petty Bagg in January 1625. and truly yee shall serve our Soveraigne Lord the King and his People in the Office of Chancellor ye shall do Right to all manner of People Poore and Rich after the Lawes and usuages of this Realme and truly
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
any time to your custodie without raysing or imbezling of the same So God you helpe c. The Oath of the Ingrosser of the great Roll as it is entred in the Red Booke of the Exchequer YEE shall sweare Clerke of the Pipe That yee shall well and truely serve the Kings Majestie our Soveraigne Lord in the Office of Ingrosser of the great Roll otherwise called the Clerk of the Pipe of this Exchequer and the Office with all the Rolls Records Accompts and other Mynuments being and remaining in the same and that hereafter shall be committed to your custodie and pertaining to the same Office Yee shall safely and surely keepe or doe to be kept to the use of our said Soveraigne Lord the King And yee shall draw or caufe to be drawn out of the Two Remembrancers Offices with all convenient speed all manner of Femes or other Debts and duties to be engrossed And all the said Femes Debts and Duties yee shall set forth to be summoned at the next Liberate And yee shall true entry make of all Awards made by the Court upon any Opposall of any Sheriffs or other Accomptants for and concerning any Femes Debts or other the Kings Duties And the same Awards yee shall set out in the Scrowles of the Pipes And also yee shall well and truely make and discharge or cause to be made and discharged all Allowances and discharges the same Terme or the next Vacatiâ—n before the first day of the next Terme without any further delay And yee shall not take of any person or persons by promise gift reward or otherwise whereby the King may lose or be hindred or his said Femes Debts or other duties may be prolonged or detained by any time or else by the which the right let to any manner of person and persons And well and truely and with all convenient speed yee shall discharge or cause to be discharged all persons of all such things as the Court shall award belonging to your said Office And all this yee shall doe during such time as yee shall be Officer in the said Office without fraud or guile So helpe you God c. The Oath of the Chancellour of the Exchequer as it is entred in the Red Book of the Exchequer YEE shall sweare That yee shall serve well and truly the King our Soveraigne Lord in the Office of Chancellor of this Exchequer and well and truly yee shall doe all things that appartaineth to that Office And yee shall speed the Kings Businesse before all other And yee shall not enseale any Writ of Judgement of any other Place then of the Exchequer with the Seale of this Place whiles the Chancerie shall be 20. miles about the place where this Exchequer is abiding And also yee shall sweare That if it fortune that if hereafter by reason of your Office to make any Clerks or Ministers to execute any Office or Place within this Court yee shall make such Clerks or Ministers as yee will answer for at your perill and such as shall be sufficient true and intendant unto that to them shall appertaine in speed as well of the Kings Businesses as of his people after the forme of the Statute in that behalfe made in the Parliament holden at Westminster the second yeare of the Raigne of King Henry the fixt So help you God c. The Oath of a Baron of the Exchequer as it is entred in the Red Booke of the Exchequer YEE shall sweare That well and truly yee shallserve the King our Soveraigne Lord in the Office of Baron of this Exchequer and lawfully yee shall charge and discharâ—e the people that have to accompt before you and right yee shall doe to all people as well to poore as to rich and that for highnesse for riches neither for hate nor for the estate of any person for benefit gift nor promise of any person that may be made to you or shall be made to you ne by Art nor Engine the Right of the King nor none other you shall disturbe ne respite contrarie to the Lawes of the Land and the Kings Debts yee shall not put in respite there where they may goodly be Levyed and the Kings Bufinesse yee shall speed before all other and that for gift wages or benefit yee shall not conceale the Kings Profit or Advantage in advantage to other nor for your selfe And that yee shall not take Fee neither Robe of any person but of the King onely And yee shall have nothing of any person for to doe wrong or delay the right or to delude or delay the people that have to doe afore you but in all that ye may ye shall deliver them And there where yee may understand wrong or prejudice to be done to the King yee shall put all your power and diligence to redresse it And if yee may not yee shall tell it to the King or to those of his Councell which may shew it to the King if yee may not come unto him And the Kings Councell yee shall keepe in all things So help you God and all Saints The Oath of the Kings ' Remembrancer in the Exchequer as it is entred in the Red Book of the Exchequer YEE shall sweare That you well and truely serve the King our Soveraigne Lord in the Office of Remembrancer of his Majestie of this his Exchequer And the same Office with all the Rolls Records and other Mynuments now lying and remaining in tâ—e same and that hereafter shall be committed to your custodie and appertaining to the same Office yee shall safely and surely keepe or doe to be kept to the use of our said Soveraigne Lord the King and of his Heires Kings of England You shall true Entry make of all Awards and other things to be entred in the said Office and that with all convenient speed You shall not take of any person or persons by promise gift reward or otherwise whereby the Kings Majestie may leese or be hindred or by which the right may be let to any manner of person or persons and all other things belonging to the Master of the said Office to doe yee shall well and truly do without fraud or guile So help you God c. The Oath of the Clerke of the Pleas in the Exchequer as it is entred in the Rea Book of the Exchequer YEE shall sweare That yee shall well and truly intend that which shall appertaine unto your Office in speed as well of the Kings Businesse as of his people and all such rewards as doe or shall concerne your Office you shall safely keepe or cause to be kept And you shall true Entrie make of all Orders Awards and other things to be entred into your said Office and that with all convenient speed And all other things belonging to the Master of the said Office to doe you shall well and truly do So help you God and all Saints The Oath of the Forraigne Opposer of the Exchequer as it is
entred in the Red Booke of the Exchequer YEE shall sweare That yee shall well and truly serve the King our Soveraigne Lord his Heires and Successors in the Office of Forraigne Opposer of this Exchequer and the Kings Businesse in the same yee shall speed and dispatch before all other And you shall faithfully and truly charge and discharge all Accompts and people that have to doe before you and doe all other things appertaining to the said Office and shall well and truly behave your selfe in the same Office without undue practise fraud or concealment so long as you shall continue in the same Office So help you God and all Saints The Oath of the Comptroller of the Pipe in the Exchequer as it is entred in the Red Book of the Exchequer YEE shall sweare That yee shall well and truly execute the place of the Comptroller of the Pipe in his Majesties Court of Exchequer and shall comptroll the great Roll of the Pipe and the Pipes thereunto belonging And shall twice in the yeare that is to say in the Terme of Saint Hiliarie and the Holy Trinitie yearly write into the Summons of the Pipe all Femes and Debts contained in the said great Roll and well and truly behave your selfe in the said Office of Comptroller of the Pipe as long as you shall continue in the same Office So help you God and all Saints The Oath of the Chamberlaines of the Exchequer as it is entred in the Red Book of the Exchequer YEE shall sweare That yee shall truly serve the King our Soveraigne Lord in the Office of one of the Chamberlaines of this Exchequer and truly enter and ingrosse as well all manner of Receipts of Money received and to be received to the Kings use at the Receipt of this Exchequer as the payment of the same And also you shal safely and truly keep as well all Records being in the Kings Treasury as all other things Leagues Truces Evidences and Jewels and all other things being to the Kings Treasurie and all that hereafter shall be committed to your keeping And yee shall not assent unto deliverance of any of the Kings Money nor any other thing being in his Treasurie without sufficient Warrant in that behalfe And yee shall not depute or put any Clerke or Minister to occupie any place or roome under you in this Office but such as shall be sufficient true and intendant unto that to them shall appertaine in speed as well of the Kings Businesse as of his people after the forme of the Statute in that behalfe made in the Parliament holden at Westminster the second yeare of the Reigne of King Henry the fixt And in these and all other things concerning your Office yee shall well and truly have you and doe So help you God and all Saints The Oath of an Escheator as it is entred in the Red Booke of the Exchequer YEE shall sweare That yee shall serve the King well and truly in the Office of the Escheator in the Towne of N. and doe the Kings Profit in all that belongeth unto you to doe by way of your Office after your wit and your powre his Rights and all that belongeth to his Crowne yee shall truly keep Yee shall not assent to decrease neither conceal the Kings Right nor his Franchizes And wheresoever that ye have knowledge of the Kings Rights or of his Crowne be it in Lands Rents Franchizes or Suits that be concealed or withdrawn yee shall doe your true paine and diligence to withstand it And if yee may not doe it you shall say it to the King or some of hâ—s Councell such as you know for certaine will say it to the King Yee shall truly and right-wisely treat the people of your Bayly-wick and doe right to everie man as well to poor as to rich in that that belongeth to you to doe by way of your Office Yee shall doe no wrong to any man neither for gift promise nor hate neither no mans right yee shall disturbe ye shall take nothing whereby that right may be disturbed letted or delayed Yee shall truly and right-wisely return and serve all the Kings Writs Yee shall in your proper person make the extent of Lands after their verie value and enquests to return them as oft as they be taken afore you and that within a moneth after they be taken yee shall take no Bayley into your service but such as yee will answer for and yee shall doe your Bayliffs to make such Oath as it belongeth to them Yee shall truly and right wisely yeeld accompt at the Kings Exchequer of all Issues of your said Bayliffe-wick Yee shall take your enquests in open places and that by Indenture after the effect of the Statute thereof made As God helpe you and his Saints The Oath of the Deputie-Chamberlaine of the Exchequer as it is entred in the Red Booke of the Exchequer YEE shall sweare That yee shall well and truly serve the King our Soveraigne Lord as Deputie unto A.D. one of the Chamberlaines of the Exchequer in the Office of the said Chamberlaine of this Court and shall surely joyne all such Tables as any Accomptant or Debtor shall bring unto you to be joyned with the Foyles of the same being in your charge and custodie And the same Tables so joyned yee shall deliver over unto the Clerks of the Pipe or the ingrosser of the great Roll in this Court and do all other things appertaining to the said Office so long as yee shall be Officer there So God you helpe and his Saints The Oath to be ministred to all Church-wardens Side-men within the Dioces of Salisburie to present according to Articles published in An. 1616. YOu shall sweare That all affection favour hatred hope of reward and gaine or feare of displeasure or malice set aside You shall upon due confideration of the Article given you in charge Present all and every such person within your Parish as hath committed any offence or fault or made any default mentioned in these or any of those Articles or which are vehemently suspected or defamed of any such offence fault or default wherein you shall deale uprightly and according to truth neither of malice presenting any contrarie to truth nor of corrupt affection sparing to Present any and so conceale the truth having in this action God before you eyes with an earnest zeale to maintaine truth and to suppresse vice So help you God and the contents of this Booke The Oath to be ministred to all Church-wardens within the Dioces of Bristol in the Visitation to Present according to Articles published in Anno 1595. YEE shall sweare Calling Almighty God to witnesse who seeth into your hearts and knoweth your verie thoughts That you and everie of you shall diligently and faithfully performe and execute the Office whereunto he is appointed and setting apart all malice hatred love feare or affection to any person or persons shall diligently enquire and truly present and discover
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