Oath of Officers.
They conceive the ordinary Oaths of the Officers mentioned are not sufficient to secure them against the extraordinary causes of Jealousie which have been given them in these troublesome times; and that His Majesty's Answer lays some tax upon the Parliament, as if defective, and thereby uncapable of making such a Provisional Law for an Oath: therefore you shall still insist upon their former desires of such an Oath as is mentioned in your Instructions.
If you shall not have received His Majesty's positive Answer to the humble desire of both Houses in these two first Propositions, according as they are exprest in your In∣structions, before the twenty days limited for the Treaty shall be expired, you shall then with convenient speed repair to the Parliament, without expecting any further direction.
Jo. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum.