Choice presidents upon all Acts of Parliament relating to the office and duty of a justice of peace. With necessary notes and instructions thereupon taken out of the said Acts of Parliament, and other particular cases in law adjudg'd therein. As also a more useful method of making up Court-Rolls than hath been hitherto known or published in print. By Rich. Kilburne, Esq; late one of His Majestie's Justices of the Peace for the county of Kent, and principal of Staple-Inn.

The Oath of Allegiance.

I A. B. do truly and sincerely acknowledge,* 1.1 profess, testifie, and declare in my Con∣science before God and the world, That our Sovereign Lord King Charles the Second is lawfull and rightfull King of this Realm, and of all other His Majestie's Dominions and Coun∣tries, and that the Pope neither of himself nor by any authority of the Church or See of Rome, or by any other means with any other, hath any power or authority to depose the King, or to dispose of any of His Majestie's Kingdoms or Dominions, or to authorize any foreign Prince to invade or annoy Him, or His Countries, or to discharge any of His Subjects of their allegiance and obedience to His Ma∣jesty, or to give licence or leave to any of them to bear Arms, raise Tumult, or to offer any violence or hurt to His Majestie's Royal Person, State, or Government, or to any of His Majestie's Subjects, within His Majestie's Dominions. Also I do swear from my heart, That notwithstanding any Declaration or Sen∣tence of Excommunication, or Deprivation, made or granted, or to be made or granted, by the Pope or his Successors, or by any autho∣rity derived, or pretended to be derived, from him, or his See, against the said King, His Heirs or Successors; or any Absolution of the said Subjects from their obedience. I will bear saith and true allegiance to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, and Him and Them will defend to the uttermost of my power,

against all Conspiracies and Contempts what∣soever, which shall be made against His or their Persons, their Crown and Dignity, by reason or colour of any such Sentence or De∣claration, or otherwise; and will do my best endeavour to disclose and make known unto His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, all Trea∣sons and Traiterous Conspiracies, which I shall know or hear of to be against Him, or any of them.

And I do further swear, That I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure, as impious and heretical, this damnable Doctrine and Po∣sition, That Princes which be Excommunicated or Deprived by the Pope, may be deposed or murthered by their Subjects, or any other whatsoever.* 1.2

And I do believe, and in Conscience am re∣solved, That neither the Pope, nor any person whatsoever, hath power to absolve me of this Oath, or any part thereof, which I acknow∣ledge by good and full authority to be lawful∣ly ministred unto me, and do renounce all Pardons and Dispensations to the contrary. And all these things I do plainly and sincerely acknowledge and swear according to these ex∣press words by me spoken, and according to the plain and common sense and understanding of the same words, without any Equivocation or mental Evasion, or secret Reservation what∣soever. And I do make this recognition and acknowledgment heartily, willingly, and truly, upon the true faith of a Christian.

So help me God.

Notes

• * 1.1

  3 Iac. c. 4.
• * 1.2

  Upon this Oath the party ta∣king it shall subscribe his name or mark.