&c. Westm. 7 die Sept. An. 1 E 1. Hence I finde this IURAMENTVM EPISCOPORVM; in Tttles Magna Charta, printed London 1556. f. 164. b. being nothig else but the form of the Oth of Fealty, which the Bishops took to our Kings before they received their Temporalties out of their hands, being the same in substance, which the King ofWalsing∣hm Hist. Agl. p 32. Hen. de Knyghton de Event. Agl. c. 3. col. 2482.Sots an his Tempora Lords, and English Barons and Laymen, usually made to King Edward the 1. and his Successors coninued these later times. Ieo serra soall et loyall, et oy et lo∣altie porray AV ROY & A SES HIRES, ROYS DE ANGLITERRE, de vie et de, membres, et de ter∣rene honour contre tout gentz qui pyent vivre et mounir. Et loyament monstray, et loyalment ferray les services qui appendent a la temporaltie de Levesque de M. la quelle eo claimor de tenir de vous, et laquelle vous me rendes. Si moy ayde Dieu et ses Saints. This Oath of Felty, as 7 Rep. f. 6, 7 Calvis, case, 4 Istit. f 60. b. Lam∣bardi Archai∣on, f. 135, 13. Sir Edward Cook and others affirm, was first invent∣ed, and generally prescribed to all persons above 12 years of age, by our famous British King Arthur; who by vertue thereof, ex pulit SARACENOS et Inimices egno. But this certainly is a meer fable, and gross mis∣take; (which I admire Mr. Lambard. and Sir Edward Cook observed not;) for the Saxacens never invaded Eng∣land in any age, neither were they expelled the Realm by King Arthur; but the Saxons, who had then and formerly possessed themselves of a great part of Britain, were vanquished and expelled by him in the years of grace 518, 520, 522, as Matt. Westminster,Hist. l. 9, 10.Geoffry Man∣mouth, Tho. Walsingham, andGrafton, Holinshed, & others in his Life. other of our Histori∣ans relate; yet not by vertue of this Oath, (which no Historian mention) but of his arms and ; this Oath (as I concive) being rath rinvented by our Saxon Kings, than Kig Arthur; and first prescribed by this Law of King Edmund son of Adelstan (made atChron. Johannis Bromton, col 859.Cu∣linton by advice of his Bishops and wise men, about the year 944. Lex 1.) Ut omnes jurent in nomine Domini &c. 0