Published by Good Press, 2019

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       In England.

       The Oath of Supremacy

       Tenor of The Oath of Allegiance, &c. to be Taken and Subscribed by Recusants

       The Oath of Abjuration

       In New Plymouth Colony.

       Combination for Foundation of Government known as The Mayflower Compact

       Oath of Allegiance and Fidelity

       The Oath of a Ffreeman

       The Oath of a Resident

       The Oath of a Ffreeman

       The Oath of a Ffreeman

       In Massachusetts-Bay Colony.

       The Oath of a Freeman, or of a Man to be made ffree.

       The Oath of Residents

       The Oath of a Freeman

       The Oath of a Free-man

       Freemans Oath

       Freemans Oath

       Oath of Fidelitie

       Oath of Fidelitie

       Strangers Oath

       Oath of Fidelitie

       Freemans Oath

       In Connecticut and New Haven Colonies.

       An Oath for Paqua’ and the Plantations there

       The Oath of a Freeman

       In New Haven Colony.

       Freeman’s Charge

       Oath of Fidelity

       Oath of Allegiance

       In Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

       Civil Compact

       Second Civil Compact

       The Engagement of the Officers

       The Reciprocal Engagement of the State to y e Officers

       The Preamble to the Law Against Perjury

       In New Hampshire Colony.

       The Combination for Government at Exeter, with the Forms of Oaths for Rulers and People

       The Elders or Rulers Oath

       The Oath of the People

       The Combination of the People of Dover to Establish a Form of Government

       Freemen

       In Province or County of Maine.

       Oath of Councilors of Province of Mayne

      OATHS OF ALLEGIANCE IN COLONIAL NEW ENGLAND

      The antiquity of the custom of giving and taking Oaths, or the debatable questions of their observance being a religious or legal ceremony, and whether the moral or political aspect has the greater effect upon the minds of men, are subjects with which this paper has nothing to do.

      And as the substance of Oaths for particular officers is to engage them to a faithful discharge of their places and trusts to the best of their ability, it has been considered, in general, unnecessary to give them, especially as these offices carry with them the assumption that the general Oaths required of all citizens have first been complied with. No Oaths of office were administered or required in the New Plymouth Colony, the power of the Church being, in effect, superior to the civil power.

      For the main purpose of this paper it will not be necessary to go further back in history than to the reign of James the First, of England, 1603–1625, during which time the providences of God directed the course of the voyage of the Pilgrims away from the Colony of Virginia to their settlement at Plymouth