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that caused, at the hands of the mother countiy, the 

 inil)()sili()ii of those oaths of allegiance required of all 

 judicial officers, sheriffs and other officials in the provin- 

 cial period of our history. The following were read, as 

 illustrations of the same : — 



OATHS APPOINTED TO P>E TAKEN INSTE.VD OF THE OATHS OF 

 AELEGIANCE AND SUPREMACY: AND DECLAPtATION. 



I A. B. Do sincerely Promise and Swear, That I will 

 be faithful and hear true Allegiance to His Majesty 

 KING GEORGE. 



So Help me GOD . 



I A. B. Do Swear, That I do from my Heart, abhor, 

 detest and abjure as Impious and Heretical, that damnable 

 Doctrine and Position, that Princes Excommunicated, or 

 deprived by the Pope or any Authority of the See of 

 Rome, may be Deposed or Murthered by their Sul)jects, 

 or any other whatsoever ; And I do declare that no For- 

 ein Prince, Person, Prelate, State or Potentate, hath or 

 ought to have any Jurisdiction, Power, Superiority, Pre- 

 eminence or Authoritv, Ecclesiastical or Spiritual, within 

 the Kealm of GREAT BRITAIN. 



So Help me GOB. 



I A. B. Do solemnly and sincerely in the presence of 

 GOD, Profess, Testify and Declare, That I do believe 

 that in the Sacrament of the LORDS SUPPER, there is 

 not any Transubstantiation of the Elements of Bread and 

 ^Yine into the Bodij and Blood of CHRIST, at or nftcr 

 the Consecration thereof by any Person whatsoever : And 

 that the Invocation or Adoration of the Virgin Mari/, or 

 any other Saint, and the Saci'itice of the 3I(iss, as they 

 are now used in the Church of Rome, arc Superstitious 

 and Idolatrous. And I do solenndy in the Presence of 

 GOD, Profess, Testify and Decliire, Tliat I do make this 

 Declaration and every part thereof, in the ])l,iin :ind ordi- 

 nary sense of^ the Words Read unto me, as they are com- 



