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

 imposition 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 BE TAKEN INSTEAD OF THE OATHS OF 

 ALLEGIANCE AND SUPREMACY : AND DECLARATION. 



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

 be faithful and bear 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 Subjects, 

 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 Authority, Ecclesiastical or Spiritual, within 

 the Realm of GREAT BRITAIN. 



80 Help me GOD. 



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 

 Wine into the Body and Blood of CHRIST, at or after 

 the Consecration thereof by any Person whatsoever : And 

 that the Invocation or Adoration of the Virgin Mary, or 

 any other Saint, and the Sacrifice of the Mass, as they 

 are now used in the Church of Rome, are Superstitious 

 and Idolatrous. And I do solemnly in the Presence of 

 GOD, Profess, Testify and Declare, That I do make this 

 Declaration and every part thereof, in the plain and ordi- 

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



