form of the ftatutes in that cafe made and provided, you cause to be elected; and the names of thofe knights, citizens, and burgeffes, fo to be elected (whether they be present or abfent), you caufe to be inferted in certain indentures to be thereupon made between you and those who shall be prefent at such election, and then at the day and place aforefaid you cause to come, in fuch manner that the faid knights, for themselves and the commonalty of the fame county, and the said citizens and burgeffes for themselves and the commonalty of the faid univerfities, cities, and boroughs refpectively, may have from them full and fufficient power to do and confent to those things which then and there, by the common council of our faid kingdom (by the bleffing: of God) fhall happen to be ordained upon the aforefaid affairs, fo that for want of fuch power, or though an improvident election of the faid knights, citizens, or burgeffes, the aforefaid affairs may in nowife remain unfinifhed; willing nevertheless, that neither you nor any other sheriff of this our faid kingdom be in any wife elected; and that the election in your full county fo made diftinctly and openly, under your feal and the feals of those who fhall be prefent at fuch election, you do certify to us in our Chancery, at the day and place aforefaid without delay, remitting to us one part of the aforefaid indentures annexed to these prefents, together with this writ.Witness Ourself at Weftminster, the first day' of October, in the fourteenth year of our reign. No. XII. Returning Officer's Oath, to be administered by one Justice, or any three Electors, by 2 G. 2. c. 24. S. 3. fhall not be ftituted in ite A. B. do folemnly fwear, That I have not, By 28 G. 3. c. directly nor indirectly, received any fum 36. f. 30. from the 10th July or fums of money, office, place, or employ- 1790, this oath ment, gratuity or reward, or any bond, bill, taken. There or note, or any promife or gratuity whatfo- is no other fubever, either by myfelf, or any other perfon to fead, my use, or benefit, or advantage, for making any return at the prefent election of members to ferve in Parliament; and that I will return such person or perfons as fhall, to the best of my judgment, appear to me to have the majority of legal votes. No. XIII. Qath to be taken by Poll Clerks in all Cities and I DO fwear, That I will, at this next enfuing election of a member or members to ferve in Parliament for the city or town [as it may happen to be] of truly and indifferently take the poll, and fet down the name of each voter, and his addition, profef fion, or trade, and the place of his abode, and for whom he fhall poll; and to poll no perfon who is not fworn or put to his affirmation, whereby this or any other ftatute, any oath, or affirmation, now is, or hereafter fhall be required. No. XIV. The Form of the Oath of Allegiance appointed by ftat. 1 W. & M. c. 1. f. 6. A. B. do fincerely promife and fwear, That I will be faithful, and bear true allegiance to their Majefties King William and Queen Mary. So help me God. No. XV. The Form of the Oath of Supremacy appointed by the fame ftat. f. 7. IA. A. B. do fwear, That I do from my heart abhor, deteft, and abjure, as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and pofition, that Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope, or any authority of the See of Rome, may be depofed or murdered by their fubjects, or any other whatsoever. And I do declare that no foreign foreign prince, perfon, prelate, ftate, or po tentate, hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, fuperiority, pre-eminence, or authority, ecclefiaftical or fpiritual, within this realm, So help me God. No. XVI. The Form of the Declaration of Teft, appointed by ftat. 30. C. 2. Stat. 2. c. 1. f. 3• I A. B. do folemnly and fincerely, in the prefence of God, profess, testify, and declare, That I do believe that in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, there is not any tranfubftantiation of the elements of bread and wine, into the body and blood of Christ, at or after the confecration thereof by any perfon whatfoever; and that the invocation or adoration of the Virgin Mary, or any other faint, and the facrifice of the mafs, as they are now ufed in the Church of Rome, are fuperftitious and idolatrous; and I do folemnly, in the prefence of God, profefs, teftify, and declare, That I do make this declaration, and every part thereof, in the plain and ordinary fenfe of the words read unto me, as they are commonly understood by English Proteftants, without any evafion, equivocation, or mental refervation whatsoever, and without any difpenfation already granted me for this purpole by the Pope, or any other authority or perfon whatfoever, or without any hope of any fuch dif penfation penfation from any perfon or authority whatfoever, or without thinking that I am or may be acquitted before God or man, or abfolved of this declaration, or any part thereof, although the Pope, or any other perfon or perfons, or power whatsoever, fhould difpenfe with or annul the fame, or declare that it was null or void from the beginning. The Form of the Declaration of Fidelity, appointed to be made and fubfcribed by Quakers, by ftat. 8 G. 2. c. 6. f. 1. A. B. do folemnly and fincerely promife and declare, That I will be true and faithful to King George; and do folemnly, fincerely, and truly profefs, teftify, and declare, That I do from my heart abhor, deteft, and renounce, as impious and heretical, that wicked doctrine and position, that Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope, or any authority of the See of Rome, may be depofed or murdered by their Jubjects, or any other whatsoever. And I do declare, that no foreign prince, person, prelate, ftate, or potentate, hath or ought to have any power, jurifdiction, fuperiority, pre-eminence, or authority, ecclefiaftical or spiritual, within this realm. |