After this the Old-Countrymen among the prisoners, who had taken the oath and enlisted in the garrison, were disarmed and confined, while the rest were more strictly watched.

And so the curtain falls upon a happy garrison, including a Trumpeter who has not sworn a single oath.

Walker's actions, words, and correspondence all proved him a dangerous rebel whom no governor could possibly leave at large without breaking his oath of office.

It is well known, that the commons cannot claim a right to administer an oath, and therefore can only examine witnesses by simple interrogatories.

I have kept that oath.

He remained for a short time in the famous posture of the Colossus of Rhodes, vainly endeavoring to shake off the cigar-stumps and other little et ceteras which were clinging to him like cerements, uttering the while unintelligible oaths.

Instinctively, the witness's right hand rose; it was as if he were mentally repeating his oath before he uttered coldly and with emphasis, though without any show of emotion: "It is.

If the oath was not so expressed, he might afterward have been accused of violating that oath.

That bad language is used by almost all troops in the field is notorious, but in Jerusalem one seldom heard an oath or an indecent word.

They granted the Yorkists a general indemnity; and they restored the protectorship to the Duke, but at the same time they renewed their oaths of fealty to Henry, and fixed the continuance of the protectorship to the majority of his son Edward.

[Footnote 27: That is, the right of the civil power to grant church offices at will, and to invest ecclesiastics with symbols of their offices and receive their oaths of fealty.

But iss Rome yet a fortify town?" Chantel rapped out a Parisian oath.

And I observed that when we parted, and Moll in common civility offered him her hand, he muttered some oath as he raised it to his lips.

Hast forgot the oath I sware?

But he first exacted from them an oath that they would neither maim nor kill any of the cattle which they saw grazing, but content themselves with such food as Circe had stowed their vessel with when they parted from Ææa.

This, my lords, is an evident elusion; for it is always intended, that he who gives an oath, gives it in consequence of his right to take the examination; but in this case the witness takes an oath, coram non judice, before a magistrate that has no power to interrogate him, and is interrogated by those who have no right to require his oath.

But St George's has other memories too, for it was there that Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London, who staunchly refused the oath of supremacy to Elizabeth, was buried at midnight after his death in the Marshalsea, on September 5th, 1569.

And these are the principal reasons of my refusal any longer to acknowledge my allegiance to it, and of my determination to revoke my oath to support it.

A. Yes(and remembering the oath) reasonably so.

In case the free judge did not feel satisfied as to the guilt, he could, by making oath, temporarily divest himself of his office, which devolved upon a second, a third, or even a fourth free judge.

I sware an oath unto Sir Gui?

"Ah Fong, will you respect the oath to testify truthfully, about to be administered to you?"

He tries to ape the man of fashion, gets himself up as a loud swell, and uses "sentimental oaths," i. e. oaths bearing on the subject.

It was not enough to eject him from office,his inability to subscribe the test oaths would have done so much,but he was to be replaced by that one of his political and literary antagonists whom he most sincerely disliked, and who still writhed under his lash.

Duclos, in his History of the Gallic' Romance,[AW] gives the abovementioned oath of Lewis as the first monument of that language.