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shall after such returne att any time againe refuse to take the
said Oathe upon the said Holy Evangelists, according to the
true Intent and meaning of this Act when itt shall bee againe
att any time soe administered unto him or them respectively
shall bee subject to such Fine and Imprisonment as the Lord
and Proprietary of this Province or his heires Lords and Pro-
prietarys of this Province shall thinke fitt or in his or their
absence out of this Province as his or their Leiuetenant or
Cheife Governor and Privy Councell of this Province for the
time being or the Major parte of them wherof the said Leiue-
tenant or Cheife Governor or his Deputy (being one of the
said Privy Councell) to bee alwayes one and to have a negative
voyce shall thinke fitt, and the Oathe and tytle therof intended
by this Acte is as followeth

The Oathe of Fidellity to
the Lord Proprietary
of this Province

I, A. B. doe sweare that I will be true and faythfull soe long
as I shall bee a Member of this Province to the Right Hono^ble
Caecilius Lord Baron of Baltemore Lord Proprietary of this
Province of Maryland and the Hands therunto belonging and
to his heires Lords and Proprietarys of the same and to his
Leiuetenant or Cheife Governor here for the time being, And
will not att any time by words or Actions, in publick or in
private wittingly or willingly any way derogate from, But will
att all times as occasion shall require to the utmost of my
power defend and mayntaine all such his said Lordship's and
his heire's just and lawfull right by the Interest, Priviledges
Jurisdiction Prerogative Proprietary and dominion over and in
the said Province and Hands therunto beelonging and over
the people who are and shall bee therein for the time being as
are granted to his said Lordship and his heires by the late King
of England in his said Lordship's Pattent of the said Province
under the Create seale of England not any wayes understood
to infringe or prejudice Liberty of Conscience in poynt of
Religion, And I doe allsoe sweare that I will with all Expedition
discover to his said Lordship or to his Leiuetenant or other
Cheife Governor of the said Province for the tyme being, and
allsoe use my best endeavdurs to prevent any plott Conspiracy
or Combination which I shall knowe or have just cause to
suspect is or shall bee intended against the person of his said
Lordship or which shall tend any wayes to the disinherison or
deprivation of his said Lordship or his heires theire Right
Title Jurisdiction and Dominion aforesaid, or any parte thereof,
and I doe sweare that I will not either by my selfe or by any

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