The oath of every free-man of the city of London City of London (England). This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A53687 of text R221935 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing O73B). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A53687 Wing O73B ESTC R221935 99833179 99833179 37654 2240941304

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A53687) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 37654) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2192:11) The oath of every free-man of the city of London City of London (England). 2 sheets ([2] p.) Printed by James Flesher, printer to this honourable city, [London] : [1653?] Date of publication from Wing. Title of second sheet: Instructions for every free-man of the city of London. "You shall sweare, that ye shall be true and faithfull to the Common-wealth of England; and in"--first three lines of text. Copy torn with loss of text. Reproduction of the original in the Harvard University Library. eng Loyalty oaths -- England -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1642-1660 -- Early works to 1800. eebo The oath of every free-man of the city of London. Corporation of London 1653 2 478 2 0 0 0 0 0 41.84 D The rate of 41.84 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2008-04 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-08 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-09 Sampled and proofread 2008-09 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
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The Oath of every Free-man of the City of London .

YOV shall Sweare , that you shall be true and faithfull to the Common-wealth of England ; and in order thereunto , You shall be obedient to the iust and good Government of this City of London : You shall to the best of your power maintain and preserve the Peace , and all the due Franchises thereof ; and according to your knowledg and ability , doe and perform all such other acts and 〈◊〉 s as doe belong to a Free-man of 〈◊〉 ud City .

Printed by James Flesher , Printer to this Honourable City .

coat of arms of the City of London
Instructions for every Free-man of the City of LONDON .

YE shall be obedient to the Maior and Ministers of this City . The Franchises and Customes thereof ye shall mantain , and this City keep harmlesse in that that in you is . Ye shall be contributary to all manner of charges within this City , as Summons , Watches , Contributions , Tares , Tallages , Lot , and Scot , and to all other charges , bearing your part as a Free-man ought to doe . Ye shall colour no Forreign goods , under , or in your name , whereby his Highnesse the Lord Protector of the Comonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the dominions thereof , or this City , might , or may lose their Customes or advantages . Ye shall know no Forreigner to buy or sell any Marchandize , with any other Forreigner within this City or Franchise thereof , but ye shall warne the Chamberlain thereof , or some Minister of the Chamber . Ye shall implead or sue no Free-man out of this City , whiles ye may have right and law within the same City . Ye shall take none Apprentice , but if he be Free-born , ( that is to say ) no bondmans son , nor the child of any Alien , and for no lesse tearm then for Seven years without fraud or deceit : and within the first year ye shall cause him to be enrolled , or else pay such fine as shall be reasonably imposed upon you for omitting the same . And after his terms end , within convenient time ( being required ) ye shall make him Free of this City , if he have well and truly served you . Ye shall also keep the publicke Peace in your own person . Ye shall know no gatherings , nor conspiraciess made against the publicke Peace but ye shall warn the Maior thereof , or let it to your power . All these poynts and articles ye shall well and truly keep , according to the laws and customs of this City , to your power .