The othe of euerie free man, of the city of London. Oath of a free-man. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B00367 of text S124261 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 16763). 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. 2 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 B00367 STC 16763 Interim Tract Supplement Guide Huth 50[47] 99892892 ocm99892892 182362 2240931679

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B00367) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 182362) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A3:4[46]) The othe of euerie free man, of the city of London. Oath of a free-man. 1 sheet ([1] p.). By Hugh Singleton, Printed at London : [1590?] Date of publicatioin suggested by STC. Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng Freemen -- England -- London -- Early works to 1800. eebo The othe of euerie free man, of the city of London. anon 1590 1 386 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-08 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-11 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-04 Sampled and proofread 2009-04 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
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The Othe of euerie Free man , of the City of London .

YE shall sweare that yee shall bee good and true to our Souereigne Ladie Queene Elizabeth , &c. and to the heires of our said Souereigne Ladie the Queene . Obeysant and obedient ye shall be to the Mayor and Ministers of this Citie . The Franchises and customes thereof yee shall mainteine , and this Citie keepe harmeles in that that in you is . Ye shall be contributorie to all manner of charges within this Citie , as summons , Watches , contributions , taskes , tallages , lot , and scot , and all other charges , bearing your part as a free man ought to doo , Yee shall colour no forreines goods , vnder or in your name , whereby the Queene or this Citie , might or may loose their Customes or aduantages . Ye shall know no forreine to buy or sell anie Marchandise with any other forreine within the Citie or the Franchise thereof , but yee shall warne the Chamberlaine thereof , or some Minister of the Chamber . Yee shall implead or sue no free man out of this Citie , whiles yee may haue right and law within the same Citie . Yee shall take none Apprentice , but if hee bee free borne ( that is to say ) no bond mans sonne , nor the childe of any Alien , and for no lesse terme then for seuen yeeres , within the first yeere yee shall cause him to be enrolled , and at his termes end ye shall make him free of this Citie , ( if he haue well and truely serued you . ) Ye shall also keepe the Queenes peace in your owne persons , ye shall know no gatherings , conuenticles nor conspiracies made against the Queenes peace , but ye shall warn the Mayor thereof , or let it to your power . All these points and Articles yee shall well and truely keepe , according to the lawes and customes of this Citie to your power . So God you help , and by the holie contentes of this Booke .

God saue the Queene .

Printed at London by Hugh Singleton .