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S124261 YE shall sweare that yee shall bee good and / true to our Souereigne Ladie Queene Elizabeth, &c. and Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 43 The Othe of euerie Free man, / of the City of London. The Oath of every Free man, of the City of London. Printer Hugh Singleton ?-?

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YE shall sweare that yee shall bee good and true to our Sovereigne Ladie Queene Elizabeth, etc. and to the heires of our said Sovereigne Ladie the Queene. Obeysant and obedient ye shall be to the Mayor and Mini- sters 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 for- reines goods, under or in your name, whereby the Queene or this Citie, might or may loose their Customes or advanta- ges. Ye shall know no forreine to buy or sell anie Marchan- dise with any other forreine within the Citie or the Fran- chise thereof, but yee shall warne the Chamberlaine there- of, or some Minister of the Chamber. Yee shall im- plead or sue no free man out of this Citie, whiles yee may have 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 seven 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 have well and truely served you.) Ye shall also keepe the Queenes peace in your owne persons, ye shall know no gatherings, conventicles nor conspiracies made against the Queenes peace, but ye shall warn the Ma- yor thereof, or let it to your power. All these points and Arti- cles 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 save the Queene. Printed at London by Hugh Singleton.