Section III III. Officers present at Trials under Commissions from Admiralty to take an Oath.X1

Provided alwayes and bee it enacted That upon all Tryalls of Offenders by Courts Martiall to be held by vertue of any Commission to be granted by the Lord High Admirall or the Commissioners for executing the Office of High Admirall every Officer present shall before any Proceeding to Tryall take an Oath before the Court (which Oath the Judge Advocate or his Deputy for the time being are hereby respectively authorized to administer) in these words following

The Oath.

You shall well and truely try and determine the Matter now before you betweene our Soveraigne Lord and Lady the King and Queens Majestyes and the Prisoner to be tryed

Soe helpe you God.