Section V Prisoner discharged must take an Oath.
And bee it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That such Prisoner as shall take the Benefitt of this Act according to the Forme of the said Two first mentioned Acts as is hereby required and shall take the Oath in the said first recited Act mentioned shall alsoe before such Justice or Justices of the Peace by whom such Oath is to bee given and administred likewise take an Oath (which such Justice or Justices of the Peace is and are hereby impowered to administer) to this Effect, videl[ia]t
Form of Oath.
I. A. B. doe sweare That on the Five and twentieth day of December in the Yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred ninety & five I was actually a Prisoner in the Custody of the Goaler or Keeper of the Prison of C. in the County of D. att the Suit of I. S without X1any Consent or p[ro]curement and without any Fraud or Collusion whatsoever. Soe help mee GOD.
Annotations
Editorial notes
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Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: my O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]