Section IX Members of Court Martial to take an Oath.

X1Provided alwayes and bee it enacted That in all Tryalls of Offenders by Courts Martiall to be held by vertue of this Act where the Offence may be punished by death every Officer present at such Tryall before any Proceeding be had thereupon shall take an Oath upon the Evangelists before the Court (and the Judge Advocate or his Deputy shall and are hereby respectively Authorized to Administer the same) in these words That is to say

Form.

You shall well and truely Try and Determine according to your Evidence 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.