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things as becometh Provided always that every one of you the
said Thomas Greene Esq^r Captain Iohn Price Thomas Hatton
Iohn Pile and Robert Vaughan nominated herein to be of our
Council of our said Province do take the Oath hereunto an-
nexed intituled the Oath of a Councillor of State in Maryland
before any of you Respectively who shall not have taken the
said Oath do presume to put in Execution any of the Powers
and Authorities hereby or by any other Commission Granted
by us unto you as Councillors or Conservators of the Peace in
our said Province or be admitted of our Council there any
thing herein or in any other Commission of ours to the Con-
trary notwithstanding which said Oath shall be Administred
unto you and every of you respectively upon the holy Evan-
gelists by our Lieu^t or chief Governor of our said Province for
the time being whom we do hereby Authorise and Require to
Administer the same Accordingly Given under our Iland &
Greater Seal at Arms the twelfth day of August in the 17^th
Year of our Dominion over our said province Annoq Dni 1648

Liber C. B.

The Oath of a Councillor of State in Maryland

I AB do swear that I will be true and faithful unto unto the
Right honble Cecilius Lord Baron of Baltimore the true and
Absolute Lord and Proprietary of this province of Maryland
and his heirs and him and them and his and their rights Royal
Jurisdictions & Seignory all & every of them in to and over
the said Province and Islands thereunto belonging will at all
times defend and maintain to the utmost of my Power and will

never accept of nor execute any Place Office or Employment

within the said Province any way Concerning or Relating to
the Government of the said Province from any Person or
Authority but by from or under a Lawful Authority derived or
to be derived from time to time from his said Lordship or his
heirs Lords and Proprietaries of the said Province under his or
their hand and seal at Arms the Peace and Welfare of the
People of this Prov^e I will ever procure as far as I can I will aid
and assist the administring and execution of Justice in all things
to my Power to none will I delay or deny Right for fear favour
or Affection I will to my best Skill and according to my heart
and Conscience give good and faithful Council to the said Lord
and Proprietary and his heirs and to his and their Lieutenant
or Chief Governor of this Province for the time being when
thereunto I shall be Called I will keep Secret all matters com-
mitted or revealed unto me or which shall be moved or debated
Secretly in Council and faithfully declare my mind and opinion
therein according to my heart and Conscience and if any of the
said Treaties or Councils shall touch any of the Privy Coun-

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