III.  Be it Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary, by and
with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Governor, and the Upper and Lower
Houses of ASsembly, and by the Authority of the same, That the following Oaths
shall be administered to, and taken by, all Persons that already have, or hereafter
shall be admitted to have or enjoy, any Office or Place of Trust within
this Province, in Manner following.

    " I  A. B. do sincerely promise and swear, That I will be faithful, and bear
" true Allegiance to his Majesty King GEORGE.  So help me GOD."

    " I A. B. do swear, THat I do from my Heart abhor, detest and abjure, as
" impious and heretical, that Damnable Doctrine and Position, That Princes excommunicated
" or deprived by the Pope, or any Authority if the See of Rome,
" may be deposed or murdered by their Subjects, or any other whatsoever.  And I
" do declare, That no foreign Prince, Person, Prelate, State, or Potentate, hath,
" or ought to have, any Jurisdiction, Power, Superiority, Pre-eminence, or Authority,
" Ecclesiastical or Spiritual, within the Kingdom of Great-Britain, or
" any the Dominions thereto belonging.  So help me GOD."

    " I A. B. do truly and sincerely acknowledge, profess, testify and declare in my
" Conscience, before GOD and the World, That our Sovereign Lord King
" GEORGE, is lawful and rightfully King if the Realm of Great-Britain, and
" all other the Dominions and COuntries thereto belonging.  And I do solemnly
" and sincerely declare, That I do believe in my Conscience, that the Person pretended
" to be Prince of Wales, during the Life of the late King James, and
" since his Decease, pretending to be, and taking upon himself the Stile and Title of
" King of England, by the Name of James the Third, or of Scotland by the
" Name of James the Eighth, or the Stile and Title of King of Great-Britain,
" hath not any Right or Title whatsoever to the Crown of the Realm of Great-Britain,
" or any other the Dominions thereto belonging.  And I do renounce, refuse
" and abjure any Allegiance or Obedience to him.  And I do swear, That I
" will bear Faith and true Allegiance to his Majesty King GEORGE, and him will
" defend to the utmost of my Power, against all traiterous Conspiracies and Attempts
" whatsoever, which shall be made against his Person, Crown or Dignity;
" and I will do my utmost Endeavour to disclose and make know to his Majesty,
" and his Successors, all Treasons and traiterous Conspiracies which I shall know to
" be against him, or any of them.  And I do faithfully promise, to the utmost of
" my Power, to support, maintain and defend, the Succession of the Crown against
" him the said James, and all other Persons whatsoever; which Succession, by an
" Act, entitled, An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better
" securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject, is and stands limited to the
" Princess Sophia, Electress and Dutchess Dowager of Hanover, and the Heirs
" of her Body, being Protestants.  And all these Things I do plainly and sincerely
" acknowledge and swear, according to these express Words by me spoken, and according
" to the plain and common Sense and Understanding of the same Words,
" without any Equivocation, mental Evasion, or secret Reservation whatsoever.
" And I do make this Recognition, Acknowledgment, Abjuration, Renunciation,
" and Promise, heartily, willingly and truly, upon the true Faith of a Christian.
" So help me GOD."