¶ The form of the oath made by such as haue made their humble submission to the queens majesties Commissioners, for their offences in the late rebellion begun in the North in november. 1569. and the twelfth year of the reign of the queens majesty, Elizabeth by the grace of GOD. &c. FIrst, ye shall swear that ye be heartyly sorry that ye haue offended the queens majesty in your late rebellion. And that you do and shall repute and take all oaths and promises heretofore made to any person or persons, for and touching the said rebellion, to be wicked, unlawful, and of none effect: And also that you haue offended God and her highnesse in taking of any such oath, or in making any promise for that purpose: And that from henceforth ye shalbe true and faithful subiectes unto the queen our sovereign Lady, Elizabeth by the grace of God, queen of England, france, and ireland, defender of the faith. &c. And that you shall from henceforth obey and allow all laws, ordinances, and statutes of this realm, not being repealed: And all the same ye shall against all persons maintain, and defend to the uttermost of your power: And shall assist all such Iudges, Iustices, Commissioners, Officers, & Ministers, as well ecclesiastical as temporal, as the queens majesty shall appoint for the due execution of any of her majesties laws, ordinances, injunctions, statutes, or proclamations. Item, ye shall never hereafter during your lives make any unlawful assemblies or commotions, ne put yourselves in any number in forcible array at the commandment of any person what so ever he be, but onely by the commandment of the queens majesty, or of her lieutenant, or Lieftenantes, officers, or ministers, having sufficient authority of her majesty to appoint the same. Item, you shall not do or commit any treasons, murders, or felonies, ne know any such to be done by any person what so ever he be, but you shall open and bewray the same to the queens majesty, or to such as haue her majesties laws in administration. And in case there shall happen to be any person or persons, which shall utter and declare unto you or any of you privily or openly, any seditious matters, or shall writ any seditious letters, or move you to any insurrection, or any unlawful assemblies, or speak any slanderous words of the queens majesty, or of any of her counsellors: you shall likewise open and disclose the same, and shall endeavour yourselves to apprehend, or cause to be apprehended all such persons, & so to haue them committed to sure prison, until you shall know her majesties pleasure by order of her counsel, or other Ministers. And you shal also swear that you do utterly testify and declare in your consciences, that the queens highness is the onely supreme governor of this realm, and of all other her highness dominions and countreys, as well in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things or causes, as temporal: And that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate, hath or ought to haue any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority ecclesiastical or spiritual within this realm: And that you do utterly renounce and forsake al foreign jurisdictions, powers, superiorities, and authorities: And that you will from henceforth bear faith and true allegiance to the queens majesty, her heires and lawful successors: And to your powers shall assist and defend al jurisdictions, privileges, pre-eminences, & authorities granted or belonging to the queens highness, her heires and successors, or united and annexed to the imperial crown of this realm, So help you God, and by the contents of this book. God save the queen. ¶ Imprinted at London in Powles churchyard, by richard jug and John Cawood, Printers to the queens majesty. Cum privilegio Regiae Maiestatis.