Civitas Oxon. ss. The Oath of every freeman of the City of Oxford.  
YOU shall swear that you shall be faithful and true to our sovereign Lord KING_____ and to His heirs, and lawful Successors, KINGS and Queens of this Realm of ENGLAND. You shall be Obedient and ready to the Major, Alldermen, and bailiffs; Ministers, and Keepers of this City, (Officers under the KING'S MAJESTY,) and to their lawful commandments. The Franchises, Liberties, and customs of this City, you shall keep and maintain to your power; and in as much as in you is, you shall save this City harmless. You shall be partner of all manner of Charges touching this City; as in summons, Contributions, watches, Taxes, Tallages, as another man of the same City is. You shall avow no foreign goods as your own, whereby the KING may lose His Customè. You shall take none Apprentice for less time then for seven years; and you shall cause him to be enroled within the first year of his apprenticeship, and if he serve you well and truly, so shall you certify at his outgoing. You shall not take nor Receive, nor consent to the taking or Receipt of any Incorporation, or Fellowship; nor of any Book, or Confirmations of Acts, or Ordinances for any Fellowship; Company, or Fraternity within this City, or the Franchises, or Subur'os of the same; without the special Assent, Consent, and Agreement, of the Major, and bailiffs, and of the council of this City thereunto, first especially had and obtained. You shall know no foreign merchant in this City, that useth any Craft, Buying or Selling; but you shall warn the chamberlains, or else the major's sergeant thereof. You shall not Withdraw, purloin, or Withold; nor consent to the Withdrawing, purloining, or withholding, of any of the Charters, writings, Evidences, Escripts, or Myniments appertaining, or which of right aught to appertain to this City; but you shall do your best endeavour to see them brought in and delivered to the use of this City. You shall Implead no Person of this Franchises, and Guild, out of this Court, if that you may have right within this Court; neither shall you challenge, Claim, or take the privilege of any other Court or Courts, in any Action, or suit, here Commenced, by any Person that is Free of this Guild; except the same privilege be allowable by the Common laws of this Realm; and in all things you shall be justified by the Major of this City, and his council, as a true and Obedient Citizen ought to be. You shall not consent to the Decrease of a Coffer, called [damn MARGARET NORTHEN, and CISSELEY HABERFIELD,] nor to the Decrease of an other Coffer under five locks, without the Assent of the Major, and of his council; and the council of this City, you shall truly keep. These points, and all other touching the Franchises, Liberties, and customs of this City, or any of them; you shall keep and maintain to the uttermost of your power. So God you help.  
And by the same Oath, you shall give Mr. Major the wine and Spice, when it is asked of you.   

OXFORD, Printed by LEONARD LICHFIELD, 1646.