❧ The Oath of every Free man, of the City of London.  
YE shall swear that ye shall be good and true to our Sovereign Lady Queen Elizabeth, etc. and to the heirs of our said sovereign Lady the Queen. Obeisant and obedient ye shall be to the Mayor and Ministers of this City. The franchises & customs thereof ye shall maintain, and this City keep harmless in that that in you is. Ye shall be contributory to all manner of charges within this City, as summons, Watches, contributions, tasks, tallages, lot, and scot, and all other charges, bearing your part as a free man ought to do. Ye shall colour no foreines goods, whereby the Queen might lose her customs or advantages. Ye shall know no foreign to buy or sell any merchandise with any other foreign within the City or the franchise thereof, but ye shall warn the Chamberlain thereof, or some minister of the Chamber. Ye shall implead or sue no free man out of this City, whiles ye may have right & law within the same City. Ye shall take none Apprentice, but if he be Free borne (that is to say) no bond man's son, nor the child of any alien, and for no less term than for seven years, within the first year ye shall cause him to be enrolled, & at his terms end ye shall make him free of this City (if he have well & truly served you.) Ye shall also keep the Queen's peace in your own persons, ye shall know no gatherings, conventicles nor conspiracies made against the Queen's peace, but ye shall warn the Mayor thereof, or let it to your power. All these points and Articles ye shall well and truly keep according to the laws & custom of this City to your power. So God you help, and by the holy contents of this Book.