A True and Authentic COPY, Of the Form of The most Horrid and Stupendious OATH, WHEREBY The French King Confirmed his Alliance with the TURKS.  
Faithfully Translated from the French Historiographer, Du Ribier, in his Memoirs, whereof the Latin Original is here annexed.  

The True Form of the Oath.  
BY the Great and High God, Merciful and Gracious, Maker of Heaven and Earth, and of all Things that are in them; and by the Holy Gospel, by the Holy Baptism, by Saint John the Baptist, and by the Christian Faith; I Promise and Swear, to Declare all Things I shall know, to the Most High Lord Sultan— whose Reign God be pleased to strengthen; I will be a special Friend to his Friends, and an Enemy to his Enemies; I will be a Redeemer to the Turks Prisoners, from the hands of his Enemies, nothing shall be fraudulently done on my side. And in case I neglect to do it; I shall be an Apostate, and a Prevaricator against the Commands of the Holy Gospel, and of the Christian Faith; I will say the Gospel is false; I will deny that Jesus Christ is living, and that his Mother was a Virgin; I will slay a Hog upon the Font of the Baptism, and Curse the Priests of the Altar; I will commit Fornication upon the Altar with Lasciviousness, and receive upon myself all the Curses of the Holy Fathers. So help me God from his High Place.   

Here follows the Original Copy in Latin.  
PER Deum Magnum & Altum, Misericordem & Benignum, Creatorem Coeli & Terrae, & omnium quae in eis sunt, & per Sancta haec Evangelia, per Sanctum Baptisma, per Sanctum Johannem Baptistam, & per Fidem Christianorum, Promitto & Juro, quod omnia quae novero, aperta erunt Altissimo Domino Sultano,— cujus Regnum Deus fortificet; Ero Amicus suorum unicus, & inimicus inimicorum, ●o Redemptor Captivorum Turcarum ex vincu●● Hostium ejus; nihil in mea parte fraudulentum erit. Quod si hoc neglexerim ero Apostata;  
Mandatorum Sancti Evangelii, Christianaeque Fidei Praevaricator, dicam Evangelium falsum ●sse, negabo Christum vivere, & Matrem ejus Virginem fuisse; super Fontem Baptismatis Porcum interficiam, & Altaris Presbyteros maledicam; super Altare Fornicabor cum Luxuria; & Sanctorum Patrum maledictiones omnes in me reci●iam. Ita me Deus respiciat ex alto.   

GOod God What a complication of Impiety, Blasphemy, Contradiction, Extravagancy, and Folly, is there in this Oath, and how Guilty are both those, who Swear such an Oath, and those who prescribe it to be Sworn!  
We see by this Oath, the French King prays to God to prosper the Sultan's Reign; and engages to do his utmost endeavours to promote his Interests against his Enemies, who are the Christians, and to be their Enemy in the Turks behalf; and in case he neglects to do it, he consents to be an Apostate from the Christian Faith; that is, unless he strives with all his power to overthrow the Christian Interest and Faith, and the Holy Gospel, he will be an Apostate from the Christian Faith. Nothing, says he, shall be fraudulently done on my side. How! can there be any thing more fraudulent and treacherous, than to call God for a Witness of such an execrable Oath, contrived against God himself? Is it not a horrid fraud, to call the Gospel and the Baptism Holy, and at the same time, to say, that in case he does not himself all what in him lies to destroy both; the Gospel, and the Christian Faith will be false. But we are much beholding to him for his Moderation, in committing only Fornication upon the Altar, tho' he does it with Lasciviousness, for he might as well for aught I know, have committed the Crime of Sodomy.  
A Prince, who offers to do such Things as are mentioned in this Oath, in case he does not keep such an abominable Oath, is guilty of all those Crimes already; and does no better, than if he had said, I Swear by the Most High God, to Kill my Father and my Mother, and all my Relations, and in case I do not perform my Vow, I am resolved to say there is no God; such is the Religion of the Most Christian King.  
It was Francis the I. who, first of all the French Kings, took this astonishing Oath, as it is reported by the French Historiographer Du Ribier, in his Memoirs; he was then engaged in a War against Charles the Vth Emperor, so that he thought fit to make an Alliance with the Turks, to get some Succour from them; and indeed, they sent a great Fleet and Army to help him, under the Command of their Admiral and General Barbarossa, who Landed in France; and did in Provence and the County of Nyssa great mischiefs, more a great deal than to the Emperor's Subjects. Du Ribier reports, that none in the French King's Council opposed this Oath, but only Chancellor du Prat, who was mightily against it, but could not prevail, so that it was taken by Francis accordingly.  
But it may be, some will say, though Francis the Is. took that Oath, it is not certain, that Lewis the XIVth. has taken it, in making Alliance with the Turks. I confess indeed, no Historiographer has relate 〈…〉 as has been done of his Pred … 〈…〉 'tis no wonder, for such things are carefully kept secret during his Life, and shall not be known before his Death; Methinks there is little Reason to doubt he has done it also, or some other worse, and this for the following Reasons. 1st. It is the constant practice of all the Princes and States, when they have once prevailed upon another State to Treat an Alliance with them, upon Terms, and Forms, and Expressions Favourable, Advantageous, and Honourable to their own Party, never to change any thing of them in the following Treaties or Alliances with the same, unless there has been a great Change made also in the respective Fortunes of those States, and that which was the less potent then, is become the more powerful or predominant. We do not see there has been any such alteration or mutation made amongst those two great Nations, the French and the Turks; and this has certainly still as great advantage now over Lewis the XIVth, as she had over Francis the Is, when he took this Oath. 2. Francis the Is. was certainly, as appears by his History, far less Ambitious, and a Better, and Greater Man in all respects, than Lewis the XIVth ever was. 3. There must needs be a horrid Engagement between them, against the Christians, since we see every year, what efforts the French King makes against Germany in the Turks behalf, and that the Turks persist in continuing this War, so extremely ruinous to them, against their Custom. But however it be, it can be easily proved, he has done much worse in that respect, than his Predecessor engaged to do, so that we cannot do him any injury, in thinking he has taken the same Oath, or a worse one, if possible. For suppose Lewis the XIVth, has not taken the same Oath, yet it cannot be denied, that he is more guilty, for having done without Oath, what Francis the Is, had engaged by Oath to do, but did not actually perform it. This took that Oath, Transported with a great Passion against Charles the Vth, Emperor, but the other does it in cold Blood. And we do not see by Francis his History, he has done any great mischief to Christians, in behalf of the Turks, comparable to what Lewis the XIVth has done. 'Tis worse ten times to commit a Crime without threatening; than to threaten without committing of it.  
By all the Tenor of this present French King's Conduct, we see he has Sworn, I know not how many Oaths upon the Holy Gospel and Baptism, in several Alliances and Treaties with most States in Europe, and with his own Subjects also, and has broken as many times his Oaths. This is as much as to say, the Gospel and the Christian Faith are false, and to deny that Christ is Living. When he does condemn one year by all his Universities, the Pope's Infallibility, and his Authority above the Council, his Power over the Temporals of Princes, and of Deposing them when he pleases; and another year admits the same Infallibility of the Pope, and his Almighty Power both in Heaven and Earth, etc. Is it not as much as to say, the Gospel is false, and the Christian Faith, a trifle? When he pretends to impose Laws upon men's Consciences, and force them to believe what he pleases, and will be called by the Name of Providence, of Immortal, of Divine Majesty, is it not as much as to curse the Gospel and the Christian Faith? As for his being a special Friend to the Turks, and an Enemy to his Enemies, every body knows what mischiefs he has done to Germany, in behalf of the Infidels, and how he helps them with all kind of Officers and Engineers against the Emperor, the Polonians, and Venetians, and has exhausted almost all the Money of his Kingdom for their sake, postponing his own Subjects Interest, to theirs, and treating them as Enemies to the Turks: So that 'tis evident, he must have taken his Predecessor's Oath with the Turks, or some other more execrable Oath, since he has done a great deal worse, and is without Comparison more Ambitious, and Irreligious than Francis the Is was, and stands in greater need of the Turks help, for his unjust Designs.  
We have here also a true Character of the Turks Genius, who prescribed the French King such a Contradictory and Blasphemous Oath, upon which they could not rely in the least, if they had had any Honesty or Judgement. For how could they imagine, that a Man professing himself to be a Christian, and calling the Gospel Holy, and the Baptism Holy, etc. would oblige himself seriously and in earnest, to deny all the Truths of the Gospel, in case he failed himself of his word; that is, to believe that God should be false, because he should have been false himself. For 'tis just the same, as if a Christian Prince, did exact from the Sultan such an Oath, whereby the Sultan should Swear by his Holy Koran, and the Holy Mahometan Faith, and by his Great Prophet Mahomet, that he would be faithful to Christians, in destroying the Mahometan's Interest; and in case he did neglect to do it like a Knave, Mahomet would be a Knave also, and his Koran a Fable, and that he would hereafter Worship a Hog in his Mosque, and commit Adultery upon Mahomet's Tomb. Certainly, no Man of any Honesty or Judgement, would impose such an Oath upon any other Man. The Turks did it only out of a blind and inveterate aversion they bear to the Christian Religion; they pretended to raise thereby a great Triumph to Mahomet, over our Saviour. For how is it possible otherwise, to trust to such an Oath, which none but a Treacherous and Unworthy Man can take, of what Religion soever he may be?  
Licenced, Feb. 22. 1693. D. Poplar.    

LONDON: Printed for R. Bentley, and are to be Sold by R. Baldwin, 1694.