"Therefore, to the utmost of my power I shall and "will defend this doctrine, and his holiness's rights and "customs against all usurpers, and heretical and Pro- "testant authority whatsoever; especially against, the "new pretended authority of the Church of England, "and all adherents, in regard that they and she be "usurpal and heretical, opposing the true mother church "of Rome. I do renounce and disown my allegiance "as due to any heretical king, prince, or State named "Protestant, or of obedience to any of their inferior "magistrates or officers. I do further declare the doctrine of "the Church of England, and of Calvinists, "Huguenots, and of the other named Protestants to be "damnable, and they themselves are damned, and to be "damned, that will not forsake them. I do further declare "that I will help, assist, advise all wherever I "shall be, in England, Scotland, Ireland, or in any "other kingdom I shall come to, and do my best to ex- "tirpate the heretical Protestant doctrines, and destroy "all their pretending powers, regal or otherwise. I "do further promise and declare, that notwithstanding "I am dispensed with, to assume any other religion "heretical for the propagation of the mother church's "interest, to keep secret and private all her agent's "councils from time to time, as they entrust me, and "not to divulge, directly or indirectly, by word, writ- "ing, or circumstance whatever, but to execute all "that shall be proposed; given in charge, or discovered "unto me, by you my ghostly father, or by any of his "sacred convents. All which I, A. B. do swear by the "blessed Trinity, and blessed Sacraments which I am "now to receive, to perform, and on my part to keep "inviolably, and do call all the heavenly and glorious "hosts to witness these my real intentions to keep this "my oath." The consecration oath of a Catholic bishop is as follows: "I do solemnly swear on the Holy Evangelists, and "before Almighty God, to defend the domains of St. "Peter against every aggressor; to preserve, augment "and extend the rights, honors, and privileges of the "Lord Pope and his successors; to observe, and with all "my might to enforce his decrees, ordinances, reserva- "tions, provisions, and all dispositions whatsoever; "to persecute and combat, to the last extremity "heretics and schismatics, and all who will not pay "the sovereign Pope all the obedience which he shall "require." The remainder of this oath is similar to the foregoing Jesuistical oath. The priests of Maynooth, who form the vast majority of Catholic priests in this country, assume the following obligation to the church: