In England. The Oath of Supremacy Tenor of The Oath of Allegiance, &c. to be Taken and Subscribed by Recusants The Oath of Abjuration In New Plymouth Colony. Combination for Foundation of Government known as The Mayflower Compact Oath of Allegiance and Fidelity The Oath of a Ffreeman The Oath of a Resident The Oath of a Ffreeman The Oath of a Ffreeman In Massachusetts-Bay Colony. The Oath of a Freeman, or of a Man to be made ffree. The Oath of Residents The Oath of a Freeman The Oath of a Free-man Freemans Oath Freemans Oath Oath of Fidelitie Oath of Fidelitie Strangers Oath Oath of Fidelitie Freemans Oath In Connecticut and New Haven Colonies. An Oath for Paqua’ and the Plantations there The Oath of a Freeman In New Haven Colony. Freeman’s Charge Oath of Fidelity Oath of Allegiance In Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Civil Compact Second Civil Compact The Engagement of the Officers The Reciprocal Engagement of the State to ye Officers The Preamble to the Law Against Perjury In New Hampshire Colony. The Combination for Government at Exeter, with the Forms of Oaths for Rulers and People The Elders or Rulers Oath The Oath of the People The Combination of the People of Dover to Establish a Form of Government Freemen In Province or County of Maine. Oath of Councilors of Province of Mayne OATHS OF ALLEGIANCE IN COLONIAL NEW ENGLAND The antiquity of the custom of giving and taking Oaths, or the debatable questions of their observance being a religious or legal ceremony, and whether the moral or political aspect has the greater effect upon the minds of men, are subjects with which this paper has nothing to do. And as the substance of Oaths for particular officers is to engage them to a faithful discharge of their places and trusts to the best of their ability, it has been considered, in general, unnecessary to give them, especially as these offices carry with them the assumption that the general Oaths required of all citizens have first been complied with. No Oaths of office were administered or required in the New Plymouth Colony, the power of the Church being, in effect, superior to the civil power.