12. I will produce but one instance more. The oath of one who _votes_ for a member of parliament is this: “I do swear, I have not received or had, by myself, or of any person whatsoever in trust for me, or for my use and benefit directly or indirectly, any sum or sums of money, office, place or employment, gift or reward, or any promise or security for any money, office, employment or gift, in order to give my vote at this election, and that I have not before been polled at this election. So help me God.” We may observe here, 1. That this oath is taken, once in seven years (if ♦required) by all the freeholders, in every county throughout _England_ and _Wales_, as well as by all the freemen in every city and borough-town: and 2. That hereby every voter swears, in words liable to no evasion, that he has not received, _directly or indirectly, any gift or reward_, or _promise_ of any. ♦ “requested” replaced with “required” per Errata But (to pass over those godless and shameless wretches, who frequently vote twice at one election) how few are there, who can take this oath with a conscience void of offence? Who have not received, _directly_ or _indirectly_, _any gift_ or promise of any? No! have not _you_? If you have received nothing else, have not you received meat or drink? And did you pay for the meat or drink you received? If not, that was _a gift_; and consequently, you are as really _perjured_, as the man that has received an hundred pounds. What melancholy prospect is then before us! Here are almost _all the common people_ of any substance throughout the land, both in the city and country, calling God to record to a _known, wilful falshood_! 13. I shall conclude this head in the weighty words of the author before cited.