You shalbee truely Loyall to the present State and Goūment of
England [our Sou^r Lord the King his heires and Successors.] You
shall not speake or doe deuise or aduise Any thinge or thinges Acte
or Actes directly or Indirectly by Land or Water that doth shall or
may tend to the destruction or ouerthrow of these present
plantations or Townshipes of the Corporation of New Plymouth neither
shall you suffer the same to bee spoken or done but shall hinder
oppose and discouer the same to the Gou^r And Assistants of the said
Collonie for the time being; or some one of them; you shall
faithfully submitt vnto such good and wholesome Lawes and ordinances
as either are or shalbee made for the ordering and Gou^rment of the
same; and shall Indeuor to aduance the grouth and good of the
seuerall townshipes and plantations within the Lymetts of this
Corporation by all due meanes and courses; All which you pmise and
Sweare by the Name of the great God of heauen and earth simply
truely and faithfully to pforme as you hope for healp from God who
is the God of truth and the punisher of falchood. [1658.]
At the time of the 1671 revision of the Laws, Charles the Second had
been firmly seated on the English throne for ten years, but his name is
omitted from the superscription of the following Oath. The intensity of
the feeling in the New England Colonies towards even the name of the two
kings is shown in the fact that until after the middle of the next
century Harvard College had only three graduates, if the three Charles
Chaunceys, with whom it was a family name in England, are omitted, and
Yale College only one graduate who bore the Christian name of Charles.