T H A T all Witnesses, coming or called to testify their Knowledge in or
to any Matter or Thing in any Court, or before any lawful Authority
within the said Province, shall there give or deliver in their Evidence
or Testimony by solemnly promising to speak the Truth, the whole Truth,
and nothing but the Truth, to the Matter or Thing in Question. And in
case any Person so called to Evidence, shall be convicted of wilful
Falshood, such Person shall suffer and undergo such Damage or Penalty,
as the Person or Persons against whom he or she bore false Witness, did
or should undergo; and shall also make Satisfaction to the Party
wronged, and be publickly exposed as a false Witness, never to be
credited in any Court, or before any Magistrate in the said Province.