...take to subject superiors : ' As administered for upwards of six hundred years, it contained a promise to be true and faithful to the king and his heirs,...damage intended him, without defending him therefrom.' — Blackstono, Kerr's edition, vol. i. 3tiS. This oath being thought to favour too much the notion...

...as adminГ *368 1 i^red f°r *UP wards of six hundred years, (e) contained a promise " to 1 ' } -I be true and faithful to the king and his heirs, and...damage intended him, without defending him therefrom." Upon which Sir Matthew Hale (/J makes this remark, that it was short and plain, not entangled with...

...liegeman, according to the old feudal custom, came into court and pledged himself, by oath, " to be faithful to the king and his heirs, and truth and faith to bear, of life and limb and terrene honor ; and not to know or hear of any ill or damage intended him, without defending him therefrom."...

...faithful to the king and his heirfl. and truth and faith to bear of life and limb and terrene honor, and not to know or hear of any ill or damage intended him without defending him therefrom." Our statute in regard to naturalization -was intended to secure this fidelity on the part of the naturalized...

...for six hundred years, contained this promise : "To be true and faithful to the king and hie heir«, and truth and faith to bear of life and limb and terrene honor, and not to know or hear of any ill or damage intended him without defending him therefrom."...

...administered for Upwards Of six hundred years(«), contained a promise " to be Г *44Ч1 ^rue an<^ *faithful to the king and his heirs, and truth and...damage intended him, without defending him therefrom." Upon which sir Matthew Hale(/) makes this remark; that it was short and plain, (а) 2 Feud. 5, 6, 7....

...oath of allegiance, as administered for r*Qgo ^upwards of six hundred years, (e) contained a promise " to be true and «• faithful to the king and his...heirs, and truth and faith to bear of life and limb ind terrene honour, and not to know or hear of any ill or damage intended him, (•) 2 Fend. 5, 6,...

...as adminГ *468 1 i^red f°r *uPwar(;ls of six hundred years, (e) contained a promise " to I *"' -I be true and faithful to the king and his heirs, and...faith to bear of life and limb and terrene honour, ai\d not to know or hear of any ill or damage intended him, without defending him therefrom." Upon...

...prior to the Revolution of 1 688, when it was made more general. The old form expressed a promise : " to be true and faithful to the King and his heirs, and truth and faith to bear of life and limb, <ind terrene honor and not to know or hear of any ill or damaqe intended him icithout defending him...

...oath of allegiance, as it was administered for upwards of six hundred years, containing a promise " to be true and faithful to the king and his heirs,...intended him, " without defending him therefrom." At the Revolution, a more general form was introduced ; the subject only promising " that " he will...