Appendix E.

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E.

OATHS TAKEN   BY SIMON   GIRTY WHEN   COMMISSIONED SECOND LIEUTENANT UNDER MAJOR JOHN CONNOLLY. [Ante, p. 81.]

" 1. I, Simon Girty, do sincerely promise and swear that I will be faithful, and bear true allegiance to his Majesty King George the Third.   So help me God.

" 2. I, Simon Girty, do swear that I from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position, that princes excommunicated and deprived by the pope, or any authority of the see of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever. And I do declare, that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate, hath or ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm.   So help me God.

" 3. I, Simon Girty, do declare that I do believe there is not any transubstantiation in the sacrament of the Lord's supper, or in the elements of bread and wine at or after the consecration thereof, by any person or persons whatever. So help me God.

" 4. I, Simon Girty, do truly and sincerely acknowledge, profess, testify, and declare in my conscience before God and the world, that our sovereign lord, King George the Third, is lawful and rightful king of this realm and all other his Majesty's dominions thereunto belonging.

"And I do solemnly and sincerely declare that I do believe in my conscience that the person pretended to be Prince of AVales during the life of the late King James, and since his decease pretending to be and takes upon himself the style and title of King of England, by the name of James the Third, or of Scotland by the name of James the Eighth, or the style and title of King of Great Britain, hath not any right or title whatever to the crown of this realm or any other the domin-