THE
OATH
OF
QUALIFICATION
FORTHE
Ancient Borough of Garrat,

According as it stands on the Old Record, handed down to us by the
GRAND VOLGEE by Order of the Great CHIN KAW CHIPO,
FIRST EMPEROR of the MUNICIPALities---Anno Mundi, 75.

T THAT you have been admitted peaceably and quietly into possession of a Freehold Thatched Tenement, either black, brown, or oral; in hedge or duch, againft gate or stile, under furze or fern, or any common or common field, or inclosure in the high road, or any of the lanes, in barn, stable, hovel, or any other place within the said Manor of Garrat; and that you did (bona fide) keep (ad Rem) possession of the said thatched tenement, (durante bene Placito) without any let, hindrance, or molestation whatever; or without any ejectment or forcible turning out of the fame; and that you did then, there, and in the said tenement, dicharge, and duly pay, and amply satisfy all legal demands of rent that was at that time due to the said premises; and laftly, did quit and leave the premises in found, wholeſome, and tenantable repair, as when you first took possession, and did ENTER therein.

Sworn (CORAM NOBIS) at our Great Hall, on the Garrat Green,
and covered with the plenteous harvest of the goddeſs Ceres,
dedicated to the jovial god Comus.

So help you,