...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." With the substitution of the political for the feudal motive for allegiance and its consequent general...

...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." With the substitution of the political for the feudal motive for allegiance and its consequent general...

...territorial. And the oath of allegiance, as administered for *upwards of [*368] six hundred years, (e) contained a promise "to be true and faithful to the...damage intended him, without defending him therefrom." Upon which Sir Matthew Hale (/) makes this remark, that it was short and plain, not entangled with...

...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" — to which James I added a declaration against the pope's authority, 1603. It was again altered,...

...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, I368! "without defending him therefrom." Upon which Sir Matthew Hale ' makes this remark ; that it...

...readers. " The oath of allegiance as administered for upwards of six hundred years," says Blackstone, " contained a promise ' to be true and faithful to the...damage intended him, without defending him therefrom.' '' (Commentaries, B. 1, Ch. 10.) The oath of supremacy dates from the reign of Henry VIII. It was modified...

...Hitl. \tlii.4zo. \V w 2 miniftred niiniftred for upwards of fix hundred years % contained a promife " to be true and faithful to the king and his heirs,...or hear of any ill or damage intended him, without de" fending him therefrom." Upon which fir Matthew Halet makes this remark; that it was fhort and plain,...

...the main features of this discussion, as captured by its roots in the subjects' oath of allegiance: "To be true and faithful to the king and his heirs,...damage intended him, without defending him therefrom." As Matthew Hale remarked about this early modern statement of the allegiance of governed to governor:...

...supreme governor of this realm" and that they would be "true and faithful to the king and his heirs . . . and not to know or hear of any ill or damage intended him without defending him therefrom."31 That morning, instead of taking the customary processional route on horseback from the...

...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." This was, in the primitive days of feudalism, the pledge of allegiance, when made to the sovereign,...