An Oath Presented to the Protestants of the Palatinate Noah Millstone Principal Investigator MPESE Sebastiaan Verweij Co-Investigator MPESE Richard Bell Research Associate Victoria Anker BRIHC Research Impact Fellow Mike Jones Research Software Engineer Manuscript Pamphleteering in Early Stuart England (MPESE) 2017 United Kingdom London British Library Hargrave MS 311

British Library, Hargrave MS 311

After 1623 English Latin oath Palatinate Protestantism confessional identity confessional conflict Catholicism conversion Holy Roman Empire

An oath presented to all the protestants that weare forced to turne papests after the takinge of taken in the Pallatinate.

I. N. Poore sinner confesse before god, and all the Saint and before that preist and pastor of soules standing in the roome of god that I haue all my life gone astray in a cauesul unecrable & hereticall religion. & that in the supper of that religion I receaved nothing but plaine Bakers bread; & plaine wine in a Cup and I do beleiue that all my Ancestors and all others, that have liued in that faith are damned & perished for euer: Thereffore I promise before god & the Virgin Mary his Mother & before the preist and pastor of soules being in the place of god here per that I will neuer adhere to that accursed & hereticall religion so help me god./