Show Quaint Oath Taken In Court What Is regarded as the quaintest oath still In use is that taken by tho high court judges In the Isle of Man he terms of which are as follows By this book and the contents thereof there-of and by the wonderful works that God hath miraculously wrought In tho heaven above and the earth beneath In six days and six nights I do swear that 1 will without respect of favor or friendship loss or gain consanguinity or alllulty envy or malice execute tho I laws of this Isle Justly between party and party ns Indifferently as tile herring her-ring backbone doth He In the midst of the fish So help me God and the contents of this book |