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Show KUatiig Ike llk. 1 The cuitoiu of earing on the 111b! " couire from tlie uiidunt Jew, who at i lint touched thotr hylactrlee email ii cur containing trlw of iarcbinent I Inaorlbed with telta from the Old Tceta-I' Tceta-I' went In taking oatlu, and later laid , Mielf bandf on the book of the law, II and all tha rarloua cuitom of taking i, oatlu In dlfferont oouutrlue Lav a ihu-i ihu-i Ear origin. " The tarty Anglo-Maiom regarded li ttonee aa aacrod to their god , therefor o laid their band on a pillar of itoue, ' In inedlaral time It wai cuitomiry to J touch a relic, and tliU waa regarded aa glrlng the oatli more tacrednuu than u wWn iwom upon the mlual, or prajer k Uiok. Anotlier cuttom of the aaiuu ' tliae wat iwearlng by churchre. A certain number were mentloiied, an 1 i the atuwtor u obliged to go to raeh i one, tale tlie ring of the church door In lilt liand an 1 repeat bli oatlu The cibtoai of klulng the cruee to at i tett an oath hu been oUcri ed In llui- ila ftoro rery a:ly tluiee, and luu ct-tended ct-tended Into other eountrlea, Accord ' lug to tlie Ui of the Order of the ; Garter, In the time of Henry VIII, Knight Templar acre required Intnk- lag oath to touch the book and klaa the crou. Since the IWormatlou the taking tak-ing of oatha by kUtlng tlie HIM luu i , not been naltted In Hcotlau L In I otlier portlone of Gnat llntaln It U the T eowinon mitluxl -Detroit le l'reu. |