Note 320 — Chapter X
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I give a literal copy of a draft of amendment found among the Papers of the House of Lords, connected with the Act, showing the fruitless attempts made to modify the abjuration of the Covenant—
"I, A. B., doe declare That I hold that there lyes no obligation upon mee or any other person from the oath commonly called the Solemn League and Covenant
Rejected. otherwise than in such things only whereunto I or any other person other than what I or they were otherwise legally oblig'd unto before
were legally and expressly obliged before the taking of y^e s^d Covenant,
the taking of the Covenant,
and that the same was in itselfe an unlawfull oath," &c.