Mutiny (No. 2) Act 1694

V. Commissioned Officer, before Mutter and Commission registered, to take the following Oath.

And to prevent the great mischief of buying and selling Military Employments in His Majesties Armies Bee it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Commission Officer which shall bee hereafter imployed in His Majesties Military Service shall before hee bee mustred and his Commission registred in the Office of the Commissary General of the Musters take the Oath following upon the Evangelists expressing therein the Name and Quality of the Office and the Name of the Colonel and the Regiment whether of Horse Foot or Dragoons (that is to say

I. A. B. doe hereby declare That I have neither directly nor indirectly by my selfe or any one for me with my knowledge given or promised hereafter to give any su[m]m of money present gift or reward to any person or persons whatsoever for obtaining my Commission to bee in the Regiment of commanded by other then the usual Fee to the Secretary of State or the Secretary of the Commander in Chief of the Armie counter-signeing such Commission Soe helpe mee God

Which Oath the said Commissary General or any of his Deputies are hereby required and impowered to administer and in the entring of the said Commission to insert a Memorial of the administring of the said Oath. Provided neverthelesse if the Officer bee of any Troop or Company not. regimented the Colonels Name shall bee omitted in the said Oath.