 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...judge in the Isle of Man, on entering upon the functions of his office, takes the following oath : " By this book, and by the holy contents thereof, and...God hath miraculously wrought in heaven above and in earth beneath in six days and seven nights, I do swear that I will without respect of favour or friendship,... | |
 | George Ramsay - 1828 - 654 pages
...will not spare it;" and thus returned the cups. The oath of .a deemster, or judge, in the Isle of Man, runs thus : — " By this book, and by the holy contents...the earth beneath, in six days and seven nights, I, - .. ..t. — — • — , do swear that I will, without respect of favour or friendship, love or... | |
 | 1831 - 512 pages
...Man : — " By this book, and by the holy contents thereof, and by the wonderful works that God has miraculously wrought in heaven above and in the earth...in six days and seven nights, I, AB, do swear that 1 will, without respect of favour or friendship, love or gain, consanguinity or affinity, envy or malice,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 pages
...judge in the Isle of Man, on entering upon the functions of his office, takes the following oath : " By this book, and by the holy contents thereof, and...God hath miraculously wrought in heaven above and in earth beneath in six days and seven nights, I do swear that l! will without respect of favour or friendship,... | |
 | Joseph Train - 1845 - 408 pages
...on the functions of his office, the following singular oath was administered to the deemster : — " By this book, and by the holy contents thereof, and by the wonderful works that God has miraculously wrought in heaven and on the earth beneath in six days and seven nights, I do swear... | |
 | James Brotherston Laughton - 1847 - 218 pages
...one time one way, and another contrary." } The following is the Deemster's oath of office :—• " By this book, and by the holy contents thereof, and...God hath miraculously wrought in heaven above, and the earth beneath, in six days and seven nights; I, AB do swear, that I will, without respect of favour,... | |
 | Archer Polson - 1858 - 212 pages
...appointed Pre* This reminds one of the oath of the judges in the Isle of Man — " By this book and the holy contents thereof, and by the wonderful works...hath miraculously wrought in heaven above, and in earth beneath, in six days and seven nights I do swear that I will, without respect of favour or friendship,... | |
 | John Feltham - 1861 - 322 pages
...deemster, or judge, from the singular allusion to the herring, I take this opportunity to introduce. " By this book, and by the holy contents thereof, and...wonderful works that God hath miraculously wrought in • An act of Tynwald passed in 1794, to regulate the mode of shooting the nets ; and by an act of... | |
 | Matthew Glover, Suetonius M. Tod - 1868 - 290 pages
...Tynwald. * The oath administered to the Deemster when he enters upon his office it singular : — " By this book, and by the holy contents thereof, and by the wonderful works that God has miraculously wrought in heaven and on the earth beneath in six days and seven nights, I do swear... | |
 | Manx Society - 1869 - 290 pages
...one section of the oath administered to the Deemster upon his taking office in the Isle of Man. It runs thus — " By this book, and by the holy contents...by the wonderful works that God hath miraculously observed from the following order, recorded in the Episcopal Registry, that tininsertion in the Litany... | |
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