Flintwhenians are bound by oath to their lord, and ultimately King William the Conqueror. The oaths are for life and renouncing them strips the oath-breaker of all earthly possessions and renders him liable for any harm he has caused through renouncing his God-bound oath.
‘In the Lord, whose holiness is foremost: to [name of lord] I wish to be loyal and true, and to love all that he loves, and to shun all that he shuns according to God’s law and secular customs, and neither willingly nor intentionally to carry out either a word or deed which to him is hateful; I wish to live up to the regard with which he may hold me; and everything agreed between us I will carry out when I submit to him; and his will I have chosen…
Written above is the most used oath of fealty used in Flintwhenia. Below follow a variety of oaths that are tailored to certain day-to-day situations.
1. By the Lord, before whom this relic is holy, I will be to ____ faithful and true, and love all that he loves, and shun all that he shuns, according to God's law, and according to the world s principles, and never, by will nor by force, by word nor by work, do ought of what is loathful to him; on condition that he keep me as I am willing to deserve, and all that fulfil that our agreement was, when I to him submitted and chose his will.
The other's oath with whom a man discovers his cattle.
2. By the Lord, before whom this relic is holy, so I my suit prosecute with full folk-right, without fraud and without deceit, and without any guile, as was stolen from me the cattle ____ that I claim, and that I have attached with ____.
Thus shall a man swear when he has discovered his property and brings it in process.
3. By the Lord, I accuse not ____ either for hatred or for envy, or for unlawful lust of gain; nor know I anything soother; but as my informant to me said, and I myself in sooth believe, that he was the thief of my property.
The other's oath that he is guiltless.
4. By the Lord, I am guiltless, both in deed and counsel, and of the charge of which ____ accuses me.
His companion's oath who stands with him.
5. By the Lord, the oath is clean and unperjured which ____ has sworn.
Oath if a man finds his property unsound after he has bought it.
6. In the name of Almighty God, you did engage to me sound and clean that which you sold to me, and full security against afterclaim, on the witness of ____, who then was with us two.
How he shall swear who stands with another in witness.
7. In the name of Almighty God, as I here for ____ in true witness stand, unbidden and unbought, so I with my eyes over-saw, and with my ears over-heard, that which I with him say.
Oath that he knew not of foulness or fraud.
8. In the name of Almighty God, I knew not, in the things about which you sued, foulness or fraud, or infirmity or blemish, up to that day's-tide that I sold it to you: but it was both sound and clean, without any kind of fraud.
9. In the name of the living God, as I money demand, so have I lack of that which ____ promised me when I mine to him sold.
Denial.
10. In the name of the living God, I owe not to ____ sceatt or shilling, or penny or penny's worth; but I have discharged to him all that I owe him, so far as our verbal contracts were at first.
Of the oath and degree-bot of men in orders.