Oaths - Great Britain

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A good expedient for innocence and peace, being an essay concerning the great usefulness and advantage of laying aside publick oaths
Date: 1704
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Observations on the oath proposed to the English Roman Catholics . By Charles Plowden.
Plowden, Charles, 1743-1821.Date: MDCCXCI. [1791]
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Considerations upon the use and abuse of oaths judicially taken particularly in respect to perjury. By the Rev. Robert Pool Finch, D. D. Prebendary of Westminster, and Rector of St. John the Evangelist in that City.
Finch, Robert Pool, 1724-1803.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]
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An essay on the nature of oaths, and judicial evidence . Being an attempt to prove, from the Dictates of the Law of Nature, the Principles of Revealed Religion, and the Practice of all Civiliz'd Nations, that the testimony of a villain, or that of a Person under partial Influence, ought to have no effect on the conscience of a juryman. By a gentleman of the Inner-Temple.
Gentleman of the Inner Temple.Date: [1750?]
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"Swear not at all" containing an exposure of the needlessness and mischievousness, as well as antichristianity, of the ceremony of an oath : a view of the parliamentary recognition of its needlessness, implied in the practice of both houses : and an indication of the unexceptional securities, by which whatsoever practical good purposes the ceremony has been employed to serve would be more effectually provided for : together with proof of the open and persevering contempt of moral and religious principle, perpetuated by it, and rendered universal, in the two Church-of-England universities, more especially in the University of Oxford : pre-detached from An introduction to the rationale of evidence / by Jeremy Bentham.
Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832.Date: 1817