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This article features a transcription of a [[Folger Shakespeare Library]] [[Manuscripts (disambiguation)|manuscript]], Oath of a Serjeant at Law, featured in the [[Age of Lawyers|''Age of Lawyers'']] Exhibition, [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=193155 X.d.122 (4)], (ca. 1577–87 ), September 12, 2015-January 3, 2016.  

A lawyer who rose to serjeant at law had arrived at the top. New serjeants resigned from their inn of court and typically joined Serjeants' Inn. William Lambarde, one of the first legal antiquarians, collected this serjeant's oath in the late 1500s.  

== Transcription ==
Below is a semi-diplomatic transcription of leaf 1 recto of Folger manuscript X.d.122(4). The transcription below was created by the [[Early Modern Manuscripts Online (EMMO)]] project. To access an image of the original leaf, click on each transcription's heading.

=== [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/889vst X.d. 122(4), leaf 1 recto] ===
ye shall swere ''tha''t well & trulie 

you shall serue ''th''e people as one 

of the sergeant''es'' at Lawe and you 

shall trulie counsell them ''tha''t you shalbe 

retayned w''i''th after yo''u''r coming and you

shall not deferre tract or delaye 

ther causes willinglie <s>ther causes</s> for 

covetous of monie or other thing ''tha''t 

may turne to yo''u''r profyt. And you 

shall giue dew attendans.

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