The onemood oath of the thirteen foroned riches of Americksland, When in the lode of mannish happenings, it becomes needful for one folk to melt the wieldcraftish bands which have bound them with another, and to take among the walds of the earth, the lone and even stead to which the Laws of Kind and of Kind's God beright them, a good worthship to the weenings of mankind needs that they should queath the grounds which drive them into sunderhood.
We hold these truths to be self-notely, that all men are made even, that they are bequeathen by their Maker with sundry unoutenly rights, that among these are Life, Freedom, and the soken of Happiness.-- That to fasten these rights, riches are reared among men, drawing their walds from the will of the wielded,-- that whenever any kind of rich becomes baneful of these ends, it is the Right of the Folk to wend or uproot it, and to rear a new rich, laying its groundline on such lodestars and dighting its walds in such shape, as to them shall seem most likely to beget their Soundness and Happiness. Shrewdness, indeed, will bode that riches long reared should not be went on light and drifting grounds; and likewise all witness has shown, that mankind is more foreset to ache, while evils are achenly, than to right themselves by uprooting the kinds to which they were wont. But when a long line of misbiddings and uprisings, seeking always the same end to lessen them under utter onewield, it is their right, it is their burden, to throw off such a rich, and to set up new wards for their aftercoming soundness.-- Such has been the stillwaiting ache of these settlings; and such is now the need which binds them to wend their former wieldways. The lore of the anward King of England is a lore of efted wounds and uprisings, all straighly having the end of rearing an utter onewield over these riches. To asoothe this, let truths be given to an unknowing world.
He has forqueathen his thaving to laws, the most wholesome and needful for the theedly welfare.
His has forbidden his boroughreeves from boding laws of forthright and thringing weight, unless bedealt in their working till his thaving should be gotten; and when so bedealt, he has utterly forsaken to besee them.
He has forqueathen to thave other laws for the fitting of great boroughs of folks, unless those folks would give up the right of spokesmanship in the witsmoot, a right unreckonly to them and banely to onewielders only.
He has called together lawboding bodies at steads selcouth, odd, thorny, and far from the writhouse of their theedwrits, for the lone end of wearying them into hearsomeness with his ways.
He has melted Spokesman Houses eftly, for gainstanding with manly steadfastness his inbreakings on the rights of the folk.
He has forqueathen for a long time, after such sunderings, to let others be waled; whereby the lawboding walds, unmightly of wrake, have come back to the greater folk for their fanding; the rich biding therewhile wrayed to all plees of inbreaking from without, and fit within.
He has sought to thwart the folkship of these riches; and on those grounds hindering the laws for the inlandening of comelings; forqueathing to thave others to uplift their wandering hither, and rising the hodes of new deals of lands.
He has hindered the fulfilling of rightness, by forqueathing his thaving to laws for rearing doomsmanish walds.
He has made the doomsmen stand on his will alone, for the biding of their wickens, and the meting and yielding of their hire.
He has reared a dright of new wickens, and sent hither swarms of wickeners to nettle our folk, and eat out their antimber.
He has kept among us, in times of frith, standing harfolk without the yeasaying of our lawboders.
He has gone to wend the ferd freestanding and higher than the folkish wald.
He has knitted with others to undertheed us to a lordship outlandish to our setness, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his yeasaying to their deeds of put on lawboding.
For settling great bodies of harmen among us.
For shielding them, by an ahirring fand, from foryielding for any murders which they should do upon the dwellers of these riches.
For cutting off our chaffer with all parts of the world.
For besetting us with a yield without our thaving.
For bedealing us in many falls, of the goodnesses of fand by fellowdeeming.
For ferrying us beyond seas to be fanded for makebelieve misdeeds.
For uprooting the free network of English law in a neighboring shire, rearing therein a hapsome rich, and greatening its marks so as to wend it at once a bisen and fit tool for inbringing the same utter wield into these settlings.
For taking away our lawdeals, uprooting the most worthy laws, and wending staddlely the kinds of our riches.
For belaying our own witsmoots, and boding themselves filled with wald to lawdeem in all falls whatsoever.
He has dealt out wield here, by boding out of his shielding and wying against us.
He has reaven our seas, harrowed our shores, burnt our towns, and forspilled the lives of our folk.
He is at this time ferrying great trums of outlandish sellswords to fulfill the works of death, lornness, and onewield, already begun with hodes of hardness and fickleness seldom matched in the most backward elds, and is wholly unworthy the head of a seemly theed.
He has forholden our fellow boroughmen taken haft on the high seas to bear weapons against their rich, to become the slayers of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
He has risen homeheasts among us, and has forthgone to bring on the dwellers of our marks, the ruthless Indish wildmen, whose known writ of wyecraft is the unsheddingly bane of all elds, hodes, and ships.
At every tide of these yokes, we have besought for boot in the most eathmood: our efted besokens have only been answered by efted wounds. An atheling whose thew is rife with every deed which marks a onewielder, is unfit to be the alder of a free folk.
Nor have we been wanting in foreshowing our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of fands by their lawbodies to show unworthy lordship over us. We have eftminded them of the grounds of our leaving and settling here. We have went to their inlandish rightness and athelhood, and we have made them by the ties of like kindred to forswear these uprisings, which, would in the end forstop our bonds and fellowhood. They too have been deaf to the reard of rightness and kinship. We must, therefor, yield in the need, which forswears our sundering, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, foes in wye, in frith friends.
We, therefor, the spokesmen of the foroned Riches of Americksland, in Mean Witsmoot, foregathered, wending to the Alderdeemer of the World for the rightening of our wills, in the name, and by the lordship of the good folk of these settlings, earnestly put forth and kithe, that these foroned settlings are, and of right ought to be free and selfstanding riches; they are beloaded of all holdship to the British Wolderbee, and that all wieldish bond between them and the Rich of Great Britain, is and ought to be wholly melted; and that as free and selfstanding riches, they have the full wald to wye gouth, end frith, settle thoftships, rear chaffer, and do all other deeds and things which selfstanding riches may of right do. And for the staddle of this Oath, with the fast underbearing of the shielding of godly foreshowing, we together swear to each other our lives, our seels, and our holy worthship.