First, she distinguishes between assertory oaths (sworn assertions about some past event) and promissory oaths (sworn commitments concerning the future); promissory oaths dominate, occurring in about 65% of the oath texts (excluding oath notations).
About 70% of Sandowicz's oath texts use this formula; it occurs in assertory and promissory oath texts and mainly in the first three text types.
(117) Act Rescissory 1661 (Scot); Act of Restitution 1661 (Scot); Act Enforcing the Ecclesiastical Settlement 1663 (Scot) m (13 Charles II st 2 c 1); Order of Council Against Ejected Ministers 1663 (Scot);
Assertory Act 1669 (Scot); Test Act 1681 (Scot).
When Archbishop Burnet protested Charles's effort to tolerate Scottish Presbyterians in 1669, the Scottish Parliament passed the
Assertory Act, which allowed the king to dismiss bishops summarily.
The perfect modal syllogism seems to follow the rule of
assertory syllogisms (p.
(9.) For further discussion of judicial oaths, sometimes referred to as
assertory oaths (in contrast to promissory oaths), see A.