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36 These examples demonstrate that the connection between oaths and the Mass was based on the presence of God in the Mass. Although the holiness of relics, saints, and the Mass led to their association with oaths, no sacred object was more connected to oaths than the Gospels. The majority of solemn oaths in medieval and early modern England were sworn on the Gospels. 40 Oaths of 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 Hill, Songs, Carols, and Other Miscellaneous Poems, 42. Wymond, however, denied the accusations made against him; NA sp1/113, fol.
Hieronymi Presbyteri Opera, Pars I, 7: Commentariorvm in Mathevm, 32–3. 23 Hooper, Early Writings, 479. CIC, c. 22 q. 1 c. 9, Friedberg, i:863. 24 what to swear by: oaths and the worship of god in medieval catholicism Catholics and Protestants alike asserted that oaths were a form of worship and, as such, humans should not swear oaths by creatures. Yet medieval Catholics worshipped God in a different manner from sixteenth-century Protestants. Medieval Catholics believed that the power of God was diffused throughout the material world in certain sacred persons, objects, and ceremonies.
For example, this belief was not mentioned at all in the Homily against Swearing and Perjury. Yet many English Protestants continued to depict blasphemous oaths as mutilating Christ’s body. For example, a draft of an Elizabethan Parliamentary bill proposed that at every quarter session, ‘there shall be inquirie made the Iustices chardging the grand inquest for commen blasphemers of the most reverent name of god that is which teare god as it were in peaces swearing by 79 81 Cosin, An Apologie, part 3, 29.