Promise

for the promise is a due owed by you, while the threat is a due owed to you by another, so that in it you retain your choice — and for that reason breaking a promise is not permissible, though breaking a threat is.

The promise is the sickness of a favour, fulfilment is its recovery, and putting off is its death.

For promises confer upon the person, to whom they are made, a peculiar right to claim their full performance.

That ye assure them in our name and in our royal word, which we will not break with our people, that we will wholly employ all the monies which shall thus be given unto us, to the common defence of the kingdom and not to or for any other end whatsoever.

And these sums we are confident will readily and cheerfully be lent unto us by our loving subjects, when they shall be truly informed from us of what importance and of what necessity that is which we now require of them, and when they shall be assured by us, which we faithfully promise and undertake on the royal word of a King, (which we will be jealous not to break with our people), that not a pe …