Customary oath on receiving an abbot

I, (name given), on the sacrosanct gospels swear, affirm and promise to keep the rights, possessions, revenues, provisions and food and each and every rule of this monastery of Saint John in the Vines at Soissons, to revoke and recuperate alienated possessions as I am able, and to do nothing in prejudice, detriment or burden to the aforesaid monastery and religious personae, and above all, (I swear, affirm and promise), that I intend to preserve the right to present to benefices that from ancient times has been the province and care of the abbot, and that I am not going to admit other persons to benefices of this sort outside the religious persons and the canons.

IVRAMENTVM ASSVETUM ABBATIS RECIPIENDI.

Ego n.n. ad sacrosancta euangelia iuro, affirmo et promitto libertates, possessiones, redditus, prouentus et emolumenta omniaque et singula iura monasterii huius diui Iohannis in Vineis Suessionensis seruare, alienata pro posse reuocare et recuperare, nihilque in praeiudicium, detrimentum uel grauamen dicti monasterii et religiosorum facere, insuper ius praesentandi ad beneficia quod ab antiquo cum eorum abbate spectat et pertinet conseruaturum, neque ad huiusmodi beneficia aliquem praeter religiosos et canonicos eius monasterii admissurum.