With his clasped or joined hands placed between those of the lord, the Homager repeated the following vow, which seems to have been in practically the same terms in various manors:-"I become your man from this day forward, for life, for member, and for worldly honour, and unto you shall be true and faithful, and bear you faith for the lands that I hold of you, saving the faith that I owe to our Sovereign Lord the King."
"Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland"
Daniel Scott