Antonio Pérez, 1534-1611 |
The oath of the Aragonese in the famous (Antonio Pérez-ian) version of 1593, as reproduced on p. 25 of Ralph E. Giesey, If not, not: the Oathe of the Aragonese and the legendary laws of Sobrarbe (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1968). "For the Aragonese, says Pérez [in 1593], this was 'the ancient manner of swearing to their King.'" Translation from Neal Ascherson, "The value of independence," The New York review of books 66, no. 7 (April 18, 2019: 34 (33-36). For alternative versions of the oath printed in some cases earlier, see Giesey, pp. 18 ff. From leaf (?) 92 of the 1596 printing of the Relaciones by Pérez: