He had pledged himself to respect the testamentary disposition of Henry VIII.
He pledged himself to put no senator to death.
The whole property of the debtor might be pledged as security for the payment of the debt, without any of it coming into the enjoyment of the creditor.
In 1468 the Orkneys and Shetlands were pledged by Christian I.
He refused to yield the pope that obedience to which he was doubly pledged as a priest and the member of an order.
