He had pledged himself to respect the testamentary disposition of Henry VIII.
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.
He pledged himself to put no senator to death.
He refused to yield the pope that obedience to which he was doubly pledged as a priest and the member of an order.
In return she pledged the greater part of the land tax to the service of the debt.