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A75973 An agreement of the people of England and the places therewith incorporated for a secure and present peace, upon grounds of common right, freedom and safety. 1649 (1649) Wing A781; Thomason 669.f.14[59]; ESTC R211241 9,837 2

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divided by a due proportion into so many and such parts as each part may elect two and no part above three Representors For the setting forth of which Divisions and the ascertaining of other circumstances hereafter exprest so as to make the Elections lesse subject to confusion or mistake in order to the next Representative Thomas Lord Grey of Grobey Sir John Danvers Sir Henry Holcraft Knights Moses Wall Gentleman Samuel Mayor John Langley William Hamkins Abraham Babington Daniel Taylor Mark Hilley Richard Price and Colonell John White Citizens of London or any five or more of them are intrusted to nominate and appoint under their Hands and Seales three or more fit persons in each County and in each City and Burrough to which one Representor or more is assigned to be as Commissioners for the ends aforesaid in the respective Counties Cities and Burroughs and by the writing under their Hands and Seals shall certifie into the Parliament Records before the fourteenth day of February next the names of the Commissioners so appointed for the respective Counties Cities and Burroughs which Commissioners or any three or more of them for the respective Counties Cities and Burroughs shall before the end of February next by writing under their Hands and Seales appoint two fit and faithfull persons or more in each Hundred Lath or Wapentake within the respective Counties and in each Ward within the City of London to take care for the orderly taking of all voluntary subscriptions to this Agreement by fit persons to be imployed for that purpose in every Parish who are to returne the Subscriptions so taken to the persons that imployed them keeping a Transcript thereof to themselves and those persons keeping like Transcripts to returne the Originall Subscriptions to the respective Commissioners by whom they were appointed at or before the fourteenth of Aprill next to be registred and kept in the County Records for the said Counties respectively and the subscriptions in the City of London to be kept in the chief Court of Record for the said City And the Commissioners for the other Cities and Burroughs respectively are to appoint two or more fit persons in every Parish within their Precincts to take such subscriptions and keeping transcriptions thereof to return the Originalls to the respective Commissioners by the said fourteenth of Aprill next to be registred and kept in the chiefe Court within the respective Cities and Burroughs And the same Commissioners or any three or more of them for the severall Counties Cities and Burroughs respectively shall where more then three Representors are to be chosen divide such Counties as also the City of London into so many and such parts as are afore mentioned and shall set forth the bounds of such Divisions and shall in every County City and Burrough where any Representors are to be chosen and in every such Division as aforesaid within the City of London and within the severall Counties so divided respectively appoint one certain place wherein the people shall meet for the choice of their Representors and some one fit person or more inhabiting within each Burrough City County or Division respectively to be present at the time and place of Election in the nature of Sheriffes to regulate the Elections and by Pole or otherwise clearly to distinguish and judge thereof and to make return of the person or persons Elected as is hereafter exprest and shall likewise in writing under their Hands and Seales make Certificates of the severall Divisions with the bounds thereof by them set forth and of the certaine places of meeting and Persons in the nature of Sheriffes appointed in them respectively as aforesaid and cause such Certificates to be returned into the Parliament Records before the end of April next and before that time shall also cause the same to be published in every Parish within the Counties Cities and Burroughs respectvely and shall in every such Parish likewise nominate and appoint by Warrant under their Hands and Seales one trusty person or more inhabiting therein to make a true list of all the persons within their respective Parishes who according to the rules aforegoing are to have voyce in the Elections and expressing who amongst them are by the same rules capable of being elected and such List with the said Warrant to bring in and returne at the time and place of Election unto the person appointed in the nature of Sheriffe as aforesaid for that Burrough City County or Division respectively which Person so appointed as Sheriff being present at the time and place of Election or in case of his absence by the space of one hour after the time limited for the Peoples meeting then any Person present that is elible as aforesaid whom the People then and there assembled shall chuse for that end shall receive and keep the said Lists and admit the Persons therein contained or so many of them as are present unto a free Vote in the said Election and having first caused this Agreement to be publiquely read in the audience of the People shall proceed unto regulate and keep peace and order in the Elections and by Pole or otherwise openly distinguish and judg of the same And thereof by Certificate or writing under the Hands and Seals of himself and six or more of the Electors nominating the Person or Persons duly Elected shall make a true return into the Parliament Records within one and twenty days after the Election under pain for default thereof or for making any false Return to forfeit one hundred pounds to the Publique use And shall cause Indentures to be made and interchangeably sealed and delivered betwixt himself and six or more of the said Electors on the one part and the Persons or each Person Elected severally on the other part expressing their Election of him as a Representor of them according to this Agreement and his acceptance of that trust and his promise accordingly to perform the same with faithfulness to the best of his understanding and ability for the Glory of God and good of the People This course is to hold for the first Representative which is to proceed for the ascertaining of these Circumstances in order to future Representatives 4. That one hundred and fifty Members at least be alwaies present in each sitting of the Representative at the passing of any Law or doing of any Act whereby the people are to be bound saving That the number of sixty may make an House for Debates or Resolutions that are preparatory thereunto 5. That each Representative shall within twenty daies after their first meeting appoint a Councell of State for the mannaging of publike Affairs untill the tenth day after the meeting of the next Representative unlesse that next Representative think fit to put an end to that trust sooner And the same Councell to Act and proceed therein according to such Instructions and limitations as the Representative shall give and not otherwise 6. That in each intervall betwixt Bienniall