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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26560	An Agreement prepared for the people of England and the places therewith incorporated, for a secure and present peace, upon grounds of common right, freedom and safety also, a declaration of the General Councel of Officers, concerning the same : with a petition of His Excellency and the said General Councel, presented therewith, Saturday, January 20,	England and Wales. Army.	1649 (1649)	Wing A783; ESTC R8102	15,596	36

for the avoyding of these evils in after Elections That to the end all Officers of State may be certainly accomptable and no factions made to mainetaine corrupt interests no Member of a Conncell of State nor any Officer of any Salary forces in Army or Garrison nor any Treasurer or Receiver of publique monies shall while such be elected to be of a Representative And in case any such Election shall be the same to be void And in case any Lawyer shall be chosen of any Representative or Councel of State then he shall be uncapable of practice as a Lawyer during that trust For the more convenient Election of Representatives each County wherein more then three Representers are to be chosen with the Townes Corporate and Cities if their be any lying within compasse thereof to which no Representers are herein assigned shall be divided by a due proportion into so many and such parts as each part may elect two no part above three Representers For the setting forth of which Divisious 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 Col. 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 Borough to which one Representor or more is assigned to be as Commissioners for the ends aforesaid in the respective Connties 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 subscripsions so taken to the persons that imployed them keeping a transcript thereof to themselves those persons keeping like Tyanscripts to return 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 Boroughs 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 chief Court within the respective Cities and Boroughs And the same Commissioners or any three or more of them for the severall Counties Cities and Boroughs 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 Borough where any Representers 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 meete for the choyse of their Representors and some one fit Person or more inhabiting within each Borough 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 certain places of meeting and Persons in the nature of Sheriffes appointed in them respectively as aforesaid Memorandum That the Commissioners for the respective Counties Cities and Boroughs are to return a Computation of the number of Subscribers in the severall Parishes unto the Trustees herein named before the end of April next at such place and in such forme as the said Trustees or any five or more of them shall direct 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 Boroughs respectively and shall in every such Parish likewise nominate and appoint by Warrant under their hands and Seals 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 Lift with the said Warrant to bring in and return at the time and place of Election unto the Person appointed in the nature of Sheriffe as aforesaid for that Borough 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 houre after the time limited for the peoples meeting then any Person present that is eligible 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 and regulate and keep peace and order in the Elections and by Pole or otherwise openly distinguish and judge of the same And thereof by Certificate or writing under the hands and Seales 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 dayes 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 also 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 seyerally on the other part expressing

well-affected of them and such as are not obnoxious for Delinquency it may then take place and effect according to the Tenor and Substance of it WHITEHALL Jan. 15. 1649. And Your Petitioners shall pray c. By the Appointment of his Excellency and the general Councel of Officers of the Army Jo RUSHVVORTH Secr ' 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 HAving by our late labors and hazards made it appear to the world at how high a rate we value our Just Freedom And God having so far owned our cause as to deliver the Enemies thereof into our hands We do now hold our selves bound in mutuall duty to each other to take the best care we can for the future to avoyd both the danger of returning into a slavish condition and the chargeable remedy of another War For as it cannot be imagined That so many of our Country men would have opposed us in this Quarrell if they had understood their own good so may we hopefully promise to our selves That when our Common Right and Liberties shall be cleared their endeavors will be disappointed that seek to make themselves our Masters since therefore our former oppressions and not yet ended troubles have been occasioned either by want of frequent National Meetings in Councel or by the undue or unequal Constitution thereof or by rendering those meeting uneffectual We are fully agreed and resolved God willing to provide That hereafter our Representatives be neither left to an uncertainty for time nor be unequally constituted nor made useless to the ends for which they are intended In Order whereunto We Declare and Agree 1. That to prevent the many inconveniencies apparently arising from the long continuance of the same persons in supream Authority this Present Parliament end and disolve upon or before the last day of April in the year of our Lord. 1649. 2. That the People of England being at this day very unequally distributed by Counties Cities and Burroughs for the Election of their Representatives be indifferently proportioned And to this end That the Representative of the whole Nation shall consist of four hundred persons or not above and in each Conuty and the places thereto subjoyned there shall be chosen to make up the said Representative at all times the several unmbers here mentioned VIZ. In the County of Kent with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except such as are hereunder particularly named ten 10 The City of Canterbury with the Suburbs adjoyning and Liberties thereof two 2 The City of Rochester with the Parishes of Chathan and Strowd one 1 The Cinque Ports in Kent and Sussex viz. Dover Rumney Hyde Sandwich Hastings with the townes of Rye and Winchelsey three 3 The County of Sussex with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except Chichester and the Cinque Ports eight 8 The City of Chichester with the Suburbs and Liberties thereof one 1 The County of Southampton with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except such as are hereunder named eight 8 The City of Winchester with the Suburbs and Liberties thereof one 1 The County of the town of Southampton one 1 The County of Dorset with the Burroughs Townes and Parishes therein except Dorchester seven 7 The Town of Dorchester one 1 The County of Devon with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except such as are hereunder particularly named twelve 12 The City of Excester two 2 The Town of Plymouth two 2 The Town of Barnstaple one 1 The County of Cornwall with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein eight 8 The County of Somerset with the Burroughs Townes and Parishes therein except such as are hereunder named eight 8 The City of Bristoll three 3 The Towne of Taunton-Deane one 1 The County of Wilts with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except Salisbury seven 7 The City of Salisbury one 1 The County of Berks with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except Reading five 5 The Town of Reading one 1 The County of Surrey with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except Southwarke five 5 The Burrough of Southwarke two 2 The County of Middlesex with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except such as are hereunder named four 4 The City of London eight 8 The City of VVestminster and the Dutchy two 2 The County of Hartford with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein six 6 The County of Buckingham with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein six 6 The County of Oxon with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except such as are here undernamed four 4 The City of Oxon two 2 The University of Oxon two 2 The County of Glocester with the Burroughs towns and Parishes therein except Glocester seven 7 The City of Glocester two 2 The County of Hereford with the Burroughs towns and Parishes therin except Hereford four 4 The Citie of Hereford one 1 The County of Worcester with the Burroughs towns and Parishes therein except Worcester foure 4 The City of Worcester two 2 The County of Warwicke with the Burroughs townes and Parishes therein except Coventrey five 5 The City of Coventrey two 2 The County of Northampton with the Burroughs towns and Parishes therein except Northampton five 5 The Town of Northampton one 1 The County of Bedford with the Burroughs townes and Parishes therein foure 4 The County of Cambridge with the Burroughs towns and Parishes therein except such as are here under particularly named foure 4 The University of Cambridge two 2 The Town of Cambridge two 2 The County of Essex with the Burroughs towns and Parishes therein except Colchester eleven 11 The Town of Colchester two 2 The County of Suffolk with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except such as are hereunder named ten 10 The Town of Ipswich two 2 The Town of S. Edmonds Bury one 1 The County of Norfolk with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except such as are hereunder named nine 9 The City of Norwich three 3 The Town of Lynne one 1 The Town of Yarmouth one 1 The County of Lincoln with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except the City of Lincoln and the town of Boston eleven 11 The City of Lincoln one 1 The Town of Boston one 1 The County of Rutland with the Burroughs Townes and Parishes therein one 1 The County of Huntington with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein three 3 The County of Leicester with the Burroughs Townes and Parishes therein except Leicester five 5 The Town of Leicester one 1 The County of Nottingham with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except Nottingham foure 4 The Town of Nottingham one 1 The County of Derby with the Burroughs Townes and Parishes therein except Derby five 5 The Town of Derby one 1 The County of Stafford with the City of Lichfield the Burroughs towns and Parishes therein six 6 The County of Salop with the Burroughs towns and Parishes

therein except Shrewsbury six 6 The Town of Shrewesbury one 1 The County of Chester with the Burroughs townes and Parishes therein except Chester five 5 The City of Chester two 2 The County of Lancaster with the Burroughs townes and Parishes therein except Manchester six 6 The town of Manchester and the Parish one 1 The County of Yorke with the Burroughs towns and Parishes therein except such as are here under named fifteen 15 The City and County of the City of Yorke three 3 The Town and County of Kingston upon Hull one 1 The town and Parish of Leeds one 1 The County Palatine of Duresme with the Burroughs towns and Parishes therein except Duresme and Gateside three 3 The City of Duresme one 1 The County of Northumberland with the Burroughs towns and Parishes therein except such as are here under named three 3 The Town and County of Newcastle upon Tyne with Gateside two 2 The Town of Berwicke one 1 The County of Cumberland with the Burroughs towns and Parishes therein three 3 The County of VVestmerland with the Burroughs towns and Parishes therein two 2 The Isle of Anglesey with the Parishes therein two 2 The County of Brecknock with the Burroughs towns and Parishes therein three 3 The County of Cardigan with the Burroughs and Parishes therein three 3 The County of Caermarthen with the Burroughs and Parishes therein three 3 The County of Carnarvon with the Burroughs and Parishes therein two 2 The County of Denbigh with the Burroughs and Parishes therein two 2 The County of Flint with the Burroughs and Parishes therein one 1 The County of Monmouth with the Burroughs and Parishes therein foure 4 The County of Glamorgan with the Burroughs and Parishes therein foure 4 The County of Merioneth with the Burroughs and Parishes therein two 2 The County of Mountgomery with the Burroughs and Parishes therein three 3 The County of Radnor with the Burroughs and Parishes therein two 2 The County of Pembroke with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein foure 4 Provided That the first or second Representative may if they see cause assigne the remainder of the foure hundred Representors not hereby assigned or so many of them as they shall see cause for unto such Counties as shall appear in this present distribution to have lesse then their due proportion Provided also That where any Citie or Burrough to which one Representor or more is assign'd shall be found in a due proportion not competent alone to elect a Representor or the number of Representors assign'd thereto it is left to future Representatives to assigne such a number of Parishes or Villages neare adjoyning to such City or Burrough to be joyned therewith in the Elections as may make the same proportionable 3. That the people do of course choose themselves a Representative once in two yeares and shall meet for that purpose upon the first Thursday in every second May by eleven of of Clock in the morning and the Representatives so chosen to meet upon the second Thursday in June following at the usuall place in Westminster or such other place as by the foregoing Representative or the Councell of State in the intervall shall be from time to time appointed and published to the People at the least twenty daies before the time of Election And to continue their Session there or elsewhere untill the second Thursday in December following unlesse they shall adjourne or dissolve themselves sooner but not to continue longer The Election of the first Representative to be on the first Thursday in May 1649. And that and all future Elections to be according to the rules prescribed for the same purpose in this Agreement viz. 1. That the Electors in every Division shall be Natives or Denizons of England not persons receiving Almes but such as are assessed ordinarily towards the reliefe of the poore not servants to and receiving wages from any particular person And in all Elections except for the Universities they shall be men of one and twenty yeares old or upwards and house-keepers dwelling within the Devision for which the Election is provided That untill the end of seven years next ensuing the time herein limited for the end of this present Parliament no person shall be admitted to or have any hand or voice in such Elections who hath adhered unto or assisted the King against the Parliament in any the late Warres or Insurrections or who shall make or joyn in or abet any forcible opposition against this Agreement That such persons and such only may be elected to be of the Representative who by the rule aforesaid are to have voice in Elections in one place or other provided That of those none shall be eligible for the first or second Representatives who have not voluntarily assisted the Parliament against the King either in person before the 14. of June 1645. or else in Money Plate Horse or Armes lent upon the Propositions before the end of May 1643. or who have joyned in or abetted the treasonable Engagement in London in the year 1647. or who declared or engaged themselves for a Cessation of Armes with the Scots that invaded this Nation the last Summer or for complyance with the Actors in any the insurrections of the same Summer or with the Prince of Wales or his accomplices in the Revolted Fleete And also provided That such persons as by the rules in the preceding Article are not capable of electing untill the end of seven years shall not be capable to be elected until the end of 14. years next ensuing And we do desire and recommend it to all men that in all times the persons to be chosen for this great trust may be men of courage fearing God and hating covetousnesse and that our Representatives would make the best provisions for that end 3. That whoever by the two rules in the next preceding Articles are incapable of Election or to be elected shall assume to vote in or be present at such Elections for the first or second Representative or being elected shall presume to sit or vote in either of the said Representatives shall incur the pain of confiscation of the moyety of his Estate to the use of the publike in case he have any estate visible to the value of fifty pounds And if he have not such an Estate then he shall incur the pain of Imprisonment for 3. months And if any person shall forcibly oppose molest or hinder the people capable of electing as aforesaid in their quiet and free Election of Representors for the first Representative then each person so offending shall incur the penalty of confiscation of his whole Estate both reall and personal and if he have not an Estate to the value of fifty pounds shall suffer imprisonment during one whole year without Baile or Mainprize Provided That the Offender in each such case be convicted within three Moneths next after the committing of his offence And the first Representative is to make further provision