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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
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 mutual duty to each other to take the best care we can for the future to avoid 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 Countrymen would have opposed us in this Quarrel 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 meetings 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 dissolve 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 County and the places thereto subjoyned there shall be chosen to make up the said Representative at all times the several numbers hereunder mentioned VIZ. In the County of Kent with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except such as are hereunder particularly named 10. The City of Canterbury with the Suburbs adjoyning and Liberties thereof 2 The City of Rochester with the Parishes of Chatham and Strowd 1 The Cinque Ports in Kent and Sussex viz Dover Rumney Hyde Sandwich Hastings with the Towns of Rye and Winchelsey 3 The County of Sussex with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except Chichester and the Cinque Ports 8 The City of Chichester with the Suburbs and Liberties thereof 1 The County of Southampton with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except such as are hereunder named 8 The City of Winchester with the Suburbs and Liberties thereof 1 The County of the Town of Southampton 1 The County of Dorset with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except Dorchester 7 The Town of Dorchester 1 The County of Devon with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except such as are hereunder particularly named 12 The City of Excester 2 The Town of Plymouth 2 The Town of Barnstaple 1 The County of Cornwal with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein 8 The County of Somerset with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except such as are hereunder named 8 The City of Bristol 3 The Town of Taunton-Dean 1 The County of Wilts with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except Salisbury 7 The City of Salisbury 1 The County of Berks with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except Reading 5 The Town of Reading 1 The County of Surrey with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except Southwark 5 The Burrough of Southwark 2 The County of Middlesex with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except such as are hereunder named 4 The City of London 8 The City of Westminster and the Dutchy 2 The County of Hartford with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein 6 The County of Buckingham with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein 6 The County of Oxon with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except such as are hereunder named 4 The City of Oxon 2 The University of Oxon 2 The County of Glocester with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except Glocester 7 The City of Glocester 2 The County of Hereford with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except Hereford 4 The City of Hereford 1 The County of Worcester with the the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except Worcester 4 The City of Worcester 2 The County of Warwick with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except Coventrey 5 The City of Coventrey 2 The County of Northampton with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except Northampton 5 The Town of Northampton 1 The County of Bedford with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein 4 The County of Cambridge with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except such as are here-under particularly named 4 The University of Cambridge 2 The Town of Cambridge 2 The County of Essex with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except Colchester 11 The Town of Colchester 2 The County of Suffolk with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except such as are hereunder named 10 The Town of Ipswich 2 The Town of S. Edmonds Bury 1 The County of Norfolk with the Burroughs towns and Parishes therein except such as are hereunder named 9 The City of Norwich 3 The Town of Lynne 1 The Town of Yarmouth 1 The County of Lincoln with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except the City of Lincoln and the Town of Boston 11 The City of Lincoln 1 The Town of Boston 1 The County of Rutland with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein 1 The County of Huntington with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein 3 The County of Leicester with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except Leicester 5 The Town of Leicester 1 The County of Nottingham with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except Nottingham 4 The Town of Nottingham 1 The County of Derby with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except Derby 5 The Town of Derby 1 The County of Stafford with the City of Lichfield the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein 6 The County of Salop with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except Shrewsbury 6 The Town of Shrewsbury 1 The County of Chester with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except Chester 5 The City of Chester 2 The County of Lancaster with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except Manchester 6 The Town of Manchester and the Parish 1 The County of York with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except such as are hereunder named 15 The City and County of the City of York 3 The Town and County of Kingston upon Hull 1 The town and Parish of Leeds 1 The County Palatine of Duresme with the Burroughs towns and Parishes therein except Duresme and Gateside 3 The City of Duresme 1 The County of Northumberland