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A78571	Chaos: or, A discourse wherein is presented to the view of the magistrate, and all others who shall peruse the same, a frame of government by way of a republique, wherein is little or no danger of miscarriage, if prudently attempted, and thoroughly prosecuted by authority. Wherein is no difficulty in the practice, nor obscurity in the method; but all things plain and easie to the meanest capacity. Here's no hard or strange names, nor unknown titles (to amaze the hearers) used, and yet here's a full and absolute power derivative insensibly from the whole, and yet practically conveyed to the best men: wherein if any shall endeavour a breach, he shall break himself: and it must be so, that cats shall provide supper, here they shall do it suitable to the best palats, and easie to digest. By a well-willer to the publique weale.	Well-willer to the publique weale.	1659 (1659)	Wing C1938; Thomason E989_27; ESTC R208259	43,827	64

transmitted to the next superior Judicature but if it shall not be of greater value in the estimation of the Court then the Court hath power to judge of judgement shall be therein given and execution done thereupon as in other cases 16. In all cases where Murther Murther Manslaughter and Rape Man-slaughter or Rape shall be committed the offenders shall be examined before the Parochial Magistrate where the parties shall be apprehended or the fault committed so many as shall be found guilty shall be sent by the Constable to the Sheriffs Deputy and by him to the Provincial Goal there to be kept in work as shall be directed till their legal delivery thence in none of these cases Bail shall be admitted but to be tryed by Juries as hath been accustomed and to suffer death if found guilty without benefit of pardon or Reprieve 17. In all manner of ●heft Robbery Theft Robbery Cousenage and Fraud Cousenage and Fraud the Offenders shall be examined before the Parochial Magistrates and if found guilty threefold restitution shall be made to be disposed one part to satisfie the party wronged one part to the common stock of the Town and one other part to the Constable for reparation of High-ways which if the party refuse and no distress shall be found to satisfie the Law the body of the offender shall be committed to the custody of the Master of the Work-house or else sent to the place from whence they came if aliens with Certificate of their offence and there to be imployed and to have two parts only of their gets allowed for their maintenance and a third to be to the use of the common stock The detainer or sending away to be at the election of the Parochial Magistracy where such offender or offenders shall be apprehended and tryed as aforesaid 18. Defamation All false accusations on purpose to defame any person shall be heavily punished by the immediate Magistracy where the offence shall be committed and in this case no Appeal to lie or be admitted and where the offence shall deserve greater punishment then the Parochial Magistrate may inflict who may not exceed 10 li. in any case the same shall be certified to the Sub-provincial Magistrate and if it require thence to the Provincial but not further All ambiguous cases shall be transmitted with the evidences to the next superior Magistracy and so on to the Parliament if no inferiour Court shall be free to give judgement therein 19. Fighting quarrelling and breaking the Peace All fighting quarrelling and breaking of the Peace shall be examined and punished by the Parochial Magistracy where the same shall be committed and satisfaction made to the party wronged without delay whereto the offenders shall be compelled according to the order of the Court and for all bruisings and beatings satisfaction shall be made as the Laws in being direct If any Master or Mistress shall immoderately correct any child or servant Masters and servants the Court Parochial shall punish the offender 20. If any child or servant shall refuse to do their duties or shall strike or quarrel with their Parents Masters or Mistresses the Court shall heavily punish such offences and if any Apprentices shall so do they shall serve a double term and any other servant a double year for the same wages No son or daughter vilifying or slighting their Parents or either of them shall be capable of inheriting any thing from either father or mother after their respective deaths 21. Let so many Registerial Courts be erected as there are Registries viz. to every Registry it's Court with Officers Fees and Rules to walk by for the ease and profit of each particular interest 22. National Judges Let twelve Judges learned in the Laws be appointed by Parliament to attend the National Registerial Court to which let all great causes be reduced any three whereof with the Register or one Assistant shall have power to hear and determine all matters of controversie and let the three Bars in Westminster-Hall be the places of Judicature and the several rooms adjacent Offices for the Registers viz. each two Circuits their proper Court for trial of all grand Causes arising within their limits and in other mixt cases where one party shall live in one Courts jurisdiction and one in another there the Cause to be heard in the third Court where neither parties interest is more concerned then the other 23. Let only two Vacations be in the whole year viz. Vacations one from the first of December to the tenth of February the other from the last day of May till the first day of September yearly in which Summer-Vacations the Judges to ride the several Circuits as now to visit the several Registries calling before them all the Registers of every Province and hearing all complaints against any Register Clerk Atturney or other Officer and punishing all offenders and also for determining all grand and difficult Causes and Causes of Appeals where any such shall be depending 24. Terms and proceedings Let all the rest of the year be two continued Terms wherein the Judges shall sit as often as cause shall require the first day of every Term being a Return-day and the third day day of Appearance before which third day the Plaintiff in every Action shall enter his Declaration with the Register whereto the Defendant shall plead within ten days and enter his Plea with the same Clerk whereupon order shall be given for examining Witnesses and depositions sent into the several Countries to the respective Parochial Registers within whose limits the several Witnesses shall live whose Examination shall be taken and returned within one month after the Pleading aforesaid and entry made thereof also with the same Registerial Clerk by whom the first Summons was awarded with whom all the entries in the same Cause shall be made The fourth day after return of the examinations aforesaid the Cause shall be heard if it be not the Lords day if so Judgement the day next following and Judgment shall be given and entred the same day with the same Clerk and the sixth day after Judgement Execution shall be awarded not to recalled unless the parties agree in the mean time and enter their Agreement with the same Clerk In case of any Witnesses absence on the Defendants behalf upon warrantable occasions made appear upon oath to any Parochial Register by whom the Witness or Witnesses were to be examined a second day to be given upon the Defendants payment of costs for examination not to defer the hearing above one month longer then it was to have been 25. Provincial Judges Let two Judges be appointed by Parliament to attend every Provincial Registerial Court that one Judge with the Register and one Clerk assistant at least shall be present when all matters shall be heard and in all difficult matters one Judge at least shall be called out of the next Province who shall

be remiss herein and absolute loss of the Cause to the Clyent whether Plaintiff or Defendant that shall endeavour further delayes and let Judges enow be appointed for that purpose at the Commonwealths charge The like course to be used by all Committees and that no new Suits be in the Interim commenced That publike notice hereof be given to the whole Nation at or before the next Assizes and this to suffice for the first dayes work only to shew what 's intended for further light to the whole Creation which is to receive Life and Perfection in the following days within the time allotted is promised Rules for the five dayes work to come viz. For the 2. Rules for Registers which shall but be one to all purposes but distributed into its several parts 3. For the Law and Jurisdiction of each several Registerial Court 4. For future Elections and Transactions of Parliament 5. For Assesments Customs Excise and Provision for the Poor And 6. For Trade and Husbandry under which the Militia shall be comprehended as also Provision made for the Ministry and Schools of Learning as the perfection of the work upon each of which if this be approved of by Authority and a Fiat put to the first dayes work already proposed a several Discourse is intended for each succeeding dayes work in their proper times The Second Days Work The first days work to view hath brought The Laws in Nature Chaos taught The second days separation make Old senceless Chaos fabrick quake 1. LEt a National Registery be appointed at Westminster National Register to consist of a Register and six Clerks assistant or deputies each of which to have so many writing and examining Clerks under them as the work shall require which may be encreased at pleasure for dispatch and discharged again when the croud of business shall be over let certain Rules be given and competent Fees allowed 2. Provinces Let each County in England be one entire Province and those again allotted to the jurisdiction of the said several six Clerks or Deputies viz. so many Counties Towns and Cities as are comprized within the riding of every respective Circuit of the Judges and no more to be within the Cognizance or Registry of one Clerk Assistant or Deputy and so the six several Circuits to be respectively apportioned to the six Clerks that is to say to each Clerk one Circuit with whom entries to be made of all particular Estates lying in several Counties in the same Circuit 3. Provincial Register In each Shire-Town within each several and respective Province let a Provincial Register be appointed each Provincial Register to have two Clerks Assistants or Deputies between whom each County or Province shall be equally divided half the Sub-provinces Hundreds Wapentakes to one the other half to the other save the County and Province of York and there to be three Clerks Assistants or Deputies viz. for each riding one each Assistant or Deputy to have so many writing Clerks and Examiners under every of them apart as the work shall require 4. Sub-Provincial Register Each several Wapentake Hundred Lath or Rape to have a particular Register by the name of Sub provincial Register and be reputed a Sub-province to have dependance on and respect to the Provincial Register within whose Province or County the same is and not otherways save as hereafter is directed each Sub-provincial Register to have one Clerk Assistant or Deputy and so many writing and examining Clerks under him again as the work shall require 5. Parish Register Each several Parish shall be one Registry and have a distinct Register and where the Parishes shall be too little let two or more be joyned together into one Parish and have one Parochial Register each several and respective Parochial Register to have under him a Clerk Assistant or Deputy and under-Clerks also as need shall require 6. Entries with the six Clerks All and every person and persons bodies Politique and Corporate who shall have any Estates in two or more several Circuits shall enter the same distinctly with the several and respective Clerks that is to say with every Clerk or Deputy in the National Registry respectively so much as lies within his Circuit or Clerkship and no more and when the entries of the whole shall be perfected the total of the Annual values in each respective Circuit shall be transmitted from every several Clerk with whom entry of any parcel of such Estate shall be made to that Clerk with whom the Entry of the largest proportion of such Estate shall lie or where the chief residence or most ancient seat or title of Honour to the present Owners thereof is or shall be 7. All and every person and persons Entries in the National Registry bodies Politique and Corporate who have or claim any Right Title or Interest either in Possession or Reversion to any Mannor of Inheritance of the annual or yearly value of 1000 li. or upwards and also such who have Estates of Inheritance in several Counties or Provinces though of less value shall enter the same in the National Registry with the proper Clerk or Clerks according to former direction and not elsewhere 8. All person and persons Provincial Entries bodies Politique and Corporate who shall have or claim to have any Right Title or Interest either in Possession or Reversion to any Mannor of Inheritance within any one Province above the yearly value of 100 li. and not exceeding 1000 li. per an and shall have no Estate elsewhere shall enter the same in the Provincial Registry within which it lies that is to say with each respective Clerk Assistant or Deputy such part thereof as shall lie within the limits of his part of the Registry for the County Shire or Province and not elsewhere and when the Entries thereof shall be perfected Returns shall be made by the other Clerk or Clerks Assistant Deputy or Deputies where the meaner or lesser part or parts of the same shall lie to the Clerk Assistant or Deputy with whom Entry shall be made of the Mansion House ancient seat or chief Inheritance of the whole yearly value or values with him or them entred which shall be added to the other Entry remaining with that Clerk or Deputy by whom the chief Entry shall be made as aforesaid 9. Entries Sub-provincial All such person and persons having Estates as aforesaid above the clear yearly value of 10 li. and not exceeding 100 li. per annum lying within any one Hundred Wapentake Lath Rape or Province and shall have no Estate elsewhere shall enter the same with the Sub-provincial Register within whose Registry the same lies and not elsewhere 10. Parochial Entries And all such person or persons having Estates as aforesaid in any one Parish or Parochial Registry not exceeding 10 li. per annum and shall have no Estate of Inheritance elsewhere shall enter the same with the Register of

that Parish where it lies and not elsewhere and also all Inhabitants Tenants Owners and Occupants of all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments shall enter the same with the Parochial Register where the same lie and under what Title Condition Rent or Service the same are held and of whom and to whom the said Rents or services are payable 11. Entries of Debts In like manner Entries shall be made of all Debts and Specialties exceeding 1000 li. with the National Register of all Debts above 100 li. and not exceeding 1000 li. with the Provincial Register of all Debts above 10 li. and not exceeding 100 li. with the Sub-provincial Register and of all other smaller Debts not exceeding 10 li. with the Parochial Register where the party and parties indebted shall severally and respectively live or the Estate lie whereon the same shall be charged each such respective Entry to be made with that Clerk Assistant Deputy Inferiour Register or his Deputy within whose respective limits the party indebted shall then live or the Estate therewith charged lie according to the direction for Entries as abovesaid 12. National Registers Certificate After all such Entries shall ●e made and perfected as aforesaid the National Register shall within 14. daies certifie the name nature and value of every several and respective Estate with him entred and by whom the same is claimed and by what Title and in whose tenure or occupation the same is to the several and respective Provincial Registers within whose limits the same shall lie that is to say To each Provincial Register so much as lies within his Province or Registry and no more 13. Provincial Certificate Each several Provincial Register shall within eight daies after receipt of such Certificate as aforesaid from the National Register make the like Certificate to each Sub-provincial Register within his jurisdiction of the name nature and value of every several and respective Estate with him entred or to him certified and by whom the same is claimed and by what Title and in whose occupation the same is that is to lay To each several and respective Sub-provincial Register of so much as lies within his Sub-province and no more 14. Sub-provincial Certificate Each several Sub-provincial Register shall within six daies after receipt of such Certificate as aforesaid from his Provincial Register make the like Certificate to each Parochial Register within his jurisdiction of the name nature and value of every several and respective Estate with him entred or to him certified and by whom and by what Title the same is claimed and in whose occupation the same is that is to say To each distinct Parochial Register of so much as lies within his Parish onely and no more 15. Double claims to be certified Each several and respective Parochial Register forthwith upon receipt of the several Certificates aforesaid shall examine all the Entries made in his respective Registry and where several claims shall be made by several persons under several Titles to one and the same thing the Register shall give notice thereof to the present Inhabitants Tenants or Occupiers thereof and also to his Sub-provincial Register within six days and if it exceed the Cognizance of the Sub-provincial Register he shall certifie the same to the Provincial Register who if it exceed his Cognizance shall certifie the same to the National Register each to certifie to other within six days after the date of the Certificate to him directed 16. Parochial Registers Certificate Each Parochial Register shall likewise certifie to the Sub-provincial Register under whose jurisdion he is the names and values of all Estates of Inheritance lying within the same Parish and of all Fee-farme-rents Quit-rents Rents of Assize Copyhold-rents or other dry-rents whatsoever issuing out of the same Parish also the names qualities and habitations of the several and respective Owners and Proprietors thereof whether resiant in the same Parish or elsewhere within ten days after the first Entries thereof in his Parochial Registry shall be perfected And also the total Annual value of all Estates of Inheritance within his Parish or Registry in one entire sum at the foot thereof 17. Sub-province Certificates Each Sub-provincial Register shall likewise certifie to his Provincial Register within whose jurisdiction he shall respectively be the several and respective names and values of all Estates lying and being in his Sub-province and the names qualities and habitations of all persons whatsoever Owners thereof and also the whole clear yearly value of all such cast up in one sum at the foot thereof within ten days after his receipt of all the several Parochial Certificates aforesaid within his Sub-province 18. Province Certificate Each Provincial Register shall likewise certifie to the National Register within twenty daies after his receipt of all the several Certificates from the several Registers within his Province the names qualities and habitations of all person and persons whatsoever not residing in his Province who claim any Estate in the same Province and the whole yearly values of all Estates so by them respectively claimed and also the whole and clear yearly value of the whole Province in one entire sum by its self 19. Three years Certificates The like Certificates shall be made and renewed every three years by several Registers aforesaid as followeth each Parochial Register shall on or before the 10. day of January triennially certifie to the Sub-provincial and each Sub-provincial on or before the 30. of the same Month and the Provincial to the National on or before the 20. of February in the same year upon penalty of the forfeiture of 20 li. by each respective Parochial Register 40 li. by each Sub-provincial Register and 100 li. by each Provincial Register to the use of the Republique to be levied by order of the next Superintendent Registerial Court and also removal from their several Registerial places of all Registers Clerks or Deputies who shall neglect the same 20. Entries within six Months The first Entries to be made and perfected in all and every the respective Registries aforesaid by the several Owners Occupants Proprietors and Claimants aforesaid within six Months after erection of the Registry aforesaid and the Certificates to be all made and returned and entries perfected thereof by every several and respective Register within two Months after the end of the said six Months upon penalties to the Registers as aforesaid and upon double the penalty to each several and respective Clerk Assistant or Deputy who shall neglect the same to what is imposed on any Provincial Registers and upon penalty of 500 li. to the National Register himself 21. National Registers Seal The Seal of the Nation Registry shall be the great Seal of England and the National Register and his six Assistants to be the Keepers thereof the same not to be made use of to any purpose whatsoever save in presence of the National Register

and in all cases where Witnesses live in the same Parish or Town they shall be examined viva voce in open Court if able to appear there if not the Register his Clerk Assistant or Deputy shall attend them and take their examinations at least two days before the day of return 35. Execution of Summons Execution of all Summons in the Sub-provincial and Parochial Courts for appearance at their own Courts shall be by the Sheriffs substitute and the Constable for their respective Liberties to whom the same shall be directed or by their respective deputies inhabiting in the same Villages or Hamlets where the partie to be summoned lives whereof return shall be made the next Court-day upon the oath of the party imployed and one Witness more inhabiting within the same Village for in all cases upon the oaths of two Witnesses shall every truth be established to which end care shall be taken that persons of quality be taken for witnesses who in case false testimony shall be proved to be given by them shall make satisfaction to the party by such false testimony wronged according to the Judgement of the Court in that behalf 36. Execution of Judgements and Decrees Execution of all Judgements Decrees and Orders of the National Provincial and Sub-provincial Courts shall be done by the Sheriff his deputy or substitute within six days after his receipt thereof and within six days more return shall be made thereof to the respective Register who sent the same 37. Of Parochial Judgements Execution of all Parochial Judgements Decrees and Orders shall be done by the Constable for the time being or his substitute living within the same Village or Hamlet where execution is to be done for which the Constable shall be responsible The Fourth Days Work A Parliament well chosen Parliament ties The hands of all exormities It best provides in publick case So here it comes the next in place 1. LEt annually a Parliament be elected and each person whose whole Estate shall be entred in the Registry as aforesaid to be capable of electing or being elected but none others The Electors to have Estates of 5 li. per annum or 100 li. in money or upwards Entred and certified as aforesaid 2. Parochial elections Each first court-Court-day to be held in every Parochial Registry in January yearly all the Inhabitants Electors shall each personally present his Paper sealed up to the Register wherein shall be written the names of two such persons only of that Parish as he shall think most worthy to be Representees at the publique election without subscription of his own name all which Papers shall be put into a Box or Chest with a hole in the top locked or sealed with three several Locks or Seals one Key or Seal whereof shall be kept by the Constable one by the Minister and a third by the Church-wardens of the same Parish or some of them and when all such Papers shall be received and put therein as aforesaid the Box to be opened and the Papers also in presence and open view of the Court and five persons who shall have most nominations in the Papers aforesaid shall be the Representees of that Parish in all publique elections and transactions for that year 3. Sub-provincial elections The several Repesentees of the several Parishes within each Sub-province shall meet at the next Sub-provincial Court for that Hundred and shall there give their Papers sealed to the Box to be kept under the seals several of the Register the Sheriffs deputy and the next Justice of Peace for the time being with each two names written therein and when all the Papers shall be received the Box and Papers shall be opened and examined in open Court and those two persons within that Sub-province who shall have most names or be oftenest named in the Papers shall be the Representees of that Sub-province for that year 4. Provincial elections The several Sub provincial Representees shall the next Court-day to be held for that Province meet at the Provincial Court and there each shall give his Paper sealed up with two names only writ therein to the like Box there to be kept by the Register the Sheriff the Major of the Corporation where the Office shall be kept and two Justices of the Peace under their several locks or seals till all the papers shall be received thereinto and when all the Papers shall be received the Box and Papers shall be opened and four chosen who have most voices for the Representees for that Province for that year And for York six viz. each Riding two 5. Persons elected to be Resiants in the Country for which they are to be elected It is to be observed that in each County or Province twice so many Representees shall be elected as are Clerks assistant to the Provincial Register in that County and so in the Province of York six Representees shall be chosen viz. for each Riding one who shall be Residents within the same Riding and so in the respective Provinces where four are only to be they shall be for each Clerk assistants jurisdiction two who shall be resident within the same and no person shall serve for any other place then where his constant residence shall be Neitheir shall any person be elected who shall be solicited for either by Letter Message or otherways from any Gentlemen Governours or Commanders of what rank quality or condition soever but that upon appearance thereof to the Court all such shall be rejected as unworthy and not to be admitted of two years to be elected To the end all elections may be free Neither shall any person or persons by whom any Letters shall be sent or invitations made on any others behalf be elected for three years after whereby colour shall be prevented 6. Corporations elections Each Corporation who shall be at the charge may after the same manner chuve particular Representees or may involve themselves into the Sub-provincial elections and there share with their Neighbours for each Representee shall have quarterly paid him during his time of service for the Publique twenty Marks for none shall serve the Publique at his own charges nor none shall have so much allowance as meerly for salary to invite him to the work 7. Number of Presentatives For each County shall be chosen four and for York six as aforesaid which shall be the Representees for the whole County or Province for which they shall be chosen that is to say for each respective Jurisdiction two and each Sub-province shall elect two likewise who shall serve by turns that is to say one the one half the year and the other the other half he that hath the pre-eminence in election to procede in service and where equal numbers shall be electors the decision to be by lot 9. None to be elected who shall have any suits in Law depending NO person who hath any Suit or Cause

depending in Law shall be elected nor be an Elector for in all such cases each acts his own Play neither shall any member of Parliament for or during that year for which his service is or shall be receive any reward or compensation for loss salary or service other then his salary which shall quarterly be allowed him as aforesaid to be paid by the respective Officer for the Liberty for which he shall serve 10. That the Parliament shall have power to make and after Laws to treat of and conclude Peace and War 11. Committee for Petitions and Grievances to be dispatched within a month That within one week after the sitting of each respective Parlaiemnt a Committee shall be appointed to receive all Petitions and Grievances and to read and consider thereof and such as are fit to present to the house to offer the same so as answer may within one month be given thereof for it ill becomes a free State to shut the doors eyes or ears of Justice to any Suppliant by which means some hundreds have perished of late years whose bloud it may be feared is not yet pacified 12. He that refuses to serve in Parliament to pay 20 li. That none though elected shall be forced to serve in Parliament but if any shall refuse he shall contribute 20 li. towards the charge of the next election unless in case of sickness or any bodily infirmity in which case none shall be compelled beyond his strength he is freely to be excused and the next in order to supply his place and where two or more shall be equally elected that is to say by equal numbers of electors decision shall be made by lot and not otherways 13. None of the two last to be in any the nextsucceeding Parliament None shall be elected a member of any succeeding Parliament who served as member of either of the two last preceding Parliaments the same rule annually to be observed but that freedom of all the Nation be further admitted and in all other Officers of inferiour rank in the whole Commonwealth the Registries excepted which are not to be altered unless in case of corruption neglect or abuse of Trust so that it shall be free for each person who shall carry himself worthy thereof to be elected neither shall any mans meanness of estate hinder his election if his parts be such as the Neighbourhood may confide therein but all persons whose estates are entrable in the Sub-provincial Registry are capable if they be accordingly qualified of electing or being elected for they are terms convertible the elected is an elector and the elector may be elected each hath his single voice by his paper in the box Provincial Representees to have double voices to the Sub-provincial Representees to serve only for six months and no more 14. Each Provincial Reprosentee convened in Parliament shall have a double voice to each Sub-provincial all voices to be given by balls wherein each Provincial shall have two balls and each Sub-provincial one ball but in the Council of State they shall have equal voices 15. The persons elected shall serve by turns as aforesaid that is to say one half for six months and the other half for other six-months and for each six months one for each Provincial Riding and one for each Sub-provincial Registry shall meet at Westminster the first day of March annually if it fall not on the Lords day if so the day following and there entring the House of Parliament shall chuse their Speaker and take upon them the Government of the Nation for their time alotted and at the end thereof leave the same to their successors whereof sixty to make a House and not under 16. Council of State The first work they shall do after their meeting in March next shall be to elect fourty persons out of their whole number elected for that year to be a Council of State twenty whereof shall be out of the number of the persons then convened and twenty more out of the persons to convene in September followinge these fourty persons for the first year so elected to serve as members of the Council for a whole year from the time of their respective conventions and that twenty of the persons which shall be continued in Council till the first of March next shall continue there till the tenth of September next the members yearly to be chosen for the Council to meet in Council annually the tenth of March and tenth of September as their turns come and all who shall be elected to serve in Council shall there serve one whole year and no longer whereby engrossing of power and destroying of bodies shall be avoided Any fifteen to be a Council and not under 17. Each member shall forfeit 2 li. Forfeitures for not attending in Parliament which shall not meet in Parliament the first day whereon his service is to commence and for every day after which he shall be absent during the time of his appointed sitting either in Parliament or Council without license 20 s. unless in case of bodily distemper or weakness not dissembled but real The several forfeitures to be collected by the Serjeants at Arms attending the House and Council for the time being and accompted for and paid to the Church-wardens of Margaret Westminster monthly for relief of the poor in Westminster 18. The Affairs of the Army Admiralty and Navy Committee for the Army Admirally and Navy co be provided for by a Committee chosen by the Council out of their own members viz. out of each particular Consular election six their whole number to be twelve whereof five to be a quorum and not less to be approved by Parliament the Council and also the said Committee to act in all things subordinate to the Parliament and to observe their orders and yearly to be changed as to the one half every tenth of March twenty and the other half each tenth of September twenty to sit for twelve months only year after year 19. Six persons shall be yearly elected by the Council Publique Revenue approved by the House of Parliament for managing the receipts disbursements of all pubsike moneys who shall twice every year pass their Accompts to a Committee to be chosen part out of the House and part out of the council viz. at the end of six months after their commencement and the last month of their respective services 20. Places of keeping Registries and Courts Let the Provincial Registerial Courts be kept in the chief Town of every Privince and each Sub-provincial Court and Registry in some Market-Town within the same Hundred and where no Market-town shall be in any Hundred let a Market be appointed to be kept at some one Town conveniently seated neer the middle of the same Hundred and Authority given by Parliament for the same and each Parochial Registry in the same Town where the Parish Church or publique meeting place of

imployed to the common stock which wages shall be paid to the Master of the Work-house who shall have the command of all under the age of twenty one as Apprentices and all above as Journey-men without whose license none shall go to work abroad which shall not be denied in Seed-time Hay-time or Harvest upon reasonable rates 8. Trades to be erected in Flax and Hemp. In those Towns where shall be store of Hemp or Flax let some Towns be imployed in dressing and fitting the same for spinning according to the several sorts thereof another in spinning fine Linen another the middle and another the courser sort and another weaving the same others also in making Cordage and Ropes 9. In Wood. In Towns where wood shall be plentiful let one be imployed by Coopers another by Carpenters another by Tanners another by makers of Waines Waggons Carts Plows Sledges other Utensils for Husbandry in every Parochial-Town let there be in the common Work-house a Smith a Shooe-maker and a Taylor with their several servants subservient to the publique Master and in those Towns which shall be imployed in making of wire Pins Needles or Bonelace the Master of the work shall once a week pay off all the Workers of the same Trade and shall furnish them with stuff for making thereof and when they are made sell them for the advantage of the common stock and so in all other Trades 10. Proviston in the common Work-houses In the common Work-houses provision shall be made for all persons of all ages sexes and conditions whether young or old which are not able to help themselves and be therein imployed in such works as their strengths genius's and abilities are fittest to manage and undergo let the females be imployed in several works by themselves and have Mistresses for their Tutresses and Gardians where they may be imployed in spinning carding sowing weaving lace ribband tape and other things in setting of Cushions Carpets Hangings and other things fit for the work of women By which means the poor of the Nation shall not only be provided for but the Nation shall be thereby enriched and for every penyworth of stuff that the Nation now affords of vendible Commodity in other Countries it shall in few years afford three four five or six times the quantity which shall much enrich the Merchants thereof also 11. Justices elected Let the Representees annually chosen for members in Parliament be the Justices of Peace for the same year and those which shall be resident in the Country to undergo that service and in all things observe the directions of Parliament for levying of Souldiers regulating of Assesments and all other things whatsoever 12. Every person or persons Planting who shall at any time make any new Enclosures upon any Wasts Commons Town-fields or commonable grounds shall within every Pole set or plant at least one plant or set of Ash Ok Elm or Beech and preserve the same for growth and in those Countries where fruit-trees will grow and bear fruit the like may be enjoyned also upon forfeiture of 2 s. for every defect to be collected by the Constable by warrant from the Register upon information to be made thereof to the Court by the Church-wardens or any one or more of them in any Parish for the time being which forfeitures the one half to be imployed to the common stock of the same Town the other half to the Informer or Informers The Sixth Days Work It 's mutual Commerce that brings Beggers unto the state of Kings Trade And if we view the fruits of Trade It is a tree of pleasant shade 1. Customs LEt certain Taxes Customs and Impositions be imposed upon all Manufactures which the Merchant shall bring from other Countries but let all the Manufactures of this Nation be sold and exported free from the same for seven years whereby the Country may be encouraged to Trade 2. Corporations of Trades Let all the Trades-men in every Riding or distinct half Provincial Liberty 〈◊〉 well of the common Work-houses as others of every distinct Trade be a particular Society and Corporation and have power to elect Officers and make Laws amongst themselves for the advantage and benefit of the whole and also authority to put those Laws in execution and to meet once a Month at a place certain within each division or to appoint any other time or place within their limits whereof publique notice shall be given at the last precedent meeting for the doing of any thing requisite for the benefit and advantage of the same Trade 3. Youth to be brought up in Trades That all persons within the Commonwealth of England shall bring up their sons to some Trade or other after the age of fourteen till the age of twenty one at least under which notion the Husband-man is reputed a Trades-man which Trade none shall follow who with his own Team shall not Till every year twenty Acres of Land or upwards as a Master-Husbandman 4. Every Parochial Town shall have a School-master Parochial Schools and Writing-master who shall teach all children in the same Parish to write and read English and cast Accompts from the age of seven till the age of fourteen at which age they shall be either imployed in their Trades or sent to other Schools and all children brought up in the common Work-house shall spend two houres every day in the same School one in the forenoon and one in the after and at ten years old and after the afternoons hours shall be spent in writing and casting accompts for which every School-master where no provision is already made shall have 10 li. per annum quarterly paid by the Constable for the time being besides the gratuities of the richer sort of people 5. Sub-provincial grand School In every Sub-provincial or Market-Town shall be a free Grammar-School erected where shall be a Master who shall have allowance of 40 li. and an Usher of 20 li. per annum paid quarterly by the Sheriffs substitute for the time being whither all the youths of that sub-Province whom their Parents or Friends shall intend for Scholars shall be sent at the age of ten and there continue till they shall be respectively fit for the University whither none shall be admitted under the age of sixteen In every Sub-provincial Market-town Scrivener shall be a Scrivener or writing Master who shall teach to write and cast accompts with whom every Scholar in the Grammar-School shall spend at least one half day every week or one hour a day for three days in the week which said Master shall have the yearly allowance of 10 li. paid by the parties aforesaid besides gratuities 6. There shall also be a Musick-master Musick Master who shall have the yearly allowance of 10 li. besides gratuities with whom every Scholar shall spend one half day every week or an hour a day for three days in