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A92997	Several proposals for peace & freedom, by an agreement of the people, offered unto Commissary General Ireton for the concurrence of the Army, by the approbation and consent of many worthy persons of the Common Councel and others of the city of London, on the eleventh of this instant December, to be agreed unto, and subscribed by all the inhabitants of England & VVales.	Jubbes, John.; Ireton, Henry, 1611-1651.	1648 (1648)	Wing S2799; Thomason E477_18; ESTC R21362	5,987	11

SEVERAL PROPOSALS FOR Peace Freedom BY AN AGREEMENT OF THE PEOPLE Offered unto Commissary General IRETON for the Concurrence of the Army by the Approbation and Consent of many worthy Persons of the Common Councel And others of the City of LONDON on the Eleventh of this instant December To be Agreed unto and Subscribed by all the Inhabitants OF England Wales LONDON Printed for J Hanes Decemb. 22. 1648. SEVERAL PROPOSALS FOR Peace Freedom BY AN AGREEMENT OF THE PEOPLE WHereas those His Majesties failings published to us and the World by the several Declarations and Remonstrances of Parliament cannot be denyed whereby through the violation of his Oath and Covenant made unto the People at his Coronation all our late and present Woe and Miseries of War both in England and Ireland have come as also the great Divisions amongst our most worthy and eminent persons of the Commonwealth with the great distempered and unconstant actings and high failings even in the Parliament it self And for that it is the due Right and Priviledge of the folk or People of this Nation to make and choose our and their Laws by an equal Representative in Parliament as by the aforesaid Coronation Oath and Covenant fully appeareth Therefore the Right Honorable the Lord Major Aldermen and Common-Councel of the City of London do in the Name of the City First Humbly offer unto the Right Honorable The High Court of Parliament assembled at Westminster this present intituled Paper called A Great Agreement of all the People of England and Wales for their Approbation and Subscription and that it may thence be dismissed and forth with sent into every part of the Land to be Agreed on Consented to and Subscribed by all the Free-born People of the same above the age of Sixteen on pain for the Refusers to be excluded and debarred the protection of the Law of the Land and that all the Subscriptions may be brought in to the present particular Representatives of Parliament to be Returned and Recorded there for a grand law forever First We Agree 1. THat the King by the Advice of his evil Councel through usurpring and incroaching upon our Freedoms and by leaving the Parliament and leavying a War against it is guilty of all the Blood vast expence of Treasure and Ruine that hath been occasioned by these Wars within the Kingdoms of England and Ireland II. That if any King of England shall hereafter challenge to himself a Negative Voyce to the Determinations of the Representative in Parliament and shall not according to the Duty of his Kingly Office Consent and Sign all such Laws as the People by their Representative The Commons of England from time to time assembling in Parliament after Confultation had with the Lords therein when sitting shall make and choose may be deposed by the same Parliament And that what Subject of the Nation that shall assist or side with him therein may upon good proof thereof not onely from thenceforth be deemed and taken for Enemies to the State and therefore not onely void of the protection of the Laws but dealt with as in a case of high Treason And that the particular Representatives do from time to time wholly prosecute and pursue in Parliament all such Instructions as the People for whom they are chosen and serve shall at the day of their Elections and afterwards be required unto And that no Officer of War or Member of the Committee of State shall be chosen into any first next following Parliament after their discharge thereof III. That in all Laws made or to be made every person may be bound alike and that no Degree of Lords Peers of Parliament now or hereafter assembled or others No Tenure Estate Charter or Office soever shall confer any exemption from the ordinary Course of Justice and Legal Proceedings whereunto others are subjected IV. That our meanings and intentions are Not to leave our selves lyable to the least of mercy touching our Freedoms either of the most Righteous or evil and unrighteous Princes disclaiming confidence in vain man But knowing that Justice of punishment ought never to be inflicted but where in Reason it will convert into mercy and seeing that it hath pleased God That a Covenant is passed between this Nation and our Brethren of Scotland whereby mercy is claimed by that Nation on his Majesties behalf Therefore if the King shall Assent unto this Agreement that then He may be Proclaimed and Crowned King again And who after the first four years in which the Kingdoms Debts may be paid may in a Parliamentary way have as great an Annual Revenue conferred upon him as one year with another of his Reign was yet ever brought into the Exchequer notwithstanding those vast illegal sums thereof raised by the multitude of Monopolies and destroying usurping Projects Except what shall be defalked for such Charges as henceforth shall be thought fit to be defrayed by the Parliament which formerly was done by the King V. That all or any person or persons that shall approve or any way allow of any thing which the King or any person by or under him have done in this late miserable and destructive War may be dealt with as in a case of high Treason And that neither any such who have assisted the King in person or otherwise and such as have approved of any thing done against the State in the said War may not sit or have place in the next Parliament or Voyces in the Elections thereof VI. That if any person or persons whatsoever that shall any way wilfully endeavor to disgrace by approbrious speeches any person or persons for assisting the King in his War against the Parliament may be bound to the good Behavior with great Surety for the same And that no man whatsoever be hereafter questioned for any thing done in reference to the late publique Differences since the year 1641. further then in execution of the Judgement of this present Parliament VII That a general Revisement may be had of all the Laws and Statutes now in force and that those intending and relating to the maintenance of Popery Prelacy Episcopacy Superstition and all Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction or Government and whatsoever else that wil not best stand with the good of the nation according to this present age may be Repealed And that all those that shall be continued unto us may be put in execution according to the purity and truth thereof that the tediousness and long delays formerly exercised therein as also all undue practice thereof may be wholly taken away so as that intended chiefest good for the peaceable well-being of the Common-wealth may not henceforth be exercised to the great disquieting and wasting of the people as formerly even hitherto it hath done And that such sure provisions be speedily made not onely for the hinderance and avoiding of all Vagabonds and Beggars but for a conscientious and sufficient Relief for all the poor and indigent people that none

may perish with want as also for the extirpating of Drunkenness and Swearing upon such high penalties and ways of incouragement for the prosecutors thereof as through God may wholly take away all those Evils VIII That the Excize may continue but until the present Engagement thereupon be discharged And that what moneys soever the Parliament shall be necessitated to use may be raised by Subsidies and Taxes and such other open and known ways as may be most visible and apparently equal to the whole Commonwealth IX That the people being at this time very unequally distributed for Electing their Representatives may be more indifferently proportioned And that not onely every Freeholder but Copyholder also that is worth 40 s. per Annum and every other person that is worth 50 l. personal Estate may have Voyces in the Election thereof X. That the people do of course choose themselves a Parliament once every two years after the most free and uncontrolable maner upon pain of high Treason to the Disturbers over-bearer or over-bearers of any person or persons of the Elections for ever and to continue by the space of five Moneths to begin to sit upon the first Thursday in every second March and to begin to sit upon the first Thursday in April then next ensuing after the dissolution of this and to continue till the last day of August then next following also and no longer and that this may terminate and end before May 1649. XI That the Irish may not be still proceeded against as to execute cruelty for cruelty but that both they and those other Offendors of our Brethren of England that have not Compounded may yet Compound and have such Fines set upon them and so to be payed as that with respect unto their conditions may not ruine and undo them and their posterities except the Beginners and Fomenters of the War XII That out of every Parliament there may be a Committee of State appointed consisting of Forty of the Members thereof six whereof to be out of the City of London Westminster and the Borough of Southwark and the next to be equally proportioned for the several other Counties Cities and Towns Corporate of England and Wales to Negotiate in the Intervals of Parliament of all things given them in charge by the said Parliament XIII That annually there may be an equal Tax in every Parish within the Kingdom of England and Wales as well of Lands as Goods proportionable to that of the accustomed Tythes Impropriations excepted to be raised leavied and paid into the hands of one or more Treasurers in every County for that purpose to be paid and issued forth again to the Teachers in the Word as cause shall require And that all Tythes of Impropriations may be bought in at such conscientious Rates as the Committee of State as hereafter followeth or Commissioners from them appointed for that purpose shall think most reasonable and meet XIV That whereas God the Creator and Father of Spirits is Omnipotent and unlimited by man giving to every one a various and different Spirit of which no man is certainly Master no not for a minute therefore ought Liberty of Conscience to be granted to all godly Conscientious walkers protesting against the State-destroying Tenents as to Peace and Freedom not onely of the Church of Rome but of Episcopal and all Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction by Courts and Offices for that purpose also yet the way of instructing the people is referred to the Ministery 15. That all inslaving Tenures upon Record by Oaths of Fealty Villanage Homage and Fines at will of the Lords may all be bought in at such rates as shall not exceed twenty years purchase to the Lord upon a conscientious computation of profits made according to the Reign of King James 16. That all the Marish Lands Fens and Common Pastures within the Kingdom of England and Wales may be enclosed and divided one fourth part to be equally proportioned to the several Tenants of the several Parishes where such Land lieth and another fourth part to the Poor of the same and the other two parts to be divided for and towards the payment of all the Officers and Souldiers Arrears To be holden and taken up by Copy of Court-Roll of the proper Lord or Lords of the Soyls giving and paying the sum of five shillings per Acre Fine for Admittance at every Alienation Change and Taking up by death or otherwise if the Annual Rent of every Acre be worth so much or else not to exceed the value thereof and twelve pence per Acre at the most or the sixt part of the yearly value for the Annual Rent of all that fourth part divided among the Poor and six pence per Acre at the most for the other three parts of the yearly Revenue to be proportioned certainly for ever 17. That his Excellency the Lord General Lieutenant General Cromwel the Lord Mayor of our City the Earl of Northumberland the Lord Grey of Grooby the Lord Wharton Major General Skippon Commissary General Ireton Sir John Potts Sir William Waller Sir William Br●●eton Sir John Maynard Colonel Harlo Mr Alderman Fouke Mr Alderman Gibbs Mr Fran. Allen Major General Massey Col. Wilson Col. Fleetwood Col. Harrison Col. Russel Sir Arthur Haslerig Sir Gilbert Pickering Sir Henry Vane junior Mr Perpoint Col. Marten Col. Rigby Mr Holland Sir John Palgrave Major Wildeman Lieutenant Colonel Lilburn Col. Ludlow may be a Committee to continue until the first day of the next Parliament to regulate place displace confirm commissionate or non-commission all Justices belonging to the Courts of Westminster with the Officers and Offices thereunto belonging all-Sheriffs of Counties and Justices of Peace and all other the Officers and Offices whatsoever formerly occasioned to be granted by his Majesty whether by usurpation or otherwise And after the expiration and end of the aforesaid Committee to be desposed of by succeeding Parliaments or Committees of State And that his Majesty may degrade all such persons either in part or in whole as were the Cause and Beginners of the Wars or the Continuance thereof as also to confirm such honors on such worthy Members as have most self-denyingly endeavored our Freedoms according to the judgment and wisdom of this most excellent and honorable Committee or the major part thereof And after the expiration of this Committee that then all such persons as his Majesty shall for the future dignifie with titles of Honor as aforesaid may first have certificate of their Demerits for Services done unto the State either from the Parliament or Committee of State as aforesaid to signifie the same 18. That the Earl of Pembrook the Earl of Denby the Earl of Kent Mr Serjeant St. John Lord chief Justice of the Common Pleas Mr Serjeant Wylde Sir Thomas Wydrington the Lord Lisle Sir John Danvers Sir Henry Myl●may together with his Excellency the Lord General Lieutenant General Cromwel the Lord Mayor with the rest of the Members of the excellent