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england_n	act_n	parliament_n	person_n	2,736	5	5.0257	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82099	The declaration of divers well-affected inhabitants of the cities of London and Westminster, borrough of Southwark, Tower Hamblets, and parts adjacent. Shewing their resolutions to joyn with the Army under the command of his Excellency Thomas Lord Fairfax; for the establishing of a safe and well-grounded peace, with the just rights and priviledges of the subject.		1648 (1648)	Wing D608; Thomason E476_31; ESTC R205516	2,415	8

THE DECLARATION OF DIVERS WELL-AFFECTED INhabitants of the Cities of London and Westminster Borrough of Southwark Tower Hamblets and parts adjacent SHEWING THEIR RESOLVTIONS TO joyn with the Army under the Command of his Excellency Thomas Lord Fairfax for the establishing of a safe and Well-grounded Peace with the just Rights and Priviledges of the Subject Decemb 18 LONDON Printed for R. Baliffe neer Temple Barre 1648. THE DECLARATION OF DIVERS WELL-AFFECTED INHAbitants of the Cities of London and Westminster Borrough of Southward Tower Hamblets and parts adjacent THe apprehension of the sadness of these times we conceive may justly put us upon doing somthing for our own and Posterities happinesse hereafter especially considering that they who should have been the means of our welfare were the chief instruments of our woe The Parliament at their first sitting promised us fair and therefore it was that we aided them to keep their power so long as they did but now to our sorrows we find fair promises to be but their ladder to climb to greatnesse with We all know they are but the publick servants imployed by the People their Masters for the regulation of such abuses as by the age of Time are crept into the Common wealth and yet insteed thereof they have rather sought to bring in new Corruptions than expel old ones And that they might the better effect it they Voted and kept a Treaty with the King that thereby themselves might have sate in an everlasting warm feat and haveing had C. R. to their Papers would the better have bound the Peoples hands behind them that so they might have been wholy uncapable of acting any thing contrary to their greatnesse But yet lest this designe should not take if the present Army on foot kept up They Voted the Armies disbanding before they had done the work that they raised them for But the Army being more wise and seeing their Plot refused disbanding till things were better setled and themselves in a capacity of freedom and safety for what they have done and as they justly may stand upon the bargain they made with the Parliament viz. Not only to indempnifie them for what they have done or granting an Act of Oblivion but also to settle the Kingdom and People in a well grounded Peace for present and establish a way for their defence against all Tyrants and Tyrannie for future It is easy to be beleev'd that if the King had prevailed he would have made good his promises to his Cavileers for experience tells us how his Souldiers when they got the upper hand over any place cram'd their Snap-sacks with plunder and put good clothes on their backs though contrary to Articles of Surrender When as our Party when they have conquered have not been suffered to speak the Truth concerning the Kings illegal proceedings without venturing their lives to the Oath of a single Cavileer the Laws of the Land and malignancy of the Judges frequently taking place against them in such cases These things we see and considering the heavy burthen the Kingdom lies under by Excise Taxes Tythes Free-Quarter c. We cannot but declare 1. To joyn with the Army in their just proceedings against all unjust persons whatsoever who have betrayed the trust reposed in them and invited in the Scots and raised other forces against the Kingdom 2. That this Parliament be dissolved before the last day of April next 1649. And that a constant succession of Parliaments be setled to be chosen of course by the people at a fixed day every year or two as shall be thought fit and they be made accomptable of their Stewardship to the next succeeding Parliament 3. That all Statutes Laws and Acts of Parliament run only in the Name of the Commons of England assembled in Parliament 4. That no person that hath had a hand in the first or second war be chosen or have a Voice in the choice of any Parliament Member or other Officer of the State whatsoever 5. That no Parliament Magistrate or other person whatsoever have power to make or execute any compulsive Law touching matters of Conscience and Religion but that all civil people subject themselves to the Laws of the Common wealth though of several opinions not being destructive to the State be protected from all violence and injury 6. That none be forced to pay Tythes but that a more conscionable maintainance for the publick Ministry be provided 7. That Excise upon all In-land commoditie be taken off and that no Taxes or Cesments be levied upon the People but by the old way of Subsidies 8. That all Monopolies yet remaining be forthwith abolished 9. That all Parliament Members Committees Excise men Sequestrators c. be called to accompt for the monies of the State 10. That all destitute Widdows and poor Orphans which have lost their Husbands and Parents and all Souldiers that have lost their limbs in the Parliaments service be comfortably relieved by way of constant stipend and the children put to Trades 11. That publick work-houses be erected for prevention of beggars vagabonds and idle persons 12. That a Trade of fishing upon the English coasts be setled by the State for the good of the Common wealth 13. That encouragement and protection be given to such as shall prosecute any Lawfull Charge or Impeachment of Treason or other Crime against any Member in Parliament and that the Members in Parliament without respect of Persons be dis-robed of their Protection and left lyable to the Law 14. That the cruelties and extortion of Goalers be severely provided against and that for future no fees bee exacted from Prisoners but that fitting accommodateon both for lodging and dyet for them and a sufficient competency of livelihood for Goalers at the publick cost be provided 15. That no man be kept in Prison above a moneth but in that space to be brought to a Tryall by a lawfull Jury of his equals or else to be discharged of course 16. That no man bee impressed to serve in the Warres 17. That our Laws bee few and plain free from all ambiguous meanings and all in the English Tongue and to bee digested and Printed in a Vollume and one to bee provided to bee kept in every Church throughout the Land and to be read over at several appointed Times and Seasons in open Congregation 18. That all persons stand alike lyable to the Lawes of the Land in all cases both criminal and civil and that all protections by any pretended Priviledge or Prerogative whatsoever be declared Void and of none effect We having considered these things cannot conceive our selves in safetie unlesse these or such like Lawes be established for a certain unalterable Government for the Nation to be regulated by And therefore we do resolve with our utmost vigor and force to oppose all such persons whatsoever that shall go about to hinder these our just undertakings they being so reasonable that we know no rational man that hath but one drop of English bloud running in his veins will bee against them FINIS