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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

and honorable Committee for the regulating of Offices and Officers may be the Committee of State for the next ensuing Intervals of Parliament 19. That all Debts upon the first Propositions due upon the Publique Faith and all other Moneys and Values lent upon the fifth and twentieth parts may be satisfied and payd by the Inhabitants in every County within it self by an equal rate as well of Lands as Goods by Commissioners to be chosen within themselves also for that purpose 20. That henceforth no Free-born person of this Nation be hereafter pressed to serve in the War 21. That a strict Accompt may be taken of all those persons that have been Treasurers Receivers or otherwise any way intrusted with the Treasure of the State 22. That all the Dean and Chapters lands may be sold for payment of the Publique Debts or for what other uses the Parliament shall think fit and that all the Soldiers of the new Model now in Arms may either be payd by proportions out of the Marish Lands Fens and Common Pastures For every Trooper that is behind and in Arrear for every year or proportionable according to that time the sum of four pounds per annum during his life without allowance for Free Quarter and every Footman the sum of fifty shillings per annum with proportion to time as aforesaid and if it shall happen that the faid Marish Lands Fens and Common Pastures will not be sufficient to perform the same that then it may be made up out of the aforesaid Deans and Chapters Lands Conditionally provided That all such as shall be assigned by the General Councel of the Army for the Service of Ireland do not refuse the same but that all such as shall be dismissed thither shall have the Fee-simple of the said proportions of Land to them and their heirs for ever And all others that shall desire to leave the Wars and shall be dismissed the Army by the Councel of War also may forthwith be satisfied their Arrears upon his Excellency's discharge 23. That the great Weight and Charge of Ireland may be intrusted in a faithful Committee consisting of nine at the least for ordering that high Affair whereof two to be Members of the City of London 24. That for the frustrating of the several perilous designs of the many parties which are now so strongly working to carry on their particular Interests for Ruine and Destruction to us and for the setling of a firm Peace in this distracted Nation That after all have subscribed this present Agreement for the maintaining of all our just Right by the Power and Authority of Parliament that then all the Parliaments Forces now in the Kingdom may be paid or else effectually satisfied all their Arrers due unto them be acquitted of all or any past failings and forthwith dismissed for Ireland with all convenient speed under their present Conduct and Command except what Forces shall be thought meet for the Garrisons of England and Wales as also that the Lord General may still be continued with us in his Renowned Command General of England and Wales aforesaid and that Leiutenant General Cromwel may be sent General into Ireland aforesaid and have the Command of all the Forces for the reducement thereof and that the Scots there being put under the Command aforesaid may then be there equally capable with our own in all benefits priviledges and profits whatsoever that our mercy and moderation may be known unto all and that the Lord is our Councell FINIS