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lord_n	earl_n	john_n	king_n	50,169	5	4.1692	3	true

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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

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