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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41722	The government op [sic] the Common-wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the dominions thereto belonging as it was publickly declared at Westminster, the 16. day of December 1653. In the presence of the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal of England, the Lord Major and aldermen of the City of London, divers of the judges of the land, the officers of state and army, and many other persons of quality. At which time and place his Highness Oliver, Lord Protector of the said Common-wealth, took a solemn oath for observing the same. Published by His Highness the Lord Protector's special commandment.	Scotland. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell); Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658. aut	1654 (1654)	Wing G1457; ESTC R218845	12,043	21

and such Parliament in maner herein exprest XXIII That the Lord Protector with the advice of the major part of the Council shall at any other time then is before exprest when the necessities of the State shall require it summon Parliaments in manner before exprest which shall not be Adjourned Prorogued or Dissolved without their own Consent during the first three Moneths of their Sitting And in case of future War with any Forreign State a Parliament shall be forthwith Summoned for their Advice concerning the same XXIV That all Bills agreed unto by the Parliament shall be presented to the Lord Protector for his consent and in case he shall not give his consent thereto within Twenty dayes after they shall be presented to him or give satisfaction to the Parliament within the time limited That then upon Declaration of the Parliament That the Lord Protector hath not consented nor given Satisfaction such Bills shall pass into and become Laws although he shall not give his consent thereunto provided such Bills contein nothing in them contrary to the matters conteined in these Presents XXV That Philip Lord Viscount Lisle Charles Fleetwood Esquire John Lambert Esquire Sir Gilbert Pickering Baronet Sir Charles Wolseley Baronet Sir Anthony Ashley-Cooper Baronet Edward Montagu Esquire John Disborow Esquire Walter Strickland Esquire Henry Lawrence Esquire William Sydenham Esquire Philip Jones Esquire Richard Major Esquire Francis Rous Phil. Skippon Esquires or any seven of them shall be a Council for the purposes exprest in this Writing and upon the death or other removal of any of them the Parliament shall nominate six persons of Ability Integrity and fearing God for every one that is dead or removed out of which the major part of the Council shall elect two and present them to the Lord Protector of which he shall elect one And in case the Parliament shall not nominate within Twenty dayes after notice given unto them thereof the major part of the Council of shall nominate three as aforesaid to the Lord Protector who out of them shall supply the vacancy And untill this Choice be made the remaining part of the Council shall execute as fully in all things as if their number were full And in case of corruption or other mis-carriage in any of the Council in their Trust the Parliament shall appoint seven of their numbers and the Council six who together with the Lord Chancellor Lord Keeper or Commissioners of the Great Seal for the time being shall have power to hear and determin LAM such corruption and mis-carriage and to award and inflict punishment as the nature of the Offence shall deserve which punishment shall not be pardoned or remitted by the Lord Protector And in the interval of Parliaments the major part of the Council with the consent of the Lord Protector may for Corrupt on or other mis-carriage as aforesaid suspend any of their number from the exercise of their Trust if they shall finde it just untill the matter shall be heard and examined as aforesaid XXVI That the Lord Protector and the major part of the Council aforesaid may at any time before the meeting of the next Parliament add to the Council such persons as they shall think fit provided the number of the Council be not made thereby to exceed One and twenty and the Quorum to be prop●rtioned accordingly by the Lord Protector and the major part of the Council XXVII That a constant yearly Revenue shal be raised setled and establisht for maintaining of Ten thousand Horse and Dragoons and Twenty thousand Foot in England Scotland and Ireland for the Defence and Security thereof and also for a convenient number of Ships for guarding of the Seas besides Two hundred thousand pounds per annum for defraying the other necessary Charges for administration of Justice and other Expences of the Government Which Revenue shall be raised by the Customs and such other ways and means as shall be agreed upon by the Lord Protector and Council and shall not be taken away or diminisht nor the way agreed upon for raising the same altered but by the consent of the Lord Protector and the Parliament XXVIII That the said yearly Revenue shall be paid into the publ●ck Treasury and shall be issued out for the Uses aforesaid XXIX That in case there shall not be cause hereafter to keep up so great a Defence at Land or Sea but that there be an abatement made thereof the Money which w●ll be saved thereby shall remain in bank for the Publick Service and not be employed to any other use but by consent of Parliament or in the intervals of Parliament by the Lord Protector and major part of the Council XXX That the raising of Money for defraying the Charge of present extraordinary Forces both at Land and Sea in respect of the present Wars shall be by consent in Parliament and not otherwise save onely that the Lord Protector with the consent of the major part of the Councill for preventing the Disorders and Dangers which may otherwise fall out both at Sea and Land shall have power untill the meeting of the first Parliament to raise Money for the purposes aforesaid and also to make Laws and Ordinances for the Peace and Welfare of these Nations where it shall be necessary which shall be binding and in force untill Order shall be taken in Parliament concerning the same XXXI That the Lands Tenements Rents Royalties Jurisdictions and Hereditaments which remain yet unfold or undisposed of by Act or Ordinance of Parliament belonging to the Commonwealth except the Forests and Chases and the Honors and Manors belonging to the same the Lands of the Rebels in Ireland lying in the four Counties of Dublin Cork Kildare and Katerlaugh the Lands forfeited by the People of Scotland in the late Wars and also the Lands of Papists and Delinquents in England who have not yet compounded shall be vested in the Lord Protector To hold to him and his Successors Lord Protectors of these Nations and shall not be aliened but by consent in Parliament And all Debts Fines Issues Amerciaments Penalties and Profits certain and casual due to the Keepers of the Liberties of England by Authority of Parliament shall be due to the Lord Protector and be payable into his Publick Receipt and shall be recovered and prosecuted in his Name XXXII That the Office of the Lord Protector over these Nations shall be Elective and not Hereditary and upon the death of the Lord Protector an other fit Person shall be forthwith elected to succeed Him in the Government which Election shall be by the Council who immediatly upon the death of the Lord Protector shall assemble in the Chamber where they usually fit in Council and having given notice to all their number of the cause of their assembling shall being thirteen at least present proceed to the Election and before they depart out of the said Chamber shall elect a fit Person to succeed in the Government and forthwith