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A40423	A Petition from His Excellency Thomas Lord Fairfax and the General Councel of Officers of the Army, to the Honourable the Commons of England in Parliament assembled, concerning the draught of an agreement of the people, for a secure and present peace, by them framed and prepared together with the said agreement presented Saturday, Jan. 20, and a declaration of His Excellency and the said General Councel, concerning the same, tendred to the consideration of the people.	Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.; England and Wales. Army. Council.	1649 (1649)	Wing F213; ESTC R6806	15,566	34

after Elections 4 That to the end all Officers of State may be certainly accomptable and no factions made to maintain corrupt interests no Member of a Councel of State nor any Officer of any salary forces in Army or Garison nor any Treasurer or Receiver of publique monies shall while such be elected to be of a Representative And in case any such Election shall be the same to be void And in case any Lawyer shall be chosen of any Representative or Councel of State then he shall be uncapable of practice as a Lawyer during thattrust 5 For the more convenient Election of Representatives each County wherein more then three Representors are to be chosen with the Townes Corporate and Cities if there be any lying within the compasse thereof to which no Representors are herein assigned shall be divided by a due proportion into so many and such parts as each part may elect two and no part above three Representors For the setting forth of which Divisions and the ascertaining of other circumstances hereafter exprest so as to make the Elections lesse subject to confusion or mistake in order to the next Representative Thomas Lord Grey of Grooby Sir John Danvers Sir Henry Holcraft Knights Moses Wall Gentleman Samuel Moyer John Langley William Hawkins Abraham Babington Daniel Taylor Mark Hilsley Richard Price and Col. John White Citizens of London or any five or more of them are intrusted to nominate and appoint under their Hands and Seales three or more fit persons in each County and in each Citie and Borough to which one Representor or more is assigned to be as Commissioners for the ends aforesaid in the respective Counties Cities and Burroughs and by like writing under their Hands and Seales shall certifie into the Parliament Records before the fourteenth day of February next the names of the Commissioners so appointed for the respective Counties Cities and Burroughs which Commissioners or any three or more of them for the respective Counties Cities and Burroughs shall before the end of February next by writing under their Hands and Seales appoint two fit and faithfull persons or more in each Hundred Lath or Wapentake within the respective Counties and in each Ward within the City of London to take care for the orderly taking of all voluntary subscriptions to this Agreement by fit persons to be imploy'd for that purpose in every Perish who are to returne the subscriptions so taken to the persons that imployed them keeping a transcript thereof to themselves and those persons keeping like Transcripts to return the Originall subscriptions to the respective Commissioners by whom they were appointed at or before the fourteenth of Aprill next to be registered and kept in the County Records for the said Counties respectively and the subscriptions in the City of London to be kept in the chief Court of Record for the said City And the Commissioners for the other Cities and Borroughs respectively are to appoint two or more fit persons in every Parish within their Precincts to take such subscriptions and keeping transcripts thereof to return the Originalls to the respective Commissioners by the said fourteenth of Aprill next to be registred and kept in the chief Court within the respecrive Cities and Burroughs And the same Commissioners or any three or more of them for the severall Counties Cities and Boroughs respectively shall where more then three Representors are to be chosen divide such Counties as also the City of London into so many and such parts as are aforementioned and shall set forth the bounds of such divisions and shall in every County City and Borough where any Representors are to be chosen and in every such division as aforesaid within the City of London and within the severall Counties so divided respectively appoint one certaine place wherein the people shall meet for the choise of their Representors and some one fit Person or more inhabiting within each Borough City County or Division respectively to be present at the time and place of Election in the nature of Sheriffes to regulate the Elections and by Pole or otherwise clearly to distinguish and judge thereof and to make returne of the Person or Persons Elected as is hereafter exprest and shall likewise in writing under their hands and Seales make Certificates of the severall Divisions with the bounds thereof by them set forth and of the certaine places of meeting and Persons in the nature of Sheriffes appointed in them respectively as aforesaid and cause such Certificates to be returned into the Parliament Records before the end of April next and before that time shall also cause the same to be published in every Parish within the Counties Cities and Boroughs respectively and shall in every such Parish likewise nominate and appoint by Warrant under their hands and Seals one Trusty person or more inhabiting therein to make a true list of al the Persons within their respective Parishes who according to the rules aforegoing are to have voyce in the Elections and expressing who amongst them are by the same rules capable of being Elected and such List with the said Warrant to bring in and returne at the time and place of Election unto the Person appointed in the nature of Sheriffe as aforesaid for that Borough City County or Division respectively which Person so appointed as Sheriffe being present at the time and place of Election or in case of his absence by the space-of one houre after the time limited for the peoples meeting then any Person present that is eligible as aforesaid whom the people then and there assembled shall chuse for that end shall receive and keep the said Lists and admit the Persons therein contained or so many of them as are present unto a free Vote in the said Election and having first caused this Agreement to be publiquely read in the audience of the people shall proceed unto and regulate and keep peace and order in the Elections and by Pole or otherwise openly distinguish and judge of the same And thereof by Certificate or writing under the hands and Seales of himselfe and six or more of the Electors nominating the Person or Persons duly Elected shall make a true returne into the Parliament Records within one and twenty dayes after the Election under paine for default thereof or for making any false Returne to forfeit one hundred pounds to the Publique use And shall also cause Indentures to be made and interchangeably sealed and delivered betwixt himselfe and six or more of the said Electors on the one part and the Persons or each Person Elected severally on the other part expressing their Election of him as a Representor of them according to this Agreement and his acceptance of that trust and his promise accordingly to performe the same with faithfulnesse to the best of his understanding and ability for the glory of God and good of the people This course is to hold for the first Representative which is to provide for

Die Sabbathi 20 Januarii 1649. LIeutenant General Hammond Colonel Okey and other Officers of the Army this day presented a Petition to the House with a Draught of The Agreement of the People The Petitioners being called in Mr Speaker by Command of the House gave them this Answer GENTLEMEN YOu the Officers of the Army sent by the Lord General and the Officers of the Army unto this House with this Petition The House hath read your Petition and for the Agreement presented therewith the House hath commanded me to tell you They have resolved to take the same into their Consideration with what possible speed the necessity of the present weighty and urgent affairs will permit They have commanded me likewise to tell you they finde these good Affections and serious Representations made in your Petition that they have Ordered it to be printed I am likewise commanded to tell you That this House doth take notice of your faithful and great Services to the Kingdom in standing in the Gap for their Preservation and commanded me to give hearty Thanks to the Lord General and the Officers of the Army for these good Services and the good Affections you have herein expressed And I do in their name give the hearty Thanks of this House to the Lord General and to you and the rest of the Officers of the Army for their good Affections great Services and cordial Expressions Hen Scobel Cler. Parl. Dom. Com. A PETITION FROM His Excellency Thomas Lord Fairfax And the General Councel of Officers of the ARMY To the Honorable the COMMONS of ENGLAND in PARLIAMENT assembled Concerning the Draught of An AGREEMENT of the PEOPLE For a secure and present PEACE by them framed and prepared Together with the said AGREEMENT presented Saturday Jan. 20. And a DECLARATION of his Excellency and the said General Councel concerning the same Tendred to the Consideration of the PEOPLE BY the Appointment of the Generall Councel of Officers of the Army Signed JOHN RUSHVVORTH Sec' LONDON Printed for John Partridge R. Harford G. Calvert and G. Whittington MDCXLIX To the honorable the Commons of ENGLAND in Parliament assembled The humble Petition of his Excellency Thomas Lord Fairfax and the General Councel of Officers of the Army under his Command concerning the Draught of An Agreement of the People by them framed and prepared IN our late Remonstrance of the 18 of November last we propounded next after the matters of publike Justice some Foundations for a general settlement of Peace in the Nation which we therein desired might be formed and Established in the nature of a generall Contract or Agreement of the People and since then the matters so propounded be wholly rejected or no consideration of them admitted in Parliament though visibly of highest Moment to the Publique and all ordinary Remedies being denyed we were necessitated to an extraordinary way of Remedy whereby to avoyd the mischiefs then at hand and set you in a condition without such obstructions or diversions by corrupt Members to proceed to matters of publique Justice and general Settlement Now as nothing did in our own hearts more justifie our late undertakings towards many Members in this Parliament then the necessity thereof in order to a sound Settlement in the Kingdom and the integrity of our intentions to make use of it only to that end so we hold our selves obliged to give the People all assurance possible That our opposing the corrupt closure endeavoured with the King was not in designe to hinder Peace or Settlement thereby to render our employments as Souldiers necessary to be continued and that neither that extraordinary course we have taken nor any other proceedings of ours have been intended for the setting up of any particular Party or Interest by or with which to uphold our selves in Power and Dominion over the Nation but that it was and is the desire of our hearts in all we have done with the hindering of that imminent evil and destructive conjunction with the King to make way for the settlement of a Peace and Government of the Kingdom upon Grounds of common Freedom and Safety And therefore because ou● former Overtures for that purpose being only in general terms and not reduced to a certainty of particulars fit for practise might possibly be understood but as plausible pretences not intended really to be be put into effect We have thought it our duty to draw out these generals into an intire frame of particulars ascertained with such circumstances as may make it effectively practicable And for that end while your time hath been taken up in other matters of high and present Importance we have spent much of ours in preparing and perfecting such a draught of Agreement and in all things so circumstantiated as to render it ripe for your speedier consideration and the Kingdoms acceptance and practise if approved and so we do herewith humbly present it to you Now to prevent mis-understanding of our intentions therein We have but this to say That we are far from such a Spirit as positively to impose our private apprehensions upon the judgments of any in the Kingdom that have not forfeited their Freedom and much lesse upon your selves Neither are we apt in any wise to insist upon circumstantial things or ought that is not evidently fundamental to that publique Interest for which You and We have declared and engaged But in this Tender of it we humbly desire 1. That whether it shall be fully approved by You and received by the People as it now stands or not it may yet remain upon Record before you a perpetual witness of our real intentions and utmost endeavors for a sound and equal Settlement and as a testimony whereby all men may be assured what we are willing and ready to acquiesce in and their jealousies satisfied or mouths stopt who are apt to think or say we have no bottom 2. That with all expedition which the immediate and pressing great affairs will admit it may receive your most mature Consideration and Resolutions upon it not that we desire either the whole or what you shall like in it should be by your Authority imposed as a Law upon the Kingdom for so it would lose the intended nature of An Agreement of the People but that so far as it concurs with your own judgments it may receive Your Seal of Approbation only 3. That according to the method propounded therein it may be tendred to the People in all parts to be subscribed by those that are willing as Petitions and other things of a voluntary nature are and that meanwhile the ascertaining of those circumstances which it refers to Commissioners in the several Counties may be proceeded upon in a way preparatory to the practise of it And if upon the Account of subscriptions to be returned by those Commissioners in April next there appear to be a general or common Reception of it amongst the People or by the well affected of them