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A82810	The humble petition and advice, presented unto His Highness the Lord Protector by the knights, citizens and burgesses assembled at the Parliament begun and held at Westminster the 17th day of September 1656. and there continued until the 26th day of Iune following, and then adjourned unto the 20th day of Ianuary 1657. As also, their humble additional and explanatory petition and advice, presented unto His Highness in the same Parliament; together with His Highness consent unto the said petitions when they were respectively presented.	England and Wales. Parliament.; England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell)	1657 (1657)	Wing E1566; Thomason E1065_18; Thomason E1065_18*; ESTC R7605	3,769	11

TO HIS HIGHNESS THE LORD PROTECTOR OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging The Humble Additional and Explanatory PETITION and Advice of the Knights Citizens and Burgesses now assembled in the PARLIAMENT of this COMMON-VVEALTH LONDON Printed by Henry Hills and John Field Printers to His Highness 1657. TO HIS HIGHNESS THE LORD PROTECTOR OF THE Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging The Humble Additional and Explanatory Petition and Advice of the Knights Citizens and Burgesses now Assembled in the Parliament of this Commonwealth WHereas upon the humble Petition and Advice of the said Knights Citizens Burgesses now Assembled in the Parliament of this Commonwealth lately Presented and Consented unto by your Highness Certain Doubts and Questions have risen concerning some particulars therein comprised for explanation whereof May it please your Highness to declare and consent unto the Additions and Explanations hereafter mentioned and may it be Declared with your Highness Consent In the fourth Article That such person and persons as invaded England under Duke Hamilton in the year 1648. Or Advised Consented Assisted or voluntarily contributed unto that war And were for that cause debarred from publick Trust by the Parliament of Scotland be uncapable to Elect or be Elected to sit and serve as Members of Parliament or in any other place of Publick trust relating unto the fourth and thirteenth Articles in the Petition and Advice excepting such as since have born Armes for your Highness or the Parliament or have been admitted to sit and serve in the Parliament of this Commonwealth and are of good life and Conversation or such as shall hereafter be declared by your Highness with the Advice of your Council to have given some signal testimony of their good affection continuance in the same That the Proviso in the said fourth Article be explained thus viz. That such English and Scotish Protestants who since the defection of the Earl of Ormond and the Lord Inchiquin and before the first day of March 1649. have born Arms for and ever since continued faithfull to the Parliament or your Highness or have otherwise before the said first day of March 1649. given signal testimony of their good affection to this Commonwealth and have ever since continued faithfull to the same shall not be debarred or deemed uncapable of Electing or being Elected to serve in Parliament And whereas in the said fourth Article Publique Ministers or Publique Preachers of the Gospel are disabled to be Elected to serve in Parliament It is hereby explained and declared to extend to such Ministers and Preachers only as have Maintenance for Preaching or are Pastors or Teachers of Congregations In the said fourth Article That in stead of Commissioners to be appointed by Act of Parliament to examine and try whether the Members to be Elected for the House of Commons in future Parliaments be capable to sit according to the Qualifications mentioned in the said Petition and Advice there shall be the Penalty and Fine of One thousand pounds laid and inflicted upon every such unqualified Member being so adjudged by the said House of Commons and imprisonment of his Person until payment thereof And that the ensuing Clauses in the said Article viz. We desire that it may by your Highness Consent be Ordained That forty and one Commissioners be appointed by Act of Parliament who or five or more of them shall be Authorized to examine and try whether the Members to be Elected for the House of Commons in future Parliaments be Capable to sit according to the qualifications mentioned in this Petition and Advice and in case they finde them not qualified accordingly then to suspend them from sitting until the House of Commons shall upon hearing their particular Cases admit them to sit which Commissioners are to stand so Authorized for that end until the House of Commons in any future Parliament shall nominate the like number of other Commissioners in their places And those other Commissioners so to be nominated in any future Parliaments to have the same Power and Authority That the said Commissioners shall Certifie in writing to the House of Commons on the first day of their meeting the cause and grounds of their suspensions of any person so to be Elected as aforesaid That the Accusation shall be upon Oath of the Informant or of some other person That a Copy of the accusation shall be left by the party accusing in writing under his hand with the party accused or in his absence at his house in the Country City or Town for which he shall be Chosen if he have any such House or if not with the Sheriff of the County if he be chosen for a County or with the chief Magistrate of the City or Burrough for which he is chosen shall not be put in Execution or made use of but shall be void frustrate Null and of none effect and shall be so construed and taken to all intents and purposes whatsoever any thing contained in the said Petition and Advice to the contrary notwithstanding In the fifth Article That the Nomination of the persons to supply the place of such Members of the other House as shall die or be removed shall be by your Highnesse and your Successors In the seventh Article That the moneys directed to be for the supply of the Sea and Land Forces be issued by Advice of the Council And that the Treasurers or Commissioners of the Treasury shall give an Account of all the said money to every Parliament That the Officers of State and Iudges in the Ninth Article of the said Petition and Advice mentioned shall be chosen in the Intervals of Parliament by the Consent of the Council to be afterwards approved by Parliament That your Highness will be pleased according to the usage of former Chief Magistrates in these Nations and for the better satisfaction of the People thereof to take an Oath in the form ensuing I do in the presence and by the Name of God Almighty promise and swear That to the uttermost of my power I will uphold and maintain the true Reformed Protestant Christian Religion in the purity thereof as it is contained in the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to the uttermost of my power and understanding and incourage the profession and professours of the same and that to the utmost of my power I will Endeavour as chief Magistrate of these three Nations the Maintenance and Preservation of the Peace and safety and of the just Rights and Priviledges of the people thereof And shall in all things according to my best knowledge and power govern the people of these Nations according to Law That your Highness Successors do before they take upon them the Government of these Nations take an Oath in the form aforesaid That all such persons who now are or shall hereafter be of the Privy Council of your

Highness or Successors before they or either of them do act as Councellors shall respectively take an Oath before persons to be authorized by your Highness and Successors for that purpose in the form following I. A. B. Do in the presence and by the Name of God Almighty promise and swear That to the uttermost of my power in my place I will uphold and maintain the true Reformed Protestant Christian Religion in the purity thereof as it is contayned in the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament and encourage the profession and professors of the same And that I will be true and faithfull to His Highness the Lord Protector of the Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereto belonging as Chief Magistrate thereof And shall not contrive design or attempt any thing against the person or lawfull authority of his said Highness and shall keep secret all matters that shall be treated of in Councel and put under secrecy and not reveal them but by Command or consent of His Highness the Parliament or the Councel and shall in all things faithfully perform the trust Committed to me as a Councellor according to the best of my understanding in order to the good Government peace and welfare of these Nations That the same Oath be taken by the members of your Highness Councel of Scotland and Ireland That every person who now is or hereafter shall be a Member of either house of Parliament before he sit in Parliament shall from and after the first day of July 1657. take an Oath before persons to be Authorized and appointed by your Highness and Successors for that purpose in the form following I. A. B. do in the presence and by the name of God Almighty promise and swear that to the uttermost of my power in my place I will uphold and maintain the true Reformed Protestant Christian Religion in the purity thereof as it is contained in the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament encourage the profession and professors of the same and that I will be true and faithfull to the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging as Chief Magistrate thereof And shall not Contrive Design or Attempt any thing against the Person or lawfull Authority of the Lord Protector and shall endeavour as much as in me lies as a Member of Parliament the preservation of the Rights and Liberties of the People That your Highness would be pleased in convenient time before the next meeting of this Parliament to cause several summons in due form of Law to be issued forth to such persons as your Highness shall think fit being qualified according to the Humble Petition and Advise of the Parliament whereto your Highness hath consented to sit and serve as Members in the other house of Parliament by which summons the said persons shall be respectively commanded to be and personally to appear at a certain place and time to be appointed by your Highness to give their Advice and Assistance and to do such things concerning the Great and Weighty Affairs of this Commonwealth as to the other House of Parliament doth appertain by the said Humble Petition and Advice That the Persons so summoned and Assembled together shall be and are hereby declared to be the other house of Parliament and shall and may without further Approbation of this House from such time of their Meeting proceed to do and perform all such matters and things as the other House of Parliament ought to do and perform and shall and may have and exercise all such Priviledges Powers and Authorities as the other House of Parliament ought by the aforesaid Humble Petition and Advise to have and Exercise the said Humble Petition and Advise or any thing therein contained to the contrary thereof notwithstanding Which Petition being presented the 26. day of Iune 1●57 His Highness answer thereunto was read by the Clerk of the Parliament in these words The Lord Protector doth consent