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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	nation_n	people_n	see_v	1,556	5	3.4909	3	false

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

certain ending of this Parliament as in the first Article The equall or proportionable distribution of the number of the Representators to be elected as in the second The certainty of the peoples meeting to elect for Representatives Bienniall and their freedome in Elections with the certainty of meeting sitting and ending of Representatives so elected which are provided for in the third Article as also the Qualifications of Persons to elect or be elected as in the first and second particulars under the third Article Also the certainty of a number for passing a Law or preparatory debates provided for in the fourth Article The matter of the fifth Article concerning the Councel of State and the sixth concerning the calling sitting and ending of Representatives extraordinary Also the power of Representatives to be as in the eighth Article and limitted as in the six reserves next following the same Likewise the second and third particulars under the ninth Article concerning Religion and the whole matter of the tenth Article All those we doe account and declare to be Fundamentall to our common Right Liberty and Safety And therefore doe both agree thereunto and resolve to maintain the same as God shall enable us The rest of the matters in this Agreement wee account to be usefull and good for the Publike and the particular circumstances of Numbers Times and Places expressed in the severall Articles we account not Fundamentall but we finde them necessary to be here determined for the making the Agreement certain and practicable and do hold those most convenient that are here set down and therefore do positively agree thereunto A Declaration of the Generall Councell of Officers of the Army Concerning the Agreement by them framed in order to peace and from them tendred to the People of England HAVING ever since the end of the first War longingly waited for some such settlement of the Peace and Government of this Nation whereby the Common Rights Liberties and safety thereof might in future be more hopefully provided for and therein something gained which might be accounted to the present age and posterity through the mercy of God as a fruit of their labours hazards and sufferings that have engaged in the common cause as some price of the bloud spilt and ballance to the publique expence and damage sustained in the War and as some due improvement of that successe and blessing God hath pleased to give therein And having not found any such Establishment assayed or endeavoured by those whose proper worke it was but the many addresses and desires of our selves and others in that behalfe rejected discountēnanced and opposed and onely a corrupt closure endeavoured with the King on tearmes serving onely to his interest and theirs that promoted the same And being thereupon for the avoidance of the evil thereof and to make way for some better settlement necessitated to take extraordinary wayes of remedy when the ordinary were denied Now to exhibit our utmost endeavors for such a settlement whereupon we and other Forces with which the Kingdome hath so long beene burthened above measure and whose continuance shall not be necessary for the immediate safety and quiet thereof may with comfort to our selves and honesty towards the publique disband and returne to our homes and callings and to the end mens jealousies and feares may be removed concerning any intentions in us to hold up our selves in power to oppresse or domineer over the people by the sword And that all men may fully understand those grounds of Peace and Government whereupon they may rest assured We shall for our parts acquiesce We have spent much time to prepare and have at last through the blessing of God finished a Draught of such a settlement in the nature of an Agreement of the People for Peace amongst themselves Which we have lately presented to the Honourable the Commons now assembled in Parliament and doe herewith tender to the people of this Nation We shal not otherwise commend it then to say It contains the best and most hopefull Foundations for the Peace future wel Government of this Nation that we can devise or think on within the line of humane power and such wherin all the people interessed in this Land that have not particular interests of advantage power over others divided from that which is common and publique are indifferently and equally provided for save where any have justly forfeited their share in that common interest by opposing it and so rendred themselves incapable thereof at least for some time And we call the Consciences of all that reade or hear it to witnesse whether wee have therein provided or propounded any thing of advantage to our selves in any capacity above others or ought but what is as good for one as for another And therefore as we doubt not but that the Parliament being now freed from the obstructing and perverting Councels of such Members by many of whom a corrupt compliance with the Kings Interest hath beene driven on and all settlement otherwise hath hitherto beene hindred Those remaining worthy Patriots to whom we have presented the Agreement will for the maine allow thereof and give their seale of Approbation thereby So we desire and hope That all good People of England whose heart God shall make sensible of their and our common concernment therein and of the usefulnesse and sutablenesse thereof to the publique ends it holds forth will cordially embrace it and by subscription declare their concurrence and accord thereto when it shall be tendred to them as is directed therein wherein if it please God wee shall finde a good Reception of it with the people of the Nation or the Well-affected therein We shall rejoyce at the hoped good to the Common-wealth which through Gods mercy may redound therefrom and that God hath vouchsafed thereby to make us instrumentall for any good settlement to this poor distracted Country as he hath formerly made us for the avoiding of evill But if God shall in his Righteous Judgement towards this Land suffer the people to be so blinded as not to see their own common good and freedome endeavoured to be provided for therein or any to be so deluded to their own and the publique prejudice as to make opposition thereto whereby the effect of it be hindred we have yet by the preparation and tender of it discharged our Consciences to God and duty to our native Country in our utmost endeavours for a settlement to the best of our understandings unto a just publique interest And hope we shall be acquitted before God and good men from the blame of any further troubles distractions or miseries to the Kingdom which may arise through the neglect or rejection thereof or opposition thereto Now whereas there are many good things in particular ters which our own Reasons observations or the Petitions of others have suggested and which we hold requisite to be provided for in their proper time and way as the