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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

and such as are not obnoxious for Delinquency it may then take place and effect according to the Tenor and Substance of it And Your Petitioners shall pray c. WHITEHALL Jan. 15. 1649. By the Appointment of his Excellency and the general Councel of Officers of the Army Jo RUSHVVORTH Secr ' AN AGREEMENT OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND And the places therewith INCORPORATED For a secure and present Peace upon Grounds of Common Right Freedom and Safety HAving by our late labors and hazards made it appear to the world at how high a rate we value our Just Freedom And God having so far owned our cause as to deliver the Enemies thereof into our hands We do now hold our selves bound in mutuall duty to each other to take the best care we can for the future to avoyd both the danger of returning into a slavish condition and the chargeable remedy of another War For as it cannot be imagined That so many of our Country men would have opposed us in this Quarrell if they had understood their own good so may we hopefully promise to our selves That when our Common Right and Liberties shall be cleared their endeavors will be disappointed that seek to make themselves our Masters since therefore our former oppressions and not yet ended troubles have been occasioned either by want of frequent National Meetings in Councel or by the undue or unequal Constitution thereof or by rendering those meetings ●neffectual We are fully agreed and resolved God willing to provide That hereafter our Representatives be neither left to an uncertainty for time nor be unequally constituted nor made useless to the ends for which they are intended In Order whereunto We Declare and Agree 1. That to prevent the many inconveniencies apparently arising from the long continuance of the same persons in supream Authority this Present Parliament end and disolve upon or before the last day of April in the year of our Lord 1649. 2. That the People of England being at this day very unequally distributed by Counties Cities and Burroughs for the Election of their Representatives be indifferently proportioned And to this end That the Representative of the whole Nation shall consist of four hundred persons or not above and in each County and the places thereto subjoyned there shall be chosen to make up the said Representative at all times the several numbers here mentioned VIZ. In the County of Kent with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except such as are hereunder particularly named ten 10 The City of Canterbury with the Suburbs adjoyning and Liberties thereof two 2 The City of Rochester with the Parishes of Chatham and Strowd one 1 The Cinque Ports in Kent and Sussex viz. Dover Rumney Hyde Sandwich Hastings with the townes of Rye and Winchelsey three 3 The County of Sussex with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except Chichester and the Cinque Ports eight 8 The City of Chichester with the Suburbs and Liberties thereof one 1 The County of Southampton with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except such as are hereunder named eight 8 The City of Winchester with the Suburbs and Liberties thereof one 1 The County of the town of Southampton one 1 The County of Dorset with the Burroughs Townes and Parishes therein except Dorchester seven 7 The Town of Dorchester one 1 The County of Devon with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except such as are hereunder particularly named twelve 12 The City of Excester two 2 The Town of Plymonth two 2 The Town of Barnstaple one 1 The County of Cornwall with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein eight 8 The County of Somerset with the Burroughs Townes and Parishes therein except such as are hereunder named eight 8 The City of Bristoll three 3 The Towne of Taunton-Deane one 1 The County of Wilts with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except Salisbury seven 7 The City of Salisbury one 1 The County of Berks with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except Reading five 5 The Town of Reading one 1 The County of Surrey with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except Southwarke five 5 The Burrough of Southwarke two 2 The County of Middlesex with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except such as are hereunder named four 4 The City of London eight 8 The City of VVestminster and the Dutchy two 2 The County of Hartford with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein six 6 The County of Buckingham with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein six 6 The County of Oxon with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except such as are here under-named four 4 The City of Oxon two 2 The University of Oxon two 2 The County of Glocester with the Burroughs towns and Parishes therein except Glocester seven 7 The City of Glocester two 2 The County of Hereford with the Burroughs towns and Parishes therin except Hereford four 4 The Citie of Hereford one 1 The County of Worcester with the Burroughs towns and Parishes therein except Worcester foure 4 The City of Worcester two 2 The County of Warwicke with the Burroughs townes and Parishes therein except Coventrey five 5 The City of Coventrey two 2 The County of Northampton with the Burroughs towns and Parishes therein except Northampton five 5 The Town of Northampton one 1 The County of Bedford with the Burroughs townes and Parishes therein foure 4 The County of Cambridge with the Burroughs towns and Parishes therein except such as are here under particularly named foure 4 The University of Cambridge two 2 The Town of Cambridge two 2 The County of Essex with the Burroughs towns and Parishes therein except Colchester eleven 11 The Town of Colchester two 2 The County of Suffolk with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except such as are hereunder named ten 10 The Town of Ipswich two 2 The Town of S. Edmonds Bury one 1 The County of Norfolk with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except such as are hereunder named nine 9 The City of Norwich three 3 The Town of Lynne one 1 The Town of Yarmouth one 1 The County of Lincoln with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except the City of Lincoln and the town of Boston eleven 11 The City of Lincoln one 1 The Town of Boston one 1 The County of Rutland with the Burroughs Townes and Parishes therein one 1 The County of Huntington with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein three 3 The County of Leicester with the Burroughs Townes and Parishes therein except Leicester five 5 The Town of Leicester one 1 The County of Nottingham with the Burroughs Towns and Parishes therein except Nottingham foure 4 The Town of Nottingham one 1 The County of Derby with the Burroughs Townes and Parishes therein except Derby five 5 The Town of Derby one 1 The County of Stafford with the City of Lichfield the Burroughs towne and Parishes therein six 6 The County of Salop with the Burroughs towns and Parishes therein except Shrewsbury six 6 The

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