SURREY, with the Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein, except MIDDLESEX, with the Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein, except such as are hereunder named HERTFORDSHIRE, with the Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, with the Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein OXFORDSHIRE, with the Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein, except such as are hereunder named Oxford City Oxford University GLOUCESTERSHIRE, with the Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein, except Gloucester. Gloucester HEREFORDSHIRE, with the Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein, except Hereford Hereford WORCESTERSHIRE, with the Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein, except Worcester. Worcester WARWICKSHIRE, with the Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein, except Coventry Coventry. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, with the Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein, BEDFORDSHIRE, with the Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein. Cambridge Town ESSEX, with the Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein, except Colchester Colchester SUFFOLK, with the Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein, except such as are hereafter named 10 NORFOLK, with the Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein, except such as are hereunder named LINCOLNSHIRE, with the Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein, except the City of Lincoln and the Town of Boston. Lincoln Boston RUTLANDSHIRE, with the Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, with the Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein, Nottingham DERBYSHIRE, with the Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein, except Derby Derby STAFFORDSHIRE, with the City of Lichfield, the Boroughs, Towns, and SHROPSHIRE, with the Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein, except Shrewsbury CHESHIRE, with the Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein, except Chester Chester LANCASHIRE, with the Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein, except Manchester and the Parish I YORKSHIRE, with the Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein, except such as are hereafter named 3 Kingston upon Hull and the County thereof York City and the County thereof. Leeds Town and Parish. DURHAM COUNTY PALATINE, with the Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein, except Durham and Gateside Durham City. NORTHUMBERLAND, with the Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein, except such as are hereunder named Newcastle upon Tyne and the County thereof, with Gateside. Berwick. CUMBERLAND, with the Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein WALES. ANGLESEA, with the Parishes therein. BRECKNOCK, with the Boroughs and Parishes therein. T GLAMORGAN, with the Boroughs and Parishes therein. MERIONETH, with the Boroughs and Parishes therein. PEMBROKE, with the Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein 3 2 Provided, that the first or second Representative may, if they see cause, assign the remainder of the 400 representers, not hereby assigned, or so many of them as they shall see cause for, unto such counties as shall appear in this present distribution to have less than their due proportion. Provided also, that where any city or borough, to which one representer or more is assigned, shall be found in a due proportion, not competent alone to elect a representer, or the number of representers assigned thereto, it is left to future Representatives to assign such a number of parishes or villages near adjoining to such city or borough, to be joined therewith in the elections, or may make the same proportionable. Thirdly. That the people do, of course, choose themselves a Representative once in two years, and shall meet for that purpose upon the first Thursday in every second May, by eleven in the morning; and the Representatives so chosen to meet upon the second Thursday in the June following. at the usual place in Westminster, or such other place as. by the foregoing Representative, or the Council of State in the interval, shall be, from time to time, appointed and published to the people, at the least twenty days before the time of election and to continue their sessions there, or elsewhere, until the second Thursday in December following, unless they shall adjourn or dissolve themselves sooner; but not to continue longer. The election of the first Representative to be on the first Thursday in May. 1649; and that, and all future elections, to be according to the rules prescribed for the same purpose in this Agree ment, viz. 1. That the electors in every division shall be natives or denizens of England; not persons receiving alms. but such as are assessed ordinarily towards the relief of the poor; no servants to, and receiving wages from, any particular person; and in all elections, except for the Universities. they shall be men of twenty one years of age, or upwards. and housekeepers, dwelling within the division for which the election is provided, that (until the end of seven years next ensuing the time herein limited for the end of this present Parliament) no person shall be admitted to, or have any hand or voice in, such elections, who hath adhered unto or assisted the King against the Parliament in any of the late wars or insurrections; or who shall make or join in, or abet, any forcible opposition against this Agreement. 2. That such persons, and such only, may be elected to be of the Representative, who, by the rule aforesaid, are to have voice in elections in one place or other. Provided, that of those none shall be eligible for the first or second Representative, who have not voluntarily assisted the Parliament against the King, either in person before the 14th of June, 1645, or else in money, plate, horse, or arms, lent upon the Propositions, before the end of May, 1643; or who have joined in, or abetted, the treasonable engagement in London, in 1647; or who declared or engaged themselves for a cessation of arms with the Scots that invaded this nation the last summer; or for compliance with the actors in any insurrections of the same summer; or with the Prince of Wales, or his accomplices, in the revolted fleet. Provided also, that such persons as, by the rules in the preceding Article, are not capable of electing until the end of seven years, shall not be capable to be elected until the end of fourteen years next ensuing. And we desire and recommend it to all men, that, in all times, the persons to be chosen for this great trust may be men of courage, fearing God and hating covetousness; and that our Representatives would make the best provisions for that end. 3. That whoever, by the rules in the two preceding Articles, are incapable of electing, or to be elected, shall presume to vote in, or be present at, such election for the first or second Representative; or, being elected, shall presume to sit or vote in either of the said Representatives, shall incur the pain of confiscation of the moiety of his estate, to the use of the public, in case he have any visible estate to the value of £50, and if he has not such an estate, then shall incur the pain of imprisonment for three months. And if any person shall forcibly oppose, molest or hinder the people, capable of electing as aforesaid, in their quiet and free election of representers, for the first Representative, then each person so offending shall incur the penalty of confiscation of his whole estate, both real and personal; and, if he has not an estate to the value of £50, shall suffer imprisonment during one whole year without bail or mainprize. Provided, that the offender in each such case be convicted within three months next after the committing of his offence, and the first Representative is to make further provision for the avoiding of these evils in future elections. 4. That to the end all officers of state may be certainly accountable, and no faction made to maintain corrupt interests, no member of a Council of State, nor any officer of any salary-forces in army or garrison, nor any treasurer or receiver of public money, 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 into any Representative or Council of State, then he shall be incapable of practice as a lawyer during that trust. 5. For the more convenient election of Representatives, each county, wherein more than three representers are to be chosen, with the town corporate and cities, if there be any, lying within the compass thereof, to which no representers 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 representers. For the setting forth of which divisions, and the ascertaining of other circumstances hereafter expressed, so as to make the elections less subject to confusion or mistake, in order to the next Representative, Thomas Lord Grey of Groby, Sir John Danvers, Sir Henry Holcroft, knights; Moses Wall, gentleman; Samuel Moyer, John Langley, Wm. Hawkins, Abraham Babington, Daniel Taylor, Mark Hilsley, Rd. 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 seals, three or more fit persons in each county, and in each city and borough, to which one representer or more is assigned, to be as Commissioners for the ends aforesaid, in the respective counties, cities and boroughs; and, by like writing under their hands and seals, shall certify into the Parliament Records, before the 11th of February next, the names of the Commissioners so appointed for the respective counties, cities and boroughs, which Commissioners, or any three or more of them, for the respective counties, cities and boroughs, shall before the end of February next, by writing under their hands and seals, appoint two fit and faithful persons, or more, in each hundred, lathe 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 employed for that purpose in every |