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<HEAD>The Form of
WRITS
to be i&s;&s;ued forth under the Great Seal of
ENGLAND,
For the Election of <HI>Knights, Citizens,</HI> and <HI>Burge&s;&s;es</HI> to &s;it and &s;erve in the
PARLIAMENT
Which is to be holden at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> the 25. of <HI>April</HI> next
en&s;uing, 1660. as followeth,</HEAD>
<P>_THE Keepers of the Liberties of <HI>England</HI> by Authority of Parlia|ment
to the Sheriff of the County of <HI>A.</HI> greeting; Whereas
it is enacted that a Parliament &s;hall be held at <HI>We&s;tminster</HI> the
Five and twentieth day of <HI>April</HI> next en&s;uing: Therefore we
Command and firmly enjoyn you, that Proclamation being
made of the day and place afore&s;aid in your next County to be holden after
the receipt of this our Writ, you cau&s;e to be freely and indifferently cho&s;en
by them who &s;hall be pre&s;ent at &s;uch Election, Knights with their &s;words
girt, of the mo&s;t fit and di&s;creet per&s;ons for the County afore&s;aid, and of e|very
City of the &s;aid County Citizens, and of every Burrough Burge&s;&s;es, of
the mo&s;t di&s;creet and &s;ufficient according to the form of the Statues there|upon
made and provided. And the names of the &s;aid Knights, Citizens
and Burge&s;&s;es, &s;o to be cho&s;en, whether they be pre&s;ent or ab&s;ent, you doe
cau&s;e to be in&s;erted in certain Indentures thereupon to be made, between
you and them that &s;hall be pre&s;ent at &s;uch Elections, and that you
cau&s;e them to come at the day and place afore&s;aid; &s;o that the &s;aid Knights
for them&s;elves and the Commonalty of the &s;aid County, and the &s;aid Citi|zens
and Burge&s;&s;es for them&s;elves and the Commonalty of the &s;aid Cities &amp;
Burroughs afore&s;aid, &s;everally may have full and &s;ufficient power to do and
con&s;ent unto tho&s;e things, which then and there &s;hall happen to be ordai|ned
for the good and &s;afety of the Church and Commonwealth: &s;o that
for defect of &s;uch like power, or by rea&s;on of improvident choice of the
Knights, Citizens and Burge&s;&s;es afore&s;aid; the &s;aid affairs may not remain
undone in any wi&s;e. And we will that neither you nor any other Sheriff of
this Commonwealth be in any wi&s;e cho&s;en; And that the &s;aid choice in
your full County afore&s;aid &s;o made; you certifie to us in our Chancery at the
day and place afore&s;aid, di&s;tinctly and openly without delay under the &s;eal of
the County afore&s;aid: and the &s;eals of them who &s;hall be pre&s;ent at &s;uch
Election, &s;ending back to us the other part of the &s;aid Indentures to the&s;e
pre&s;ents annexed, together with this Writ: VVitne&s;&s;e <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Ordered by the Parliament that the Lord Chancellor, Lord Keeper or Lords Commi&s;&s;io|ners
of the great Seal of <HI>England</HI> for the time being, are hereby authorized and required
to cau&s;e Writs under the great Seal of <HI>England</HI> to be i&s;&s;ued forth accordingly; and this
shall be to them and every of them a &s;ufficient Warrant in that behalf.</P>
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<P>LONDON, <HI>Printed by</HI> Iohn Redmayne 1660.</P>
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