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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>Some Propo&s;als by a well wi&s;her to His Highnes and the Parliament.</HEAD>
<P>_THat care be taken for the advancement of the Go&s;pel, and that a way be found out for the maintenance of &s;uch as are the faithfull Di&s;pencers thereof.</P>
<P N="2">2. As an expedient thereunto, that it be con&s;idered how many little Congregations there be, have maintenance, would &s;erve three or foure; many large ones having &s;carcely any at all.</P>
<P N="3">3. That, till certain Maintenance be &s;etled, authority be given, to a&s;&s;e&s;&s;e Maintenance upon the Inhabitants.</P>
<P N="4">4. That Church-Di&s;cipline be taken into con&s;ideration, and that all &s;uch Mini&s;ters as are godly and Orthodox, care be taken for their reconciliation, in that difference of Di&s;cipline; they not at|tempting to introduce that late Lordly power, by Bi&s;hops and Prelates.</P>
<P N="5">5. That the Statute, for the &s;etting &s;uch Poor on work as are able, and relieving the importent, may be per|u&s;ed and amended, if need be; and further incouragement given for Ju&s;tices of Peace, Con&s;tables, and other in feriour Officers, to act vigorou&s;ly in the &s;ame.</P>
<P N="6">6. That the la&s;t Act for the Sabbath be peru&s;ed, being defective, as is humbly conceived, there being no power to levy penalties, as in former Acts.</P>
<P>As al&s;o, to that clau&s;e again&s;t Fulling-Mills, the penalty being but 10 &s;hillings; and the mills &s;ometimes con&s;i&s;ting of 10 or 11 Stocks, being every Stock will earn 5 &s;hillings upon the Lords Day, it will therefore be nece&s;&s;ary, as to the reforming of that vice, that every Stock within the re&s;pective Mills, pay 10 &s;hillings from the Miller, and 10 &s;hillings from the Owner of the Cloth, in the &s;aid Stock; and &s;o proceed in the penalty, as the parties goe on in offending.</P>
<P N="7">7. That the Statute of <HI>James</HI> 1 &s;t. <HI>&amp;</HI> 9 th. 4 th. <HI>&amp;</HI> 5 th. be peru&s;ed and amended, if need be, again&s;t tipling by Neighbours within their Town&s;hips; and further encouragement given, for the putting the &s;ame in execution.</P>
<P N="8">8. That no per&s;on, being a Ju&s;tice of Peace, in any City, Town-corporate, or el&s;e-where, and trading in Malt, by him&s;elf or his Agent, be authori&s;ed to grant Licen&s;e to &s;ell Ale or Beer.</P>
<P N="9">9. That no Bayliff, Attorney, Coroner, Con&s;table, &amp;c. be licen&s;ed to &s;ell Ale or Beer, or keep a Tavern. And that al&s;o, not any per&s;on being a Trade&s;man, and keeping many &s;ervants in his hou&s;e.</P>
<P N="10">10. That it be con&s;idered, whether Watch and Ward be not as nece&s;&s;ary, if not more, in Winter, as in Summer.</P>
<P N="11">11. That the great inconvenience by Certioraries, be al&s;o con&s;idered; by rea&s;on whereof, many gro&s;&s;e offen|ces in the Country pa&s;&s;e unpuni&s;hed.</P>
<P N="12">12. That payment of mony, freely lent for the publick good, be taken into con&s;ideration, and &s;peedy cour&s;e taken therein.</P>
<P>And as an expedient thereunto, let it be con&s;idered, that &s;eeing there are great numbers of per&s;ons, who have aided and a&s;&s;i&s;ted the King's party; and &s;ince the beginning of the&s;e Wars, have thereby procured unto them&s;elves great E&s;tates, by buying of plundred goods, and otherwi&s;e, in the late troubles, whether or no it were not rea&s;onable, a collection of the names of &s;uch per&s;ons were procured, and the &s;aid mony a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed up|on them, they being the onely per&s;ons that have gained by the late troubles, and never have been &s;eque&s;tred, nor &s;uffered by the times, being alwaies upon occa&s;ion ready to &s;ide with both parties, for advantage-&s;ake. As al&s;o, any per&s;on or per&s;ons, di&s;covering any concealment, may not out of the &s;ame be relieved, for &s;uch his, or their lent-mony.</P>
<P N="13">13. That &s;ome provi&s;ion be made, that upon any difference ari&s;ing among&s;t neighbours, unle&s;&s;e in ca&s;e of Titles of Land, or great &s;ums of Mony, before any &s;uit be commenced, the party complaining, have power to con|vent the Defendant before the next Ju&s;tice of Peace, or &s;ome others, authori&s;ed thereto, who &s;hall have power to hear and end the difference, if he can; and that any Suit commenced, contrary to that rule, &s;hall be void in Law.</P>
<P N="14">14. That the Statutes for Clothing be peru&s;ed, and provi&s;ion made again&s;t the deceirs, now too frequent, in that particular.</P>
<P N="15">15. That the &s;aid complaints of Country-people, as to the hard u&s;age they meet with, from &s;uch as collect the exci&s;e be con&s;idered, it being conceived, that the charges of collecting of it, which the Country bears, is as much as comes to the Common-wealth. And therefore it is propo&s;ed, that what any Lea&s;er hath paid for three or four of the la&s;t years, may be charged upon the per&s;ons, lyable to pay the &s;ame; and &s;ome way found out to collect the &s;ame, without &s;uch exce&s;&s;ive charges, as other publick mony is.</P>
<P N="16">16. That &s;uch as in the late Wars, have aided and a&s;&s;i&s;ted the late King, and have forced per&s;ons, by fineing them to &s;erve as Con&s;tables, &amp;c. again&s;t their minds, may not now be &s;uffered to make choice of &s;uch like Officers; and in ca&s;e they will not de&s;i&s;t, a way to proceed again&s;t them. And al&s;o that all proceedings by &s;uch|in other their re&s;pective places, either by them&s;elves, or joyntly with others, may be void in Law.</P>
<P N="17">17. That unnece&s;&s;ary and exce&s;&s;ive fea&s;tings, in Cities and Towns corporate, be prevented; it having been very ob&s;ervable, how many per&s;ons of good E&s;tates have been weakened thereby; it al&s;o being a hinderance to other hone&s;t men, for taking upon them places of tru&s;t.</P>
<P N="18">18. Wants authority for the regulating of Pewes and Galleries, in &s;everall great A&s;&s;emblies, they being po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed by the younger &s;ort, to the prejudice of the aged, and &s;uch as hears the charge thereof; e&s;pecially in Cities and great Corporations.</P>
<P N="19">19. That the di&s;continuance of the late Act of Parliament, for the repairing of high waies by A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ments, be taken into further con&s;ideration, it having been found by experience to be very effectually, in &s;everall places of this Nation.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>M. J.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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