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<P>A SHORT
Supply or Amendment
TO THE
PROPOSITIONS
FOR THE
New Repre&s;entative,
FOR THE
Perpetual Peace and Quiet of this
Nation, and other parts (which be or &s;hall be
incorporated with the &s;ame) in the Enjoy|ment
of their ju&s;t Rights and Liberties.</P>
<P>Which were lately publi&s;hed by WILL: LEACH
of the middle Temple, Gent.</P>
<P>AND
Now publi&s;hed at the reque&s;t of divers well-affected
and eminent Chri&s;tians of the Con|gregated
Churches of this Nation.</P>
<P>Written and Propo&s;ed by EDMUND LEACH
of <HI>New England,</HI> Merchant.</P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>John Macock,</HI> and are to be &s;old by <HI>Lodowick
Lloyd</HI> in Popes-head Alley neer <HI>Lumbard-&s;treet.</HI> 1651.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="part">
<PB REF="2">
<PB N="3" REF="2">
<HEAD>A
Short Supply or Amendment
TO THE
PROPOSITIONS
FOR THE
New Repre&s;entative.</HEAD>
<P>FOr as much as the Members of this pre|&s;ent
Parliament of England have un|dergone
great danger of their lives and
E&s;tates, and many of them taken exce&s;&s;ive
pains and care, and divers of their Fellow-Members
lo&s;t their lives for the Pre&s;ervation
of the hone&s;t People of this Nation from utter
ruine and de&s;truction, and gaining their ju&s;t
Rights and Liberties, and &s;etling the People
of this Nation in a Government of a Repub|lique,
for the enjoyment of the &s;ame for ever,
for the quiet not only of tho&s;e who may fear,
but which &s;hall hope of much more blood|&s;hed,
<PB N="4" REF="3">
Combu&s;tions, or Alterations, but that
all parties may acquie&s;ce in this peaceable Go|vernment
in all future times, without doubting,
or expectance of any other by any Monarch
what&s;oever; but that all Tyranny &s;hall be for
ever hereafter turned and kept out of doors, and
that all parties may prai&s;e our great God for
this our Miraculous Deliverance from Tyran|ny
and Oppre&s;&s;ion, and pray for the pro&s;perity
of tho&s;e by whom he out of his good will and
plea&s;ure hath wrought this our great and won|derful
Freedom.</P>
<P>And for that, upon or by a New Repre&s;enta|tive,
if the mo&s;t ju&s;t Members (which have
brought to pa&s;s this mo&s;t peaceable Go|vernment,
which is mo&s;t ea&s;ie to be con|tinued,
for the keeping of the People from
Tyranny &amp; Oppre&s;&s;ion) &s;hould be neglected,
(though &s;ome of the Plebeans may think ami&s;s
of divers of them for concealing &s;everal things
from them, which they have thought to be for
their weal, the &s;udden revealing of which
might have been to their woe) danger might
happen.</P>
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<PB N="5" REF="3">
<HEAD>For Remedy in this behalf, the&s;e Pro|po&s;itions
following be propo&s;ed and
tendered, to the &s;ame Con&s;ideration
and intent as the &s;aid recited Pro|po&s;itions
are.</HEAD>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="proposition">
<HEAD>I.</HEAD>
<P>THat every Member of this pre&s;ent Par|liament,
now &s;itting or acting for the
benefit and &s;upport of this Common-wealth
of England (other then &s;uch who by this
pre&s;ent Parliament &s;hall not be thought fit to
continue without a new Election) may &s;it, vote
and act for and in the next Parliament or
Repre&s;entative.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="proposition">
<HEAD>II.</HEAD>
<P>And that (for every County, City, Bur|rough,
Town Corporate, or other place, ha|ving,
or which &s;hall have, Power or Authority
of electing Members of Parliament or Repre|&s;enters,
and no Member or Repre&s;enter being
now &s;o &s;itting, or in action for the &s;ame)
this now pre&s;ent Parliament may &s;end to the
<PB N="6" REF="4">
Sheriffs, Bayliffs, Barons, or other head Officers
of the &s;ame re&s;pectively, the names of four
per&s;ons for every &s;uch place which have pow|er
&s;o to elect or choo&s;e two &s;uch Members or
Repre&s;enters.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="proposition">
<HEAD>III.</HEAD>
<P>And that every &s;uch Sheriff and Officer be|fore
mentioned re&s;pectively &s;hall or may pub|li&s;h
the &s;ame openly in his County, or other
&s;uch place, whereof &s;uch re&s;pective Sheriff, or
other &s;uch Officer, be or &s;hall be chief head
officer or officers.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="proposition">
<HEAD>IV.</HEAD>
<P>And that the Inhabitants of every &s;uch
County, City, Burrough, or other place before
mentioned, &s;hall or may &s;o write or print one
of &s;uch four for one, and that he with another
of &s;uch Member or Repre&s;enter as &s;uch Inha|bitants
&s;hall in like manner choo&s;e, write or
print, as is mentioned in the Propo&s;itions be|fore
recited, &s;hall and may be Members of the
next Parliament or Repre&s;entative.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="5" TYPE="proposition">
<HEAD>V.</HEAD>
<P>And that &s;ome of the chief Commanders
of this pre&s;ent Army of this Nation may no|minate
<PB N="7" REF="4">
eight &s;uch per&s;ons by the Parliament,
&s;o to be &s;ent, out of which the &s;ame may &s;o
&s;end the names of the before mentioned four
per&s;ons.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="6" TYPE="proposition">
<HEAD>VI.</HEAD>
<P>And that according to the &s;ame number and
proportion for every re&s;pective County, City,
or other place before mentioned (which have
or &s;hall have power or authority to elect or
choo&s;e more or le&s;s for &s;uch Members or Re|pre&s;enters)
the &s;ame cour&s;e may be taken, as
before is mentioned.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="7" TYPE="proposition">
<HEAD>VII.</HEAD>
<P>And that in all Parliaments or Repre&s;enta|tives
hereafter, the fourth or fifth part, or &s;ome
other number by this Parliament to be thought
convenient, &s;hall and may remain and conti|nue
as Members or Repre&s;enters for the then
next Parliament or Repre&s;entative, unle&s;s they
be or &s;hall be voted out by any Parliament or
Repre&s;entative &s;itting, or to be &s;itting, and that
then the Inhabitants of &s;uch place for which
they were or &s;hall be cho&s;en, may (as is men|tioned
in the &s;aid recited Propo&s;als) new elect
and choo&s;e, and &s;end in &s;uch manner and
<PB N="8" REF="5">
form as is mentioned in tho&s;e Propo&s;i|tions.</P>
<P>In the Propo&s;itions before recited, in pag. 6.
l. 9. is the word [<HI>after</HI>] where the word [<HI>before</HI>]
&s;hould be; and in pag 10. li. 30. is omitted
the word [<HI>not,</HI>] and in pag. 13. li. 14. is al&s;o
omitted the word [<HI>be,</HI>] and divers other litte|ral
faults, which is ea&s;ily imagined what they
&s;hould be; all which are the neglect of the
Printer, and therefore its not nece&s;&s;ary to write
further again&s;t or concerning the &s;ame.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Edmund Leach.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>The&s;e pre&s;ent <HI>Propo&s;als</HI> are to be &s;old by <HI>Lodowick Lloyd,</HI> and
the before-recited <HI>Propo&s;als</HI> by him, <HI>William Lee, Lawrence
Blaiklock,</HI> and <HI>Gabriel Bedel</HI> in Fleet-&s;treet, and <HI>Lawrence
Chapman</HI> near the Savoy.</P>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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