Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 -- Sources; Great Britain -- History -- Early Stuarts, 1603-1649 -- Sources
VI. That the laws shall not be altered, suspended, abrogated, or
repealed, nor any new law made, nor any tax, charge, or imposition
laid upon the people, but by common consent in Parliament, save only
as is expressed in the thirtieth article.
VII. That there shall be a Parliament summoned to meet at Westminster
upon the third day of September, 1654, and that successively a
Parliament shall be summoned once in every third year, to be
accounted from the dissolution of the present Parliament.
VIII. That neither the Parliament to be next summoned, nor any
successive Parliaments, shall, during the time of five months, to
be accounted from the day of their first meeting, be adjourned,
prorogued, or dissolved, without their own consent.
IX. That as well the next as all other successive Parliaments shall
be summoned and elected in manner hereafter expressed; that is to
say, the persons to be chosen within England, Wales, the Isles of
Jersey, Guernsey, and the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, to sit and
serve in Parliament, shall be, and not exceed, the number of four
hundred. The persons to be chosen within Scotland, to sit and serve
in Parliament, shall be, and not exceed, the number of thirty; and
the persons to be chosen to sit in Parliament for Ireland shall be,
and not exceed, the number of thirty.
[Here follows a detailed schedule of redistribution.]
XIV. That all and every person and persons, who have aided, advised,
assisted, or abetted in any war against the Parliament, since the
first day of January, 1641 (unless they have been since in the
service of the Parliament, and given signal testimony of their good
affection thereunto), shall be disabled and incapable to be elected;
or to give any vote in the election of any members to serve in the
next Parliament, or in the three succeeding Triennial Parliaments.
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XVII. That the persons who shall be elected to serve in Parliament,
shall be such (and no other than such) as are persons of known
integrity, fearing God, and of good conversation, and being of the
age of twenty-one years.
XVIII. That all and every person and persons seised or possessed to
his own use, of any estate, real or personal, to the value of £200,
and not within the aforesaid exceptions, shall be capable to elect
members to serve in Parliament for counties.
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XX. That in case writs be not issued out, as is before expressed,
but that there be a neglect therein, fifteen days after the time
wherein the same ought to be issued out by the Chancellor, Keeper,
or Commissioners of the Great Seal; that then the Parliament shall,
as often as such failure shall happen, assemble and be held at
Westminster, in the usual place, at the times prefixed.
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