Extract from An Agreement of the People, 1647. Part 1

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Therefore these things in the Agreement, the people are to claime as their native right, and price of their blood, which you are obliged absolutely to procure for them.

And these being the foundations of freedom, its necessary that they should bee settled unalterably, which can be by no means, but this Agreement with the people.

And we cannot by mind you, that the ease of the people in all their Grievances depends upon the Setling those principles or rules of Equal Government for a free people and were but this Agreement established, doubtless all the Grievances of the Army and People would be redressed immediately, and all things propounded in your Case truly to be insisted on, would be forth with granted…