Extract from An Agreement of the People, 1647. Part 2

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That the people of England being at this day very unequally distributed by Counties, Cities, and Buroughs, for the election of their Deputies in Parliament, ought to be more indifferently (fairly) proportioned (divided), according to the number of the Inhabitants; the circumstances whereof, the number, place, and manner, are to be set downe before the end of this present Parliament.

That to prevent the many inconveniences apparently arising, from the long continuance of the same