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 take the bet care we can for the future to avoid both the danger of returning into a lavih condition, and the chargeable remedy of another War: For as it cannot be imagined that o many of our Countrymen would have oppoed us in this quarrel, if they had undertood their own good, o may we afely promie to our elves, that when our common Rights and Liberties hall be cleared, their endevors will be diappointed, that eek to make themelves our Maters: Since therefore our former oppreions, and not yet ended troubles have been occaioned, either by want of frequent national meetings in Councel, or by the undue or unequal contitution thereof, or by rendring thoe meetings ineffectual; we are fully agreed and reolved to provide, that hereafter our Repreentatives be neither left for uncertainty for time, nor be unequally contituted, nor made ueles to the end for which they are intended.

1. That to prevent the many inconveniences apparently ariing from the long continuance of the ame perons in authority, this preent Parliament be diolved upon or before the lat day of April, in the year of our Lord 1649.

2. That the people of England being at this day very unequally ditributed, by Counties, Cities, or Burroughs, for the election of their Repreentatives, be more indifferently proportioned, and to this end; That the Repreentative of the whole Nation, hall conit of 300 Perons; and in each County, and the places thereto ubjoyned, there hall be choen to make up the aid Repreentative at all times, the everal numbers hereunder mentioned.