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- Parliament should be elected every two years and sit for a minimum
of 120 and a maximum of 240 days.
- Rotten boroughs should be removed and seats reallocated to
counties in proportion to their tax contributions.
- The Army and Navy were to be controlled by Parliament for the next
ten years. A Council of State is to be set up to manage all the
other militias and trained bands.
- Nobody who has been hostile to Parliament can hold public office
for five years or be e member of the next two biennial parliaments.
- The Offices of State are to be appointed by Parliament for ten
years, after which, if a vacancy needs filling, Parliament proposes
three people of which the King selects one.
- Any peers made since May 21st 1642 are to have no power unless
Parliament agrees.
- All declarations and proceedings against Parliament are to be
declared void.
- An Act is to be passed to declare void the cessation of Ireland
and Parliament is to control the continuing war.
- All power is to be stripped from Bishops.
- The Book of Common Prayer was to be allowed but not imposed, and
no penalties should be made for not going to church, or attending
other acts of worship.
- The taking of the Covenant is not be imposed on anyone and no
penalties made for refusing.
- Not more than 5 Royalists supporters are to be excepted from
pardon. Others were to have their estates confiscated in accordance
with their involvement, but only if their worth was over £200.
- 'That His Majesty's person, his Queen, and
royal issue, may be restored to a condition of safety, honour and
freedom in this nation, without diminution to their personal rights,
or further limitation to the exercise of the regal power than
according to the particulars foregoing'
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