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• Preface to the Second Edition
• Introduction
• I.: To the Meeting of the Third Parliament of Charles I. [—— 1628.]
• II.: From the Meeting of the Third Parliament of Charles I to the Meeting of the Long Parliament. [1628-1640.]
• III.: From the Meeting of the Long Parliament to the Outbreak of the Civil War. [1640-1642.]
• IV.: From the Outbreak of the Civil War to the Execution of the King. [1642-1649.]
• V.: The Commonwealth and Protectorate. [1649—1660.]
• Part I: From the Accession of Charles I to the Meeting of the Third Parliament of His Reign.
• 1.: Speech of Sir Nathaniel Rich, Proposing Terms On Which the House of Commons May Be Prepared to Grant Supply.
• 2.: Protestation of the Commons.
• 3.: Documents Relating to the Impeachment of the Duke of Buckingham.
• 4.: The Restraint of the Earls of Arundel and Bristol.
• 5.: The King’s Letter and Instructions For the Collection of a Free Gift.
• 6.: Commission For Raising Tonnage and Poundage With Impositions.
• 7.: The Commission and Instructions For Raising the Forced Loan In Middlesex.
• 8.: The Case of the Five Knights, Before the Court of King’s Bench.
• Part II: From the Meeting of the Third Parliament of Charles I. To the Meeting of the Long Parliament.
• 9.: Notes of a Bill Brought In By Sir Edward Coke to Secure the Liberties of the Subject.
• 10.: The Petition of Right.
• 11.: The Remonstrance Against Tonnage and Poundage.
• 12.: The King’s Speech At the Prorogation of Parliament At the End of the Session of 1628.
• 13.: The King’s Declaration Prefixed to the Articles of Religion.
• 14.: Resolutions On Religion Drawn By a Sub-committee of the House of Commons.
• 15.: Protestation of the House of Commons.
• 16.: The King’s Declaration Showing the Causes of the Late Dissolution.
• 17.: The Declaration of Sports 1 .
• 18.: Act of the Privy Council On the Position of the Communion Table At St. Gregory’s.
• 19.: Specimen of the First Writ of Ship-money.
• 20.: The King’s Case Laid Before the Judges, With Their Answer 2 .
• 21.: Extracts From the Speech of Oliver St. John In the Ship-money Case.
• 22.: Extracts From the Argument of Sir Robert Berkeley, Justice of the King’s Bench.
• 23.: The Scottish National Covenant.
• 24.: Petition of Twelve Peers For the Summoning of a New Parliament.
• 25.: The King’s Writ Summoning the Great Council.
• Part III: From the Meeting of the Long Parliament to the Outbreak of the Civil War.
• 26.: The Root and Branch Petition.
• 27.: The Triennial Act.
• 28.: The Protestation.
• 29.: The Act For the Attainder of the Earl of Strafford.
• 30.: The Act Against Dissolving the Long Parliament Without Its Own Consent.
• 31.: The Tonnage and Poundage Act.
• 32.: The Ten Propositions.
• 33.: Bill On Church Reform Bead Twice In the House of Lords 1 .
• 34.: The Act For the Abolition of the Court of Star Chamber.
• 35.: The Act For the Abolition of the Court of High Commission.
• 36.: Act Declaring the Illegality of Ship-money.
• 37.: Act For the Limitation of Forests.
• 38.: Act Prohibiting the Exaction of Knighthood Fines.
• 39.: Resolutions of the House of Commons On Ecclesiastical Innovations.
• 40.: Order of the House of Lords On the Services of the Church.
• 41.: Extract From the Instructions to the Committee In Scotland, Proposed By the House of Commons.
• 42.: The King’s Speech to the Recorder of the City of London.
• 43.: The Grand Remonstrance, With the Petition Accompanying It.
• 44.: The King’s Proclamation On Religion.
• 45.: The King’s Answer to the Petition Accompanying the Grand Remonstrance.
• 46.: The Impeachment of One Member of the House of Lords, and of Five Members of the House of Commons.
• 47.: A Declaration of the House of Commons Touching a Late Breach of Their Privileges.
• 48.: The Clerical Disabilities Act.
• 49.: The Impressment Act.
• 50.: The Militia Ordinance.
• 51.: The Declaration of the Houses On Church Reform.
• 52.: The King’s Proclamation Condemning the Militia Ordinance.
• 53.: The Nineteen Propositions Sent By the Two Houses of Parliament to the King At York.
• 54.: Declaration of the Houses In Defence of the Militia Ordinance.
• 55.: The King’s Letter Sent With the Commissions of Array to Leicestershire.
• 56.: The Votes of the Houses For Raising an Army.
• Part IV: From the Outbreak of the Civil War to the Execution of the King.
• 57.: The Propositions Presented to the King At the Treaty of Oxford.
• 58.: The Solemn League and Covenant.
• 60.: The Ordinance Appointing the Second Committee of Both Kingdoms.
• 61.: The Propositions of the Houses Presented to the King At Oxford, and Subsequently Discussed At the Treaty of Uxbridge.
• 62.: The King’s Propositions to Be Discussed At Uxbridge.
• 63.: The Self-denying Ordinance.
• 64.: The Negative Oath.
• 65.: Order of the Two Houses For Taking Away the Court of Wards.
• 66.: The Propositions of the Houses Sent to the King At Newcastle.
• 67.: The King’s First Answer to the Propositions Presented At Newcastle.
• 68.: The King’s Second Answer to the Propositions Presented At Newcastle.
• 69.: Suggested Answer to the Propositions Drawn Up For the King By the Leading Presbyterians and a Small Number of the Independents, and Forwarded By the French Ambassador to Cardinal Mazarin to Be Laid Before Queen Henrietta Maria.
• 70.: The King’s Third Answer to the Propositions Presented At Newcastle.
• 71.: The Heads of the Proposals Offered By the Army.
• 72.: The King’s Answer to the Propositions of Parliament.
• 73.: Letter of Charles I to the Speaker of the House of Lords.
• 74.: The Agreement of the People, As Presented to the Council of the Army.
• 75.: The Four Bills, With the Propositions Accompanying Them.
• 76.: The Engagement Between the King and the Scots.
• 77.: Additional Articles of the Engagement.
• 78.: The King’s Reply to the Four Bills and the Accompanying Propositions.
• 79.: The Vote of No Addresses.
• 80.: The Act 1 Erecting a High Court of Justice For the King’s Trial.
• 81.: The Agreement of the People.
• 82.: The Charge Against the King.
• 83.: The King’s Reasons For Declining the Jurisdiction of the High Court of Justice.
• 84.: The Sentence of the High Court of Justice Upon the King.
• 85.: The Death Warrant of Charles I.
• Part V: The Commonwealth and Protectorate
• 86.: Act Appointing a Council of State.
• 87.: Engagement Taken By the Members of the Council of State.
• 88.: The Act Abolishing the Office of King.
• 89.: An Act Abolishing the House of Lords.
• 90.: An Act Declaring England to Be a Commonwealth.
• 91.: An Act Declaring What Offences Shall Be Adjudged Treason.
• 92.: Engagement to Be Taken By All Men of the Age of Eighteen.
• 93.: Act Repealing Several Clauses In Statutes Imposing Penalties For Not Coming to Church.
• 94.: Act For the Settlement of Ireland.
• 95.: Declaration By the Lord General and the Council On the Dissolution of the Long Parliament.
• 96.: Summons to a Member of the So-called Barebones Parliament.
• 97.: The Instrument of Government.
• 98.: An Ordinance By the Protector For the Union of England and Scotland.
• 99.: An Ordinance By the Protector For Elections In Scotland.
• 100.: An Ordinance By the Protector For Elections In Ireland.
• 101.: The Constitutional Bill of the First Parliament of the Protectorate.
• 102.: The Humble Petition and Advice.
• 103.: The Additional Petition and Advice.
• 104.: The Writ Summoning Richard Cromwell to the House of Lords of the Protectorate.
• 105.: The Declaration of Breda.
• Appendix: the Navigation Act.

92.

Engagement to be taken by all men of the age of eighteen.

I do declare and promise, that I will be true and faithful to the Commonwealth of England, as it is now established, without a King or House of Lords.