Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: the English Levellers, 1645–1649
- Chronological table
- Bibliographical note
- Notes on the texts
- Leveller texts
- 1 ‘On the 150th page’: An untitled broadsheet of August 1645
- 2 Toleration justified and persecution condemned. 29 January 1646
- 3 Postscript to The freeman's freedom vindicated. 16 June 1646
- 4 A remonstrance of many thousand citizens. 7 July 1646
- 5 An arrow against all tyrants. 12 October 1646
- 6 Gold tried in the fire. 4 June 1647
- 7 Several hands, An agreement of the people for a firm and present peace upon grounds of common right and freedom. 28 October 1647
- 8 Members of the New Model Army and civilian Levellers, Extract from the debates at the General Council of the Army, Putney. 29 October 1647
- 9 The petition of 11 September 1648
- 10 England's new chains discovered. 26 February 1649
- 11 A manifestation. 14 April 1649
- 12 An agreement of the free people of England. 1 May 1649
- 13 The young men's and the apprentices' outcry. 29 August 1649
- Select biographies
- Index
- Title in the series
7 - Several hands, An agreement of the people for a firm and present peace upon grounds of common right and freedom. 28 October 1647
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: the English Levellers, 1645–1649
- Chronological table
- Bibliographical note
- Notes on the texts
- Leveller texts
- 1 ‘On the 150th page’: An untitled broadsheet of August 1645
- 2 Toleration justified and persecution condemned. 29 January 1646
- 3 Postscript to The freeman's freedom vindicated. 16 June 1646
- 4 A remonstrance of many thousand citizens. 7 July 1646
- 5 An arrow against all tyrants. 12 October 1646
- 6 Gold tried in the fire. 4 June 1647
- 7 Several hands, An agreement of the people for a firm and present peace upon grounds of common right and freedom. 28 October 1647
- 8 Members of the New Model Army and civilian Levellers, Extract from the debates at the General Council of the Army, Putney. 29 October 1647
- 9 The petition of 11 September 1648
- 10 England's new chains discovered. 26 February 1649
- 11 A manifestation. 14 April 1649
- 12 An agreement of the free people of England. 1 May 1649
- 13 The young men's and the apprentices' outcry. 29 August 1649
- Select biographies
- Index
- Title in the series
Summary
An Agreement of the people for a firm and present peace upon grounds of common right
Having by our late labours and hazards made it appear to the world at how high a rate we value our just freedom, and God having so far owned our cause as to deliver the enemies thereof into our hands, we do now hold ourselves bound in mutual duty to each other to take the best care we can for the future to avoid both the danger of returning into a slavish condition and the chargeable remedy of another war. For as it cannot be imagined that so many of our countrymen would have opposed us in this quarrel if they had understood their own good, so may we safely promise to ourselves that when our common rights and liberties shall be cleared, their endeavours will be disappointed that seek to make themselves our masters. Since therefore our former oppressions and scarce-yet-ended troubles have been occasioned either by want of frequent national meetings in council or by rendering those meetings ineffectual, we are fully agreed and resolved to provide that hereafter our representatives be neither left to an uncertainty for the time, nor made useless to the ends for which they are intended.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The English Levellers , pp. 92 - 101Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998