XV.
That such qualifications and rules may be agreed on, act∣ed, and declared in words that are the most plain, and ea••••e to be understood, whereunto the people should by penalty be enjoyned to yeeld obedience at all times in the Election of their Representatives, and under this Head it is humbly and earnestly desired that such as have forfeited their freedoms to elect, and of being elected to serve in Parliament, by their voluntary aiding, assisting, or abetting any of the late Wars, which were raised by the King, his Son, or their Adberents a∣gainst the Parliament or other government of the said Com∣mon-wealth, may for ever be disabled from electing, or being elected, to the end the publike peace may not again be distur∣bed, through the endeavours of any so affected, which most probably they will be labouring after, in pursuance of their Malignant principles, if they be but admitted to share in the Legislative power with those as subdued them, it being very incident to persons when povver is in their hands to take all opportunities for being revenged on such as have not only subdued them, but caused them to raise and pay great sums of money out of their Estates for their Delinquency, the which vvas done by them that they might possess the rest, but cer∣tainly it cannot be rationally expected, nor was it so condi∣tioned by the Parliament or their Committees as we knovv of; That upon paying their Compositions they should be fully restored to the same or like condition as they were in before the Wars, as to the power of electing, or of being elected for the end aforesaid, except by some good service sdone for the Common-wealth they have demonstrated them∣selves to be throughly converted in Judgment and affection ••rom the error of their former evill ways.