A modest plea for an equal common-wealth against monarchy.: In which the genuine nature and true interest of a free-state is briefly stated: its consistency with a national clergy, mercenary lawyers, and hereditary nobility examined; together with the expediency of an agrarian and rotation of offices asserted. Also, an apology for younger brothers, the restitution of gavil-kind, and relief of the poor. With a lift at tythes, and reformation of the lawes and universities. All accommodated to publick honour and justice, without injury to any mans propriety, and humbly tendered to the Parliament. By a lover of his country in order to the healing the divisions of the times.
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- A modest plea for an equal common-wealth against monarchy.: In which the genuine nature and true interest of a free-state is briefly stated: its consistency with a national clergy, mercenary lawyers, and hereditary nobility examined; together with the expediency of an agrarian and rotation of offices asserted. Also, an apology for younger brothers, the restitution of gavil-kind, and relief of the poor. With a lift at tythes, and reformation of the lawes and universities. All accommodated to publick honour and justice, without injury to any mans propriety, and humbly tendered to the Parliament. By a lover of his country in order to the healing the divisions of the times.
- Author
- Sprigg, William, fl. 1657.
- Publication
- London :: printed for Giles Calvert at the Black.spread-Eagle at the west end of Pauls,
- 1659.
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"A modest plea for an equal common-wealth against monarchy.: In which the genuine nature and true interest of a free-state is briefly stated: its consistency with a national clergy, mercenary lawyers, and hereditary nobility examined; together with the expediency of an agrarian and rotation of offices asserted. Also, an apology for younger brothers, the restitution of gavil-kind, and relief of the poor. With a lift at tythes, and reformation of the lawes and universities. All accommodated to publick honour and justice, without injury to any mans propriety, and humbly tendered to the Parliament. By a lover of his country in order to the healing the divisions of the times." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A93715.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- To The Right Honourable, The High Court of PARLIAMENT.
- An Epistle to the Reader.
- errata
- THE PROEM, CONTAINING A PLEA for an Equal Common-wealth or Free-State against Monarchy.
- Of the Ministry or Clergy.
- Of Tythes.
- An humble Motion in behalfe of the Poor.
- Of the Ʋniversities.
- Of the Regulation of the Lawes and Lawyers.
- An Apology for younger Brothers.
- Of the Hereditary Nobility.
- Of an Agrarian.
- Of the Militia.
- Of Elections to Offices, &c.
- Of Rotation.
- The Conclusion.
- THE CONTENTS.