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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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.