The public GRIEVANCES of the NATION, Adjudged Necessary, by the Honourable the House of COMMONS, To be Redressed.  

1. THat the pretended Power of dispensing or Suspending of Laws, or the Execution of Laws, by Regal Prerogative, without consent of Parliament, is Illegal.  
2. The Commission for Erecting the late Court of Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Causes, and all other Commissions and Courts of like Nature, are Illegal.  
3. Levying of Money for, or to the use of the Crown, by pretence of the Prerogative, without grant of Parliament, for longer time, or other manner than the same shall be so granted, is Illegal.  
4. It is the Right of the Subjects to Petition the King, & all Commitments & prosecutions for such Petitioning, are Illegal 5. The Acts concerning the Militia are grievous to the subject.  
6. That the raising or keeping a standing Army within this Kingdom, in time of peace, unless it be with consent of Parliament, is against Law.  
7. 'Tis necessary for the public safety, that the Subjects which are Protestants should provide and keep Arms for their common Defence, and that the Arms which have been seized and taken from them, be restored.  
8. The Right and Freedom of Electing Members of the House of Commons, and the Right and privileges of Parliament and members of Parliament, as well in the Intervals as during their sitting, be preserved.  
9. That Parliaments ought to sit frequently, and that their frequent sitting be secured.  
10. No interruption of any session of Parliament, till the Affajrs which are necessary to be dispatched at that time be determined.  
11. The too long continuance of the same Parliament to be prevented.  
12. No pardon to be pleadable to an Impeachment in Parliament.  
13. Cities, universities, Towns Corporate, Boroughs and Plantations to be secured against Quo-Warranto's, Surrenders, and mandates, and restored to their ancient Rights.  
14. None of the Royal Family to mary a Papist.  
15. Every King & Queen of the Realm at the time of the entering into the Exercise of their regal Authority, to take an oath for the maintaining the Protestant Religion, & the Laws and Liberties of this Nation, & that the Coronation Oath be reviewed.  
16. Effectual provision to be made for the Liberty of the Protestants in the exercise of their Religion, & for the uniting all Protestants in the matter of public Worship as far as may be.  
17. Constructions upon the Statutes of Treason, and trials, and Proceedings, and Writs of Error in Cases of Treason, to be Regulated.  
18. Iudges Commissions to be made Quam dieu se been gesserint, and their salaries to be ascertained and established to be paid out of the public Revenue only, and not to be removed or suspended from Execution of their Office, but by due course of Law.  
19. The requiring excessive Bail of persons committed in criminal cases, and imposing excessive Fines and illegal punishments, to be prevented.  
20. Abuses in the appointing of Sheriffs, and in the execution of their Office, to be reformed.  
21. jurors to be duly empaneled and return'd, and corrupt and false Verdicts prevented.  
22. Informations in the Court of Kings Bench to be taken away  
23. The Chancery and other Courts of Iustice, and the Fees of Officers, to be Regulated.  
24. That the buying and selling of Offices be effectually provided against.  
25. That upon Returns upon Habeas Corpus'es, & Mandamus'es, Liberty be given to the Subject to Traverse such Returns.  
26. That all Grants and Promises of Fines and Forefeitures are illegal and voided, and that all such persons as procure them, to be liable to punishment.  
27. That the Abuses and Oppressions in Levying and Collecting the Hearth-Money, be effecually Redressed.  
28. That the Abuses and Oprressions in Levying and Collecting the Excise, be effectually Redressed.    
FINIS.  

Re-printed in the Year, 1689.