stipulated for all Parliamentary privileges and the non-exclusion of any of the duly elected members except by judgment of the House of which they might be members .-- Article IV., which was much the longest, determined the classes of persons who should be disqualified from being elected or voting in elections.

_Universally_, all Roman Catholics were to be excluded, and all who had abetted the Irish Rebellion.

Farther, in _England_, were to be excluded all who had been engaged in any war against Parliament since Jan.

I, 1641-2, unless they had afterwards given "signal testimony" of their good affections, and all who, since the establishment of the Protectorate, had been engaged in any plot or insurrection against _it_.

In _Scotland_ were to be excluded all who had been in arms against the Parliament of England or against that of Scotland before April 1, 1648 (old _Malignants_ and _Montrosists_), except such as had afterwards given "signal testimony," &c., and also all who, since April 1, 1648, had been in arms against the English Parliament or the Commonwealth (the _Hamiltonians_ of 1648, and the _Scottish Royalists of all varieties_ who had fought for Charles II.