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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>WHY NOT
Eight <HI>Queries,</HI> made to the PARLIAMENT,
From the People of ENGLAND, in 1649.</HEAD>
<P>_WHether this Nation &s;hall be a free People, according to <HI>Magna Charta,</HI>
(now regained with &s;uch a va&s;t expence of Trea&s;ure, and effu&s;ion of blood)
and according to our tru&s;t repo&s;ed in you, and your &s;olemn deep Ingage|ments,
Vows, and Promi&s;es, made to us, to make us a free People? And
WHY NOT yet performed by you, according to your promi&s;e made
to us, &s;ince the Kings death?</P>
<P>II. Whether you intend to pa&s;s the National Act for Liberty or not,
and to take off all <HI>Capias</HI> for Arre&s;ts, That &s;o we the people of <HI>England</HI>
may be &s;ecured from trouble in our per&s;onal Liberties, and thereby inabled freely to follow our
Callings and Endevors for Livelihood? And WHY NOT, &s;eeing it is our ju&s;t Birth-Right?</P>
<P>III. Whether this Nation &s;hall &s;till be in&s;laved in their E&s;tates, per&s;onal Liberties, and
Lives, to the pre&s;ent corrupt, delatory, chargable practi&s;es of the <HI>Law,</HI> and to the cruel, impious
(unparalel'd) mercenary In&s;truments of the &s;ame (by whom thou&s;ands of this Nation have
been ruined and de&s;troyed) even by <HI>Lawyers</HI> and <HI>Gaolers?</HI> And WHY SO, &s;eeing they are
abominable and wicked?</P>
<P>IIII. Whether you intend to prefer the impious flouri&s;hing State of an incon&s;iderable
number of corrupt <HI>Judges,</HI> and mercenary <HI>Lawyers,</HI> and cruel murthering <HI>Goalers</HI> (Enemies to
<HI>Englands</HI> Liberties) before the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;t <HI>Liberties, Peace,</HI> and <HI>Welfare</HI> of this great Nation? And
WHY SO? &s;eeing he that treadeth in their <HI>Pathes,</HI> &s;hall never have <HI>Peace</HI> nor <HI>Re&s;t, I&s;ai.</HI>
59. 7, 8.</P>
<P>V.<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;ai. 59. 1, 2, 3 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.</NOTE> Whether <HI>Ju&s;tice</HI> &s;hall be freely admini&s;tred to all (both rich and poor) the oppre&s;&s;ed re|lieved,
with full &s;atisfaction and reparation for their wrongs &s;u&s;tained, and the impri&s;oned &s;et
free, SO, as their per&s;ons may not be &s;till &s;ubject to impri&s;onment every two or three dayes, or
as often as their malicious cruel Adver&s;aries &s;hall think meet &s;o to do? And WHEN, after
eight yeers <HI>Expectation?</HI> contrary to <HI>I&s;ai.</HI> 33 15, 16.</P>
<P>VI. Whether the Creditors, according to <HI>Magna Charta,</HI> &s;hall be enabled to reap <HI>Due</HI> and
<HI>Real Satisfaction</HI> for their <HI>Debts,</HI> out of the real and per&s;onal E&s;tates of all able <HI>Debtors,</HI> in the
two third parts thereof (Intailed Lands al&s;o not exempted) without any tedious jugling,
chargeable delatory tricks in the <HI>Law?</HI> And WHY NOT, rather then <HI>Lawyers</HI> and <HI>Gaolers,</HI>
to rob them, and the <HI>Debtors?</HI></P>
<P>VII. Whether all per&s;ons by you intru&s;ted with many Millions of the <HI>National Trea&s;ure,</HI>
(and by them perverted) &s;hall be called to a ju&s;t and &s;trict accompt for the &s;ame, whereby the
Souldiery may be duly &s;atisfied, and this whole Nation ea&s;ed and acquitted from the un&s;upport|able
<HI>Burdens</HI> of all the &s;everal great <HI>Taxes,</HI> and daily <HI>Plunders,</HI> wherein the Souldiery is made
to appear the <HI>Actors,</HI> (conceived to be done by the <HI>Speaker</HI> and <HI>Lawyers</HI>) meerly to render
the Souldiers the more odious and dete&s;table to this whole Nation (a &s;ubtle contrivance, to im|brue
the Nation again into a Sea of Blood) through the daily increa&s;e of all the peoples heart|burnings
again&s;t you, and the Souldiers? And WHY NOT, that &s;o <HI>Knaves</HI> may be known?</P>
<P>VIII. Whether you intend to aboli&s;h <HI>Tithes,</HI> re&s;tore the <HI>Rights</HI> of the <HI>Poor,</HI> call a new
<HI>Repre&s;entative,</HI> provided, That all mercenary <HI>Lawyers</HI> be exempted from being any more elect|ed
or cho&s;en to &s;it as <HI>Members</HI> of the &s;ame; the people al&s;o prevented from coming up to
<HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> for <HI>Ju&s;tice;</HI> and the <HI>Law</HI> practi&s;ed in our Engli&s;h tongue, in &s;ome brief expedicious
way, without any delatory <HI>Cheats, Fees,</HI> or <HI>Bribes,</HI> (as now u&s;ed) according to the command of
God, the pre&s;ent practi&s;e of all other Nations in the World, where more <HI>Ju&s;tice</HI> is to be had for
eight pence, then here in our Land for 800l. And WHY NOT unju&s;t things aboli&s;hed?</P>
<P>Finally, our de&s;ires are, That becau&s;e there is a far greater number of able, hone&s;t, Con&s;cien|cious,
under&s;tanding men, in every of our Cities, Counties, Hundreds, Towns, and Villages, that
are able to judg and determine all <HI>Controver&s;ies</HI> between a man and his Neighbor, better then
any of tho&s;e In&s;truments of <HI>Contention,</HI> The <HI>Lawyers, (Englands Cankerworms</HI>) who&s;e Nature
and Profe&s;&s;ion is to fi&s;h in troubled Waters, and to make the Wound of <HI>Contention</HI> deeper and
far larger, rather then to cure it, That therefore they may no ways be thought fit to decide any
<HI>Controver&s;ie</HI> in <HI>Judgment,</HI> nor to &s;it in our <HI>National A&s;&s;emblies,</HI> but to be expunged and ex|pelled
the <HI>Hou&s;e of Parliament,</HI> even as the <HI>Bi&s;hops, Lords,</HI> and <HI>Judges</HI> were before them? And
WHY NOT the power of &s;uch <HI>Serpents</HI> de&s;troyed, and quite confounded, confounded?</P>
<CLOSER>WHY NOT?
<HI>Amen.</HI></CLOSER>
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