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<NAME>Jonathan Blaney</NAME>
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FREE-PARLIAMENT QUAERES: PROPOSED TO Tender Con&s;ciences; AND Publi&s;hed for the u&s;e of the Mem|bers now Elected.</P>
<P>By <HI>Alazonoma&s;tix Philalethes.</HI></P>
<Q>Spectatum admi&s;si ri&s;um teneatis amici?</Q>
<P>Printed in the year of our Re|demption. 1660.</P>
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<HEAD>Free-Parliament Quaeres, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. VVHether Coffee be not the mo&s;t fitting Drink for the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Nation, &s;ince we have equalled, nay out-gone the <HI>Turks</HI> them&s;elves; for though they murdered the Father, yet they pre&s;ently &s;et up the Son?</P>
<P N="2">2. Whether our late Rumpers de&s;erve not that that &s;aying, <HI>Nulla fides pieta&s;ve viris qui Ca&s;tra &s;equun|tur,</HI> &s;hould be thus interpreted, There is neither Faith nor Pity to be &s;hewed to them nor their Ja|nizaries?</P>
<P N="3">3. Whether <HI>Hell</HI> at <HI>Westmin&s;ter</HI> be not likely to lo&s;e its Cu&s;tomers, &s;ince the Devils are turned out of the Parliament Hou&s;e?</P>
<P N="4">4. Whether <HI>Thom. Scot</HI> can pretend to Liberty of Con&s;cience, &s;ince he made an Arch-bi&s;hops Hou&s;e a Pri&s;on or Gaol?</P>
<P N="5">5. Whether by the Covenant, Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerigg</HI> ought not to be ejected from the Bi&s;hoprick of <HI>Dur|ham,</HI> &s;ince by that we have &s;worn again&s;t all limbs of Epi&s;copacy?</P>
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6. Whether Hanging or Drowning be the be&s;t waies of Tran&s;portation of our late Republicans to the Common-wealths of <HI>&V;topia</HI> or <HI>Oceana?</HI></P>
<P N="7">7. Whether that Prophecy <HI>the Saints &s;hall rule the earth,</HI> be not meant of <HI>Barbadoes, Jamaica,</HI> or &s;ome <HI>terra incognita?</HI></P>
<P N="8">8. Whether Col. <HI>John S.</HI> can keep off the Taxes of an Execution, by the profit he got by printing the late Act of A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ement?</P>
<P N="9">9. Whether <HI>F.</HI> and <HI>H.</HI> the late Common-wealth Printers &s;hould not change Names, &s;ince the fir&s;t &s;wells like a Mountain, and the other is but a poor Leveller?</P>
<P N="10">10. Whether Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerigg</HI> hath not a Pre|&s;ident of Patience, in this his falling into the pit of Adver&s;ity, from his falling into the ditch at <HI>Leice|&s;ter?</HI></P>
<P N="11">11. Whether <HI>Brad&s;haw</HI> and <HI>Dun</HI> did not accom|pany each other to Hell, that the Devil having got &s;uch a Judge, might not want a fit Executioner?</P>
<P N="12">12. Whether the lo&s;&s;e of writing the News of <HI>England,</HI> was not the Cau&s;e that <HI>Nedham</HI> was &s;o bu&s;ie with the News from <HI>Bru&s;&s;els?</HI></P>
<P N="13">13. Why &s;ince <HI>England</HI> hath &s;o long been made <HI>Bedlam,</HI> the <HI>Sectarians</HI> &s;hould rather be called Fa|naticks than Franticks?</P>
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14. Whether the Army be not di&s;po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed of the Devil, and Sir <HI>Arthur,</HI> &s;ince they begin to &s;ubmit to the Civil Authority?</P>
<P N="15">15. Whether the Souldiers ought not to tear off their Red Coats, &s;ince <HI>Oliver</HI> fir&s;t in&s;tituted them, that they might re&s;emble the Devils Pen&s;ioners, in &s;laming Doublets?</P>
<P N="16">16. Whether the Fanaticks do not hate <HI>Monck</HI> now, as much as ever they did the Church, their King, or Country?</P>
<P N="17">17. If the Proverb be true, <HI>When Knaves fall out, Hone&s;t men may come by their Goods;</HI> then whether <HI>Lamberts</HI> &s;witching the Rump out of Doors, and their driving him into the <HI>Tower,</HI> may not open a Door of Hope for &s;omething further?</P>
<P N="18">18. Whether a Long Parliament, a Lord, and five Members, might not, were they now conjoyned together, be termed the Devils Coach with &s;ix Hor&s;es?</P>
<P N="19">19. Whether there is not like to be a le&s;&s;e Arbi|bitrary admini&s;tration of Ju&s;tice in Hell, if <HI>Brad&s;haw</HI> be made Pre&s;ident there, in&s;tead of <HI>Minos, Rhada|manthus,</HI> or <HI>Aeacus?</HI></P>
<P N="20">20. VVhether the next Parliament ought not to condemn Dr. <HI>John Owens</HI> Primer, to be burnt by the Common Hangman, &s;ince it was made for the u&s;e of the Children of the Rump?</P>
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21. Whether any of the late Rump could have &s;tood for Parliament-men, if neither fools nor knaves had been capable of Election?</P>
<P N="22">22. Whether it be not the Cheape&s;t way of buy|ing Lands, with Col. <HI>Harvey</HI> and others, to agree with the State for three moieties, and then cozen them of two?</P>
<P N="23">23. Whether that Comedie, called <HI>The Costly Whore,</HI> was not intended for the life of the Lady <HI>Sands,</HI> and was written by <HI>Henry Martin?</HI></P>
<P N="24">24. Whether the <HI>Ba&s;tard,</HI> a Tragedie, was com|piled by Mr. <HI>Goff,</HI> or written by <HI>J. Ireton?</HI></P>
<P N="25">25. Whether <HI>Orlando Furio&s;o</HI> that antient <HI>Italian</HI> Poem, was not meant for a Prophetical Relation of the life of Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerigg?</HI></P>
<P N="26">26. Whether the <HI>Di&s;contented Collonel,</HI> be not the fitte&s;t play to be acted by our ca&s;hiered Officers, &s;ince they have now no more to do in State Come|dies?</P>
<P N="27">27. Whether Sir <HI>Arthur</HI> did not act the <HI>Raging Turk</HI> in <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter-Hall,</HI> when he &s;aw the admi&s;&s;ion of the Secluded Members?</P>
<P N="28">28. Whether it was to know if he &s;hould be cho|&s;en for Parliament man, or when he &s;hould take his turn at <HI>Tyburn,</HI> that the &s;aid Gentleman lately addre&s;|&s;ed him&s;elf to the Star-cheater <HI>Lilly?</HI></P>
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29. Whether Col. <HI>S.</HI> Creditors have any a&s;&s;u|rance of his hone&s;tie, &s;ince he may, being a Printer, &s;o ea&s;ily change the fir&s;t letters of his name, and make it <HI>Cheater?</HI></P>
<P N="30">30. Whether <HI>Atkins</HI> be the Anagram of a <HI>Stink,</HI> or a <HI>Stink</HI> of <HI>Atkins;</HI> and whether that be not a very fitting name for a Member of the Rump?</P>
<P N="31">31. Whether the fift of <HI>November,</HI> or the twenty one of <HI>February,</HI> de&s;erve the greater &s;olemnity, as a day of delivery from the grander Traytors?</P>
<P N="32">32. Why a Rump being a &s;mall and wor&s;t part of a man, &s;o many good Saints &s;hould go together to the making of it up?</P>
<P N="33">33. Whether ever <HI>Doctors Commons</HI> might more fitly be called the <HI>Spiritual Court</HI> than lately, when none but Saints were Judges and Proctors?</P>
<P N="34">34. Whether the Proverb that &s;aith, <HI>Facilis de|&s;cen&s;us Averni, the way to Hell is ea&s;ie,</HI> be not a mi&s;take, &s;ince our late State&s;-men took &s;uch pains in it?</P>
<P N="35">35. Whether the &s;o &s;tately equipping of the <HI>Na&s;eby</HI> Frigat, be not for the bringing home of the Son, &s;ince the Father lo&s;t his Crown and Dignity at that fatal place, that &s;o there may be an allu&s;ion to that Pro|verb?</P>
<Q><L>&mdash;Qu&acirc; cu&s;pide vulnus acut&acirc;</L>
<L>Tulerat, h&acirc;c ip&s;&acirc; cu&s;pide tulit opem.</L></Q>
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36. Whether an act of Oblivion can ever be real|ly pa&s;&s;ed for the late men of the Tail; &s;ince they can never forget their former Rogueries, if they be &s;uf|fered to injoy the profits of them?</P>
<P N="37">37. Whether the &s;alt of the Engli&s;h wits is not &s;trangely unprofitable, &s;ince it makes the Rump to &s;tink more and more in the no&s;trils of the People?</P>
<P N="38">38. La&s;tly, Whether it be not good &s;ervice to the Nation, to keep the &s;tink of them thus fre&s;h in their no&s;es, that they may for the future avoid fouling their fingers with them?</P>
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