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A56217 Ten quæres upon the ten new commandements of the general council of the officers of the armies, Decemb. 22, 1659 ... Prynne, William, 1600-1669. 1659 (1659) Wing P4101; ESTC R19378 4,907 10

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TEN QUAERES UPON THE TEN NEW COMMANDEMENTS OF THE GENERAL COUNCIL OF THE Officers of the Armies Decemb. 22. 1659. NOW Declaring themselves The only Supreme Legisers and Absolute Soveraign Lords of our Three kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland by what just Title from God or Man we yet understand not unlesse it be from the * Man of Sin opposing and exalting himself above all that is called God and worshipped by his own usurped Authority and Ambition 1 WHether the Nobility Gentry Ministry Citizens Yeomen and other Freemen of England Scotland and Ireland the Supreme Authority and Legislators of the 3. Nations by the Army-Officers former Votes Declarations Agreements of the People and the Rumps too have not better Reason and Authority to Agree and Vote That the Government of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging shall be in the antient legal safe honourable known way of a KINGDOM and MONARCHY by an hereditary lawfull King according to the Fundamental Laws Oaths Protestation League Covenant the Parl. and these Officers former numerous Declarations Remonstrances and Proposals than in the way of an unknown unborn Utopian Free-State and Commonwealth the bare Notion whereof without any conception or production hath involved us in 11. years dangerous Wars Confusions Distractions Revolutions without any probability of Ease Tranquilliey or Settlement 2. Whether they might not with as good Authority and Reason have agreed That they will not have God himself and Jesus Christ who are not excepted but included in their Vote to exercise a Kingship in th●se Nations nor any single Person to exercise the Office of Chief Magistrate over the City of London or any other City or Corporation in our 3. Kingdoms Or the Office of a General over any of our Armies or Admiral over any of our Fleets or of a Collonel or Captain over any Regiment Troop Company Ship in the Armies or Navies of these Nations or one Speaker to sit in any Parliament or one Chairman in any Committee or one head to exercise any authority over the natural bodie of any Officer Souldier Man Woman Child within their new Kingless Headless Free State and Commonwealth As that they will nst have Kingship to be exercised in these Nations nor any single Person out of which Fleetwood Lambert all other maried ‖ double-souled Officers are excepted being no single persons to exercise the office of Chief Magistrate over the same And whether these Voters have not lost their heads or brains at least passed this Vote out of pure necessity because for the present their Chieftains cannot or da●e not claim a Kingship or Monarchieal Protectorship over us through others oppositions though they ambitiously desire it as well as their deceased ambitious bloudy Tyrant Oliver 3 Whether they had not with better Justice voted That there shall be no L. Fleetwood L. Lambert L. Desbrow L. H●wson c. nor any General Council of Lording lordly Officers of the Armies of England Scotland and Ireland nor Wailingford House taking upon them a power which no Lords House ever used to impose Laws not only on the Soldiers but Lords Commons and Freemen of our whole 3. Nations Than that there be no House of Lords or Peers And whether they may not order the Lords House at Westminster and all Lords Houses within our 3. Realms to be demolished by the letter of this Vote and deprive the Lords and Peers of their hereditary Mansion-Houses Lands as well as of their Honors Peerage and Session in Parliaments 4. Whether the General Council of Officers●●y their former and late Instruments Votes and this their Agreement whereby they usurp both the Legislative and Executive Power over our 3. Nations and Parliaments in the superlative degree which no Military Officers or Council under heaven ever did before them in any age or Nation have not already contradicted this their Agreement That the Legislative and Executive power be distinct and not in the same hands And whether either of these 2 Powers ought to be henceforth intrusted in their hands 5. Whether Henry Garnet Guy Faux with the rest of the old Gun-powder-Traytors who sate in Counsel together how to blow up the King Lords and Parliament in the 3d. year of King James and all those persons and every one of them who since the 1. of October 1659. have acted and executed any Treason Murder Rape Robbery or Villany whatsoever for which they deserve execution at Tiburne may not with as much Authority Justice Law Equity indemnify themselves and all their Confederates both in their Persons and Estates for all such things as have bin done by them or any of them or by any acting under them in pursuance of their authoritie as the Council of Officers and their Committee of Safety can indemnifie one another and those who have acted under them for all such things as have been done by them or any of them in pursuance of the instructions given them by the Council of Officers Whether this be not an open in-let and * incouragement to all Treasons and Villanies whatsoever for these Officers and their Instruments to act new Treasons and Violences over and over against the Parliament King Lords Commons Kingdom People with most daring impudencie and then to force and procure an Act of total Indemnity and final Oblivion for them as to their Persons and Estates when perpetrated and committed 6. Whether such Persons as have acted done or spoken any thing before or since the first day of October 1659. for Charles Stuart their * undoubted lawfull King in pursuance of their Oaths Vows Protestation League Covenant the Laws of God and the Realm the Declarations Orders Ordinances Remonstrances of Parliament and Army Officers themselves whiles in their right wits do not better deserve an Act of Indempnity and perpetual Oblivion both for Persons and Estates for all and every thing and things acted done spoken ordered or suffered to be acted or done with respect to raising of forces issuing of mony and proceedings of any kind for his Service than all and every of the Council of Officers of the Army their Committees of Safety or any other Person or Persons under them for all and every thing and things acted done spoken ordered with respect to raising of forces levying or issuing monies proceedings in any Courts of Law or otherwise against the Kings Parliaments Lords Commons or Rumps Authority and the known Laws Liberties of our three Nations Whether their voting such an Act of Indempnity and perpetual Oblivion for themselves their Confederates alone be not an evident Confession and Proclamation of their own Guilt and Treachery to all the world and their excepting of all such who have acted done or spoken any thing for or on the behalf of Charles Stuart out of their desired Act of Indempnity and Oblivion a real Argument Declaration of their * innocency loyalty and legality of their actions and the