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A93233	A shrill cry in the eares of Cavaliers, apostates, and presbyters, for the resolve of XIII queries touching the primitive state of this nation, since the Conquest: the late proceedings of the Army, the Covenant, and other weighty matters, tending to the publique peace of the nation. By a well-willer to peace and truth. February 5. 1648. Imprimatur Theodore Jennings.	Well-willer to peace and truth.	1649 (1649)	Wing S3698; Thomason E541_10; ESTC R203571	8,415	17

A SHRILL CRY in the Eares of Cavaliers Apostates and Presbyters for the Resolve of XIII QUERIES Touching The Primitive state of this Nation since the Conquest The late proceedings of the Army the Covenant and other weighty matters tending to the publique Peace of the Nation By a well-willer to Peace and Truth O England England that thou didst know in this thy day of blessed Visitation those things that concerns thy Peace February 5. 1648. Imprimatur THEODORE JENNINGS LONDON Printed by Robert Ibbitson in Smithfield neer the Queenes-head Tavern 1648. A Shrill Cry in the Eares of Cavaliers Apostates and Presbyters for the Resolve of XIII Queries touching the Primitive State of this Nation since the Conquest THe various changes both of Governours and Government in this Kingdom is not unknowne to those who have reade our English Chronicles the last of which was by William Duke of Normandy who though he pretended claime to the Crowne yet found his Sword his best title which yet was a Right not only uncertaine but inferiour to those immediately anoynted or those hereditary elected Kings chosen and consented too by the people he thought it therefore wisdom not long to Rule the Nation by that wherewith he got possession but rather to gain their consent granting many immunities and yeelding to such laws as they should propound for their quiet and peaceable Government for the managing of which Agreement doubtlesse there was by consent a Representative elected and intrusted not only to consult but by a deliberate Result propose to the King what they conceived necessary to the well-being of the Nation Taking such security from the King by oath or otherwise in the behalfe of himselfe and Successors that he will grant and maintaina each particular agreed and upon security so first given he had power to bind the people by oath for ends expressed to maintain the honour and greatnes of him whom they had so intrusted Yet was not this power so absolute on the Kings part but that provision was made by a mutuall consent that hee should frequently call and consult with these Feoffees touching the State of the Kingdom that with their advise as they saw cause old Lawes might be repealed and new made And this appeareth by the Coronation Oath binding the King to what the people shall chose And that the Parliaments trust was more absolute is evident in that they put by some succeeding in the same line which they conceived unfit for such a trust and deposed others though Crowned that were found unfaithfull This being then the primitive state of this Kingdome from or neere that time the right of the Conquest being dissolved into the right of agreement I shall propound a few Queeries to be resolved by any rationall man I Query WHether if a succeeding King bound upon the Right of the Crown swearing to maintain and govern by the Laws of which this is a part that is to say to call frequently his great Councell by whom he is to be advised in the weighty affaires of the Kingdome shall either not call or if call them use sinister and indirect wayes to corrupt them or if not so immediately dissolve them thereby rendring their meetings fruitlesse because to them hee would not bee accountable for the trust reposed in him Whether such a King is not onely perjured but hath justly forfeited his trust to the Kingdome and is worthy for it to be deposed II Query Whether if during such an intervaile this King shall in pursuance of a Tyrannicall and Arbitrary power contrary to the known Law send to apprehend the person and seize upon the Estate of any one Subject of this Land if hee bee able to make his defence and oppose that power may he not since in so doing he defendeth not himselfe onely but the known Law of the Land and whether if this person assisted by God in this Defence should conquer this Tyrants power and take him prisoner were not acquitted both by God and Man if hee put him to Death III Query Whither much more then if a King ingaged as aforesaid shall for the setting up of his owne tyrannicall and arbitrary will and in pursuance of the same intangle himselfe and Kingdome in intricate troubles and by the advise of evill Councel also exposed it to a forraign * That is to say the Kingdome of Scotland which opposed their natural King against his introducing of an Arbitrary Power both in Church and State not only in their owne but coming in an hostile manner against the King of England and his evill Coutcell pleading no other law but that of Necessi●y Nation shall at last be inforced to call a Parliament which upon their meeting find the cause to be his contempt of the great Councell and following those that he had corrupted to carry on his intendded designe they being yet so indulgent to him as to excuse his fault desiring onely to bring them to justice if then he shall so ill requite them as not only to defend such Delinquents but set up his Standard against the Parliament murdering his best Subjects compelling them in their owne defence to take up Armes and shall in that defence get an absolute Conquest over him and make him their Prisoner shall not they betray their trust if they make him not an example of justice for the same IV. Query Whether if a Parliament shall not onely take notice but declare against this exorbitant power of such a King and after seven years war expence of millions of Treasure with the blood of thousands of the people he being their prisoner shall turn so apostate to their first principles that the most of them contrary to their Covenant shall be so corruped as to be induced to carry on their enemies interest endeavouring to make use of restoring his person to carry on designes known to be destructive to publick safety have not such betrayed their trust V. Query Whether then if their and the Kingdomes Generall invested with power when they at first were rightly principled to pursue the declared ends of publick safety and shall through the blessing of God subdue the open and known enemies thereof should not betray his trust if he do not being informed and having sufficient matter bring a charge against the chiefe actors in those designes that they might answer the same and that without the least breach of priviledge VI. Query Whether if these parties so charged shall be so far from clearing themselves from the guilt thereof that they sitting within the House shall not onely with the help of the same Faction secure themselves within those walls from a just scruteny and legall Triall but shall proceed more insolently therein to the countenancing (a) Some of the Members observed to give those Mutiners publick thanks of Tumults against those that have opposed them in the same by which the Speaker with the Members were violently forced to unvote what they had before resolved

some of them being likewise threatned to be murdered whereupon the Speaker and many more were forced to flye to the Army for refuge whilst they in the mean time were moulding their Faction into a (b) Which doubtlesse would have been acknowledged so by those persons that oppose this present supreme Power which is conceived upon better grounds undisputable Parliament chusing a new Speaker that so in the absence of those who stood in their way they might carry on their destructive Councells by a Parliamentary Authority Now whether the Generall should not betray his trust if he did not restore these Members although with the hazard of much blood-shed these men having to their power engaged both City and Country to oppose him in the same And whether it was not a great provocation to the Souldiery of the Army who were imbarked and ingaged in the same publick interest and have ventured their lives in the Conquest of the common Enemy to seize upon the person of the King to prevent the carrying on of corrupt interest by these home-bred Enemies VII Query Whether when those Members were restored the other charged fled and the House in a probability to be settled to pursue their former declared ingagements which they did for a while untill the same designe which was againe secretly hatched began to appear being cunningly acted by the same party within and others at distance New Members are called in from those places where the King had the greatest influence fit for the over-ballancing those who stood for the Kingdomes Interest The Scots secretly invited the City and Country moved to present turbulent Petitions that the eleven Members might be recalled the Militia settled in the hands of those of the same Faction The Scots answered in their unreasonable demands presented in their Commissioners Papers the Army to be disbanded the onely rub in their way and such Propositions to be sent to the King as might best promote their designes Upon which the House before framed for the purpose the eleven Members were recalled and restored without any inquiry into those crimes charged against them who no sooner come but the Kingdome is suddenly in a new flame (c) Some Members publickly acting in the same Insurrections in many parts of this land the Scots upon our borders with a potent Army whilst the City was endeavouring with the Parliament to recall the Generalls Commission for pursuing the Rebels in Kent and other places themselves refusing to give any assistance either of men or mony though the Enemy were at the very walls of the City and in that very nick of time violently pressing for a personall Treaty which was not onely granted but covertly carried on (d) Who durst not publickly own these Rebellions by those Members in the House in the pursuance of the same designe whilst many of the faithfull Members were employed abroad to quench that fire which was almost in every place kindled I demand then God having by the Generall and those under his Command so miraculously delivered this Nation againe from a second War whether they were not ingaged by all the bonds both of Nature Religion and right reason upon the cognizance of some of these Members and the apparent defection of others appearing by their Votes to seclude such from the great Councell acknowledging them only fit to be confided in though the lesser number who have continued faithfull untill orderly provision shall be made by them for a free and unbyassed election of new members VIII Query Whether this then being the Supreme Power the people of England are not to rest quiet in their determinations and are not bound to maintain them in the same IX Query Whether it is not the undoubted priviledge of this Supreme Power upon the observation of interchangeable occurrences as they shall see cause alter their Resolutions since their power is such as to repeale Laws and make new the Kings refusing to consent or by treasonable practices make himself uncapable of trust it being in their power upon good grounds so to declare X. Query If the King have not power to deny what the people shall chuse by their Representative why then should the Lords claime priviledge above him since the chiefe burden and charge lyeth upon the Commons of England The Eleventh Query Whether it is at all to be doubted that any alteration of Government by them shall not much more tend to the good of the Commonalty rather then that by the King since these Laws made must be equally binding to themselves The Twelfth Query Whether it is possible as the Land is now divided those Laws agreed upon though never so good should please all interests and whether the imposing of just Laws impartially without respect of persons is not approveable to God and all good men The Thirteenth Query Whether it stand with the Majesty of this supream Court and Peace of the Kingdome to suffer their authority or any power under them to be contemned and the people stirred up to Rebellion because justice according to the Covenant is done upon the King h Who Machivilian-like following the Example of Strafford and Canterburie by his pretended Innocencie and resolute dying hath endeavoured to act a greater revenge by sowing the seeds of Discord amongst the Ignorant people then ever he did in all his life and other Delinquents although it should be promoted by them who by their pretended holy function and perverted Scriptures may thinke to scape punishment for the same These Queries I leave to be resolved by any impartiall man not doubting of any but those who are in a spirit of slumber and will neither hear see nor understand they are King Cavalier Apostate Parliamentarians and the malicious waspish Presbyter who endeavour to set the whole Kingdome on fire because a brat of their own begetting will not be received for a child of Truth such as by their false glosses pervert the very Letter together with the end of that which they call the holy Covenant breaking every part of it themselves and yet audaciously charging it upon others For is not our ingagement to the King conditionall upon keeping the Laws and other things therein expressed upon breach of which he proving a Delinquent as indeed hee did the chief Are we not bound by the same Covenant to bring him with others to condigne punishment and for that part that is for the extirpation of Popery Prelacy Heresie and Schisme I know none more guilty of breach in this particular then themselves for is not this Poperie to compell men in matters of Faith implicitely to beleeve and obey what they impose and this Prelacie to exercise dominion and reign as Kings over their faithfull Brethren in Christ And hath not these been formerly acknowledged by themselves Hereticall Besides is not this Heresie to tie the Priesthood of Melchisedech to any learned Tribe whatsoever since it was one main end of Christs Ascension to give gifts