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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89728	The northern queries from the Lord Gen: Monck his quarters; sounding an allarum, to all loyal hearts, and free-born English-men, Arms, arms, arms, in defence of our lives, laws, liberties, and parliaments; against the tyrannical power, and domination of the sword.	Albemarle, George Monck, Duke of, 1608-1670.	1659 (1659)	Wing N1297; Thomason E1005_15; ESTC R203060	6,272	8

The Northern QVERIES FROM The Lord Gen Monck HIS QVARTERS SOUNDING An Allarum to all Loyal Hearts and Free-born English men Arms Arms Arms In Defence of our Lives Laws Liberties and Parliaments Against the Tyrannical Power and Domination of the Sword Printed in the Year of Englands Confusions and are to be sold at the Sign of Wallingford-House right against A Free Parliament Some necessary Queries I. WHether there can be any reason of interrupting the Parliament for any other cause then their endeavours to destroy the Interest and Freedom of the three Nations which cannot be reasonably suspected in so faithfull a Parliament 2 What one matter of Fact the Parliament have done to the prejudice of these Nations that they should be thus violently turned out of the House by their own hired servants Suppose the taking away of those nine mens Commissions were an Errour in the Parliament yet could it not be an Errour of such a Magnitude as to deserve that they should have the Doors shut upon them is it reasonable that the whole Soveraignty of these Nations should be destroyed and so the three Nations abused and left without all face of Government because that wine men had their Commissions taken from them most of them having been false to their trust in time past and seeing persons of more trust and faithfullness then nine were provided for their places what prejudice could it be to the Nation 3 Whether these men which now cry peace peace and continue their taking money of the Nation as Officers in the Army to defend their Masters the Parliament and do yet suffer them to be interrupted disquieted 〈◊〉 or thrust out of the House and also suffer the people to be inslaved and all unrighteousness to raign whilst they have the Sword in their hands We say Whether these men are not turned Cowards and for fear of losing their own Wealth Cry peace peace while there is more cause to take up the Sword of Military Justice then ever in defence of the Priviledges of Parliament and Freedoms of the People 4 Whether it was more a fault in the King to demand 5 Members and to come with his Cavalry to disturb the Parliament then in these men which have thrust 〈◊〉 Parliament out of Doors 5 Whether the Parli have not as much right to dispose of the M●litin and and Treasure of the Nation now as when they contended with the King for it 6 Whether they which took their Commissions from the Parliament at their late sitting did not therein own their Power to dispose of Commissions and so of the whole conduct of the Army 7 Whether those men which have now Interrupted the Parliament have not sinned against their own Consciences and betrayed their Trust which was deligated to them which gave them their Commissions 8 Whether Sir G. Booth in opposing and endeavouring to destroy the Parliament at such a distance and giving them a fair Engagement in the Field where God might decide the Controversie or they which came upon the Parliament at unawares and turned them out at Doors are the greatest Offendors against the Interest of these Nations 9 Whether if Sir G. Booth was carrying on a Design against God in his opposing the Parliament and present Government they also are not Designers against God who when they had destroyed Sir G. Booths party by killing some and taking others prisoners have themselves done violence to the whole Parliament their Master which empowred them and paid them their Wages Was it worthy of death and confiscation in him and his party and is it a virtue in these Was it evil in the Parliaments Enemies to do violence unto them and is it a vertue in such as fought for them and called themselves the Parliaments faithful Servant to interrupt the Parliament Had Zimrey peace which fl●w his Master 10 Whether those peoples Conditions is worst who for differing in Religion from those in Authority have their goods taken away and their persons inslaved by Tyrants or theirs which voluntarily make themselves slaves in civil things to the Lusts and Will of men that they may have leave to dister from them in matters of T●●●h and Worship 11 Whether it was not the too ready complyance of the people of the Churches with Cromwel which gave him the confidence to mount the Throne ride themselves and all the Nations at his pleasure 12 Whether those men then and these people now which call to the Churches for advice and help seek any thing else but to be Masters of the Nations by their complyance with the Churches and will inslave the Churches themselves at length 13 Whether the Grandees of the Army can carry on this their Design against the Parliament without the help of the Churches and whether they would have called in their help if they would have carryed on their Design without them 14 Whether some men are not so ignorant as to think they have Liberty of Conscience when they have nor Liberty in their Persons and Estates as if Liberty of Conscience were any other thing then not to be punished in their persons and Estates for Conscience sake These men are not like Moses and the people of Israel who would not part with a half of their Civil Things that they might have leave to worship God aright which teacheth us not to surrender our Civil Rights to Tyrants for the obtaining Liberty of Conscience 15 Whether it's just that the whole Nation should be made miserable by having all their civil Freedoms prestitute to one or a few Mens Wills that so some few of the whole Nation may have the Liberty of their Consciences The Liberty of these men cost dear which is purchased with no less then the inslaving of the whole Nation in their Persons and Estates 16 Seeing the Militia consisteth of and is maintained by the good people of these Nations out of their own purses which ought to have no Master but themselves any but their Trustees assembled in a High Court of Parliament ought to have the dispose thereof 17 Whether its reasonable that the Grandees of the Army which are part of the Militia should have the dispose of it otherwise then as servants to them which pay them their wages 18 Whether the people may not well expect that they which have taken the power to appoint General-Officers to the Army to the increase of the charge of the State should pay those men their extraordinary wages And why may not the Parl. contend with the Grandees of the Army for the dispose of the Militia as well as with the King and expect a Blessing of God upon their Engagement 19 Whether the aspersions which are raised on the Parliament are not invented on purpose to deceive the people and make them believe the Parl were not turned out of the House onely for taking away 8 or 9 mens Commissions but that they deserved to be turned out and that it 's no Treason in the Grandees

so to do 20 Whether any one thing of which the Parl is aspersed be true or not As first How can they be suspected to intend to persecute any man for his Religion seeing they free all the Quakers and such as were in prison for not paying of Tythes and have in their Resolve Octob. 10.59 concluded that it 's not del●gated to them to constrain in matters of Religion 21 And how can the Parliament justly be accused as having done little seeing they so diligently and daily served the people at their own charge Will not every Book of our Weekly Intelligence witness against these men as very Lyers that any should take the confidence to brand them with the Name of Presbyterians who themselves are not willing that their own Religion should be set as a brand on themselves Do men cry out against persecution and will they persecute them which have the Soveraignty of Three Nations 22 How can the not bringing Sir G. Booth and his party to a Tryal be charged upon them seeing the Report of his business was not brought into the Parliament above 9 days before they were last interrupted If it had yet how could they have brought him to a Tryal before the Term except they should have set up a High-Court of Justice contrary to all Law and Right 22 Whether those Officers of the Army which in their Proposals to the Parliament desired that a Law might be made That no Officers of the Army might be put out of their Employment without being tryed at a Court-Martial Have not they acted against their own Law Reason putting by their Commands divers honourable Officers of the Army all persons of unspotted lives and men of great Trust and Faithfulness and that without so much as either Tryal Examination or any Charge against them but because they were faithful to their Masters the Parliament and would not betray their Trust reposed in them And whether there is not more reason those 9 mere●nary men should leave their Commissions then the Parliament should be turned out of the House 24 Whether in the Armies Plea page the 10. where they excuse themselvs from the Imputation of being against a godly and learned Ministery be not a flattering and cogging with the Priests of the Nation who they must in will take along with them in this their Treasonable Work rather then fail 25 Whether God may not justly bring a grievous Plague of Warre and Ruine upon all those men in these Nations who have ventured their own lives slain many a man in the defence of the Priviledges of Parliament viz. that the Parliament might sit and vote free and dispose of the Militia and Treasure of these Nations if such men should now stand Neuters and not stand up for the Good old Cause again which is the Priviledges of Parliament and Freedoms of the People And they deceive us which pretend to be for the Good Old Cause without these two 26 Whether the good people of this Nation can conceive this difference 'twixt Parliament and Army whereupon the Parliament was interrupted to be any other then a personal quarrel If so Whether they are not as much engaged in Conscience Equity and Justice to own the Parliament and stand by them now as at any other time in the doing of Justice upon all those that 〈◊〉 to the King and his Party 27 Whether the Nomination of 13 men by those so formerly named to that Work by part of the Officers of the Army to be propounded to the Council of the Officers as they are pleased to call themselves can reasonably oblige by any Colour of Law or Reason the Body of A●herents to the Cause or any ●ndividual Member whose consent is nor nor is like to be obtained thereunto 28 Whether our Commonwealth is not reduc'd after so high and ga●lant Coptests in Councils and in the Field for Common-Good into a pittiful narrow compass whilest the Foundations must be laid by a part of the Officers of the Army where 5 or 6 rule all the rest and sway them to such things as may lay the Foundation of their own greatness not the peoples good the satiating and accomplishment of their own ambitious covetous and revengful desires and designs nor the good peoples peace satisfaction or settlement 29 What is the real true difference 'twixt the Turks Jan suries and that part of our English Army that have attempted so highly lately against their Masters the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England and go about to set up others of their own making And if so let the good people of this Nation consider with what safety honour or Conscience they can partake with them in this Evil Partake not with them in their sins lest ye partake with them in their Plagues 30 Whether in point of safety ye can joyn with them in the ruining of this Parliament that was the strongest Bulwork if not the onely the Nation had against the Common-Enemy the hopefullest Supporters Assertors and Pillars of our Laws Rights and Freedoms as Men and Christians 31 Whether in point of honour and honesty or a good Concience ye having owned them your A●dresses to them receiving Laws from them professing Obedience together with all faithfulness and sincerity in taking your Commissions from them and acting under their Authority even to bloud 32 Wh●ther ye do not inevitably contract the guilt of all the bloud spilt in the late Wars in the quarrel of this Parliament against the King and his party and justifie the Enemy and their proceedings and condemn your selves and all your actings for the vindication of the Parliament and our Common Right and Liberties 33 If so Whether then ye may nor expect certain and suddain destruction as a B●esom to sweep you away guilt of bloud crying with such a loud Voice in the Ears of God who is powerful to revenge it 34 Whether the Armies Plea be not a Play at Foot-ball t●ssing the Good Old Cause too and fro sometimes in the stinking Kennel of their own selfish corrupt Interests sometimes up the Tops of the Fabricks of their New raised Designs and Projects c 35 Whether ever any Common-wealth will trust the Baptized Churches again seeing they have dealt thus persideously with the Honourable Parliament who as the Fathers of the Nation were pleased to put part of the Militia into their hands for the security of the Priviledges of Parliament and Freedoms of all men against Domestick and Forreign Enemies yet they have malitiously and shamefully betrayed their Trust in opposing the Parliament from whom they had their Commissions and have fided with those Traytors which interrupted the Parliament in October 13.59 which will be as a Brand upon the Church-men for ever except they come in and now appear with General Monck and the rest of the true English-men for the re-estalishing the Parliament 36 If this Parliament was Constituted by all the Authority of the Three Nations and in an Act