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A45631	Some queries concerning the election of members for the ensuing Parliament together with a reply by way of query to the same.	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.; Harrington, James, 1664-1693. Roger L' Estrange's queries considered.	1690 (1690)	Wing H833; ESTC R11091	7,602	15

be fit for this Query-maker to call in question the Actions of Parliament and if it be how he will make it out that the House changed the Right of Succession and how will the Church of England answer to a Charge against their boasted Loyalty for suffering an Impudent Scribler to call the making his Majesty King a Voting Queen Mary out of three Kingdoms or whether this be not such an Affront to his Majesty and the present Government as any Subject that has respect for either cannot but regret 9. Whether it is not as likely they should be his Majesties Friends that Voted for making him King as those that were against it and whether ever the King told this Query-maker he was sensible they had Republican Designs in doing it 10. Whether the Temper of those Members does not deserve Censure who were so hasty for a General Pardon that they could not stay to think of making Inquisition for Blood that so the guilt of all the Blood spilt in the late Tyranny might devolve on the Nation but preferr'd their own security against the lash of the Law to the just retribution that God Almighty expected from their hands in whom he had placed the dispensing of Justice and to the King 's being just to his Declaration 11. Whether it was not a sign of an excelling Loyalty in those Members who so carefully provided that the King should swear at his Coronation to protect the Bishops in all their Episcopal Rights who at the same time refused to swear Allegiance to him or to own him as their Head and how much it went against the grain to have them suspended for it is discernable in every Query he makes 12. Whether Whipping Oats was not an Instance of Tyranny and Cruelty in a Nation that of all the World pretends to Humanity and to have no Tortmes practised and whether the opposing that reversing Vote was not more to shew their good Will than any Spleen to the Man himself 13. Whether if all these things do not unqualifie a Member for a place in the House Qu. 6. Why being banished by the Cruelty of an Abdicated Tyrant should unfit a Man for the Service of his Countrey remains to be proved 14. Whether the boasting of Loyalty and the Church of England may not evince a Factor for Popery as well as saying I am a true Engilsh Man proves one to be none and whether the Loyalty so lately in Vogue and the Zeal for the Church was not more in the Mouths of those very Men who since in France and Ireland went openly to Mass than in any other and whether the Church of England are not now too much awake to be so ridden again 15. Whether England is reduced to so much Exigence as to make Composition for time with the States of Holland for what they expended on our Account and whether this Gentleman is not for lessening our Figure in the World and our Value abroad which is indeed much for our Interest by having a Message sent to the States viz. May it please your High and Mightinesses your poor and needy Brethren of England are not able yet to repay you but if you will have Patience with them they will be very honest and pay you all And further Whether this Gentleman ever look'd over the Act for repaying the Dutch to see how many Years it will be before they will have their Money 16. Whether the Gentleman did not design to leave some unanswerable Query in his Paper by not telling who did so that so we might not examine the particular Case and whether if any Member saw an Act of Parliament evaded and the King cheated as he was most loyally in that Bill it was not a Noble and Generous Honesty to move for a just Review even among his best Friends 17. Whether his 13th Query has not a little Nonsense in it and whether he can shew any particular quality in the Parliament of K. James the second to distinguish them from all Parliaments that ever was save that there was a full Brigade of Sword-men in it for which he in particular quarrels at this Parliament in which are very few 18. Whether any Man may not start Questions that no Man can Answer or what Scruples any Man made at the Actions of K. James which he so much repented of as to make him desist in Point of Conscience from standing at the last Election And for a Query by the way Whether it is not likely they have some other end than a bare serving their Countrey in the House who bid so high for Votes that an honest Man that has no self-end cannot afford to give and that for the pure and single benefit of Religion and propagation of the Church of England Debauch the Nation with drunken Treats to engage them to choose them to sit in Parliament that they may plead Priviledge in Barr of their just * I do not mean Sir Peter Rich Debts and whether this was not a grand Reason why a Bill for Regulating Elections has so often been offered but could never Pass in the last House 19. Whether the 15th Query be not the bottom of all the rest and the onely Card they have to play who watch for our Division to overturn the Government once again in hopes of reaping the sweet Harvest of a common Calamity to make amends for their present Poverty who formerly made great gain of the Pretence of Religion Hen Quantum profuit haec fabula Christi 20. Whether it is likely this Libeller shall be Judge of the good Nature or sence of the People of England or that his Opinion must be the Standard of Elections to come 21. Whether his Reflection on Mr. Sachaveril and publishing a List of Members is not more their Honour and Vindication than Reflection especially from his sordid Scandal on them in his second Query 22. Whether To give one Instance of the Ingenuity and Generosity of the Party this Fellow pleads for it be not very remarkable how our Four new Candidates for London stood by and see a profligate drunken Fellow that calls himself of the Church of England bid the Sheriff of London executing his Office with unquestionable and indisputable Integrity Kiss his Posteriors on the Hustings in Guild-hall and not so much as Reprove him for it much less Commit him as they ought in Honour to have done and whether in doing it they had not gained more Honour and more vindicable Credit than by clandestine Calls on the Livery forestalling of Votes and Sunday Cabals engaging an Interest for their Election 23. Whether the Kings late Letter for the Reforming the Clergy and the whole Nation has in it any such horrible thing as to have it publickly called A damn'd Phanatical Cant And whether the Church it self ever pretended to be so Infallible as to need no such Admonition or that no Reformation can be made in it either in its Hierarchy or in its Members that can fall short of Presbytery and Phanatioism 24. Whether Dr. Sherlock's appearing in the Pulpit after a Deprivation by Act of Parliament be not the Effect of the same Spirit who being advised by the Learned in the Law and permitted by his Superiours in the same Circumstances dare openly affront the Government and bid Defiance to an Act of Parliament as a further Testimony of the Practice as well as Profession of the Doctrine of Passive Obedience Lastly Why the Church of England should after all the Publick Acknowledgments of their calling in the P. of O. and after their Solemn Joyning with him in his Enterprize and thanks to him for performing it and to God for the Success now strive to have it agreed that he came in by Conquest which is past my Learning to unriddle and very little for the Honour of the Nation for them to acknowledge LONDON Printed for John Palmer 1690.

SOME QUERIES Concerning the Election of Members For the Ensuing PARLIAMENT TOGETHER With a REPLY by way of QUERY to the same LONDON Printed in the Year 1690. Some Queries concerning the Election of Members for the Ensuing Parliament 1. WHether the King hath not lately by Actions as well as Promises declar'd himself for the Interest of the Church of England and whether those Republicans who have always made it their business to libel Kings can more effectually abuse his present Majesty than in traducing him as their Friend and in using as heretofore a King's Name against his Design and Interest 2. Whether those are true to the Interest of that Church who endeavour'd in the last Session to incapacitate some of the best Members of it and who were so far from granting that Amnesty which the King desir'd and propos'd that they carryed their Fury back to more than one preceding Reign and set aside all Acts of Indemnity but that which most of them need in the Year 1660 3. Whether since the Dissenters do not now desire a Toleration for themselves which we have already granted but openly threaten and pursue their Revenge on us it is not necessary that these apparent dangers at least should awaken us out of our Lethargy and whether the Negligence of the Church of England which on like occasions heretofore was thought the result of Pity and good Nature would not now be esteem'd the Effect of Cowardice and Stupidity 4. Whether those Gentlemen of the Sword who have Offices in Ireland would not be better imploy'd in a Council of War than a Senate-House Whether if they think it convenient it would not be proper for them to make one Visit to the Remains of their Regiments there and to contribute by some other means to the Reducing that Kingdom than by giving Taxes 5. Whether those restless Phanaticks who have been bred up in Rebellion and have always since been active Promoters of Sedition ought not in conscience to desist now and to be contented with the single glory of having once ruin'd this Kingdom 6. Whether those Worthy Gentlemen have been justly expos'd in a late impudent Pamphlet that were more hasty for sending a speedy Relief into Ireland See a List of those that were for the Regency 1690. Lond. than for changing the Right of Succession in an Hereditary Kingdom and whether they may not possibly deserve a place again in the House though they thought it more expedient for this Nation to beat K. James out of that One Kingdom than to Vote his Daughter out of Three 7. Whether the King be not now sensible that most of those hasty Abdicators did not change the Succession out of kindness to him but out of a farther Design of bringing in a Common-wealth or in other words of making this an Elective and precarious Monarchy 8. Whether the Temper of those Excellent Members deserves Censure who have promoted a General Pardon and in that an Universal Quiet and Satisfaction and who were not very active in suspending the Bishops unwhipping Oats and in excepting every body out of the no-Act of Indemnity 9. Whether any Man can justly stand Recommended to your Choice by no other Advantages than those of an old Treason and a long Exile for it and whether one may reasonably be thought to have improv'd his Crime into Vertue and to become a Patriot of his Country by being outlaw'd into Holland 10. Whether such men as these may not possibly be Factors for Geneva and Amsterdam and more mindful of their late Fellow-Burgers than their old Countrymen and whether their frequent protestation That they are true Englishmen would not convince the greatest Sceptick if he understands their veracity that they are not so 11. Whether our good Brethren the Dutch according to their usual kindness would not in all probability have forborn to arrest us for their Debt 'till the Conquest of Ireland had put us in a capacity of repaying them and whether those Men who in the absence of most of the Members gave 600000 l. to the Dutch did not more consider their own good will to the Creditors than our ability I do not mean Sir R. Nudigate nor Sir R. Cotton of Cheshire 12. Whether it was not a strange instance of Justice in a Knight of the Shire to move for a new Assessment of his own County and whether if the County do not choose him again they will not demonstratively shew that they have more kindness for their Money than their Representative 13. Whether there ever was a better Parliament in General than that of K. James the Second and whether any body would approve the Re-election of those worthy Members who do not wish for a new Monmouth and another Argyle 14. Whether many honest Gentlemen of Nice Principles did not desist from standing at the last Election as having raised more Scruples to themselves than they could easily answer and therefore not hoping to untie the Gordian Knot put it for once into the hands of those men who could effectually cut it And whether now these Gentlemen will not be concern'd to redeem their neglect and the more diligently to avert the blow by how much the less careful they were to prevent the stroke 15. Whether the Clergy of the C. of E. are not concern'd to be as diligent against Phanatacism now as of late against Popery at least such of them as have a greater Respect for Pulpits and Chappels than for Tubs and Barns 16. Whether if those men who were incapacitated for procuring or consenting to Surrenders shall again Vote for their Judges they will not give a signal Instance of their forgiving humour and shew to the World that they have a great share of good Nature though perhaps not an equal portion of Sense Qu. Whether Mr. Sacheverell 17. Whether it would not be Heroick for all those Publick-spirited Gentlemen to take up Mr. S 's Resolution of never standing again 'till they can be chosen by honest Regulators only 18. Whether the incapacitating Clause was not brought into the House by Mr. Sach and whether the following List be not a true account of those that seconded him in it Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Mayor Recorder Alderman Steward Sheriff Common-Council-man Town-Clerk Magistrate or Officer who did take upon him to consent to or joyn in any such Surrender or Instrument purporting such Surrender as aforesaid Or did solicit procure prosecute or did pay or contribute to the charge of prosecuting any Scire Facias Quo Warranto or Information in the nature of Quo Warranto by this Act declared void shall be and is declared adjudged and Enacted to be for the space of seven years uncapable and disabled to all Intents and Purposes to bear or execute any Office Imployment or Plate of Trust as a Member of such respective Body Corporate or in or for such respective City Town Burgh or Cinque-port whereof or wherein he was