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Eighteen new court-quæries humbly offered to the serious consideration, and mature deliberation of all the good honest hearted people of the three nations: of great concernment towards the stopping our breaches, and the making up of the divisions amongst us. By several well-wishers to our settlement.
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EIGHTEEN NEW COURT-QUAERIES HUMBLY OFFERED To the serious consideration and mature deliberation of all the good honest hearted people of the Three Nations of great concernment towards the stopping our Breaches and the making up of the Divisions amongst us By several well-wishers to our Settlement LONDON Printed in the year MDCLIX EIGHTEEN COURT-QUERIES c. I. WHether this Lord Protectors Patience in letting go his â—old so calmly and tamely were in him a Vertue or not and if it were a Vertue whether Necessity did not make it so II. Whether eight thousand pounds per annum and withall free liberty to take the Country Air be not very sufficient an reasonable considerations and stipend for the old Protectress as a very gratefull acknowledgment from our Free-State of the good service which her husband in his life time did for this Commonwealth and whether or no she ought in conscience to flight and undervalue this ample testimony of the Officers good afâ—ection and charity to her III. Whether if the Sky should fâ—ll there world be any work for a Lark-catcher at Whitehall IV. Whether the Army ought not to have given to them new Red Coats and black buttons now to mourn for the Depar ure of this Protector as well as they had for the Decease of â—he Old one V. That seeing so it is and must and shall be that the Courtiers must of necessity repair all of them to their respective dwelling and habitations bag and baggage whether it would not be a greater expence and burthen to the States upon whose hands they yet lye to send for Mules out of Egypt for their Convoy than 〈◊〉 them their next neighbours in James his Park the Asses to perform that piece of drudgery VI. VVhether or no Peter Sterry the Court Confessâ—ur when he preach'd in the Chapell the very next Lords day after his Hâ—ghuesse cied and uttered in that his Sermoâ— there words either these or to this effect viz. As certainly as I hold the word of God in my left hand so certainly is his late Highnesse now at the right hand of God interceding for the iniquities of this sinfull Nation did not commit an high and most horrid piece of blasphemy And then whether He does not therefore very well deserve to be a fellow-seeler oâ— James Naylour's Sentence and to be as coarsly used as He who yet continues at his expiatory task of pounding hemp in the House of Correction VII VVhether or not Dr. John Owen and Dr. Thomas Goodwin would make it any 〈◊〉 of matter of Conscience to accept of the two Archbishopricks of York and Canterbury if the State could think fit to reward their endeavours with so rich a profer VIII VVhether it be not very fitting and necessary and much tending to the gladding of the Hearts of many men that the Banquetting house at Whitehall be speedily remoov'd from thence and carried crosse the way to Wallingford-house for the noble Officers of our invincible and successefull Armies to triumph in after all their encounters and valiant atchievements And whether the State would not do well as to that end and purpose with all expedition possible to make all the Citizens Pioneers for the carrying on of that Great Work IX VVhether these Proverbs following 1. That some man man may better steal a Goose than another pluck a feather 2. That bought wit is best 3. That Occasion makes the thief be all most true and authentick and confirm'd by modern experience yea or no X. VVhether it may consist with the tender and delicate education of our new Ladies of Honour to dabble through the Country dew these Summer mornings with a milking pail on their heads and consequently whether it is not likely to be very much prejudicial to their beauties to go after this â—tate out of God's blessing into the Warm Sun XI VVhether illiterate men partial covetous worldly minded self-ended greedy of gain having mens persons in admiration naughty an hypocritical be competent judges according to the Canoâ— of the â—oly VVrit of Students in both Universities of our Land for the discharge of the most sacred Ministerial Function XII VVhether Mr. Hugh Peters when he kept daily and â—ightly correspondence with the Gentleman's wife in the Low-Countries during the absence of her husband upon service in the worres did punctual y perform that â—readfull threatning of his in the hear of his Zeal against Popery That He would lay the whore of Babylon upon hâ—r back And whether that mad 〈◊〉 Spirit wherewith he seems alwayes possess'd becomes a man of peace or suits with the meeknesse and humility of the glorious Gospell XIII VVhether Mr. Needham the Curranto-maker the Court Pamphleteer being an impudent fellow a lyeâ— and forger of forein leâ—ters a mercenary inâ—ormer an abuser and base vilifier of worthy and eminent persons an insulter over gallant mens afflictions and miseries A murtherer of mens â—ame credit reputation to their utter and most inevitable ruine and destruction does not very well deserve to forfeit his Eares to the Pillory XIV VVhether all the men of the three Nations that lately made 〈◊〉 to his Highnesse are dead or alive XV. VVhether now Whitehall be not a place commodious to make a Play-house of having been accustomed for these many yeares to such alteration of Scaenes and the pensioners c. well accomplisht to turn Stage-Players First because it is conceiv'd they have now little else to do Secondly because they have been bred up upon that Stage and can act any part and Thirdly because they never wear good cloaths longer than the Play continues XVI VVhether the old Protector 's Cradles standing in Westminster Abby in the same place where the High Altar or Communion Table formerly stood is not the setting up of one Superstâ—tion where another Superstition as 't was termed was pull'd down and whether the Essigies when it was there might not be call'd without any abuse of Scripture the abhomination of desolation in the holy place XVII VVhether the wainscot Presse that is made in Henry the seventh his Chapell for reception of the aforementioned Idoll being as yet empty and thought unfitting for that Employment would not serve a great deal better to keep in it the sacred Reliques of VVell-affected Persons in the Common-wealth as for example The Lord Brooks's Eye The flappets of Mr. William Prynn's Eares My Lord of Essex's Prolifick Instrument Sir John Hotham's Head Lundsford's teeth Mildmaye's Jewels Dr. Dorislaus's four quarters Alderman Hoyle's Rope the dagger that kill'd Watt Tyler The Lord Pride's slings and tallies the Lord Hewson's shooing-horn the Lord Barkstead's thimbles and bodkins with many other remarkable things of this nature which it may be else may happen to be lost or forgotten XVIII VVhether all these eighteen Queries are not worthy the perusal of every sober melancholy man and very mainly effectnal if they may but be answered according to the earnest longings gapings and expectations of the honest people of this Commonwealth to remove a great many scurvy base incommodities dammages and inconveniences which otherwise may chance to fall upon us FINIS