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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88085	Considerations by way of sober queries, whether the state and condition of the three nations have been, or may be bettered, or made far worse, by the sitting, and acting of the remnant of the Old Parliament, without a free and full assembly, chosen by the consent and election of the people, which are most concerned therein. / By Tho. Le White Esq;	Le White, Thomas.	1660 (1660)	Wing L1834; Thomason 669.f.23[53]; ESTC R211592	4,078	1

present distempers divisions and distractions 20. Whether it were civil or handsome to quarrel and affront the City in pulling down their Gates and Portcullisles and imprisoning some of their Aldermen and Common-Counsel-men who in their greatest distresse Ient them ready money Plate and Jewels and supplyed them with men and their best assistance 21. Whether Kings or other Princes assuming absolute power to themselves without any to controule them in their exorbitances as the Roman Senate had their Tribunes and the great Court of Arragon which over ruled them in their extream actings be not most necessary to be put in practise in a Free-State and Common-wealth 22. Whether the present Remnant of a few Parliament Members of the old and illegal Assembly ought in Law or Reason to assume to themselves an absolute power over the three Nations without a King a Protector the Nobility or some partner with them in the Government that may qualifie that their assumed power 23. Whether on supposition that the Counties and Burroughs chuse and elect any of the secluded Members for filling up a Free Parliament the remnant of the old Parliament can or ought in reason except against these so chosen 24. Whether that Kingdom or Nation can be safe and secure where a King or a few shall assume the sole and absolute power of Gouernment unto themselves without some one or other Partner that may controule them on all Just occasions And lastly quaritur on due consideration Whether a mixt Government as ever it hath been in England will not be the best safe and secure Government for this Nation and all others 25. Whether the present doubling of the Taxes on the universal Nation will not bring the Parliament into an Odium altissimum make them hateful to the whole Nation whereas legally and with ease they may raise within two Months not so little as a Million out of that wherein they have been most notoriously cousened and deceived were theypleased to hearken to the discovery 26. Whether as concerning that regreet and dislike which all the Nation take against that absolute and Arbitrary Power of some few which at present assume the sole power of Government to themselves so anarke and hateful to the Universal people may not be regulated and ballanced by setting up again the Lords House and that all the Nobility of the 3 Nations may be assembled to sit Act and Vote as they in their own house anciently have done in a Full and Free Parliament whereby the Government may return into a mixture of Government since Kingship Single persons and proud Prelacy are laid aside that so the present remnant of the old Parliament may gain the last love and respect of the whole Nation especially since it appears not to any man of reason and reading wherefore the Nobility and Barons of the Land should be excluded out of the great Council which in all ancient times have withstood the Arbitrary Power of our Kings and recovered the ancient Laws of the people even Magn Carta and Carta de forresta as in many presidents its apparent amongst which this one only we shall here insert as the Record every where extant manifests Henry sirnamed Bew-cleark youngest son to William the conquerour staving off all Parliaments which might and would cross him in his design to Rule at will and pleasure after 15 years of their discontent the Lords enforced him at last to call a Parliament at Salsbury where he was compel'd to restore unto the people their old Laws the Record runs thus Legam Edwardi vobis reddo cum illis emendationibus quibus poter meus eam emendavit Concillio Baronum suorum I restore unto you the Laws of King Edward as they were amended by my father by the Council of his Barons Hence we may see the power and use of the Bartons of those times and in sundry other Reigns how couragiously they stood up oftentimes fought for the Liberties Freedoms of the people Why now and in these times they should be put down and excluded from the great Council as useless is past many wise mens understanding especially by an inconsiderable number of the lower or middle sort of the people but rather admitted as we have before said for the ballancing of arbitrary power assumed by an inconsiderable number in respect of a Full and Free Parliament 27. Whether the Parliament in the late war did not raise their Forces against the Kings arbitrary Power And whether at present they assume not to themselves an absolute and Supream power over the 3 Nations 28. And lastly Whether in these times of divisions distractions Factions they do take into their consideration that of Solomon viz. Oppression makes a wise man mad And whether there is not a kind of ambitious madness amongst those which said as is reported they would fire the City when they could not obtain so much mony as they demanded on Lo●n FINIS LONDON Printed for the Author 1660.

Considerations by way of Sober Queries Whether the State and Condition of the three Nations have been or may be bettered or made far worse by the sitting and acting of the Remnant of the Old Parliament without a Free and Full Assembly chosen by the Consent and Election of the People which are most concerned therein By THO. LE WHITE Esq 1. WHether Parliaments heretofore have not been the Darlings of the people and whether at present they are not the Starvelings of the Nation 2. Whether the Parliament hath either bettered the Church and State or made them worse under the umbrage of reformation since their putting down of Kingship Peers and Prelates 3. Whether of late they have not made all the Counties in England their enemies in rejecting their Petitions and Addresses to them for a Free Parliament and whether it be not against Law Reason and the ancient Custome of England to debarr the Counties and ancient Boroughs of their free choyce of Knights and Burgesses by limiting them with Qualifications 4. Whether this way of Qualifications be not of the same nature with that of Richard the second who made choyce of such members for a Parliament as fuited to his own ends and pleasure and on the regret and dislike of the people guarded and defended his packt Parliament Viris armatis et sagittarij garded them with armed men and Archers 5. Whether the Lawes enacted by a confined Parliament can either by Law or reason oblige the people to obey them when as they shall be debarr'd the freedom of their Elections siince 't is their Birth-right to chuse their own Laws by their Respresentative 6. Whether this way of Qualification and debarring the Natives of thei just Rights will not be a furtherance of the encrease of our distractions and in the conclusion bring all to confusion 7. Whether on these our distractions and disagreements it may not invite Charles Stewart as they call him to come in with a forreign Army and to Land his forces in sundry places as in the year 1600 Don John de Aquila did Ireland the more to distract the Queens forces as at Kings-sayle Baltimore and Ben Haven 8. Whether then he will not find ten for one that will side with him and whether then many of the Parliaments Souldiers will not revolt from them adhere to him 9. Whether then the Parliament will find any of their old fast friends which lent them their Money and Plate on the Publick Faith which they never restored or any of those that all along the late war assisted and stood close unto them to the losse of all they had yet never got any reparation other then slights and scorn neither a groat more then out of old Olivers private purse and that also taken away from poor wounded and maimed Souldiers sufferers and redeemed slaves whilst many of these which now do and will fit at the Helm have inricht themselves beyond reason and measure 10. Whether as the affaires of she Nation are now carried on there are any hopes of better times 11. Whether as concerning the Church there is any expectation of bettering it since by those Commissioners authorized by the Parliament to put out all ●candalous and deboist Ministers they have thrust out too many Pious and Orthodox Divines and plac'd ignorant Sectaries and illiterate Mechanicks in their rooms and many Churches left without any man either to teach preach or pray and the most considerable Livings let out by the Commissioners to their Sonns or friends and servants at the fifth part or lesse then the yearly value and yet no accompt given to the State whereby not so little as 100000 li. hath been purs'd up in silence which would and may yet serve for payment of the Souldiers would the Parliament look into it in time 12. Whether a stander-by may not sometimes see more then they which play the Game and then whether it be seditious to tell the Gamesters wherein they play'd amiss 13. Whether then in such cases it be Fellony or Treason publickly to declare the willfull errours of a few or such as will not be told of their faults especially when they concern a multitude even the Peace and safety of the Nations 14. Whether it suits with Justice that my Lord Craven should loose all his Lands when his greatest delinquency lyes in the greatness of his Estate 15. Whether it suits with Justice that Sir John Stowell though a most notorious Delinquent should not have the benefit of his Articles on the taking in of Excestter since the very Heathens evermore made good their faith given to an enemy 16. Whether it was not high ingratitude in those that have villified the parts and person of the late Protector Oliver both before his death and since who as all men knows was the only instrument under God to reduce the three Nations to peace and quietness as also to disgrace dishonour and distrengthen both his worthy Sons 17. Whether this Parliament hath not of late years and after they had quitted themselves of the late Kings power under pretence of supplying the Church with able and Pious Mimsters by Tryars of partial spirits admitted approved of sundry men of no great merit refusing such though learned and Pious men as have been legally presented by their Patrons whereby the very Inheritance of divers Nob●emen and Gentlemen who anciently have had Jus Patronatus a Right by Law belonging to their Lordships have been debarr'd of the tight of their Representatives 18. Whether in Mr. Henry Miles his Case and Proposition presented to ●o the Parliament for a Register to be chosen in every County for Registring ●…l Contracts Sales of Lands Leases for years or Lives in their respective Counties at the doors of the Inhabitants and at the tenth part of the charge he Vendors pay for their Inrowlment at London and those County Registers very Tearm ordered to send up a Transcript of all the Contracts c. to the Grand Register at London where there as also in the Countrey search might have been made c. for avoiding of all fraud and Covin c. and the said granted to the said Myles under the Broad Seal of two Kings approved by two Lord Keepers two Atturney Generalls and all the Judges of the Land and the same well relisht and approv'd in Parliament as also the persons chosen for the execution thereof by the Parliament to be only such as had suffered much in the late War And yet notwithstanding this setrlement the whole work so benesicial to all the Nation so much approved by the Votes of Parliament blanck'd cast aside and stopt by one Lawyers only means 19. I say again without scandal or any seditious thought but only to move the faulty to amendment Whether Parliaments as well as Kings may not be told of their faults especially at such a time and season as this is wherein the Universal people stand●gazing what may be the sad issue of our