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A91593	Quære's, seasonable, to be humbly presented to King Charles, at Holmby, and others, for his Parliament at Westminster: vvith a few to be taken to heart, by the common people of England, communicated: / by Philanactodemus. Whereunto is added a prologue and an epilogue, for the better illustration of the thing to the different reader.	Philanactodemus.	1647 (1647)	Wing Q174; Thomason E384_4; ESTC R201442	12,558	27

THE EPILOGUE Discourst by the Dramatist Semi Prelaticall Protestant Papist and Independent Dramatist NOw Sir what doe you thing of this inlightment doe you Master Protestant know what you have fought for all this while were not you of the same opinion with me at the instant of those misguidances demonstrated now unto you did you not observe the practice of the latter Prelates to be quite contrary to what was used in Queene Elizabeth and King Jame's times could you beleeve the profession of the Arch-bishop of Canterbury at his death before your owne eye sight in your own experience in his life time Are you bound to let the worship and glory of God to be dishonoured by your suffering when by your sword you may preserve it Doth the Church Militant consist meerly in suffering is God called the Lord of Hosts because his people must submit rather then defend his true Religion Js the Arbitration in Government of a Prince though never so pious more convincible to the reason of obeyers then these lawes made for the necessities and requests of those that are to be governed Semi-Prelat I must confesse I was of your opinion but I have been in a dreame a great while I got by chance to Oxford where I was so plyed with Colledge beere and lewd Sack and so followed by the Schollers with drinke and sophistry that I lost all my former remembrance till I came home where when J had considered a little and began to waver in my opinion my wife comes in and posts me back to Oxford to bring home some honour and she added further that besides the saving of my owne life and my estate the King might bestow such a round-headed neighbours house and land upon me for the King would surely hang all the Round-heads upon this I returned and raised what forces J could but I did not find the King so bountifull as I expected and the widdowes of some that had raised troopes and ventred their lives but dyed by sicknesse were as hardly used for the wardships of their Children I cannot blame the King for this in all though he be close enough but must lay it upon some Courtiers and some of the favorites of the two German Princes who if we had the command of any Garrisons and did not pay our constant contributions extraordinary to them we were suddenly displac'd and made Reformadoes to prevent which we did plunder the Countrey sufficiently and yet did not thrive in our Armes and if there were any boone to be gotten some of the forenamed crept betweene us and it We are now undone saving the grace of the Parliament which is extraordinary to us we are sure we should not have used them so if we had had the better and you have so dissolved our late taken up principles that we must desire you to Petition the Parliament that no more of us may be suffered to goe over into France for divers of us desire to goe thither upon great hopes the Queene will bring us back againe with a poulder But a Gentleman whom J dare trust came from thence lately who says we are infinitely slighted there and the Prince himselfe meanly Courted and allowed his followers wretchedly And for the Religion we professed at Oxford there is no toleration for it there but in Henry Jermyns Chappell and that is so nigh the Queenes that it smels to much of Popery If we should goe to Charenton we must turne Presbyteriall and then loose that slight Alimony we have from the Queene and all further hopes from the King We humbly desire you will intreat the Parliament that staying here we may make use of a wood for the hearing of the Common Prayer as the Independents exercised in their way if not and that you will force us to be Presbyterians you will banish the Papists and Independents and let us have but one setled forme of Religion Papist Sir Dramatist I pray forbeare to request our banishment as Master Protestant would have it for either the French or Spanish or Italian Catholiques would make such a prey of us as we had better pay all statute payments in England then endure their lawes or adventure at their charity we had no Agents at Rome before but were lustily maintained from hence and yet great gratuities went to the Popes favorites for the allowing of us to venture our lives and estates against the lawes of our Country and our Priests and Iesuits made as strong hazzard by oath and our purses as all But Sir if an ingenuous confession will move with you I will make it There be as many Sects of us as of Jndependents and if the Inquisition had not beene set up to the awing of all there would have been more We English Catholiques had been rent in the latter end of Queene Elizabeths Reigne by our owne divisions but when Bancroft came to be Arch-bishop we had opportunity to playster up a rent in a Gunpowder treason And when that could take no effect nor we doe any thing more during the life of Crooke-back Cicill though the then Northampton was our friend we ventred on King James his weaknesse in his favourite Somerset and more in Buckingham we had then one of our own Religion that governed favourite and King and we brought in a principall instrument of Spaine Gundamore to take of the maine agent of the English designes against the Catholicke and Spanish advance and to our own shame be it spoken we got that Agents head to be strucken off How we pursued the rest of that designe when we desired one Queene Mary and got another though our designe went on more cleaverly then it could have done by the first is beyond my knowledge of the secrets of State but you may resemble it to this the King held at once the Primate of Ireland John of Yorke Doctor Prideaux and Doctor Holsworth in disgrace they were the great Puritants of the then times The Spanish match was in the same rellish with the people of England The King when he was to engage his Protestant Subjects in a warre and had banished all Catholicks from his Court onely with an explanation that he expected their horses and Armes to set Protestant Riders on found that Canterbury or Wren or any other Arminian faction could not advance any Protestant considerable party towards him makes use of the first univesally the other in Wales third in Worstershire and Oxford the fourth in Cambridge and London to the following of their steps in the Kings affaires 'T is true we laught all this while at their indiscretion in promoting our designes for we knew well our Generalissimo was coming that did as much for the time as we could expect but then they preached our projects and gave an outside to the Kings cause when we had caemented the Junto within we have laboured other Nations to but the interesse of Franceover Spaine was so great that rather then lose their hold here the French

QUAERE'S SEASONABLE TO BE humbly presented to King Charles at Holmby and others for his Parliament at Westminster VVith a few to be taken to heart by the Common people of England communicated By PHILANACTODEMUS Whereunto is added a Prologue and an Epilogue for the better Illustration of the thing to the different Reader Aprill 15th London Printed in the Yeare 1647. The Prologue Malignant I Know I shall be censured by thee I would faine court thee into a true and good opinion of me and it shall be in a Dramaticke way I know thou lovest Playes as an old Protestant yet it is a great wonder to mee that Papists should joyne with thee as well as they did to fight for Protestant Religion to go and see them in Lent which is the principall time of their devotion Then imagine thou seest act in these Quaeres The Emperour King of Spaine French King King of Denmarke Bohemia Hollander Rocheller German Princes Scots Pope Iesuit Bloody Irish nay the Divell himselfe and how to make this a Tragicomedy will require a good Artist sure none but Heaven can doe it I forgot to name thee amongst the Speakers but if thou doest not finde one as like thy selfe as can be in the heat of the Play I am much mistaken There is one I am sure on 't that fought a great while for the liberty of the Subject in England and when he would not finde it heere he went over into France for it There there are brave Parliaments ten for one at least After that hee hath quarrelled with his Affronter and his Host and had halfe the time of experiment of them as of this tedious English Parliament hee will satisfie and comfort himselfe for all the losses and dangers he hath exposed himself and his friends to heere VVell Malignant see the Play and when thou hast done give me thy opinion of it Quaeres to be humbly presented to his Majesties Remembrance in the Consideration and his Resolution in the Answer 1. WHether the non prosecution of the Palatinate War begun with so many Protestations by King James that hee would never sheath his sword till by Gods grace it were recovered and thereby divers German Protestants were engaged was not a weakning to the cause there and consequently to your Majesties dishonour 2. Whether the deserting of that Warre and contracting of great debts and pawning of the Crowne Jewells to the misdirecting of a fleet to Cales against the advice of your then Parliament were not a spoiling of your credit with the Hollander and a blasting the bud of your reputation in War with all Princes in Christendome 3. Whether the engaging the King of Denmarke against the Emperour and then deserting him and your Brother Palatine to make the French King your Enemy as if the Emperour and King of Spaine had not beene big enough at the selfe same time when you would not be advised nor agree with your Parliament and to embroyle the Rochellers in a war against the French King after you had lent your Ships to the beating of them whereby the French were taught the better use of Navigation were not a shaking to the Basis of the Protestant Religion and the welfare of your Kingdomes and the taking away all hopes of recovering any of your right in France 4. Whether the not ayding of the Swede upon Oxesterne his Embassy were not the losse againe of the Palatinate and a great party in Germany to their very regrett at this Day 5. Whether the raysing of ship money upon pretence of necesssitie and setting out of fleetes to sea to noe use were not a great oppression of your people and another blasting of your reputation in Warre with all Forraigne Princes 6. Whether the sending of the Earle of Arundell Embassador into Germany when at the Diet at Ratisbone he was to be a spectator of the King of Hungary being made King of the Romans and the Duke of Bavaria invested in the Palatinate was not a confirmation of your Majesties consent to both and no intention of reliefe to the Palsgrave 7. What motives had your Majesty to breede such a jealousie with your people though it was not then known by the awe of your evill Councell over them a long time as the sending of severall Agents to Rome and receiving severall Nuncios from thence just at the time when you deceived your Subjects of their expectation to fight abroad for which to doe you honour and service they were contented with illegality but you must needs turne your sword into your owne bowels As if the affronts and disgraces you had made your selfe not only with your enemies but your friends and kindred must be revenged upon that flocke you were ordained to preserve Your Majesty had the Goats the Sheep by Gods blessing are safe yet they desire you to be their Shepheard if you please 8. Whether your Majesties raising of Armes against the Kingdom of Scotland when you engaged your whole Nobility and much Gentry of England in a designe of Warre with an oath to fight for what your Majesty was contented to pacifie upon the first Treaty was either honour or advantage to your Majesty or your Kingdome of England Were not both Armies though the English advance did impaire many an estate suddenly disbanded and your Majesty no sooner come to London but presently a paper of the Treaty found in a Noble mans custody must be burnt by the hand of the Hangman and a new War must be proclaimed and a new Generall nominated almost a year before you were ready though your Majesty called a Parliament contrary to your promise to your Lord Keeper for which you broke his heart to advance the designe with a pretextuous letter Au Roy And the Parliament though you would never have agreed with them before would have assisted in that blinded understanding but that your Evill Councell would have all present money and give no reason for it and therefore did not your Majesty dissolve that Parliament 9. Was it your necessity against the income of Scots or your owne designe to bring them in for you may easily practise what you will upon your English people or the providence of Heaven to unite us both that your Majesty called this Parliament was not this Parliament begun in trouble and combustion when two Armies were ready to fight and both invited to destroy this Were not your Majesties evill Counsellors of greatest esteeme accused by a just complaint of which your Majesties eares should be most open to your three Kingdomes What charge and what danger to the Kingdomes was the keeping of those Armies on foot What delay of justice When the Armies we●e disbanded what haste into Scotland What attempts there How your Majestie and your people were there agreed was beyond a then English Imagination if wee had had that constancy to what Principles belong to us more then them your Majesties Cavaliers had never given such a common name to Englishmen

deferred us the Hollander was jealous of the English match the Dane embroyled by the Sweeds the Loraynet had such a long march by land and distrusted by the way he could not come at us Only the Irish that begun our cause and would have continued it but that they could not have our conditions by the dissimulation of Ormond They have offered to relieve us if wee may trust them though I as English Papist expect as little favour from them as from French Italian or Spaniard or rather murther for my Nations sake My request is Sir that you would prevaile with the Parliament that wee may stay in England without a Priest that our Children may be educated according to their direction and if there be any Schooles fit for the Aged of us wee have used to kneele to our Priest though much younger then our selves or other degrees wee desire wee may goe thither and if any Treason against God the King or the Parliament be found let us suffer according to that Law they have made or shall make for their owne security and our dissolution Independ I pay spare our banishment too for if wee should travile into Holland our trayne would bee so numerous so many of us having bin Militant that wee should breed a new jealousy there if into France the Presbyterians would defie us and the Papists and all the Queenes party when they are out of hope of having any more good by us an wee stay not in England to keepe a division in the Parliaments party will hate us more then ever they complied with us If wee goe to New England wee heare so much of their uniting in the practice of Religion and the Government of the Church that wee feare we shall be worse put to it there then at home Wee desire therefore that Master Protestant would be satisfied with a wood wee can spare him two or three and a River too in hope that they may Baptize anew for Master Protestant is very flexible in his Religion saving that hee takes Edward the Sixts Tradition for as good and obligatory as Scripture and in that and his willingnesse to submit to absolute Monarchy hee is onely positive If wee should be banished hee would long for Bishops againe though the last curtesie they did him when they were in their power was to chasten him in all their Courts You may see what ill humours the want of Discipline breeds to those men that used to be whipt if they delight in it I pray let them have it and let us alone wee can be contented without severall exercises in a Parlor or an upper Roome Nay for the edifying and making of Proselytes wee can finde vacant Churches enough And for the further promulgation of our cause wee dare adventure into a possessed Pulpit onely the other day one of our Brethren was much forsaken of the Spirit when hee questioned a Minister for speaking against Bellarmine for hee askt him whether hee could prove it by Scripture that Bellarmine fayd so and an other being expounding and being contraried by his Brethren it was made appeare that the pocket Bible he had though it was of the Amsterdam size yet it was of the Remish translation Wee thought very well of that Brother that he was sanctified and could not Sin but certainly he did fall in that exercise Sir we request all our errors may be attributed to the desire of knowledge in an excessive manner though some of us that are of the higher forme thinke they have enough because they have more then their Brethren yet Sir now I consider that the excessive desire of knowledge was the occasion of Adams fall and the consequent of more Ignorance and all other evill and mischiefe to his posterity J thinke it may be a good warning to us to sit content with the mercy of Heaven in that Peace and Vnity which it hath pleased God to provide for us There wanteth nothing but a handsome Authority over us to bring us into the universall fold which I hope you will speake to the Parliament for Now I thinke of the Communion Christ left us I thinke also of his practice before and at it and after it nay and after his Resurrection for what greater Communion then among sheepe yet the last command hee gave his Apostles was to feede his sheepe so that for my part I am convinc'd of my Separation and I shall submit to what prudentiall government of the Church the power that it set over mee shall provide for mee and J shall be gladder if it be that which agrees with our other reformed Brethren abroad and I shall labour to bring in as many stray sheepe as I shall finde in the Wildernesse I will quit Parlor and upper Roome for the serving of God in his true congregation so that I hope there will be no neede of my banishment Dramat Now I finde you all so plyable J will tell you more of your happinesse then ever you heard before If you turne truly you shall be called Round-heads a name as much above a Cavalier as Heaven is above Earth This you may consider by your owne knowledge in the Arts that the Heaven is Round in the whole and in its singularities The Sun constantly the Moone that is the Mistresse of what man can doe without Gods other order round in her perfection they have both faces probably heads Why you should make this a name of scorne is against the sence of Heaven And if you contemplate below and were as you offer a right Cavalier the best name upon Earth when you shall study and travaile the Earth you shall finde that Earth round too that Earth were you made off and if you have a head made of Earth certainly that must bee round Being thus constituted from the nature of Heaven and Earth J can tell you what a true sence of your former franticknesse will bring you too and as every sick man if hee bee strong enough to endure Physicke is to have his Malignant humours purged except hee will venture a Feaver at his heart at least an Ague in his bones you being already purged are now to receive a Cordiall against the venome that hath so long interlined your understanding and if you doe it willingly the Physick will worke the better I have knowne many a sick Lady much comforted in her good opinion of her Doctor what Medicine our great Physitian prescribes though it may destroy some yet if it preserve many wee must not dispute You may easily see what cures the Parliament have done already Lewis the Eleventh when hee had corrupted Edward the Fourths Councellors of Warre and patcht up his Peace with a Tribute of 50000 Crownes a Yeare to be payd in the Tower of London when hee had foold Charles the hardy into a Warre against the Swisses a People then more contemptible then ever the Scots were esteemed by the haughtinesse of the Cavaliering party When hee had possessed himselfe of the Duchy of Brittaine and made every old Payrage of France his owne hee then dissolved all Assemblies of State which is just the same with English Parliaments and then bragged that hee had brought the Realme of France hors du Paga that is out of Wardship If now wicked Counsell hath advised His Majesty to practice upon His People when Hee was secure to all the World and upon the example of Lewis the Eleventh's prosperity against Parliaments to adventure at doing the like here which was professed by Proclamation Royall and yet by the providence of Heaven one was brought on and that one by the same providence to doe such Miracles and contrary to the Callers intention to bring this Kingdome out of Wardship I could advise such evill Councell for their soules health hereafter and preserving the Lawes better here to offer themselves up as Martyrs to the Justice of the Kingdome so much abused by them and that those that are under the Parliaments obedience will thinke no adventure of their Lives and Fortunes too hard for the securing of the Publike FINIS