Loyal queries, humbly tendred to the serious consideration of the Parliament, and Army, by a peaceable-minded man, and a true lover of his country. Approx. 7KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2016-02 (EEBO-TCP Phase 2). A8862999862946 115126 2240952725 Wing L3361 Thomason E986_15 ESTC R202764 99862946

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 eng Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. 2014-04 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-06 Sampled and proofread 2014-06 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion 2021-05 TEI P5 conversion

LOYAL QUERIES, HUMBLY Tendred to the serious Consideration OF THE PARLIAMENT, AND ARMY;

By a Peaceable-minded man, and a true Lover of his Country.

LONDON, Printed in the year 1659. June 14

LOYAL QVERIES HUMBLY Tendred to the serious Consideration, of the Parliament, and Army. 1. WHether a sober review, and exact consideration of the happy Estate we lived in 1639, may not probably reclaim, and recover us to the like Estate, before the expiration of 1659? II. Whether it be not a high degree of madnesse, for a rich, and flourishing people, to be alwayes essaying new modes, and forms of Government, when experience of so many Ages hath taught them, that the old form of Government, is most safe, most honourable, most peaceable, and most Heaven-like? III. Whether the vagabond humor▪ of the more Northern Nations, in perpetual motion, for the advantages of an Exchange of Laws, Manners, and Countries, be suitable to the virtue, wisdome, and composedness of the English, who find themselves unmendable, by any change whatsoever? IV. Whether one single Act of Pardon, or Indempnity (without the trouble, or hazard of Multiplication) by the undoubted Superiour, and the two houses of Parliament, be not the only way to the peace, and settlement of the three Nations? V. Whether it be not a greater Act of Prudence, Reason, and Christianity, to restore the banished Princes (Sons of the late King) who have so many years sed upon the bread of Carefulness, and gathered (as it were) the Crums from the Table of our Enemies, to their Antient Lawful Birth-rights? VI. VVhether a seasonable Treaty of Accommodation, between the Son and Heir of the late King, and the present Parliament, be not the most probable expedient, to secure satisfaction to all Protestant Interests, both Civil, and Religious, and to prevent the Execution of those Matchiavillian Plots, Jesuitical Counsels, and Conspira • ies, which are under daily debate against us, as we are Englishmen, and against us, as we are the most blessed people under the Sun, (when united under one rightful supream Magistrate) in the true worship of the Almighty, and in all the real Comforts, and Enjoyments of this life? VII. VVhether it be most proper, for Parliament, or Army, to make the first overture for a Treaty of Accomodation? VIII. VVhether a select number of Persons, joyntly Commissionated by Parliament, and Army, be not the fittest persons, of the three Nations, for the Management of that Treaty? IX. VVhether that Treaty be not likely to prove of greater advantage to the Protestant Cause, and to strike a greater terrour into the hearts of all Popish Princes in Europe, than ever any yet did since the Reformation? X. VVhether any sober minded man can propose a more legal, and more Gospel like power, to secure the constant, and free Exercise of the Protestant Religion, to all professours of it, in a just liberty, and modest variety of opinions, than the united Authority of a Protestant Prince, and the two Houses of Parliament, Elected, and Assembed according to Law? XI. VVhether any Person in the three Nations, hath been more tryed, or more tempted, to forsake the Protestant Religion, than the eldest Son and Heir of the late King? XII. VVhether there be any better, or more confirmed Protestant in the world, than himself? XIII. VVhether this truely English spirited Prince, hath not preferred penury and want of all things, (but of a good Conscience) before the Arms, Navies, and Armies, which have been tender'd him, by the Pope, and his Partizans, in his Assistance, for the Recovery of his right of Government, (with this Proviso) to renounce the Protestant Religion, and to conform to the Church of Rome? XIV. VVhether he loves not an Englishman, above all Nations, Languages, and dearest of Relatives? XV. Whether the late Vsurper, had ever greater Confusion of Face, than at the reading of the Proclamation dated 1657, of a General pardon to all persons whatsoever, excepting himself, and one single person more? XVI. VVhether the present Navies, and Armies, will be ever paid their Arrears, with greater satisfaction, and love of the people, than when those Arrears shall be stated, satisfied, and paid, by an Act of Parliament? XVII. Whether the Superior and two Houses of Parliament, can Enact, and Ordain, any act more gratefull and beneficial to the people, than the satisfying and discharging those Arears? XVIII. Whether if the Eldest Son and Heir of the late King, had been put into possession by the Parliament, and Army, in 1653, when the late Vsurper did exercise his lust, in the dissolution of the Parliament, it had not prevented the vast Debt of three Millions and four hundred thousand pounds, which now lies upon the Nation, besides the Expence of those many Millions exhausted under that Vsurpation. XIX. Whether the Son and Heir of the late King, be not better Qualified, and Capacitated, for the supreme Magistracy of the three Nations, than the Son of the late Vsurper? XX. Whether those Prudential Senators of the late Assembly dissolv'd, (and now sitting in this present Parliament) may not with greater assurance, of a blessed peace, and settlement, admit the Son and Heir of the late King to the Government, upon the articles agreed on at the Isle of Weight, than they could have admitted his late Highnesse, to whom for the publick good, (like true publick spirits) they were Inclinable to subscribe, upon those very Articles, and Conditions, had hee been then pleased, to have accepted of the Goverment, so limitted, and restrained?
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