Six important quæres, propounded to the re-sitting Rump of the long Parliament, fit to be satisfactorily resolved by them upon the question, before they presume to act any further, or expect the least obedience from the free-born English nation, after so manie years wars and contests for the privileges, rights, and freedom of Parliaments, and their own liberties.
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Six important quæres, propounded to the re-sitting Rump of the long Parliament, fit to be satisfactorily resolved by them upon the question, before they presume to act any further, or expect the least obedience from the free-born English nation, after so manie years wars and contests for the privileges, rights, and freedom of Parliaments, and their own liberties.
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SIX
IMPORTANT
QUAERES
,
PROPOUNDED
To
the
Re-sitting
Rump
of
the
long
Parliament
,
fit
to
be
satisfactorily
resolved
by
them
upon
the
Question
,
before
they
presume
to
Act
any
further
,
or
expect
the
least
Obedience
f●om
the
Free-born
English
Nation
,
after
so
manie
years
Wars
and
Contests
for
the
Privileges
,
Rights
,
and
Freedom
of
Parliaments
,
and
their
own
Liberties
.
1.
WHether
their
sudden
stealing
into
the
House
by
night
,
on
Monday
the
26.
of
December
after
their
forced
Dissolution
by
Lambert
,
Octob.
13.
without
any
new
Summons
or
notice
of
their
sitting
given
to
any
of
their
Fellow-Members
,
in
the
City
,
or
people
of
the
Nation
;
was
not
a
work
of
Darkness
,
rather
than
of
Light
,
better
beseeming
Theeves
than
Freemen
,
a
Guy
Faux
with
his
dark
Lanthorn
to
blow
up
a
Parliament
,
than
the
Honour
and
Dignity
of
Members
of
a
real
English
Parliament
,
and
a
bad
Omen
of
some
dark
D●signs
against
their
Fellow-Members
,
and
Liberties
both
of
the
City
and
English
Nation
?
2.
Whether
their
placing
armed
Gards
that
Evening
at
the
House
,
and
all
approaches
to
it
and
the
next
Morning
too
,
and
giving
Colonel
Okey
,
and
Colonel
Alured
(
the
Commanders
of
their
Gards
)
their
Serjeant
and
Door-keepers
,
strict
special
Commands
and
Orders
,
not
to
suffer
any
of
the
old
secluded
Members
so
much
as
to
come
into
the
outward
Lobby
before
the
House
,
(
whether
Footboys
,
Apprentices
,
and
other
Persons
of
all
sorts
had
free
access
,
)
much
lesse
to
enter
into
the
House
;
and
their
forcible
secluding
of
Sir
Gilbert
Gerard
,
Sir
Anthony
Irby
,
Sir
William
Waller
,
Sir
John
Evelin
,
Mr.
Ansl●y
,
Serjeant
Maynard
,
Mr.
Prynne
,
and
15.
other
Members
more
on
Tuesday
morning
,
Decemb.
27.
out
of
the
very
Lobby
,
in
pursuance
of
their
Orders
,
till
they
crowded
into
the
Lobby
by
degrees
against
the
Door-keepers
,
and
Gards
wills
,
who
at
first
oft
shut
the
Doors
against
them
,
though
they
admitted
Apprentices
,
and
others
to
pass
in
and
out
:
And
their
seclusion
of
them
out
of
the
House
when
in
the
Lobby
,
by
keeping
the
House
door
fast
locked
against
them
,
and
ordering
the
Door-keeper
and
Serjeant
not
to
open
it
,
notwithstanding
many
demands
to
open
it
,
and
Messages
to
them
for
that
purpose
,
which
they
slighted
;
not
vouchsafing
to
take
any
notice
of
,
after
two
full
hours
attendance
by
the
Members
on
them
in
the
Lobby
;
nor
so
much
as
sending
any
Member
,
nor
their
Serjeant
out
to
them
;
as
they
usually
do
to
every
ordinary
Petitioner
,
or
person
attending
them
upon
publick
or
private
occasions
;
Be
not
a
just
ground
and
provocation
for
these
and
all
other
secluded
Members
,
(
being
about
4.
times
more
in
number
and
interest
to
those
then
sitting
,
and
the
real
House
of
Commons
,
)
with
all
the
respective
Counties
,
Cities
,
Boroughs
,
Ports
for
which
they
serve
,
with
as
high
contempt
and
scorn
to
neglect
them
and
their
illegal
Conventicle
,
(
not
the
tenth
part
of
a
Commons
House
,
)
to
protest
against
all
their
Votes
,
Proceedings
as
null
and
void
to
all
intents
,
and
not
to
yield
the
least
obedience
to
any
Orders
,
Votes
,
or
Commands
of
theirs
,
till
all
the
Members
be
freely
admitted
without
any
restrictions
,
to
sit
and
act
amongst
them
;
it
being
both
their
Privile●e
,
Birthright
,
and
Inheritance
,
and
they
obliged
by
their
Protestation
,
and
Solemn
League
and
Covenant
,
constantly
,
zealously
and
chearfully
to
defend
the
same
with
their
Lives
and
Estates
against
all
Violations
,
all
the
daies
of
their
lives
;
and
therefore
now
if
ever
,
in
this
sad
posture
of
publick
distractions
?
3.
Whether
this
their
disdainfull
,
uncivil
,
unbrotherly
Treating
of
their
fellow-Members
(
desiring
nothing
else
but
a
brotherly
association
with
them
,
to
compose
the
manifold
Distractions
,
and
make
up
the
wide
Breaches
of
our
Sinking
,
Dying
Nations
,
by
their
United
Councils
and
Endeavours
,
and
to
Regulate
all
Exorbitances
,
occasioned
by
their
heady
Councils
and
Miscariages
)
in
not
allowing
them
the
Privileges
of
Porters
and
Footboyes
to
enter
into
their
outward
Lobby
,
in
taking
no
notice
of
them
,
and
putting
this
fresh
affront
upon
them
,
after
so
many
former
Indignities
,
in
the
midst
of
their
and
our
Domestick
Confusions
and
fears
from
forein
parts
,
be
not
an
evident
Demonstration
;
that
they
intend
neither
the
publike
Peace
,
Unity
,
nor
settlement
of
our
Government
,
Laws
,
Liberties
,
or
Nations
,
but
their
unjust
support
of
their
own
private
Interests
,
Rapines
,
ambitious
Tyrannical
Usurpations
and
Exercises
of
Supreme
Parliamentary
Civil
and
Military
Authority
over
our
three
Nations
;
to
imbroyl
them
in
new
Wars
and
Confusions
,
to
prey
upon
the
small
remainder
of
their
Real
and
Personal
Estates
,
by
the
power
of
the
Sword
,
now
gotten
into
their
hands
,
out
of
the
Army-Officers
;
who
abused
it
likewise
to
the
oppressing
and
enslaving
of
the
people
,
and
created
them
a
Parliament
without
the
secluded
Members
,
and
House
of
Peers
?
4.
Whether
their
disdainfull
,
Injurious
forcible
seclusion
of
the
Members
,
by
their
own
special
Orders
and
Commands
to
their
Gards
and
Officers
now
,
be
not
a
shrewd
Evidence
,
that
their
former
seclusions
,
Decemb.
6.
and
7.
1648.
and
May
7.
and
9.
1659.
(
acted
by
,
and
fa●●●red
on
the
Army-Officers
,
and
seemingly
disowned
by
themselves
)
were
secretly
procured
&
countenanced
by
them
,
thus
openly
owning
their
last
seclusion
,
by
their
precedent
Orders
and
subsequent
approbation
of
it
;
and
that
at
their
very
first
re-assembling
,
after
their
own
late
forcible
seclusion
,
by
Lamberts
and
Hewsons
Regiments
,
now
Entertained
and
Imployed
in
their
service
,
to
seclude
,
and
keep
out
their
old
honest
fellow
Members
,
of
Untainted
Integrity
and
merit
?
Whether
it
be
not
a
greater
breach
of
Privilege
,
Trust
,
Duty
,
Tyranny
,
Perjury
,
and
Treason
in
them
,
against
all
former
Declarations
,
the
Protestation
,
Solemn
League
and
Covenant
,
taken
and
Subscribed
by
them
,
with
hands
lifted
up
to
the
most
High
God
,
thus
to
seclude
their
fellow
Members
;
than
it
was
in
Cromwell
and
Harrison
,
April
20.
1653.
or
for
Lambert
October
13.
last
to
seclude
and
turn
themselves
out
of
doors
,
after
their
declaring
and
voting
it
Treason
,
Perjury
and
Tyranny
in
them
?
Whether
this
their
secluding
of
the
Members
by
Col.
Okey
himself
,
and
others
who
appeared
most
active
against
their
Exclusion
by
Lambert
,
will
not
draw
a
self-condemnation
on
them
,
as
acting
by
their
commands
,
against
their
Consciences
;
and
justify
both
Cromwels
and
Lamberts
seclusion
of
themselves
?
And
justly
encourage
all
their
newly
reduced
Soldiers
and
others
,
to
shut
and
turn
themselves
out
of
the
House
again
upon
any
emergent
occasion
or
discontent
,
with
greater
boldness
and
impunity
than
before
,
since
they
justified
their
last
seclusion
,
by
their
former
underhand
encouragements
of
them
to
seclude
the
Majority
of
the
Members
,
who
over-voted
them
in
Decemb.
1648.
and
give
them
Orders
to
seclude
them
now
again
upon
the
same
account
in
the
same
month
of
December
,
for
fear
they
should
over-vote
them
if
re-admitted
?
5.
Whether
their
printed
Vote
,
Decem.
27.
To
take
the
business
of
their
absent
Members
into
debate
on
the
5.
of
January
next
;
instead
of
giving
admittance
,
or
any
answer
to
the
22.
secluded
Members
waiting
for
an
answer
in
the
Lobby
above
2.
hours
,
be
not
a
meer
dilatory
Cheat
put
upon
the
secluded
Members
,
the
City
of
London
,
and
whole
Nation
;
to
delay
their
admission
till
they
have
put
new
Gards
on
,
and
drawn
up
all
their
forces
to
London
,
to
over-awe
the
City
,
and
hinder
their
long-delayed
Militia
for
their
own
security
;
and
setled
the
Militia
of
every
County
under
their
own
commands
,
to
enslave
the
whole
City
and
Nation
to
their
Tyranny
and
usurped
Parliamentary
Power
;
and
then
they
will
not
only
forcibly
keep
out
all
the
Members
,
but
absolutely
eject
them
,
unlesse
they
will
take
their
new
Oath
and
Ingagement
:
As
is
evident
by
their
Speakers
prohibiting
the
Lord
Maior
and
Common
Council
on
Saturday
last
to
set
up
their
Chains
and
settle
their
Militia
;
and
their
Order
and
Vote
on
Munday
night
against
all
forces
raised
without
their
Order
,
to
hinder
the
Militia
in
the
City
,
when
they
commanded
the
Militia
in
the
Suburbs
and
Westminster
to
meet
and
Act
that
day
:
And
by
some
of
their
discourses
〈◊〉
secluded
Members
;
That
there
was
no
hopes
of
their
admission
,
unlesse
they
were
for
a
Commonwealth
,
would
take
the
Ingagement
,
and
confirm
what
they
had
done
:
and
thereby
become
as
guilty
,
treacherous
,
perfidious
,
disloyal
,
and
hurtfull
to
the
publike
as
themselves
)
which
those
Members
assured
them
,
they
would
never
submit
to
,
being
against
the
Privilege
of
Parliament
,
their
Judgements
,
Consciences
,
Protestation
,
Covenant
,
former
Oathes
upon
their
first
admission
as
Members
.
6.
Whether
the
City
,
or
English
Nation
,
can
expect
the
least
justice
ease
or
redresse
of
their
insupportable
Burdens
,
Taxes
,
and
Impositions
from
these
new
Tax-masters
,
who
(
though
they
are
not
yet
the
Tenth
part
of
a
full
Commons
House
)
presumed
to
pass
and
print
a
New
Act
of
Parliament
,
to
continue
their
expired
Customs
and
Excises
on
them
,
till
March
next
?
Whether
their
unpresidented
presumption
▪
in
arrogating
to
themselves
the
Title
,
power
and
authority
of
a
Parliament
;
when
all
Laws
,
and
Lawbooks
resolve
,
their
own
Consciences
and
the
whole
Nation
infallibly
know
them
to
be
no
Parliament
,
nor
Commons
house
,
hath
not
brought
them
within
the
compasse
and
penalty
of
this
Clause
in
their
own
last
Act
,
before
their
Dissolution
by
Lambert
,
October
11.
intituled
,
An
Act
against
raising
of
Money
upon
the
people
without
their
Consent
in
Parliament
:
And
be
it
further
enacted
,
That
no
person
or
persons
shall
after
the
11.
of
October
,
1659.
Assess
,
levy
,
collect
,
gather
or
receive
,
any
Customs
,
Imposts
,
Excise
,
Assessment
,
Contribution
,
Tax
,
Tallage
,
or
any
sum
or
sums
of
money
,
or
other
Impositions
whatsoever
,
upon
the
People
of
this
Commonwealth
,
without
their
consent
in
Parliament
,
or
as
by
Law
might
have
béen
done
before
the
Third
of
November
,
1640.
And
be
it
further
enacted
and
declared
,
That
every
person
offending
against
this
Act
,
(
therefore
every
of
themselves
who
passed
this
new
Act
,
Decemb.
27.
and
those
who
shall
put
it
in
execution
)
shall
be
and
are
hereby
adjudged
to
be
guilty
of
High
Treason
,
and
shall
forfeit
and
suffer
as
in
case
of
High
Treason
.
Whether
the
people
of
this
Commonwealth
(
the
thousand
part
whereof
knew
not
of
their
new
sitting
)
did
ever
consent
to
this
sudden
extemporary
new
Act
,
made
the
first
morning
of
their
sitting
in
lesse
than
two
hours
space
,
when
there
were
but
42.
Members
in
the
House
;
22.
secluded
Members
at
the
door
,
and
near
250.
more
Members
yet
living
,
(
besides
the
whole
House
of
Lords
,
who
must
stand
for
Cyphers
)
absent
,
and
not
privy
to
their
Session
,
or
this
Act
?
If
not
,
(
as
is
unquestionable
)
whether
by
this
their
own
Law
and
Act
,
they
be
not
adjudged
to
be
guilty
of
High
Treason
,
and
to
forfeit
and
suffer
as
in
case
of
High
Treason
,
for
this
their
imposing
and
continuing
of
Customs
and
Excises
on
the
people
;
as
well
as
for
their
seclusion
of
their
Members
;
which
they
voted
to
be
Treason
in
Lambert
?
And
whether
the
Offices
and
Common
Soldiers
can
upon
this
acccount
expect
any
pay
from
the
City
or
Country
,
or
Indemnity
for
secluding
those
Now
sitting
,
if
they
offend
again
in
secluding
the
greatest
part
of
the
Members
,
which
are
in
truth
the
only
House
,
which
can
only
really
pay
and
indemaifie
them
?