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Fifteen loyal queries for the Kings most excellent Majesty, and the three kngdoms [sic]. With a lash for the quondam jugler of state, W.L. Sp. Mr. R. Sec. and the rest of the grand and notorious traytors who thirsted after the blood of his sacred Majestie King Charles. By J. Bramstone Esq;
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Bramstone, J.
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Wing B4241; Thomason E1025_13; ESTC R208708
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FIFTEEN LOYAL QUERIES FOR THE KINGS Most Excellent MAJESTY AND THE THREE KNGDOMS With a LASH for the Quondam Jugler of State W. L. Sp. M R. R. Sec. And the rest of the Grand and notorious Traytors who thirsted after the Blood of his Sacred Majestie KING CHARLES By J. BRAMSTONE Esq LONDON Printed for G. Horton living near the three Crowns in Barbican 1660. A LASH for the Quondam Jugler of State W. L. Sp. 1. Quere WHether if those Traytors Cromwel Bradshaw and Prideaux or any of that cursed crew late dead were now living or wicked Lambert or any of those notorious Regicides now surviving all things seriously weighed in the ballance of true judgment deserve more severe punishment in reward of their matchlesse rebellions then the prime and most exalted head of that prodigious Monster Hydra that underminer and subverter of our Lawes and Liberties that Quondam Jugler W. L. 2. Quere Whether be being the principal Agent and contriver of those so detestable and damnable plots and conspiracies should not in honour to Gods Law and Justice to the Nation be the first man that should be made exemplary 3. Quere Whether his crimes being so Captital as rendring him in the sight of all honest men the chief of these Traytors not onely exceeding those with whom he conspired as being Principal but superlatively transcending those of the Gunpowder Treason if he should by running away escape the hand of Justice it would not highly displease God and much disatisfie the Kingdoms 4. Quere If he should thus work his freedom we might not believe that the hand of God would meet with him as it did with Sir Thomas Martin of Cambridgeshire who wisht he might wash his hands in the Kings blood as this Traytor did in the blood of his Father 5. Quere Whether it were not fit that he should be presently secured thereby to prevent Gods wrath and the Nations calamity and to have indictments against him speedily preferred for his perjuries at several times as also to have several actions brought against him of the case of Trover and the like for his falsly imprisoning opposing defrauding the meaner sort of people that by means of the Legal proceeding by indictments he may loose his ears which hath been forfeited many and being used upon those actions may be forced Legally to render some satisfaction to the Common people whom he hath abused before these treasons and Capital crimes be laid to his charge whereby he will assuredly loose his head 6. Quere Whether it were fit upon his first surprisal to have his effiges exactly cut out which after his execution should be hanged up at the Rolls gate in Chaucery Lane for a perpetual monument with an Exit Hypocrita and a Dae vobis over his head who in his life time forgot that of Optatus Super Imperatorem non est nisi qui fecit Imperatorem hanc ab causam not to be judged condemned and executed by Traytors of which W. L. was chief 7. Quere Whether it were fit in charity to his sinful soul that he were put in mind of his wretched Hypocrisie in having many times honest godly Devines preach before him at the Roll especially at those times when he was about the greatest treasons thus acting not onely against the good Law of the Land but also Diametrically against the Law and Gospel of God and Christ which say Touch not mine Anointed and fear God and honour the King not murther the King 8. Quere Whether those Divines ought not to endeavour to make him sensible of that terrible guilt which lyeth upon him seeing that many times Consuetudo peccandi tollet sensum peccati and to manifest to him his Judas like condition and freely to declare unto him how much his sin looks in all appearance like to the sin against the Holy Ghost unpardonable unless he can wash away those black and bloody spots with cordial repenting tears and that subito 9. Quere Whether they were not best particularly to mind him of his own perjuries and breach of Oaths and Covenants First of his Oath of Allegiance to the King his Crown and Dignity in the University Secondly in the Ins of Court Thirdly when he was chosen a Member of the long Parliament and exalted to be Speaker Fourthly the solemn Oath and Covenant made generally in Parliament and particularly by him to preserve the Kings Royal Person his Crown and Dignity Posterity the Kingdoms and the Parliament with its Members besides other Oaths of Supremacy fealty Allegiance Protestations with manifold Declarations Remonstrances and other sac ed and Civil Obligations to his sacred Majesty All which he hath violated b sitting and still being the principal Actor in all the Treasons of expelling the honest Members murthering the King the Nobles and others and acting many years together most treacherously perfideously athiestically in subverting and destroying the Laws of the Nations the Priviledges of Parliament and the Libertys of the Subject 10. Quere Whether the precious blood of the King and of every innocent man that hath suffered by the late seditions Army or High Court of Justice since the expulsion of the Noble members are not to be laid to his CHARGE though he Scylla like after he had contrived the Murthers and given command he appeareth not in the croude of the Murtherers but endeavoured to obscure himself under an nihil dicit in publico He being nevertheless that Hydrocephatos that swell'd with Pride and Ambition the Primate dictator yea Principal of those accursed conspirators in all their Treasons 11. Quere Whether some men ignorant in State affairs yet honest men that seem to plead for him and say that since he was none of the high Court of Justice he may be excused be a sufficient cause to move true English spirits to alter their resolutions and not to Petition for Justice against him he being the man without whom those Traytors could not they durst not act their accursed Rebellious For no man can be so ignorant as not to know that what the most illegal high Court of Justice did was by the pretended Authority of Parliament of which Trayterous and hydeous monster was not he W. L. S. P. as afore said the head 12. Quere Whether because some of his favourers say that had he forsaken the Chair another would presently having no posseson thereof can any way expiate those murthers and perjures which he hath committed or make him appear any way the less guilty in the eye of the Law or of any truely conscientious man for may a man commit murther in the highest degree and other enormities and conclude it is no sin either against God or man because he conceiveth that had he not done the same another would have done it 13. Whether they do not manifest their partiality and in discretion or at least their neglect of Gods holy Precepts who utter a Syllable in his behalf who indeed hath been the contriver of all our miseries and calamities
who sate continually at the stern to direct those vile Pirates in all their Traytorous designes who delighted more in his imagined honour then in honouring either God or the King who to enrich himself spared no mans life no not the life of a King nor the happiness of three Kingdoms Oh call to your thoughts how much the Lord hateth Covenant breakers oh remember how poor Israel suffered in the time of David for their breach of Covenant though with the Gibeonites and Heathenish people what is it then for a Subject to break Covenant with his lawful King with the great Council of the Nation and afterwards to murther him and some of the Parliament whom he had sworn to preserve Oh remember blood requireth blood the very Gibeonits disdained David's mony in satisfaction Let them that are in authority remember this it was the seven sons of Saul whose blood must make an expiation 14. Quere Whether if he had been Hono pietatis as he would be reputed or so honest as he was politick ambitious and covetous as on the very day of the expulsion of the Secluded Members to have endeavoured their readmission and when he found that he could not prevaile he knowing the desperate design they were about had be then like a noble brave spirited Senator declared to the Rump his sence and interpretation of their rebellious actings and resolutions and then to have left the Chair consequently to have protested to the Nations against the treasonable and illegal proceedings of those wicked Members might not in all probability with Gods mercy have intercepted the abominable Acts of murthering the King and others by striking terrour to the hearts of those impudent Conspirators it be evident in all Histories both Divine and Morall both ancient and modern how wicked Armies though Potent have been put to flight and the most insolent Traytors examinated by weak means 15. Quere Whether the sin of this wrecth doth not exceed the sin of the Jewes for though they poor creatures murthered their King yet they knew him not to be their King their Messiah neither had Pontius Pilate or any of the Jewes swore to preserve him nor did the unhappy Jewes commit that murther intending thereby to enrich themselves or to get four hundred thousand pounds as this wicked man hath done as plainly appeareth in the Register besides six and twenty thousand pound a year Revenue All which duely considered he is a most inhumane creature addicted wholly to his own lust Wherefore dear Countrymen let us humbly and speedily present our Petitions to the Parliament for Justice against him lest our neglects provoke the Lord who is a just Judge and will require due satisfaction for innocent blood The EPILOGUE For the Bloody TRAYTOR W. L. Sp. THou bloody man haddest thou remembred to make use of that saying though from the mouth of a Heathen which will rise up against thee at the latter day to thy confusion if thou repentest not Non solum nobis nati sumus partem Patria thou wouldest not have occasioned so much of thy own Countrey-mens blood blood to be spilt to satisfie thy insatiate desire enriching thy self and glorying in thy Countreys ruin Or hadst thou made use of that of holy Gregory Homo ad contemplandum creatorem suam creatus est You could not possibly then have beat your mind so to commit sacriledge blasphemy and murther or that of Zanchius Noâ—â—ndi creati sumus ad neminem sadâ—â—dâ—â— Oh thou thou wouldst never have implyed thy hands to do any mischief much lesse to bathe thy treacherous hands in thy Kings and fellow Subjects blood For which destruction attends thy Body and Soul eternally without thou heartily repent FINIS