Why not Eight queries, made to the Parliament from the people of England, in 1649. Freize, James. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A84916 of text R211252 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.14[67]). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 6 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A84916 Wing F2197G Thomason 669.f.14[67] ESTC R211252 99869981 99869981 163054 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A84916) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163054) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f14[67]) Why not Eight queries, made to the Parliament from the people of England, in 1649. Freize, James. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1649] Anonymous. By James Freize. Imprint from Wing. Annotation on Thomason copy: "August 22.". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. A84916 R211252 (Thomason 669.f.14[67]). civilwar no Why not: Eight queries, made to the Parliament from the people of England, in 1649. Freize, James. 1649 941 1 0 0 0 0 0 11 C The rate of 11 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2007-09 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-11 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-12 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2007-12 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion WHY NOT Eight Queries , made to the PARLIAMENT , From the People of ENGLAND , in 1649. WHether this Nation shall be a free People , according to Magna Charta , ( now regained with such a vast expence of Treasure , and effusion of blood ) and according to our trust reposed in you , and your solemn deep Ingagements , Vows , and Promises , made to us , to make us a free People ? And WHY NOT yet performed by you , according to your promise made to us , since the Kings death ? II. Whether you intend to pass the National Act for Liberty or not , and to take off all Capias for Arrests , That so we the people of England may be secured from trouble in our personal Liberties , and thereby inabled freely to follow our Callings and Endevors for Livelihood ? And WHY NOT , seeing it is our just Birth-Right ? III. Whether this Nation shall still be inslaved in their Estates , personal Liberties , and Lives , to the present corrupt , delatory , chargable practises of the Law , and to the cruel , impious ( unparalel'd ) mercenary Instruments of the same ( by whom thousands of this Nation have been ruined and destroyed ) even by Lawyers and Gaolers ? And WHY SO , seeing they are abominable and wicked ? IIII. Whether you intend to prefer the impious flourishing State of an inconsiderable number of corrupt Judges , and mercenary Lawyers , and cruel murthering Goalers ( Enemies to Englands Liberties ) before the ●ust Liberties , Peace , and Welfare of this great Nation ? And WHY SO ? seeing he that treadeth in their Pathes , shall never have Peace nor Rest , Isai. 59. 7 , 8. V. Whether Justice shall be freely administred to all ( both rich and poor ) the oppressed relieved , with full satisfaction and reparation for their wrongs sustained , and the imprisoned set free , SO , as their persons may not be still subject to imprisonment every two or three dayes , or as often as their malicious cruel Adversaries shall think meet so to do ? And WHEN , after eight yeers Expectation ? contrary to Isai. 33 15 , 16. VI . Whether the Creditors , according to Magna Charta , shall be enabled to reap Due and Real Satisfaction for their Debts , out of the real and personal Estates of all able Debtors , in the two third parts thereof ( Intailed Lands also not exempted ) without any tedious jugling , chargeable delatory tricks in the Law ? And WHY NOT , rather then Lawyers and Gaolers , to rob them , and the Debtors ? VII . Whether all persons by you intrusted with many Millions of the National Treasure , ( and by them perverted ) shall be called to a just and strict accompt for the same , whereby the Souldiery may be duly satisfied , and this whole Nation eased and acquitted from the unsupportable Burdens of all the several great Taxes , and daily Plunders , wherein the Souldiery is made to appear the Actors , ( conceived to be done by the Speaker and Lawyers ) meerly to render the Souldiers the more odious and detestable to this whole Nation ( a subtle contrivance , to imbrue the Nation again into a Sea of Blood ) through the daily increase of all the peoples heart-burnings against you , and the Souldiers ? And WHY NOT , that so Knaves may be known ? VIII . Whether you intend to abolish Tithes , restore the Rights of the Poor , call a new Representative , provided , That all mercenary Lawyers be exempted from being any more elected or chosen to sit as Members of the same ; the people also prevented from coming up to Westminster for Justice ; and the Law practised in our English tongue , in some brief expedicious way , without any delatory Cheats , Fees , or Bribes , ( as now used ) according to the command of God , the present practise of all other Nations in the World , where more Justice is to be had for eight pence , then here in our Land for 800l . And WHY NOT unjust things abolished ? Finally , our desires are , That because there is a far greater number of able , honest , Consciencious , understanding men , in every of our Cities , Counties , Hundreds , Towns , and Villages , that are able to judg and determine all Controversies between a man and his Neighbor , better then any of those Instruments of Contention , The Lawyers , ( Englands Cankerworms ) whose Nature and Profession is to fish in troubled Waters , and to make the Wound of Contention deeper and far larger , rather then to cure it , That therefore they may no ways be thought fit to decide any Controversie in Judgment , nor to sit in our National Assemblies , but to be expunged and expelled the House of Parliament , even as the Bishops , Lords , and Judges were before them ? And WHY NOT the power of such Serpents destroyed , and quite confounded , confounded ? WHY NOT ? Amen . FINIS . Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A84916e-30 Isai. 59. 1 , 2 , 3 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11.