Free-Parliament quæres: proposed to tender consciences; and published for the use of the Members now elected. By Alazonomastix Philalethes. More, Henry, 1614-1687. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A89281 of text R202956 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason E1019_23). 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. 8 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A89281 Wing M2661A Thomason E1019_23 ESTC R202956 99863076 99863076 115258 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. A89281) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 115258) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 151:E1019[23]) Free-Parliament quæres: proposed to tender consciences; and published for the use of the Members now elected. By Alazonomastix Philalethes. More, Henry, 1614-1687. [2], 6 p. s.n.], [London : Printed in the year of our redemption. 1660. Alazonomastix Philalethes = Henry More. Place of publication from Wing. Annotation on Thomason copy: "April 10". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng England and Wales. -- Parliament -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. A89281 R202956 (Thomason E1019_23). civilwar no Free-Parliament quæres:: proposed to tender consciences; and published for the use of the Members now elected. By Alazonomastix Philalethes More, Henry 1660 1250 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-02 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-02 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-03 Jonathan Blaney Sampled and proofread 2007-03 Jonathan Blaney Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion FREE-PARLIAMENT QUAERES : PROPOSED TO Tender Consciences ; AND Published for the use of the Members now Elected . By Alazonomastix Philalethes . Spectatum admissi risum teneatis amici ? Printed in the year of our Redemption . 1660. Free-Parliament Quaeres , &c. 1. VVHether Coffee be not the most fitting Drink for the English Nation , since we have equalled , nay out-gone the Turks themselves ; for though they murdered the Father , yet they presently set up the Son ? 2. Whether our late Rumpers deserve not that that saying , Nulla fides pietasve viris qui Castra sequuntur , should be thus interpreted , There is neither Faith nor Pity to be shewed to them nor their Janizaries ? 3. Whether Hell at Westminster be not likely to lose its Customers , since the Devils are turned out of the Parliament House ? 4. Whether Thom. Scot can pretend to Liberty of Conscience , since he made an Arch-bishops House a Prison or Gaol ? 5. Whether by the Covenant , Sir Arthur Haslerigg ought not to be ejected from the Bishoprick of Durham , since by that we have sworn against all limbs of Episcopacy ? 6. Whether Hanging or Drowning be the best waies of Transportation of our late Republicans to the Common-wealths of Vtopia or Oceana ? 7. Whether that Prophecy the Saints shall rule the earth , be not meant of Barbadoes , Jamaica , or some terra incognita ? 8. Whether Col. John S. can keep off the Taxes of an Execution , by the profit he got by printing the late Act of Assessement ? 9. Whether F. and H. the late Common-wealth Printers should not change Names , since the first swells like a Mountain , and the other is but a poor Leveller ? 10. Whether Sir Arthur Haslerigg hath not a President of Patience , in this his falling into the pit of Adversity , from his falling into the ditch at Leicester ? 11. Whether Bradshaw and Dun did not accompany each other to Hell , that the Devil having got such a Judge , might not want a fit Executioner ? 12. Whether the losse of writing the News of England , was not the Cause that Nedham was so busie with the News from Brussels ? 13. Why since England hath so long been made Bedlam , the Sectarians should rather be called Fanaticks than Franticks ? 14. Whether the Army be not dispossessed of the Devil , and Sir Arthur , since they begin to submit to the Civil Authority ? 15. Whether the Souldiers ought not to tear off their Red Coats , since Oliver first instituted them , that they might resemble the Devils Pensioners , in flaming Doublets ? 16. Whether the Fanaticks do not hate Monck now , as much as ever they did the Church , their King , or Country ? 17. If the Proverb be true , When Knaves fall out , Honest men may come by their Goods ; then whether Lamberts switching the Rump out of Doors , and their driving him into the Tower , may not open a Door of Hope for something further ? 18. Whether a Long Parliament , a Lord , and five Members , might not , were they now conjoyned together , be termed the Devils Coach with six Horses ? 19. Whether there is not like to be a lesse Arbibitrary administration of Justice in Hell , if Bradshaw be made President there , instead of Minos , Rhadamanthus , or Aeacus ? 20. VVhether the next Parliament ought not to condemn Dr. John Owens Primer , to be burnt by the Common Hangman , since it was made for the use of the Children of the Rump ? 21. Whether any of the late Rump could have stood for Parliament-men , if neither fools nor knaves had been capable of Election ? 22. Whether it be not the Cheapest way of buying Lands , with Col. Harvey and others , to agree with the State for three moieties , and then cozen them of two ? 23. Whether that Comedie , called The Costly Whore , was not intended for the life of the Lady Sands , and was written by Henry Martin ? 24. Whether the Bastard , a Tragedie , was compiled by Mr. Goff , or written by J. Ireton ? 25. Whether Orlando Furioso that antient Italian Poem , was not meant for a Prophetical Relation of the life of Sir Arthur Haslerigg ? 26. Whether the Discontented Collonel , be not the fittest play to be acted by our cashiered Officers , since they have now no more to do in State Comedies ? 27. Whether Sir Arthur did not act the Raging Turk in Westminster-Hall , when he saw the admission of the Secluded Members ? 28. Whether it was to know if he should be chosen for Parliament man , or when he should take his turn at Tyburn , that the said Gentleman lately addressed himself to the Star-cheater Lilly ? 29. Whether Col. S. Creditors have any assurance of his honestie , since he may , being a Printer , so easily change the first letters of his name , and make it Cheater ? 30. Whether Atkins be the Anagram of a Stink , or a Stink of Atkins ; and whether that be not a very fitting name for a Member of the Rump ? 31. Whether the fift of November , or the twenty one of February , deserve the greater solemnity , as a day of delivery from the grander Traytors ? 32. Why a Rump being a small and worst part of a man , so many good Saints should go together to the making of it up ? 33. Whether ever Doctors Commons might more fitly be called the Spiritual Court than lately , when none but Saints were Judges and Proctors ? 34. Whether the Proverb that saith , Facilis descensus Averni , the way to Hell is easie , be not a mistake , since our late States-men took such pains in it ? 35. Whether the so stately equipping of the Naseby Frigat , be not for the bringing home of the Son , since the Father lost his Crown and Dignity at that fatal place , that so there may be an allusion to that Proverb ? — Quâ cuspide vulnus acutâ Tulerat , hâc ipsâ cuspide tulit opem. 36. Whether an act of Oblivion can ever be really passed for the late men of the Tail ; since they can never forget their former Rogueries , if they be suffered to injoy the profits of them ? 37. Whether the salt of the English wits is not strangely unprofitable , since it makes the Rump to stink more and more in the nostrils of the People ? 38. Lastly , Whether it be not good service to the Nation , to keep the stink of them thus fresh in their noses , that they may for the future avoid fouling their fingers with them ? FINIS .