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 [Page 3] 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: [Page 4] 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 [Page 5] 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 [Page 6] 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.