CERTAIN QVERES, And the Resolutions of the Trayned-Bonds, and Citizens of LONDON, Presented to the Honourable House of COMMONS.

Quere 1. WHether it be for our Liberties, to be contrary to our inherit Priviledges, forced forth to this War, begunne and maintained against our Wills.

Que. 2. Whether it be for the benefit of this City, or Propri­ety of our Estates, to have our Purses Delusiuely Drained, our Servants Destroyed, and our Trading Prohibited.

Que. 3. Whether it be Pious Charity, when through our ab­solute Necessities, we are inforced to refuse any of the aforesaid things, to have our poore Wives and Children, turned out of your Lines of Communication; and the residue of our poore Estates Sequestred to your Benefit, and the Kingdoms Ruine.

Que. 4. Whether it be not very requisit for your Selves, or the Major part of you, (for whom we are Enforced to goe) to goe a­long in Person, in this or any other expedition, we conceiving, A Close-Committee of Twenty foure to be sufficient to stay behind to Project, with the help of Master Kilvert.

Que. 5. Whether it be by the Word of GOD, that you im­pose Contradictive OATH'S, under gentle Termes of Covenants, upon the Consciences of Men.

All which we desire You Speedily to Answer, or else we shall proceed to this Resolution, Not only to Refuse in modesty, for the preserva­tion of your Crack'd Credit, but Oppose, and Scorne all your Il­legall Taxes, and Assumed Commands, We being now sensible, who are the greatest number, Choosing rather to Die like Men, then to Live your Vassalls.

At OXFORD, August the 12th. 1645.
By LEONARD LICHFIELD, according to the Copy Printed last week at London.

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