A second vvhy not Or Eight queries, made to the Parliament, from the people of England, being the supream power thereof in 1649.

A second vvhy not Or Eight queries, made to the Parliament, from the people of England, being the supream power thereof in 1649.

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A second VVHY NOT. Or Eight Queries, made to the Parliament, From the People of England, being the Supream Power thereof in 1649.

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A second VVHY NOT.
Or Eight Queries, made to the Parliament, From the People of England, being the Supream Power thereof 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? And if a Free-State. WHY NOT our Persons acquitted of imprisonment, and wee a Free-People.

II. Whether you intend to passe the Nationall 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 Endeavours for Livelihood? And WHY NOT, seeing it is our just Birth-Right?

III. Whether this Nation shall still be enslaved in their Estates, personal Liberties, and Lives, to the present corrupt, delatory, chargeable 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 Goalers? And WHY SO, seeing they are cruell, abominable and wicked?

IIII. Whether you intend to prefer the impious flourishing State of an inconsiderable number of corrupt Judges,Isa. 56. 11, and mercenary Lawyers, and cruel murthering Goalers (Enemies to Englands Liberties) before the just Liberties, Peace, and Welfare of this great Nation? And WHY SO? Seeing he that treadeth in their Pathes, shall never have Peace nor Rest, Ier. 5. 1, 2. And by whom; God, Truth, Justice, Mercy, Life, Estate, Rights and Liberties, are sold for mony dayly.

V. Whether Iustice 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,Isa. 59. 1, 2 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, [...], 9, 10, 11. or as often as their malicious cruel adversaries shall think meet so to do? And WHEN, after eight yeers Expectation? contrary to Isa. 33. 15, 16. Psal. 82. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

VI. Whether the Creditors, according to Magna Charta, shall be enabled to reap Due and Real Satisfaction for their just Debts, out of the real and personall 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 Goalers to rob both them, and the Debtors? The one of his Debt, and the other of his Liberty, and to the hinderance of Sea-men in Navigation.

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 account 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 subtile contrivance, to imbrue the Nation againe into a Sea of Blood through the dayly 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 coming up to Westminster for Iustice; but every man to have Justice administred at his own doore, as in the dayes of King Edward, and King Alfred, who hanged up 45 County Iudges in one yeere, for taking Bribes, and passing false Judgement; and Edward the fourth who hang'd 15 Goalers in one yeere for exacting monies from Prisoners; and the Law practised in our English tongue, in some brief expedicious way, without any delatory (heats, Fees, or Bribes, (as now used) according to the command of God, the present practise of all other Nations in the World where more Iustice is to be had for eight pence, then here in our Land for 800. l. 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 judge 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 Iudgement, nor to sit in our National Assemblies, but to be expunged and expelled the House of Parliament, even as the Bishops, Lords, and Iudges were before them? And WHY NOT the power of such Serpents destroyed, and quite confounded, confounded, Yea accursed of God and abhorred of men let all them be, That appeare in their defence, or stand up for their support, WHY NOT?

Amen.

By Iames Frese Marchant.

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Printed by I. G. for I. B. and I. F. and are to besold by G. Lindsey at London-stone. 1649.

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A second vvhy not Or Eight queries, made to the Parliament, from the people of England, being the supream power thereof in 1649.

Freize, James.

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1649

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— A second vvhy not Or Eight queries, made to the Parliament, from the people of England, being the supream power thereof in 1649., Freize, James..

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Printed by I.G. for I.B. and I.F. and are to be sold by G. Lindsey at London-stone,. [London] :: 1649.. (Signed at end: Iames Frese.) (Place of publication from Wing.) (Annotation on Thomason copy: "Septemb. 3 1649".) (Reproduction of the original in the British Library.)

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