1. WHether, when the Parliament first sate, and a Question arising, what name the House should be call'd by; and Alderman Atkins gi­ving his opinion, that it should be call'd a House of Office, were suitable to his judgment? For at that time they had not voted him into a Place in the Excise, and so, by consequence, he had not done his businesse.

2. Whether Prideaux, when he left the world, [Page 4] did not, by order from his fellow-Members, ride post to hell, to tell their Patron, they would not be long behind?

3. Whether, when that Rump of a Parliament sent Lambert that Present, they did not give him a knife to cut their own throats? Or, when he melted it into Liquor, and bestow'd it upon his Janizaries, whether the Army drank more for the Rump, or Lambert?

4. Whether, when Atkins was call'd to sit as a Member in the House, it was not propheticall, and signifi'd, that businesses were like to go back­ward?

5. Whether, when the City-Slaves invited their Chains to dinner, it was not well and conscien­tiously done of the Army, to let the Parliament dine before they gave them a purge; and to let their bellies be full, before they sent their bones to rest?

6. Whether Lambert may not fitly be made High Constable, having lately laid so many Gen­tlemen by the heels; or whether he ought not ra­ther to have that Office, because he hath got the better end of the staff?

7. Whether the Lord Mayor, by shaving his detestable chops, did not put a new affront upon the City, and thereby show'd them, that after all his impudence, he was not asham'd to shew his face?

8. Ordered by the Common-Councill, That the Lord Mayor, for that elaborate Oration which he made to the Parliament, and which he emphatically exprest by the bowing of his body, be sent forthwith to the Army, to congratulate this new change.

[Page 5] 9. Whether there be any thing like a Blush in the whole Army, besides their Coats?

10. Whether mad Sedgwick, when he was pro­phaneing Scripture, and mocking God with a Fast, when he said, It was a Lambert that first compil'd the Laws, and it is a Lambert that must reform them, did not intend, that Lambert would cudgell the Laws into better manners; because, when they gave rules to other men, they did not, by a particular exception, leave him to do what he list?

11. Whether the Army-Officers want any thing, but their heads to be shav'd, and their heeles to be fetter'd, to make them fit for Bedlam? And whether those hair-brain'd fellowes, did not therefore, at their private Fast, do well, to chuse a mad, man to whine, and carry on the sins of that day?

12. Whether, by reason of the shutting up of the House of Parliament, (a place lately infected with the Plague) the Citizens of London may not write over their dores, The Lord have mercy upon us?

13. Whether Henry Martin, if we should go to Wars with the Whore of Babylon, would not be the man that should fling the first stone?

14. Whether Henry Martin was fit to be made a Parliament-man, being he could never meet with a smirking Wench, but he was ready to reveal his Secrets?

15. Ordered, That if Henry Martin should lose his hair, by reason of the many hot services, to which he had exposed his body; the Lord Mayor, to re­pair the losse, should chop off a corner of his beard to make him a Periwig.

[Page 6] 16. Ordered by the Army, That whereas in their Addresse to the long and short Parliament, they did then acknowledge, that by the wonder­full goodnesse of God their eyes were opened, be intended to be onely a mistake in the Printer.

17. Whether, when Satan removed his hous­hold-stuff from Westminster, he did not take up his Quarters at Wallingford-house? And if he did, Whether the Army ought not to go a house-warming thither? And whether Sir Arthur Hair-brains, and Alderman Beardlesse, larded with a load or two of Atkins's grease, ought not to be sent to the Devill for a Breakfast, and that Do­ctor Owen be appointed to say Grace.

18. Whether Vane's name doth not agree with his nature, being he can so well comply with the Times, and turn according as the wind blowes?

19. Whether if Baxter should bring sufficient witnesses to prove, that Lambert was a Jesuite, he were like to get the better? because Lambert is a man of such a turbulent and unruly spirit, that the Judges will not believe it a thing possible, that he could ever find in his heart to enter into Orders.

20. Ordered, That the City-Cuckolds do from henceforth maintain their Militia, and put them­selves into a posture of War; and that Alderman Ireton be appointed to lead up the Van.

21. Orderdered by the Commission-Officers of the Army, that a trick be put upon the Third Commandment; viz. That forswearing is not to take the name of the Lord in vain, but to good purpose.

22. Ordered, that from henceforth none be ac­counted honest, unlesse they be first approved of by the Officers of the Army.

[Page 7] 23. Ordered, That Acts of Oblivion be hence­forth generally practised, by the good people of these Nations, till every man hath forgot his duty as well as the Army. And for farther amendment of the Bill, let no man dare to teach the art of Memory, besides a Redcoat, when he comes for Taxes and Contributions.

24. Whether Alderman Atkins, ought not to be confin'd, being he is so apt to flye out? or whe­ther it be a fit or discreet thing of the City, to ad­mit him into the scarlet Counsell, being he is so generally known to be a loose-liver?

25. Whether God can endure to look upon the Nation, without holding his Hand between His Eye, and the Army?

26. Whether if Ferdinando the Jew were now to fish for the Divell, he would not chuse to bait his hook with a Lobster?

27. Whether Deus dabit his quoque funem, were not a fit Motto for the Army?

28. Ordered, That whereas Bradshaw being now ready to leave England, and saile into the Low-Countries, Hazlerig be forthwith sent to New-Castle, to trade with the Divel for coals, that so he may be welcom'd with a fire equall to his merits.

29. Whether the godly Army have not made the people of England truly feel what the Scrip­ture only told them in a figure, That the Word of God is a two-edg'd sword?

30. Whether Titchburn, being a neat timber'd Lad, if he were at Tiburn tottering in his Chaine, would not swing with abundance of Discretion? and whether he being a man that deserv'd as well [Page 8] as any, it were not a great deal of pitty but his turn should be serv'd first?

31. Whether Monck will not, by all persons, be accounted an Ape, if he offer to comply with the present Juncto of the Army.

Ordered that H. Martin, the Lord Mounson, and Mr. Scot, be Commissioners of the Bawdy-Court, and that Wat Long be chief Register, and that R. Smith, and R. Harper, be his Deputies.