FIFTEEN LOYAL QUERIES FOR THE KING'S Most Excellent MAJESTY, AND THE THREE KNGDOMS. With a LASH for the Quondam Juggler of State, W. L. Sp. M R. R. Sec. And the rest of the Grand and notorious Traitors who thirsted after the Blood of his Sacred Majesty KING CHARLES. By J. BRAMSTONE Esq;  
LONDON, Printed for G. Horton, living near the three Crowns in Barbican, 1660.   

A LASH for the Quondam Juggler, of State W. L. Sp.  
1. Quere.  
WHether if those Traitors Cromwell, 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 balance of true judgement, deserve more severe punishment in reward of their matchless rebellions, than the prime and most exalted head of that prodigious Monster Hydra that underminer and subverter of our Laws and Liberties, that Quondam Juggler 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 God's Law, and Justice to the Nation, be the first man that should be made exemplary?  
3. Quere. Whether his crimes being so Captital as rendering him in the sight of all honest men the chief of these Traitors, not only 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 wished he might wash his hands in the King's blood, as this Traitor did in the blood of his Father.  
5. Quere. Whether it were not fit that he should be presently secured thereby to prevent God's 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 falsely imprisoning, opposing, defrauding the meaner sort of people, that by means of the Legal proceeding by indictments he may lose 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 lose 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 Traitors 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 Hypocrisy in having many times honest godly Divines preach before him at the Roll, especially at those times when he was about the greatest treasons, thus acting not only against the good Law of the Land but also Diametrically against the Law and Gospel of God and Christ which say, Touch not mine Anointed, and fear God and honour the King (not murder the King).  
8. Quere.  
Whether those Divines ought not to endeavour to make him sensible of that terrible guilt which lieth 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 King's 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 sacred 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, murdering the King, the Nobles and others, and acting many years together most treacherously, perfidiously, athiestically, in subverting and destroying the Laws of the Nations, the Privileges of Parliament, and the Liberties 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: though he Scylla like, after he had contrived the Murders and given command he appeareth not in the crowd of the Murderers, but endeavoured to obscure himself under an nihil dicit in publico. He being nevertheless, that Hydrocephatos that swelled 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 Traitors 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 Traitorous and hideous 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 murders, and perjures which he hath committed, or make him appear any way the less guilty in the eye of the Law, or of any truly conscientious man, for may a man commit murder 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 God's holy Precepts, who utter a Syllable in his behalf, who indeed hath been the contriver of all our miseries and calamities, who sat continually at the stern to direct those vile Pirates in all their Traitorous designs, who delighted more in his imagined honour, then in honouring either God or the King: who to enrich himself spared no man's 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 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 murder him and some of the Parliament whom he had sworn to preserve. Oh remember blood requireth blood; the very Gibeonits' disdained David's money 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 politic, 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 prevail, he knowing the desperate design they were about, had be then like a noble brave spirited Senator declared to the Rump his sense 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 proceed of those wicked Members; might not in all probability with God's mercy, have intercepted the abominable Acts of murdering the King and others by striking terror to the hearts of those impudent Conspirators; it be evident in all Histories both Divine and Moral, both ancient and modern, how wicked Armies, though Potent, have been put to flight, and the most insolent Traitors examinated by weak means.  
15. Quere. Whether the sin of this wrecth doth not exceed the sin of the Jews, for though they poor creatures murdered their King, yet they knew him not to be their King, their Messiah, neither had Pontius Pilate or any of the Jews swore to preserve him, nor did the unhappy Jews commit that murder, 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 duly considered, he is a most inhuman creature addicted wholly to his own lust. Wherefore dear Countrymen, let us humbly and speedily present our Petitions 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.   

The EPILOGUE. For the Bloody TRAITOR, W. L. Sp.  
THou bloody man, hadst thou remembered to make use of that saying, though from the mouth of a Heathen, which will rise up against thee at the latter day, to thy confusion if thou repentest not, Non solum nobis, nati sumus partem Patria, thou wouldst not have occasioned so much of thy own Countrymen's blood blood to be spilt, to satisfy thy insatiate desire, enriching thyself, and glorying in thy countries' ruin. Or hadst thou made use of that of holy Gregory, Homo ad contemplandum creatorem suam creatus est, You could not possibly then have beat your mind so to commit sacrilege, blasphemy and murder; or that of Zanchius, No●●ndi creati sumus ad neminem sad●●d●●. Oh thou, thou wouldst never have employed thy hands to do any mischief, much less to bathe thy treacherous hands in thy Kings and fellow Subjects blood; For which destruction attends thy Body and Soul eternally, without thou hearty repent.  
FINIS.