EIGHTEEN NEW COURT-QUAERIES HUMBLY OFFERED To the serious consideration, and mature deliberation of all the good honest hearted people of the Three Nations: of great concernment towards the stopping our Breaches, and the making up of the Divisions amongst us.  
By several wellwishers to our Settlement.  
LONDON, Printed in the year MDCLIX.   

EIGHTEEN COURT-QUERIES, etc.  

I.  
WHether this Lord Protectors Patience in letting go his ●old so calmly, and tamely, were in him a Virtue, or not? and if it were a Virtue, whether Necessity did not make it so?   

II.  
Whether eight thousand pounds per annum, and withal free liberty to take the Country Air, be not very sufficient an reasonable considerations, and stipend, for the old Protectress; as a very grateful acknowledgement from our Free-State, of the good service which her husband in his life time did for this Commonwealth? and whether or no she ought in conscience to flight and undervalue this ample testimony of the Officers good affection, and charity to her?   

III.  
Whether if the Sky should f●ll there world be any work for a Lark-catcher at Whitehall?   

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Whether the Army ought not to have given to them, new Red Coats, and black buttons now, to mourn for the Depar ure of this Protector, as well as they had for the Decease of ●he Old one?   

V  
That seeing so it is, and must, and shall be, that the Courtiers must of necessity repair all of them to their respective dwelling, and habitations, bag and baggage; whether it would not be a greater expense and burden to the States (upon whose hands they yet lie) to send for Mules out of Egypt for their Convoy; than 〈◊〉 them their next neighbours in James his Park (the Asses) to perform that piece of drudgery?   

VI  
Whether or no Peter Sterry, the Court Confessor, when he preached in the Chapel the very next Lord's day after his H●ghuesse cied, and uttered in that his Sermon there, words, either these, or to this effect, (viz.) [As certainly as I hold the word of God in my left hand, so certainly is his late Highness now at the right hand of God, interceding for the iniquities of this sinful Nation:] did not commit an high, and most horrid piece of blasphemy? And then, whether He does not therefore very well deserve to be a fellow-seeler o● James Naylour's Sentence, and to be as coarsely used as He, who yet continues at his expiatory task of pounding hemp in the House of Correction?   

VII.  
Whether or not, Dr. John Owen, and Dr. Thomas Goodwin, would make it any 〈◊〉 of matter of Conscience to accept of the two Archbishoprics of York and Canterbury if the State could think fit to reward their endeavours with so rich a proffer?   

VIII.  
Whether it be not very fitting, and necessary, and much tending to the gladding of the Hearts of many men, that the Banqueting house at Whitehall be speedily removed from thence, and carried cross the way to Wallingford-house, for the noble Officers of our invincible, and successful Armies, to triumph in, after all their encounters, and valiant achievements? And whether the State would not do well as to that end and purpose, with all expedition possible, to make all the Citizens Pioners for the carrying on of that Great Work.   

IX.  
Whether these Proverbs following 1. That some man man may better steal a Goose, than another pluck a feather? 2. That bought wit is best? 3. That Occasion makes the thief? be all most true and authentic, and confirmed by modern experience, yea, or no?   

X.  
Whether it may consist with the tender, and delicate education of our new Ladies of Honour, to dabble through the Country dew these Summer mornings with a milking pail on their heads? and consequently, whether it is not likely to be very much prejudicial to their beauties, to go (after this state) out of God's blessing, into the Warm Sun?   

XI.  
Whether illiterate men, partial, covetous, worldly minded, selfended greedy of gain, having men's persons in admiration, naughty, an hypocritical, be competent judges (according to the Cano● of the ●oly Writ) of Students in both Universities of our Land, for the discharge of the most sacred Ministerial Function?   

XII.  
Whether Mr. Hugh Peter, when he kept daily and ●ightly correspondence with the Gentleman's wife in the Low-Countries, during the absence of her husband, upon service in the worres, did punctually perform that dreadful threatening of his, in the hear of his Zeal against Popery, That He would lay the whore of Babylon upon h●r back? And whether that mad 〈◊〉 Spirit wherewith he seems always possessed, becomes a man of peace, or suits with the meekness, and humility of the glorious Gospel?   

XIII.  
Whether Mr. Needham the Curranto-maker, the Court Pamphleteer, being an impudent fellow, a lye●, and forger of foreign le●ters; a mercenary informer, an abuser, and base vilifier of worthy and eminent persons; an insulter over gallant men's afflictions, and miseries; A murderer of men's ●ame, credit & reputation, to their utter and most inevitable ruin and destruction; does not very well deserve to forfeit his Ears to the Pillory?   

XIV.  
Whether all the men of the three Nations that lately made 〈◊〉 to his Highness; are dead or alive?   

XV.  
Whether now, Whitehall be not a place commodious to make a Playhouse of, having been accustomed for these many years to such alteration of Scenes? and the pensioners, etc. well accomplished to turn Stage-Players? First, because it is conceived they have now little else to do. Secondly, because they have been bred up upon that Stage, and can act any part; and Thirdly, because they never wear good  longer than the Play continues.   

XVI.  
Whether the old Protector's Cradles standing in Westminster Abbey in the same place where the High Altar, or Communion Table formerly stood, is not the setting up of one Superstition where another Superstition (as 'twas termed) was pulled down? and whether the Essigies, when it was there, might not be called, without any abuse of Scripture, the abomination of desolation in the holy place?   

XVII.  
Whether the wainscot Press that is made in Henry the seventh his Chapel, for reception of the aforementioned Idol, being as yet empty, and thought unfitting for that Employment, would not serve a great deal better to keep in it the sacred Relics of Well-affected Persons in the Commonwealth? as for example, The Lord Brooks' Eye; The flappets of Mr. William Prynn's Ears; My Lord of Essex's Prolific Instrument; Sir John Hotham's Head; Lundsford's teeth; Mildmaye's Jewels; Dr. Dorislaus' four quarters; Alderman Hoyles Rope; the dagger that killed Watt Tyler; The Lord Pride's slings and tallies; the Lord Hewson's shooing-horn; the Lord Barkstead's thimbles and bodkins; with many other remarkable things of this nature, which it may be else may happen to be lost or forgotten?   

XVIII.  
Whether all these eighteen Queries, are not worthy the perusal of every sober, melancholy man? and very mainly effectnal (if they may but be answered according to the earnest long, gapings, and expectations of the honest people of this Commonwealth) to remove a great many scurvy, base incommodities, damages, and inconveniences, which otherwise may chance to fall upon us?   
FINIS.