Eighteen QUERIES, Extreme needful To be Debated and Resolved of, before the City CANNON be discharged against the ARMY.  
With His MAJESTY'S PROPOSITIONS sent to the House of PARLIAMENT.  
Wherein is laid down the manner of the Kings proceed, since the beginning of this unnatural War, to this present month of August. 1647.  
LONDON, Printed for C. H. 1647.   

DIVERS QUERIES Extreme needful to be debated of, before the City Cannon be discharged upon the ARMY.  


I.  
THat the Presbyterian Government should be continued for three years, and in the interim, 20 of his Mties. Chaplians to be aded to the Assembly to consider what lotthe future. quere  
Obj If the Presbyterian Government be lure devi●o, as many godly Divines to assert. Then what good alteration can be expected when the Assembly shall be new modulized for number; and the minds of unstable men tempted by new preferments offered; the King professing he will sooner be torn in pieces than part with the Bishop's lands, and then how will the 400000 l. to the City be paid, which those lands stand engaged for.   

II.  
The Parliament shall have the Militea for ten years, and where will the Kingdom's safety be after the expiration of that term.   

III.  
The King will conseut for the raising of money, for the payment of his own and the Kingdoms debts.  
Obj. What sums will both these amount unto, and by whom is it like to be paid, judge you noble Citizens what Patriots shall approve yourselus both to yourselus, and the whole Kingdom, in bringing in the Kingdom upon those if ye do assent and hold them, and judge impartially by these consequences following.    

The Consequences. Queres,  

I.  
What may be expected from the King coming in without any relenting for the bloodshed of his people, and persisting in the same temper he hath ever been in, not assenting to the propositions, and having all power in his hands.   

TWO:  
What may be expected from all his party being once in power, the soldiery for their arrears, and all that have cleaved unto him forreparation, & whether having brought him in they will not expect the City to make good their losses▪   

III  
Whether it can stand with the Kings honour not to be instrumental to it, and if it be denied whether his parry being drawn together will not enforce it by strong hands, & measure it out of the shops by swords length, or if by weight at 240s. the pound.   

FOUR  
Whether the City having been the main bank to pay those in arms against the King's party, there will not appear a kind of Justice in the King's patty to exact their pay also of them.   

V  
Whether the King without being capitulated withal will so easily forget the tumult at White-Hall when he came for the five members, which he pretended, drive him away.   

VI  
Whether posterity will not for ever have cause, to curse the day of this occasion by the City given to the Parliament, when all these oppressing Courts viz. High-commission, Star-Chamber, and Court of Wards, and all Commissaries Courts, s●all be in power again, and double both the Cities and Kingdom's bondage upon them again.   

VII.  
Whether the Church of God and people of England, will not have cause also, for ever to repent of that day's rout committed upon the Parliament, when the woeful consequences of it thus prosecuted shall be written in great Characters of blood, and who can determine what, or how far it may proceed, at the least to an utter undoing of all that is already done.   

VIII.  
Whether the Honour of the Nation, and more particularly of this famous City, which hetherunto hath been so instrumental toward the Kingdom's recovery of her lost liberties will not be for ever blemished in this act, if it shall obstuately persist in it, and the Parliament itself make itself infamous by coworking to undo all that they have done.   

IX.  
What will become of all the godly patty in the Kingdom, yea even our godly ministers themselves, who zealously set on the Kingdom to set forward the work, and what will become of the Public Faith, and how preserved to the Nation?   

X.  
Who shall account for all the innocent blood that is like to be shed, the Army being received as the Parliaments, and coming up in their vindication?   

XI.  
What if the Army enter the Town and force it? what measure can be expected but a general plunder, being according to Laws of war, the purchase of their Swords? Whether it will be in the power of those who would spare it, to obtain somuch or Noah.   

XII.  
If the Army be destroyed what benefit to the Kingdoms, or honour to the Ciry to have destroyed those, wh● have settled both theirs and the Kingdom's peace?   

XIII  
Whether will there be found Treasure enough in Gouldsmiths-Hall, to repay unto the Delinquents on the King's pa●ty their compositions back, if not, where will they Levey it?   

XIIII.  
What heads may be cut off, and persons executed for being faithful to the Parliament and Kingdom; when the King is in power again without capitulating?   

XV.  
What new guests shall we be enforced to provide entertainment for from France, and what scores of the Kings must the Kingdom pay for his engagements abroad.   

XVI.  
Whether any Parliaments in future times are like to be more faithful vindicators of the subjects Liberties, or to reduce things to more perfection than is by the platform of this Parliament already modulized.   

XVII.  
Whether this Parliament thus concluded by the Sword and irregularly dealt withal, wil● not make all honest and faithful Patriots to their Country, for ever refuse to engage themselves, being thus endangered, affronted, and despised   

XVIII.  
Whether it can ever be hoped for again, that any of our Princes in succeeding ages, will ever be drawn to grant the like act of continuance; for abridging the exbitancy of their own power, and making the people so free, all being returned to Its former Chaos and confusion.   

And now I appeal unto the judgement and consciences, of all honest, impartial, wise, godly and sober-minded men, that either prize Religion, Estates, Liberty, Peace and freedom, either of the present or future ages to come to all posterity. If any can be accounted good Patriots to their Country, that will engage to bring in the King upon the terms by him proposed, or rather without any terms at all, considering what in all reason must needs be the fruits and consequences of it.     
FINIS.