London's new Recorder: Or, certain Queres to be resolved by the old Recorder, for London's further welfare.  
1. WHether the Cities late furious and audacious insolence in listing themselves and engaging their friends for a second War, or their tame and shameful submission and betraying the others, be more worthy of contempt.  
2. Whether we may not now as justly and ingenuously covenant to endeavour the extirpation of the chief Officers in the City-Government, whether it be the Lord Mayor, Alderman, Sheriff's Common-counsel, and other Officers depending thereon, and placing better in their room, for their late intended rebellion in raising a new War, as they before have the extirpation of Popery, Prelacy, (that is Church-Government by Archbishops, Bishops, Chancellors, Deans, etc.) Superstition, Heresy, Schism, Profaneness, etc. these being sins more apparently, acted by them, and we more miserably sensible thereof, than these of the latter; none of which the whole Synod can yet reduce under any of their Classes.  
3. Whether the City-Fomenters in their late practices for a new war, did not give occasion, and it be not more justice and less Sacrilege for the King and State to appropriate to themselves these Caupon Capon-eaters, Halls and several Corporations, the main incentive of their pride and rebellion, than those ancient and pious fabrics and endowments of our forefather's devotion and charity.  
4. Whether these new holy days of Apprentices and Schoolboys may not prove a greater deformation to Church and City, than their ancient Shrovetide and May-day hath been of Reformation to Playhouses and Stews.  
5. Whether the redoubted valour of the Apprentices hath not revived their extinguished birthright, and made more Gentlemen than Masters: who as they had done the King from the Parliament, so these shall extrude their Masters from their Commodities and Warehouses.  
6. Whether it be not as necessary for the temporal Sword to suppress all Arms and Soldiery of the City, as it is for the spiritual, all Schism and Sectaries, they both having their beginning in Queen Elizabeth's time, and both alike formidably increased to Church and State.  
7. Whether Queen Elizabeth's first licence to a few Citizens and Apprentices, may not exercise Arms for her disport and entertainment, may not be re-called by her Successor, their number now being limited and their use è diametro to the contrary.  
8. Whether since their expulsion of the King from his Chamber the City, and their disloyal royal hunt, they would not now though against their Religion and Charter, turn penitent Pilgrims and revisit S. Cutberts and S. Michael's Mount to reduce him and the Prince, and although they have not canonised any of them for a Saint in their weekly Pamphlet, yet for his return to procure a new holy day Ordinance, and Register it in their yearly Calendars.  
9 Whether that ancient little Model the City (not circumscribed now in the Lines of Communication) hath not by their tumultuous Petitions reduced and whittled that main prop and post of our English Government (the Parliament) to less power and proportion then a Sheriffs white rod, or a Constable's painted staff.  
10. Whether their long Liberties over Southwark, Westminster, Whitechapel, etc. hath not made those places greater objects of fear and danger unto the City herself, than they have made her to be of terror to the whole Kingdom: And whether like an overgrown Oyster, doth she not now stew in her own pickle.  
11. Whether the City do not deal with its Suburbs and their Line of Communication, as the Jews of old with the Samaritans, acknowledge them brethren only while they advantage them: And whether, if necessarily they must be Appendices, they ought not to communicate in all its Liberties.  
12. Whether those Marshal Burgesses have not good nigh brought their City into as calamituous a case as they would have done S. Peter's patrimony or the Bishop's estates.  
13. Whether the City monopolising all Trades, it be a good state of body, to have a fat head, thin guts, and lean members: Or whether it be not expedient policy by lancing the mids of the hide, to eventilate those tumours, which by the late depressing and trampling of the sides hath so exorbitantly swelled there, that it holds not now a fit proportion for the right level of the whole.  
14. Whether their endeavorring to make themselves a fourth party and estate of the Kingdom, and having (with the earthen pot in the fable) justled with all the other, and now down stream they be not likely to be shattered a pieces by the others greater strength.  
15. Whereas upon the 7. of this August the City gave up its spirit inarticulately intestate, whether his Excellency, their present Administrator, will yet accept of their beaten gold Bason, and Ewer, and permit their wives and children, according to their custom to enjoy their third parts.  
16. Whether the City-tame Pigeons since their late wild flight, abandoning their Turtells, will not most of them be transformed to Stockdoves, and seek some desert or wilderness to bemoan their unpitied desolation.  
17. Whether the Cockneigh or the Horse-crow be now the more proper and pleasing language to a Citizen.  
18. Whether on the Royal Exchange, the Publike-Faith, or the Irish Purchaser will prove the greater Bankrupts.  
19 Whether Alderman Gresham in his Trunk-hose and round Cap upon the Exchange deserveth not (though he less need) more incense to his memory and is more worthy their imitation, then lately that Rhodomontado Alderman in Moorfieles on horseback with all his comparisons.  
20. Whether the Old Change and Guildhall are not nearer to Newgate and Ludgate, than the Bishop's gate be unto the Tower  
21. Whether Britain's Burss be not now as rich as Goldsmiths or Guildhall.  
22. Whether Bedlam and Bridewell sound not better to Puritan then S. Bartholomewes' or Christ-Church.  
23. Whether Pater Noster Row Ave and Creeds Lane stood not as near Cheapside-Crosse as Gracious street.  
24. Whether Lex talionis in all things hath not yet met with the City; and whether to this Quintessence of all their former Rebellions, and adequate transcendent punishment may not justly be feared.  
25. Whether the old Recorder shall not be better employed in staying here to resolve all these Quaeres, than his other ten fellow-Members hath been in giving occasions to raise them, and then running away.  

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Printed in the Year, 1647.