Twelve serious queries, proposed to the conscientious deliberate consideration of all electors of knights, citizens, or burgesses for the next intended assembly at Westminster, touching members to be now elected by them to serve therein. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B06311 of text R185811 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing T3404). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 5 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B06311 Wing T3404 ESTC R185811 52612473 ocm 52612473 179698 2240888207

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Twelve Serious Queries , proposed to the conscientious deliberate consideration of all Electors of Knights , Citizens , or Burgesses for the next intended Assembly at Westminster , touching Members to be now Elected by them to serve therein .

1. WHether any Novices or young raw Gentlemen or Burgesses , unacquainted with or not versed in Parliamentary , or State Affairs ?

2. Whether any active Contrivers , Imposers , Collectors ; Treasurers , Sharers , Continuers of their late and present heavy uncessant Taxes , Excises , Imposts , Contributions ?

3. Whether any open Infringers , Subverters , Impugners of their Hereditary Fundamental Laws , Liberties , Freedoms , by illegal Imprisonments , Confinements , Sequestrations , Disseisins , Seisures of their Estates , Goods , Persons , Writings , forcible ransacking of their Houses , Closets , Cabinets , by Souldiers , or otherwise ?

4. Whether any High Court of Justice-men , who have condemned or executed any English Freemen without a Legal Inditement , or Trial by a lawful Jury of their Peers , against the Great Charters and Fundamental Laws of the Land , and the opinion of the very present Judges themselves , or any who have had a vote in erecting such Judicatories or countenanced them in any kind ?

5. Whether those who have been instrumental in subverting the Rights , Privileges , Free . +dome , Constitution of Parliaments themselves , and in securing , secluding , imprisoning the Members thereof for the faithful discharge of their duties ?

6. Whether any who have had a vote in depriving most Freeholders , Burgesses of their Voyces , Rights and Freedoms in Elections , both in Countries , Cities , Burroughs , and lately secluded many antient Burroughs from electing any Burgesses ?

7. Whether any who had a hand in introducing Scotish and Irish Knights , Citixens , Burgesses into the Parliaments of England against the very constitution , Privilege , Honor of our English Parliaments and Nation , who have no votes in Scotish or Irish Parliaments , though subordinate to England and its Parliaments ?

8. Whether any who have enriched themselves by the unjust plunder and spoyl of any private Person , or of the publike Lands and Revenues of the Nation , which should defray the Ordinary Expences of the Government , and ought to be resumed for that end to ease the people in and from their Taxes ?

9. Whether any Military Officers in present Command , who impose live upon , levy , share the former , present Publike Taxes , Exercises and are likely to share & dispose of all the future , and have been the chief Instruments of our late Bondage , Oppressions , Burdens , and make a gainful endlesse ; trade of Warre ?

10. Whether any timorous , Cowardly , faint-hearted Persons , who will neither speak nor act for the publike Laws , Liberties , Ease , or welfare of the Nation , or very coldly , and will do any thing to secure their own private Interests , though the Publike suffer Shipwracke by it ?

11. Whether any who eagerly canvas for places , Voyces , by Letters from Great men in present power , Bribes , promised favours or rewards , Menaces , or any indirect mean , Or Persons of no publik Eminency , Integrity , or Estate , who are more apt to seek their own private interests , and theirs who recommend them , then the publike ease , welfare , settlement of the Nation ?

12. Whether any ambitious or covetous selfseeking Temporizers , who ayme only at their own private preferments by complying with ay prevailing party ; or such who seek to be chosen to exempt themselves from arrests , or payments of their Debts ?

Whether all or any of these , at any time , but especially at this season , in reason , prudence , policy , justice , conscience , may or ought to be elected Knights , Citizens , or Burgesses , in any County , City , or Borough whatsoever ? And whether the choise of any such , 〈◊〉 any place , at this instant time , will not be a breach of the Electors trust , an injury to the who●● Nation , and a forfeiture of their right of Electing any Members for the future , if not a 〈◊〉 betraying of their own as well as the whole English Nations , and Parliaments Rights and Liberties , beyond possibility of any future restitution , if Elections of any or many such should now be made through improvidence , favour , or flatery of Great men ? Consider and declare your judgments herein , by your prudent and careful Elections .

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