Three Seasonable Quaeres, PROPOSED To all those Cities, Counties and Boroughs, whose respective Citizens, Knights and Burgesses have been forcibly excluded, unjustly ejected, and disabled to sit in the Commons house, by those now acting at WESTMINSTER.  
IT being the indubitable birthright, privilege and franchise of all Citizens, Freeholders and Burgesses of every City, County and Borough of the Realm of England, freely to elect 2. Citizens, Knights and Burgesses, by virtue of the King's Writs, and to give them full and sufficient power by their Indentures under their Seals, both for themselves and the respective Commonalties of the said Cities, Counties and Boroughs, to do and consent to all Laws, Aids, Taxes, and things which shall be ordained or imposed on them by common Counsel, and consent in every Parliament of this Realm; which Citizens, Knights and Burgesses, ought freely to fit and vote in the Commons House in their behalf, as their trusties and Representatives, from the beginning to the end of every Parliament for which they are elected without interruption, or exclusion, and not to be ejected or voted out of the House, but for some notable Misdemeanour or breach of their Parliamentary Trust, by judgement of Parliament, upon a particular impeachment or charge against them, after a deliberate hearing, trial, and judgement pronounced against them at the bar, according to the rules of Justice and course of Parliament; All which is evident by the known Laws and Statutes of this Realm, the Writs of Summons to, and Records, Precedents of Parliament, the Resolutions of Judges, Law-books, and all Writers of the Parliaments of England, of late and former times.  
1. Whether all the Burgesses of the City of Westminster (where the Fragment of the long Parliament now sits in state) guarded with their Militia, and other armed forces, whose two Burgesses, John Glyn, now Sergeant at Law, and William Bell Gentleman, still living; the Lord Maior, Aldermen, Common Council, and Citizens of London, 2. of whose 3. remaining Citizens, Sir Thomas Soam Knight, and Samuel Vassal Merchant; all the Freeholders in the County of Middlesex, (within which they are assembled) whose only surviving Knight of the Shire, Gilbert Gerrard Baronet; all Freeholders of the County of Hartford, whose 2. Knights of the Shire, Sir William Litton, and Sir Thomas Dacres Knights: of Surry, whose 2. Knights, Sir Richard Ownslow Knight, and Sir Ambrose Brown Baronet; (all adjoining) All Freeholders within the remoter Counties of Gloucester, whose 2. Knights Nathaniel Stephen's Esquire, and Sir John Seymer Knight; of Oxfordshire, whose 2. Knights Thomas Viscount Wenman, and James Fiennes Esq all yet living; and of all other Counties, Cities, and Boroughs throughout England and Wales, one or both of whose Knights, Citizens or Burgesses yet in life, have been heretofore forcibly secured, or excluded by armed Guards from fitting and voting freely in the House of Commons in Decemb. 1648. or in May and Decemb. 1659. by the confederacy, practice, order or commands of the Membersthen or now fitting, and by their new-printed Vote of the 5th. of this instant January, instead of admitting them for a New-year's Gift, have voted them quite out of the House and Parliament, and adjudged them to stand duly discharged by Judgement of Parliament from sitting as Members of Parliament, during this Parliament; and that new Writs do issue forth for electing New Members in their places; before any legal impeachment against or hearing, trial, conviction of all or any of them; and without rendering any Ground or Reason at all in their Vote or any other Declaration, to these worthy ejected Knights, Citizens, or Burgesses themselves, or to the respective Counties, Cities, Boroughs, whose trusties and Representatives they are, of this their forcible Seclusion, Ejection, and Non-ability to fit or vote according to the Power and trust reposed in them by the Counties, and Commonalties, who elected, returned, and empowered them under their respective sealed Indentures. Be not all in Justice, Honour, Duty and Conscienee severally obliged, both by the Laws of the Land, their Protestation, and Solemn National League and Covenant, and the late Precedent of the Inhabitants and Freeholders of the County of Buckingham, Jan. 13. 1641. in the Case of Mr. John Hampden, chosen one of the Knights of that Shire (when impeached and demanded by the King to be delivered up to him by the House) both for the vindication of the Rights and Privileges of Parliament, the Innocency and Integrity of these their dis-membered untainted trusties, in whom they had good cause to confide, and of their own Judgements, Integrities, Care and Prudence in their Elections, as the discreetest and ablest Persons to serve them, & the whole Kingdom in and during the continuance of this Parliament; and for the Preservation of their own Freedom in their Elections, before they proceed to elect any New Members in their places, unanimously, magnanimously, and personally at the House bar, to demand of their bold Ejectors, (thus keeping and casting them out by armed forces raised only for their protection to sit and vote with freedom and safety) the true Grounds and Reasons of this their unwarrantable Ejectment; and in case they cannot or shall not give them a satisfactory account of the Legality and justice of this their Exclusion for some particular Misdemeanours or Breaches of their public Trusts, and of the manner of their Proceeding theirin without hearing or impeachment, then to require speedy and full Reparations from them, for the Injury, Indignity and Injustice done thereby, both to their trusties and themselves, and not to submit to any thing they vote or impose, as binding to them, in any kind, till this be effected, since their assents in their names and steads, is the only reason in Law, that makes their Acts and Impositions binding to them?  
2. Whether the sitting Members may not and will not in all probability, with as much Justice and Reason, by mere force and will, Exclude and eject all Members which shall be newly elected by those Counties, Cities or Boroughs, in place of the old secluded and ejected Members, in case they suspect or conceit they will not comply with, or will overvote them in their Innovations and Designs, as they have excluded and ejected those old Members, and put them upon successive Elections of other Members, till they have completed their Projections without them; or packed a House of their own Creatures and Confederates, to carry on their private Interests, not the public Peace, wealth and settlement of these Nations?  
3. Whether their new intended Qualifications of Electors and Persons to be Elected to fill up the House, and high new Engagement, to be imposed on all new Members, before their admission, be not a more arbitrary and Tyrannical violation and subversion of the people's Rights and Liberties in the freedom of their Elections, and of the Rights and Privileges of Parliament, than ever beheaded King Charles, or any of his Predecessors were guilty of? an apparent Breach and repeal of the Great Charter of England, ch. 9 & 29. of 25 E. 1. c. 1. 28 E. 1. c. 1. 25 E. 3. c. 4. The Petition of Right, 3 Caroli. the Statutes of 3 E. 1. c. 5. & 9 E. 2. c. 13. That all Elections ought to be free and freely made: and of the special Acts of 5 R. 2. c. 4. 7 H. 4. c. 15. 1 H. 5. c. 1. 8 H. 6. c. 7. 10 H. 1. c. 2. 23 H. 6. c. 15. & 35 H. 8. c. 11. & 16 Caroli c. 1. for Electing of Knights, Citizens and Burgesses to serve in Parliaments, and Claus. 11. R. 2. dors. 23, 24? yea a new machiavellian Policy, to seclude out of the House, all Persons of Honour, and Piety, who make conscience of their former Oaths of Supremacy, Allegiance, Protestation, Vow, Covenant, and abhor all Perjury and Treachery; since themselves account all their former Oaths, Protestations, Vows, Covenants and Engagements, unobligatory to themselves, or the Nation, violating them at their pleasure, that themselves may still fit, act and rule alone as formerly? Or else a mere Engine to recruit the House with such New Members (who will swallow down any Abjurations, Oaths and Engagements themselves shall impose upon them) of their own party and Confederacy, against the public Interest, by disabling whom they please, to Elect, or be Elected to fit together with them?   

LONDON, Printed for Edward Thomas, at the Adam and Eve in Little Britain. 1660.