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 QUARTO SERIES 
 
 No. VIII. 
 
jftirtl)er ©.uerie^ 
 
 UPON THE 
 
 PRESENT STATE 
 
 OF THE 
 
 NEW-ENGLISH AFFAIRS. 
 
 By S. E. 
 
 NEW YORK: 
 
 REPRINTED FOR JOSEPH SABIN, 
 1865. 
 
Edition 250 Copies, 
 
 OF which 50 ARE ON LARGE PAPER. 
 
 MuNSELL, Printer. 
 
 VHAiUil.l 
 
The following pages are a reprint of a rare 
 
 tradt printed in London during the latter part of 
 
 1689 or the beginning of 1690, without a feparate 
 
 title-page. The name of the author is not 
 
 known. 
 
 J.S. 
 
ilii^ifeiSiJitls^iiiiiAAi^-Aiij^ 
 
 
 Further Quaeries 
 
 Upon the Prefent State of the 
 New-Englifh AFFAIRS. 
 
 Reader, 
 
 \Hough there be a truth in the Pro- 
 verb, That a Fool may afk more 
 than a Philofopher can anfwer ; 
 yet I that am on? of the Jirjl fort, 
 am going to ajk nothing but what 
 a Perfon of as mean parts as my 
 fefmay anfwer. Tis a time when 
 every manjhould be aBive in purfuing the Peace of 
 his Countrey ; and I have fome hopes, that if my 
 Countrey men give themfelves the trouble af An- 
 fwering thefe Quaeries, the EffeB will be but 
 peaceable. 
 
 A Former Paper of Quaeries, written and pub- 
 lijhed by one that had not been half f even years in 
 this Countrey, did the Countrey no harm. Which 
 encourages the Writer and Publijher of thefe fur- 
 ther Quasries [who alfo is not a Native of New- 
 England, 
 
( 2 ) 
 
 England, tho a great Obferver of, and Wel- 
 wijher to it) to adventure a fee and part of the fame 
 Times: with no defgn but that of Service to the 
 Countrey ; my Good Friends, the New-Englanders, 
 may fee, that fome obfcure and retired perfons un- 
 known to them, do take notice of their Circumjiances 
 than they are well aware. 
 
 Of the GOVERNMENT. 
 
 Whether it be not a great Injury and Prejudice 
 againft the m'oft Loyal People in all the Englijh 
 Dominions, to reprefent New- England as if it had 
 the leaft Inclination to deny a moft obedient 
 Submiffion or Subordination to the authority of 
 England? and whether even the moft Thinking 
 part of the Countrey ever thought of fuch a 
 thing, till they heard it mentioned by the mouths 
 of their moft malicious Adverfaries ? or have yet 
 thought of it with any Paffions but thofe of 
 Deteftation? 
 
 Whether we have not all imaginable reafon to 
 embrace our antient (however condemned or 
 vacated) CHARTERS, as the beft Inftrument of 
 our Government, by conformity whereunto, (tho 
 there be one of them not yet fo good in Law) we 
 fhall moft exprefs our Allegiance to their Majef- 
 ties and our Dependance on the Authority of 
 England? Inafmuch as, 
 
 Firft, Even the late K fames in his Proclama- 
 tion, Dated OBober ijth 1688 did reftore fome 
 
 (if 
 
I 3 ) 
 
 (if not all) of our Charters, as far as a Proclama- 
 tion could go towards it [Quaere] whether they 
 who thought an illegal Commiflion of K. James 
 could reftore them ? 
 
 Secondly, His Highnefs, the {then) Prince of 
 Orange, Engaging in that glorious Expedition, 
 upon the firft notice whereof, New-England 
 manifefted an earlier zeal for Him and It, than 
 any of all the American Plantations, had thefe 
 Words in His Declaration ; All Magijirates who 
 have been unjujily turned out, Jhall forthwith Refume 
 their former Employments, as well as all the Bur- 
 roughs of England Jhall return to their antient 
 Prefcriptions and Charters. 
 
 Now when we were Condemned, they found 
 us in England, it was the Maffachufets Colony in 
 Wejtminjier. 
 
 Thirdly, In our Addrefs to Their Majejiies, 
 Dated June 6th 1689, our words are thefe. Find- 
 ing an abfolute necejjity of Civil Government, the 
 People generally manifejied their defre and importu- 
 nity once and again, that the Governour, Deputy 
 Governour and Affiftants, Chofen and Sworn in 
 May 1688. according to Charter and Court, as 
 then formed, would AJfume the Government : The 
 faid Governour, Deputy Governour and Affif- 
 tants then refdent in the Colony, did confent to ac- 
 cept the prefent Care and Government of this 
 People, according to the Rules of the Charter. 
 
 Fourthly, In anfwer to that Addrefs, His Ma- 
 
 jefty, in a moft gracious Letter, bearing Date, 
 
 B Aug 
 
( + ) 
 
 Aug i2th. 1689. does Authorize and Impower 
 our prefent Rulers to continue in His Name the 
 Care in the Adminijiration of the Government. 
 
 Which Letter is Superfcribed \T'ofuch as For 
 the Time Being, take care for preferring the Peace, 
 and Adminiftring the Laws ^c\ An Expreffion 
 which implies a Succejion. 
 
 Fifthly, The Body of the Englijh Nation M- 
 fembled in Parliament have declared the Invafion 
 made upon our Charters, to be illegal and a 
 grievance. And the Bill for the Reflauration of 
 Charters fo far as New-England is concerned in 
 it, has thrice pafled the Honourable Houfes of 
 Commons. 
 
 Thefe things are mentioned, not as if they 
 w^ere fufficient Deliverances of the Majfachufets 
 Charter, (as for the Charters of the other Colo- 
 nies, 'tis peevifhnefs to queftion whether they 
 be not in as good force as ever) from the difad- 
 vantages with which a pretended but injurious 
 form of Law has hampered it. But they are 
 produced as Intimations of the beft Rule that 
 our Government can at prefent have, while in a 
 conjundtion with all thefe Encouragements, there 
 is the voice, and vote, and content of the whole 
 People, fo far as it can be legally underftood, 
 agreeing thereunto, So that we go on to en- 
 quire : 
 
 Whether the foundations being every where 
 overturned, and all things out of courfe, it be not 
 become utterly impoffible at fuch an extraordi- 
 nary 
 
( 5 ) 
 
 nary Time, for the Niceties and Pundtilioes of 
 Law, to be exadlly obferved ? And whether 
 thofe that are Baiting and Bantring at the prefent 
 Government, for wanting fome Circumftances 
 of Law, to ftrengthen the foundation which they 
 adt upon, can fuggeft any other Foundations, but 
 what would be a thoufand times more feeble and 
 rotten, than thofe which we are now upon ? 
 
 Whether it can be pleafing unto the Almighty 
 God, or unto Their Majefties or to the Honoura- 
 ble Parliament ; That this great Country fhould 
 live from year to year without any Civil Govern- 
 ment ? Or w^hether one of their Colonies, 
 which never had any Charter at all, did not 
 Comfortably jog on for one threefcore years in 
 an innocent and laudable Adminiftration of 
 Government without ever being blamed for it ? 
 
 Whether the beft Courfe that we can at prefent 
 fteer, be not for us to obferve the allowed me- 
 thods of the whole Englijh Nation, in this won- 
 derful and Critical time of Confufions, and to 
 learn by the beft Hints we can get, what will 
 be moft agreeable to the glorious Defigns of 
 Their Majefties, King William and Queen Mary, 
 and the Parliament of England ; managing of 
 ourfelves with a moft Loyal and Religious Con- 
 formity thereunto ? And whether it be not 
 fomething worfe than Ignorance to fay that we 
 are not now fteering of fuch a Courfe ? 
 
 Whether it can be a fair thing for a Company 
 of Strangers, who have had all manner of Civility 
 
 and 
 
( 6 ) 
 
 and Proteftion, and are growing rich under the 
 prefent Government, yet out of their antipathy 
 to the good Order & the good people here, to 
 fend home Addrefles for the impofing of fuch a 
 Form of Government upon us, as the biggeft 
 part of the Plantation more than feven to one, 
 humbly but w^armly Deprecate. 
 
 Whether Confidering the Antient Enjoyments, 
 and the prefent Conftitution and Inclination of 
 this People, and the Circumftances of our Lands, 
 &c. Thofe Men are not under the power of a 
 meer Phrenzy who defire not the Reftoration of 
 our Charters ? 
 
 Whether thofe few little men who now pre- 
 tend that they are bound in Confcience to De- 
 clare againft this Government, becaufe they 
 imagine fome Circumftantial Forms of Law not 
 exaftly obferved in our Settlement thought 
 themfelves under any Obligations of Confcience 
 to appear againft the late Government, wherein 
 all Englifh Laws, and Englifh Liberties were 
 perfe<ftly overthrown ? 
 
 Of the ELECTION. 
 
 Whether our Government being now fo allow- 
 ably taken up, according to the Rules of our 
 Charter, it has been amifs, for the General 
 Court to Remember, that an Anniverfary Elec- 
 tion is among the moft Fundamental Rules of 
 our Charter ? 
 
 Whether 
 
{ 7 ) 
 
 Whether all the Corporations in England, 
 none of which have their Charters Reftored, 
 go not on with their Eledtions as well as we ? 
 
 Whether this greateft Objedtion againft an 
 Eledtion, be not the inconvenient Choice which 
 Diftemper and Faftion may be too ready, to 
 precipate this people unto. And whether all 
 good men, ought not with a ferious watchfulnefs 
 over their own paffions, to endeavour the preven- 
 tion of that inconvenience ? 
 
 Whether the Arduous Affairs which the Ap- 
 proaching Summer is like to entertain us with, 
 will not be fo perplexed, as to require the ableft 
 and wifeft men in the Country to go thro with 
 them ? 
 
 Whether the Gentlemen that are now in the 
 Government being by uncomfortabl6 Experience, 
 thus well acquainted with Government, (for 
 Governing is a Ikill, as great as any of the Liberal 
 Arts) it would not be a madnefs to make too 
 EJfential or Conjiderable Alterations, in our New 
 Eledtion ? 
 
 Whether in our Choice of Magiftrates there 
 fhould not be fpecial Eye to this that as they be 
 perfons of great affedtion to the True intereft of 
 their Country, fo they may be for the moll part, 
 of good Fafliion and Quality, and fuch as may 
 maintain the due Grandure of a Government ? 
 
 Of the Prefent War. 
 
 Whether we are not now evidently Reduced 
 
 unto 
 
( 8 ) 
 
 unto that extream Dilemma that either New- 
 England or New-France mufl unavoidably perifh ? 
 
 Whether all our Encounters with feveral Bo- 
 dies or Nations of Indians that may quarrel with 
 us, be not meerly a lopping of Branches, whereas 
 by an Attack upon Port Royal and Canada, we 
 fall upon the Root of all our Miferies ? 
 
 Whether it be not Good Hufbandry, in a man- 
 ner to throw up all Bufinefs and apply ourfelves 
 one and all to this French War, in which if God 
 give us Profperity, we fhall get more from our 
 Enemies by Fighting, than we can get of one 
 another by Trading ? 
 
 Whether in all parts of the Country it be not 
 incumbent on well affefted perfons immediately 
 (with the Countenance of Authority) to Lift 
 themfelves and humbly offer to our Honourable 
 Rulers and Fathers, their beft Service in the Ex- 
 pedition which is now propounded ? 
 
 Whether if we make a vigorous AfTault upon 
 our French Neighbours we may not by the blef- 
 fing of God, hope to be victorious over them ? 
 
 Whether a thoufand things do not now Con- 
 fpire to invite us unto fuch an Expedlation ? 
 
 Efpecially, Thefe Four : 
 Firft, That the wheel of Divine Vengence is 
 now Turning apace, upon the French Papifts for 
 their late Bloody and Matchlefs Perfecutions : in 
 which Perfecutions, our French Neighbours have 
 had a very peculiar fhare ; Why mayn't we 
 
 hope 
 
( 9 ) 
 
 hope to be the Executioners of Gods wrath 
 upon them ? 
 
 Secondly, A great part of the French People, 
 which we propound to invade are fuch as would 
 fee it their happinefs to come under the Engltjh 
 Government ? 
 
 Thirdly, The Englijh Arms in other parts of 
 the Weji Indies are now very profperous againft 
 them ; 'Tis probable, their time is come to go 
 down the Wind. 
 
 Fourthly, The Mohawks now after that at the 
 fame nick of Time, when we vifit them by Sea, 
 they will be upon them by Land : and they will 
 certainly be fo difcouraged, as wholly to defert 
 us, and unite with our Enemies, if we are not 
 wanting to ourfelves. 
 
 Whether our fubduing the French Territories 
 will not be a thing as acceptable to the Crown 
 of England, as profitable to the people of New 
 England? 
 
 Whether it would not be a Generous, and moft 
 Chriftian Service, for fome well difpofed New 
 Englander, to undertake the Gofpellizing of the 
 Mohawks, who, though much Tampered withall 
 by the French Papifts, exprefs an inclination to 
 the Proteftant Religion ? 
 
 Whether there would not be a great piece of 
 Policy as well as of Piety in fuch an Undertak- 
 ing ? And whether all Orders of men among us, 
 would not ftudy to fupport and honour the Un- 
 dertaker with the extremeft gratitude. 
 
 Whether 
 
( 1° ) 
 
 Whether the advantages, which the French 
 have againft: us, do not proceed very much from 
 the Condudl of that Gentleman, whofe unwea- 
 ried Induftry and Mediation procured of the 
 French King the Return of thofe Mohawks which 
 had been carried into France ? 
 
 Whether there be not thofe words to be read 
 in a Memorial prefented lately to Their Majef- 
 
 ties againft that Gentleman by one Mr, P 
 
 R--y. 
 
 The Petition [concerning Salt Ponds about New- 
 York) was never returned hut the Dejign put by, 
 hecaufe 'twas againji the Intereji of France. // 
 evidently appears that he had a Correfpondency with 
 the Governour of Canada. 
 
 Hearing of fever al Protejiant People that de- 
 ferted Canada, to find it out, he makes his Applica- 
 tion to a Merchant at ^ew-Yov^, faying, he heard 
 that feveral T)if contented Perfons Deferted Cznzdz. : 
 fame of them Labouring Men ; and that he had oc- 
 cafion for a Gardiner, fome prefented themfelves, 
 but injiead of imploying them he fends them to the 
 Weflern I/lands. 
 
 The King of France has for divers years fent 
 
 feveral Companies of Souldiers to Canada ; among 
 
 which are many Protefiants ; Several y oung men of 
 
 Good Families, who think themfelves not men, except 
 
 they have feen a Campaign. But when they are 
 
 got 
 
( " ) 
 
 gof into Canada, they are kept there, and cannot Re- 
 treat, nor have any Exercife of their Religion, but 
 are Compelled to go to Mafs. So that feveral did 
 endeavour to come to New- York ; but Sir Edmund 
 Androfs, having thus aSied has prevented them. 
 The King o/" France is fo great in thofe parts, that 
 every year he fends Souldiers, and when they are 
 there, they are encouraged to Marry, having Land 
 and Horfes given them, with other Necejfaries : they 
 daily increafe^ at the Backfde of New- England, 
 and New- York, extending to the Backfde of Vir- 
 ginia, They grow fo numerous, that they will in a 
 few years be Mafters of all thefe Countries, if a 
 fpeedy care be not taken, 
 
 They have now a Fort, fxty miles within the 
 Englifh Empire. The Governour of Canada was 
 Required to Demolijh his Fort by Collonel Dungon, 
 then Governour of New-York. And order came 
 from King James to the Governour of New- York 
 and New- England, to Retreat, and lay down their 
 Arms ; and the like from the King o/" France, to the 
 Governour of Canada. And that the two Kings 
 would end the Controverfy in Europe. Notwitli- 
 ftanding all that, they kept their Ground, and a Fort, 
 and aCloifer offefuits. iS/r Edmund Androfs, TOj^o 
 pretends to be a Frotefant, found fault with Gover- 
 nour Dungon, who is a Roman Catholic k, for mak- 
 ing War with Canada, notwithjianding the Reafons 
 above written : alledging that the two Kings were in 
 great Alliance and Friendjhip. 
 
 C Whether 
 
( 12 ) 
 
 Whether the Confideration of fuch things as 
 thefe, may not more than a little endear the pre- 
 fent Government of New-England unto all that 
 would be loath to fee the Country given aw^ay to 
 its greatefl: Enemies ? 
 
 Whether in Conjundtion with the Indian Tef- 
 timonies, which were fo much defpifed this time 
 twelvemonth, perfons a few months ago efcaped 
 from a French Captivity have not given upon 
 Oath fuch farther Teftimonies as thefe 
 
 J n. L. d. of Salem teftifies. That being on 
 Board the {French) Admiral, viz. The Lumbuf- 
 cado, and in faid fhip carried a Prifoner to Port 
 Royal, he did then hear feveral of the Company 
 on Board faid Ship, fay. That they came diredily 
 from France, and that there was Ten or Twelve 
 Sail of them, Ships of War, that came in Com- 
 pany together, but fome of them were taken 
 upon the Coaft of France, and fome were loft 
 fince ; and that they were all bound diredily for 
 New-England: and that Sir ^dvcmndr Androfs, late 
 Governour of New-England had fent to the 
 French King for them to come over, and the 
 Country fhould be delivered up into his hands, 
 and that they expedted that before they fhould 
 Arrive, it would have been delivered into the 
 hands of the French. 
 
 B n. m. y. of Salem Teftifies, That he heard 
 the fame related by feveral on Board the other 
 French Ship of War that was in Company, with 
 
 the 
 
{ 13 ) 
 
 the Lumbufcado namely, the Penguin, And alfo, 
 that they had loft moft of their Ships coming 
 over. Sworn Nov. 23, 1689. 
 
 Pp. H p. of Salem Teftifies that being carried 
 on Board the Lumbufcado, he heard feveral of 
 the Company fay, as above. Sworn Nov. 
 
 22 1689. 
 
 J n. C. t. Teftifies, That being carried to 
 Port Royal, one Prifoner a Mr. M. O. told him, 
 that the French, on board the Lumbufcado, told 
 him as above. And that the [French) having loft 
 feveral of their Ships in their Voyage, and hear- 
 ing that Sir Edmund Androfs was taken and now 
 in hold, they ftiould not proceed at prefent, 
 but threatened what they would do the next 
 Summer. Sworn Nov. 23. 1689. 
 
 The fame is teftified by M 1. C. n. J s A n. 
 Of Salem teftifies. That the Lieutenant of the 
 Lambufcado told him as above. 
 
 J C s. Teftifies That on Board the Lumbuf- 
 cado ; one Peter Gott told him, there were 
 thirteen Ships of them came out of France in 
 Company together, and that they were bound 
 diredtly for Bojlon in New England, expecting 
 that the Country, was before, or would be de- 
 livered up to the King of France ; and told him, 
 before they could get clear of the Coaft of France, 
 feveral of their Ships were taken by the Englijh 
 
 Ships 
 
{ 1+ ) 
 
 Ships of War, and the reft of their Fleet taken or 
 difperfed and loft, about Newfoundland. 
 
 Sworn Nov. 23. 1689. 
 Whether the Confideration of thefe things, be 
 not enough to awaken and animate the utmoft 
 Efforts that we can make towards the preferva- 
 tion of our Country ? 
 
 Of our Union and SubjeBion. 
 
 Whether all forts of men among us, were not 
 by the late Government annoyed with Oppref- 
 fions, which were then thought intollerable ? 
 
 Particularly, 
 
 Whether Hufbandmen do need to be put in 
 mind of the bleffed Priviledge to which they 
 were advancing, of taking Patents for their 
 Lands, at a rate which would have reduced them 
 to a meaner Eftate than the Famine once brought 
 the Egyptians unto ? And whether Marriners 
 do need to be put in mind of a thing called an 
 AB made by a jund:o of Blades at New York, by 
 vertue of which the Mafters of all the Veffels in 
 New England, were put unto Thoufands of Pounds 
 annual Charges, for their Bonds, to lay us all 
 under Bondage, and make a Prifon of the Ter- 
 ritory ? 
 
 And whether Merchants and all other Dealers 
 
 forget 
 
( 15 ) 
 
 forget what a difcouragement all manner of buli- 
 nefs lately had upon it ? 
 
 Whether we did not in our DiftrefTes promife 
 to the Almighty God, that if he would refcue us, 
 we would prize our old enjoyments more than 
 ever we did ? 
 
 Whether any part of Gods Earth hath a more 
 eafie, a more faithful, a more paternal, and well 
 intending Government than what New-England 
 is now happy in ? 
 
 Whether the Government have had any re- 
 quital for the incredible toyl and time which 
 they have fpent for us in the laft year, but only 
 unreafonable Railings and Complaints ? And 
 whether fuch requitals will not at laft make all 
 fenfible men to fay, / will not be an healer to this 
 People P fo that we muft perifh, becaufe no man 
 of fenfe will ferve a people fo dif-ingenuous. 
 
 Whether it be poffible for this Countrey to be 
 defended from Ruine, without various (and at 
 this juncture heavy) Taxes upon us all ? 
 
 Whether it be not better to give a fhilling to 
 a publick Account with our own confent in a 
 general AfTembly, than to have a penny forced 
 from us without it, as in the late Arbitrary Go- 
 vernment ? 
 
 Whether fome little inequality's in the Rating 
 of men, be not a thing fo unavoidable, that the 
 difcontents which are fometimes thereat, fhew 
 much folly and bafenefs in us ? 
 
 Whet h 
 
{ i6 ) 
 
 Wh ether they that refufe to pay the Debts and 
 Rates of the Country, efpecially at fuch a time 
 as this, when if every one fhould fo do, we fhould 
 all be undone, are not worthy to be hiffed out of 
 our common converfation, as the Wens or the 
 Scabs, rather than the Members of this body 
 politick ? 
 
 Whether the great Se6t of Grumbletonians in 
 the Countrey whom nothing will fatisfie, been't 
 the worfl Enemies which this Countrey can 
 have ? 
 
 Whether we had not better come to part 
 cheerfully with all we have even to our very 
 Rings, and Buckles, and Bodkins, to defray Pub- 
 lick Charges, than fuffer our French Enemies to 
 come and rifle us of what is nearer to us than our 
 very Shirts, our Skins. 
 
 Whether thefe Towns in the Countrey which 
 Rant and Tear at a great rate, becaufe of a fmall 
 Rate, not much exceeding a fcore of Pounds, 
 laid by abfolute neceffity upon them, would not 
 afford a Booty of many hundreds of pounds, 
 when our common Enemy breaks in upon us ? 
 
 Whether Covetoufnefs has not ruined New 
 England, in an hundred lefler Inftances already ? 
 and whether the Country will not fhortly deferve 
 that goodly Epitaph, A People which died to fave 
 Charges ? 
 
 Whether the Summer which is now advancing 
 be not like to be the blackeft Summer that ever 
 
 New 
 
( ^7 ) 
 
 New England faw, if by the firmeft unity, we 
 prevent it not ? 
 
 Whether for One County in the Colony to go 
 to over-reach any other of the Countries, as to 
 their Proportions in the Publick Charges, be not a 
 thing as provoking to God, as it is ofFenfive and 
 odious in the refentment of all fober men ? 
 
 Whether for one Colony in the Country to go 
 to fhake off the other (fince united) Colonies, in 
 the affiftance, w^hich the common dangers have 
 called for, w^ould not be to invite all kinds of 
 miferies on the whole ? 
 
 Whether we are not all very loudly admo- 
 nifhed, by the late Difafters at ScheneSlady , where 
 the People were fo fhamefully divided, and con- 
 tentious about matters of Government, that they 
 whole omitted all that belonged unto the com- 
 mon Safety, and became a Prey to Barbarous 
 Frenchmen ? 
 
 Whether an old opinion among us, that the 
 generality of the Merchants in Bojion, purfue de- 
 figns which tis the intereft of the Gentlemen 
 abroad in the Country, to be in all things thwart- 
 ing of, be not a foolifh, and groundlefs imagina- 
 tion ? And whether the generality of good men 
 in the Country, are not really of one mind, in 
 the moft of that which concerns the good of the 
 whole ? And whether they would not be vifibly 
 fo, if without mutual jealoufies they would con- 
 fult one another ? 
 
 Whether it would not be convenient for Salem, 
 
 the 
 
( i8 ) 
 
 the oldeft Town in the Colony, to go beforei us 
 all in an Example of unanimous endeavours for 
 the publick welfare ? 
 
 Whether when Chickens aie picking at one 
 another, the Kite will not fee it then a time to 
 carry them both away. 
 
 i^umlilp 0ropouttDeD to tl)e j[^uft<^ 
 
 By S. E. 
 

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