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A34423	King Charls, his case, or, An appeal to all rational men concerning his tryal at the High Court of Justice : being for the most part that which was intended to have been delivered at the bar, if the king had pleaded to the charge, and put himself upon a fair tryal : with an additional opinion concerning the death of King James, the loss of Rochel, and the blood of Ireland / by John Cook ...	Cook, John, d. 1660.	1649 (1649)	Wing C6025; ESTC R20751	34,094	43

King Charls his Case OR AN APPEAL To all Rational Men Concerning His TRYAL AT THE High Court of Iustice Being for the most part that which was intended to have been delivered at the Bar if the King had Pleaded to the CHARGE and put himself upon a fair TRYAL With an additional Opinion concerning The Death of King James The loss of Rochel and The Blood of Ireland By JOHN COOK of Grays-Inn Barrester Justice is an excellent vertue Reason is the life of the Law Womanish pity to mourn for a Tyrant Is a deceitful cruelty to a City London Printed by Peter Cole at the sign of the Printing-Press in Cornhil near the Royal Exchange for Giles Calvert at the Black Spread-Eagle at the West-end of Pauls 1649. To the READER THe righteous Iudge whose judgement is not onely inevitable but infallible must shortly judge me and all that concurred to bring the capital Delinquent to condign punishment but in the interim I desire to be judged by all understanding men in the world that suffer their judgements to be swayed by Reason and not byassed by private Interest Whether ever any man did so much deserve to dye Cain for the murther of one righteous Abel and David for one Uriah had been men of death had not God pardoned them Those thirty one Kings which Joshua hanged up and Sauls seven Sons which were but at the worst as it seems to me Evil Counsellors were they not innocent nay Saints in comparison of this man Those that crucified Christ did it ignorantly For had they known him they had not crucified the Lord of Glory The Saints under the ten Persecutions suffered by the hands of Heathens the Sicilian Vespers the Parisian Massacre of the Protestants and the Gunpowder-Plot were acted and intended by Papists out of a conceit of Merit But for a Protestant Prince stiled The Defendor of the Faith in a time of light that had sworn to keep the Peace received Tribute to that end and might have had the very hearts of the People if they could have given him them without death the strongest Engagements I say for such a one so long to persecute the faithful destroy and inslave the People by oppressing cruelties And when Machiavel could not do it to levy a War to that wicked end which never any of his Ancestors durst attempt that might at any time with a word of his mouth have stopt all the bleeding veins in the three Kingdoms but would not and for the satisfying of a base lust caused more Protestant blood to be shed then ever was spilt either by Rome Heathen or Antichristian Blessed God what ugly sins lodge in their bosoms that would have had this man to live But Words are but Women Proofs are Men it is Reason that must be the Chariot to carry men to give their concurrence to this ludgement Therefore I shall deliver my thoughts to the courteous Reader as I was prepared for it if Issue had been joyned in the Cause but with some addition for illustration sake desiring excuse for the Preamble because there is some repetition in matter An Appeal to all Rational men that love their God Justice and Countrey more then their Honor Pleasure and Money Concerning the Kings Tryal May it please your Lordship MY Lord President and this High Court erected for the most Comprehensive Impartial and Glorious piece of Justice that ever was Acted and Executed upon the Theatre of England for the Trying and Judging of Charls Stuart whom God in his wrath gave to be a king to this Nation and will I trust in great love for his notorious Prevarications and Blood-guiltiness take him away from us He that hath been the Original of all Injustice and the Principal Author of more mischiefs to the Free-born People of this Nation then the best Arithmetician can well enumerate stands now to give an account of his Stewardship and to receive the good of Justice for all the evil of his Injustice and Cruelty Had he Ten thousand lives they could not all satisfie for the numerous Horid and Barbarous Massacres of Myriades and legions of Innocent persons which by his Commands Commissions and Procurements or at least all the world must needs say which he might have prevented and he that suffers any man to be kill'd when he may save his life without danger of his own is a Murtherer have been cruelly slain and inhumanely murthered in this renowned Albion Anglia hath been made an Aceldama and her yonger sister Ireland a Land of Ire and Misery and yet this hard-hearted man as he went out of the Court down the stairs Jan. 22. said as some of his Gnard told me and others That he was not troubled for any of the blood that hath been shed but for the blood of one man peradventure he meant Strafford He was no more affected with a List that was brought in to Oxford of Five or six thousand slain at Edgehill then to read one of Ben Johnsons Tragedies You Gentlemen Royalists that fought for him if ye had lost your lives for his sake you see he would have no more pitied you by his own confession then you do a poor Worm and yet what heart but would cleave if it were a Rock melt if it were Ice break if it were a Flint or dissolve if it were a Diamond to consider that so much precious Protestant blood should be shed in these three kingdoms so many gallant valiant Men of all sorts and conditions to be sacrificed and lose their lives and many of them to dye so desperately in regard of their Eternal conditions and all this meerly and onely for the satisfying and fulfilling of one mans sinful lust and wicked will a good Shepherd is he that lays down his life or ventures it to save the Sheep but for one to be so proudly wedded to his own conceits as so maliciously to oppose his private Opinion against the publique Judgement and Reason of State and to make head against the Parliament who acknowledged him to be head thereof so far as to give him the Honor of the Royal Assent in settling the Militia and Safety of the People I say for a Protestant Prince so beloved at home and feared abroad that in love and by gentle means might have had any thing from the Parliament for him to occasion the shedding of so much blood for a pretended Prerogative as hereafter will appear nothing in effect but to fix and perpetuate an absolute Tyranny I can say no less But O Lucifer from whence art thou faln and what hereticks are they in politicks that would have had such a man to live much more that think his Actions to have merited love and praise from Heaven and Earth But now to diffect the Charge 1. That the kings of England are trusted with a limited power to govern by Law the whole stream and current of Legal Authorities run so limpid and clear that I should but weary those

principles assist him Well We fought in jest and were kept between winning and losing The king must not be too strong lest he revenge himself nor the Parliament too strong for the Commons would rule all till Naseby fight that then the king could keep no more days of Thanksgiving so well as we Then he makes a Cessation in Ireland and many Irish came over to help him English came over with Papists who had scarce wiped their Swords since they had killed their wives and children and had their Estates But thus I argue The Rebels knew that the king had proclaimed them Traytors and forty Copies were Printed and the first clause of an Oath enjoyned by the General Councel of Rebels wrs To bear true Faith and Allegiance to King Charls and by all means to maintain his Royal Prerogative against the Puritans in the Parliament of England Now is any man to weak in his intellectuals as to imagine That if the Rebels had without the kings command or consent murthered so many Protestants and he thereupon had really proclaimed them Rebels That they would after this have taken a new Oath to have maintained his Prerogative No those bloody Devils had more wit then to fight in jest If the king had once in good earnest proclaimed them Rebels they would have burnt their Scabbards and would not have stiled themselves The King and Queens Army as they did And truly that which the king said for himself That he would have adventure d himself to have gone in Person into Ireland to suppress that Rebellion is but a poor Argument to inforce any mans belief That he was not guilty of the Massacre For it makes me rather think That he had some hopes to have returned in the head of 20 or 30000 Rebels to have destroyed this Nation For when the Earl of Leicester was sent by the Parliament to subdue the Rebels Did not the king hinder him from going and were not the cloaths and provisions which were sent by the Parliament for the relief of the poor Protestants there seized upon by his command and his men of War and sold or exchanged for Arms and Ammunition to destroy this Parliament And does not every man know That the Rebels in Ireland gave Letters of Mart for taking the Parliaments Ships but freed the kings as their very good friends And I have often heard it credibly reported that the king should say That nothing more troubled him but that there was not as much Protestant blood running in England and Scotland as in Ireland And when that horrid Rebellion begun to break forth How did the Papists here triumph and boast that they hoped ere long to see London streets run down in blood and yet I do not think that the king was a Papist or that he designed to introduce the Popes Supremacy in Spiritual things into this kingdom But thus it was A Jesuitical party at Court was to prevalent in his Counsels and some mungrel Protestants that less hated the Papists then the Puritans by the Queens Mediation joyned altogether to destroy the Puritans hoping that the Pa pists and the Laodicean Protestant would agree well enough togeth er And lastly if it be said that if the king and the Rebels were never faln out what need had Ormond to make a pacification or peace with them by the kings Commission under the Great Seal of Ireland Truly there hath been so m uch daubing and so little plain dealing that I wonder how there comes to be so many beggars Concerning the betraying of Rochel to the inslaving of the Protestant party in France I confess I heard so much of it and was so shamefully reproached for it in Geneva and by the Protestant Ministers in France that I could believe no less then that the king was guilty of it I have heard fearful exclamations from the French Protestants against the king and the late Duke of Buckingham for the betraying of Rochel And some of the Ministers told me ten years since That God would be revenged of the wicked king of England for betraying Rochel And I have often heard Deodati say concerning Henry the fourth of France That the Papists had his body but the Protestants had his heart and soul but for the king of England The Protestants had his body but the Papists had his heart Not that I think he did believe Transubstantiation God forbid I should wrong the dead but I verily believe That he loved a Papist better then a Puritan The Duke of Roan who was an honest gallant man and the kings God-father would often say That all the blood which was shed in Daulphin would be cast upon the king of Englands score For thus it was The king sent a Letter to the Rochelers by Sir William Breecher to assure ●hem That he would assist them to the uttermost against the French king for the liberty of their Religion conditionally That they would not make any peace without him and Mountague was sent into Savoy and to the Duke of Roan to assure them from the king That 30000 men should be sent out of England to assist them against the French king in three Fleets One to land in the Isle of Ree a second in the River of Bourdeaux and a third in Normandy whereupon the Duke of Roan being General for the Protestanrs not suspecting that the French durst assault him in Daulphin because the king of England was ready to invade him as he had promised drew out his Army upon disadvantage Whereupon the French king imployed all his Army into Daulphin against the Protestants who were forced to retreat and the Duke of Roan to flie to Geneva and the Protestants to accept of peace upon very hard conditions to stand barely at the Kings devotion for their liberties without any cautionary Towns of assurance as formerly they had being such a peace as the Sheep make with the Wolves when the Dogs are dismist And the Protestants have ever since cryed out to this very day It is not the French King that did us wrong for then we could have born it but it was the King of England a profest Protestant that betrayed us And when I have many times intreated Deodati and others to have a good Opinion of the King he would answer me That we are commanded to forgive our enemies but not to forgive our friends There is a French Book printed about two years since called Memoires du Monsieur de Roan where the Kings horrid perfidiousness and deed dissimulation is very clearly unfolded and discovered To instance but in some particulars The King having solemnly ingaged to the Rochelers that he would hazard all the Forces he had in his three Kingdoms rather then they should perish did in order thereunto to gain credulity with them send out eight Ships to Sea commanded by Sir John Pennington to assist the Rochelers as was pretended but nothing less intended for Pennington assisted the French King against the Rochelers which