REASONS TO Resolve the unresolved PEOPLE Of the Legality of the King's trial and judgement. By Rob. Robins. Imprimatur, Gilb. Mabbot. LONDON. Printed for Robert White. Feb. 26. REASONS To resolve the unresolved People of the Legality of the King's trial and judgement. LECTORI. True England's Truths I would declare to thee, If England's jayls my Guerdon might not be. Imprimis. HE saith, that he is King successive, which if he be, he should have declared, That his Interest to the succession, was an hereditary, or an elective succession: If an hereditary succession, then hereditary from the Conquest; if so, then by the sword have we freed ourselves from slavery, as we we were by the sword enslaved; if electory, than the Electors may reclaim their own power, and call the elected to an account, his authority arising from the Electors. At the death of Kings, all the Officers of his Court lay their offices at the dead King's feet. This ceremony doth declare, That all offices and trusts die with him, and then (if not in a Parliament time) the Bishops, Dukes, Earls, Barons, Chief Justices, and Judges, proclaim the next Heir to the dead King, King; which ceremony doth manifest, that they are electory, and not hereditary: For the Bishops, Dukes, &c. are the Body of the Kingdom, and council of the people, and their Representative out of Parliament, trusted by the King for the people's weal; and if electory, why shall not the people elect whom they please? and when the trust is abused, which the elected is trusted with, why shall not the people call the elected to an account of his trust, and punish him according to the Common Law (which is Reason) for breach of trust, if he refuse to yield an account of his trust? It hath been England's, and other kingdom's Custom, to call to highest Offices, such as were of greatest fame, repute, quality, and estates, thereby imagining, that they who are conceived most honourable, and most rich; are best bred in knowledge, and would duly discharge their trusts, for conscience and honour's sake, and to preserve their estates, being liable to restitution for wrong doing. The trust that Kings of England are trusted with, is, to govern well, and therefore hath the name of Rex, being a derivative name or word, from Rego, to Govern; which word, if observed well, will tell you what Rex, a King, is; for it is an old Proverb, Regum est parcere subjectis, & debulare superbos; Regum estâ–ª id est, officium Regum, the office and duty of Kings. The King enjoys the Crown, not as his, but the Kingdoms, nor can grant any office before he is sworn; and when he is sworn, it is by the people's Representative, trusted for that office, by the dead King, in his life time; and the Crown Lands, after he is sworn, and crowned, allotted him for maintenance, as a reward to maintain him, to execute his office. After he is sworn to execute such trusts as the people have trusted him with, he is by the hands of the Archbishop of Canterbury, (the chief Ecclesiastical Minister in England, clothed in white) crowned with a Golden Crown, beset with Diamonds, and other rich Jewels, which carry a lustre round about the Crown and Head; which is a Celestial Type, fit for such a man, as a glorious renown, that will discharge that great trust he is trusted with, and hath sworn to execute it. By virtue of his oath, he is Chief Justice of England, to administer true Justice, as well to poor as to rich, without respect of persons; and hath thereby power to call to his assistance, Wisemen, and Lawyers, and to depute them, swear them, and locate them at his pleasure; and if they do not well demean themselves, to displace them, and call others. He is also Lord Chancellor, and maketh a Seal (which is Treason to counterfeit, for fear of wrong to be done by it to his trust, which he is trusted with) and is to hear and determine in equity, what Reason, which is Common Law, may impose upon any man contrary to equity. He is Receiver of the Revenue of the Kingdom, being trusted in his hands for maintenance of Officers deputed by him in Courts of Justice for his assistance, in executing true Justice. He is Admiral of the Sea, and the Tonnage and Poundage the Kingdoms, trusted in his hands for maintenance of a Navy, to protect the Merchants from Pirates and Sea Rovers. He is Constable of all the Towers, Castles, Forts, and Arms in the Kingdom, being the Militia, which is moenia Angliae, trusted in his hands by the people, and by them bought to preserve the Kingdom against foreign Invasions, and domestic Rebellions. He is guardian of many Infants, until they come to the age of twenty one years, left by their Parents hereditary estates; and to preserve the orphan and estate, and to breed them in the fear of God, and learning, and to account when they come to age. He is Keeper and Preserver of the Peace of the Kingdom, and to see the Statute Laws put in execution; and to have a care, that if any shall offend against it, to fine and punish him at his pleasure, or at the pleasure of such Judges or Justices as he shall depute. Many more Trusts have the people reposed in him, which for brevity, I omit, and he hath broken them; he hath turned the Militia into the people's bowels, and killed them with it; he hath taken the Merchants, with the Tonnage and Poundage, and spoiled their Ships, and Goods at Sea. Equity hath he turned into cruel iniquity, contrary to a good Conscience; he hath sold Justice, and placed Ignorance in her Seat; he hath sold the people's Interest to monopolising Creatures; he hath thrown wisdom and honesty into prison, protected the wicked, and punished the innocent; he claimeth the Militia, the Revenue, the Tonnage and Poundage, the Crown, and Crown Lands, to be his, and not the peoples; and refuseth to account to the people, being demanded several times, and saith he will account to none but God, and will not by fair means, nor legal trial, give any answer; and therefore, according to England's Laws hath his sentence, as confessing all that is charged upon him, in respect he denyeth it not. Now let all the world judge, whether the people have justly recalled their own Interest, and adjudged him to death for such abuses, and refusing to account.