REASONS To resolve the unresolved People of the Legality of the KINGS Tryal and Judgment . LECTORI . True Englands Truths I would declare to thee , If Englands Iayls 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 our selves from slavery , as we we were by the sword inslaved ; if electory , then 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 Kings feet . This ceremony doth declare , That all offices and trusts dye 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 Councel of the people , and their Representative out of Parliament , trusted by the King for the peoples 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 Englands , and other Kingdoms Custom , to call to highest Offices , such as were of greatest fame , repute , quality , and estates , thereby imagining , that they who are conceived most honorable , and most rich ; are best bred in knowledg , and would duly discharge their trusts , for conscience and honors sake , and to preserve their estates , being lyable 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 est ▪ id est , officium Regum , the office and duty of Kings .

The King enjoyes 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 peoples 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 vertue 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 forraign Invasions , and domestick Rebellions .

He is Gaurdian of many Infants , until they come to the age of twenty one yeers , left by their Parents hereditary estates ; and to preserve the Orphant 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 peoples bowels , and killed them with it ; he hath taken the Merchants , with the Tonnage and Poundage , and spoyled 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 peoples Interest to monopolizing 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 tryal , give any answer ; and therefore , according to Englands Laws hath his sentence , as consessing all that is charged upon him , in respect he denyeth it not .

Now let all the world judg , whether the people have justly recalled their own Interest , and adjudged him to death for such abuses , and refusing to account .