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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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 made Sir Ferdinando Gorge to go away with the great Neptune in detestation of so damnable a plot and the English Masters and Owners of Ships refusing to lend the Ships to destroy the Rochelers whom with their souls they desired to releive Pennington in a mad spite shot at them Subise being Agent here in England for the French Protestants acquainted the King how

basely Pennington had dealt and that the English Ships had mowed down the Rochel Ships like Grass not onely to the great danger and loss of the Rochelers but to the eternal dishonor of this Nation scandal of our Religion and disadvantage of the general Affairs of all the Protestants in Christendom The King seems to be displeased and says What a knave is this Pennington but whether it was not fained let all the world judge But the thing being so plain said Subise to the King Sir why did the English Ships assist the French King and those that would not were shot at by your Admiral The French Protestants are no fools how can I make them believe that you intend their welfare The King was much put to it for a ready answer but at last thus it was patcht up That the French king had a design to be revenged of Genoa for some former affront and that the king lent him eight English Ships to be employed for Genoa and that sailing towards Genoa they met with some of the Rochelers accidentally and that the English did but look on and could not help it not having any Commission to fight at that present wherein the Rochelers might and would have declined a Sea-fight if they had not expected our assistance But still the poor Protestants were willing rather to blame Pennington then the king who in great seeming zeal being surety for the last peace between the French king and his Protestant Subjects sends Devick to the Duke of Roan to assure him That if Rochel were not speedily set at liberty which the French king had besieged contrary to his Agreement he would employ his whole strength and in his own person see it performed which being not done then the king sends the Duke of Buckingham to the Isle of Ree and gives new hopes of better success to Subise commanding the Admiral and Officers in the Fleet in Subises hearing to do nothing without his advice But when the Duke came to land at the Isle of Ree many gallant English men lost their lives and the Duke brought back 300 Tuns of Corn from the Rochelers which he had borrowed of them pretending a necessity for the English men which was but feined knowing it was a City impregnable so long as they had provision within I confess the Rochelers were not wife to lend the Duke their Corn considering how they had been dealt with But what a base thing was it so to betray them and to swear unto them That they should have Corn enough sent from England before they wanted it And for a long time God did miraculously send them in a new kinde of Fish which they never had before But when the Duke came to Court he made the honest English believe that Rochel would suddenly be relieved and that there was not the least danger of the loss of it but Secretary Cook an honest understanding Gentleman and the onely friend at Court to the Rochelers laboring to improve his power to send some succor to Rochel was suddenly sent away from Court upon some sleeveless errand or as some say to Portsmouth under colour of providing Corn for Rochel but the Duke soon after went thither and said His life upon it Rochel is safe enough and the next day Subise being at Portsmouth he prest the Duke of Buckingham most importunately to send relief to Rochel then or never the Duke told him that he had just then heard good News of the victualling of Rochel which he was going to tell the King which Subise making doubt of the Duke affirmed it by an Oath and having the words in his mouth he was stabd by Felton and instantly dyed the poor Rochellers seeing themselves so betrayed exclaimed of the English and were constrained through Famine to surrender the City yet new assurances came from the King to the Duke of Roan that he should never be abandoned and that he should not be dismaid nor astonisht for the loss of Rochel But Subise spoke his minde freely at Court that the English had betrayed Rochel and that the loss of that City was the apparent perdition and loss of Two and thirty places of strength from the French Protestants in Langurdock Piedmont and Daulphin therefore it was thought fit that he should have a fig given him to stop his mouth Well not long after two Capuchins were sent into England to kill honest Subise and the one of them discovered the other Subise rewarded the discoverer and demanded Justice here against the other who was a Prisoner but by what means you may easily imagine that assassinate Rascal instead of being whipt or receiving some more severe punishment was released and sent back into France with money in his purse and one of the Messengers that was sent from Rochel to complain of those abominable Treacheries was taken here and as the Duke of Roan writes was hanged for some pretended Felony or Treason and much more to this purpose may be found in the Duke of Roans Memorials but yet I know many wise sober men do acquit the King from the guilt of the loss of Rochel and lay it upon the Duke as if it were but a loss of his reputation they say that the Duke of Buckingham agitated his affairs neither for Religion nor the honor of his Master but only to satisfie his passion in certain foolish Vows which he made in France entred upon a War and that the business miscarryed through ignorance and for want of understanding to manage so difficult a Negotiation he being unfit to be an Admiral or a General I confess that for many years I was of that Opinion and thought that the King was seduced by evil Councel and some thought that Buckingham and others ruled him as a childe and durst do what they list but certainly he was too politique and subtile a man to be swayed by any thing but his own judgement since Naseby Letters I ever thought him principal in all Transactions of State and the wisest about him but accessaries he never acted by any implicite faith in State matters the proudest of them all durst never cross him in any Design when he had once resolved upon it Is any man so soft-brained to think that the Duke or Pennington durst betray Rochel without his Command would not he have hanged them up at their return if they had wilfully transgressed his Commands A thousand such excuses made for him are but like Irish Quagmires that have no solid ground or foundation in reason He was well known to be a great Sudent in his yonger days that his Father