His majesties reasons against the pretended iurisdiction of the high Court of Iustice which he intended to deliver in vvrititing [sic] on Munday Ianuary 22. 1648. Faithfully transcribed out of the originall copie under the kings own hand. Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A79058 of text R211203 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.13[81]). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 7 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A79058 Wing C2740 Thomason 669.f.13[81] ESTC R211203 99869934 99869934 162977 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A79058) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 162977) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f13[81]) His majesties reasons against the pretended iurisdiction of the high Court of Iustice which he intended to deliver in vvrititing [sic] on Munday Ianuary 22. 1648. Faithfully transcribed out of the originall copie under the kings own hand. Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n.], [London : Printed in the yeer 1648 [i.e. 1649] Place of publication suggested by Wing. His protest against the legality of the Court has not been answered. No impeachment lies against the King in law. The people have not been consulted. The majority of the Commons has been excluded. To try him for anything before the Treaty of Newport is a breach of public faith -- Cf. Steele. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Feb 5". 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A79058 R211203 (Thomason 669.f.13[81]). civilwar no His majesties reasons against the pretended iurisdiction of the high Court of Iustice, which he intended to deliver in vvrititing [sic] on M Charles I, King of England 1649 1261 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-03 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-06 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-07 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2008-07 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion HIS MAJESTIES REASONS Against the pretended Iurisdiction of the high Court of Iustice , which he intended to deliver in VVrititing on Munday Ianuary 22. 1648. Faithfully transcribed out of the Originall Copie under the Kings own Hand . HAving already made my protestations not onely against the illegality of this pretended Court , but also that no earthly power can justly call me ( who am your King ) in question as a Delinquent , I would not any more open my mouth upon this occasion , more then to referre my selfe to what I have spoken , were I alone in this case concerned . But the duty I owe to God in the preservation of the true Liberty of my People , will not suffer mee at this time to be silent : For , how can any free-born Subject of England call life or any thing he possesseth his owne , if power without right daily make new , and abrogate the old fundamentall Law of the Land , which I now take to be the present case . Wherefore when I came hither , I expected that you would have indeavoured to have satisfied me concerning these grounds , which hinder me to Answer to your pretended impeachment ; but since I see that nothing I can say will move you to it ( though Negatives are not so naturally proved as Affirmatives ) yet I will shew you the Reason why I am confident you cannot judge me , nor indeed the meanest man in England ; for I will not ( like you ) without shewing a reason , seek to impose a beliefe upon my Subjects . There is no proceeding just against any man , but what is warranted either by Gods Lawes , or the municipall Lawes of the Country where he lives . Now I am most confident , that this daies proceeding cannot be warranted by Gods Law , for on the contrary the authority of obedience unto Kings is clearly warranted and strictly commanded both in the Old and new Testament ; which if denied , I am ready instantly to prove : and for the question now in hand , there it is said , That where the word of a King is , there is Power , and who may say unto him , what doest thou : Eccles. 8.4 . Then for the Lawes of this Land , I am no lesse confident , that no learned Lawyer will affirme that an impeachment can lie against the King , they all going in his name ; and one of their Maximes is , that the King can do no wrong . Besides the Law upon which you ground your proceedings , must either be old or new ; if old , shew it ; if new , tell , what authority warranted by the fundamentall Lawes of the Land hath made it , and when . But how the House of Commons can erect a Court of Judicature , which was never one it selfe ( as is well known to all Lawyers ) I leave to God and the World to judge ; And it were fall as strange that they should pretend to make Lawes without King or Lords-House , to any that have heard speak of the Lawes of England . And admitting , but not granting , that the people of Englands Commission could grant your pretended power , I see nothing you can shew for that ; for certainly you never asked the question of the tenth man of the Kingdome , and in this way you manifestly wrong even the poorest Plough-man , if you demand not his free consent ; nor can you pretend any colour for this your pretended , Commission without the consent at least of the major part of every man in England , of whatsoever quality or condition , which I am sure , you never went about to seek ; so farlare you from having it . Thus you see that I speak not for my own right alone , as I am your King , but also for the true Liberty of all my Subjects , which consists not in sharing the power of Government , but in living under such Lawes , such a Government as may give themselves the best assurance of their lives and propriety of their goods . Nor in this must or do I forget the Priviledges of both Houses of Parliament , which this daies proceedings doth not only violate , but likewise occasion the greatest breach of their Publike Faith that ( I beleeve ) ever was heard of , with which I am far from charging the two Houses : for all the pretended Crimes laid against me , bear date long before this late Treaty at Newport , in which I having concluded as much as in me lay , and hopefully expecting the two Houses agreement there unto , I was suddenly surprized , and hurried from thence as a prisoner , upon which accompt I am against my will brought hither , where since I am come , I , cannot but to my power defend the ancient Lawes and Liberties of this Kingdome , together with my own just right ; then for any thing I can see the higher House is totally excluded . And for the House of Commons , it is too well known that the major part of them are detained or deter'd from sitting , so as if I had no other , this were sufficient for me to protest against the lawfulnesse of your pretended Court . Besides all this , the peace of the Kingdome is not the least in my thoughts , and what hopes of settlement is there so long as power reigns without rule of Law , changing the whole frame of that Government under which this Kingdom hath flourished for many hundred yeares , ( nor will I say what will fall out in case this lawlesse unjust proceeding against me do go on ) and beleeve it the Commons of England will not thanke you for this change , for they will remember how happy they have been of late years under the Reign Q. Elizabeth , the King my Father , and my selfe , untill the beginning of these unhappy troubles , and will have cause to doubt that they shall never be so happy under anie new . And by this time it will be too sensibly evident , that the Armes I tooke up were onely to defend the fundamentall Lawes of this Kingdom , against those who have supposed my power hath totally changed the ancient Government . Thus having shewed you briefly the Reasons , why I cannot submit to your pretended authority without violating the trust which I have from God , for the welfare and liberty of my People ; I expect from you either clear Reasons to convince my Judgement , shewing me that I am in an error ( and then truely I will readily answer ) or that you will withdraw your proceedings . This I intended to speak in Westminster-Hall on Monday 22. January , but against reason was hindered to shew my Reasons . Printed in the Yeer 1648. Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A79058e-30 Hereabout I was stopt , and not suffered to speak any more concerning Reasons