[321] Constitutional History of England (London, 1829), Ch. XVI. Vol. III. p. 380.
[322] Vindication of the Treaty with Great Britain, No. 2: Papers on Political, Literary, and Moral Subjects, p. 185.
[323] Coke upon Littleton, 42. b.
[324] Law of Nations, Book II. ch. 17, §§ 300, 302.
[325] Congressional Globe, 31st Cong. 1st Sess., Appendix, pp. 1583, 1584, August 19, 1850.
[326] Bancroft, History of the United States, Vol. I. p. 175.
[327] Hildreth, History of the United States, Vol. II. p. 428.
[328] Ibid., Vol. III. p. 190.
[329] Letters from America, Historical and Descriptive, comprising Occurrences from 1769 to 1777, inclusive, by William Eddis, late Surveyor of the Customs, &c., at Annapolis, in Maryland, (London, 1792,) pp. 63, 64, 71, 72, 74.
[330] Lives of the Chief Justices, Vol. II. p. 515, note. See, also, Atcheson v. Everitt, Cowper, R., 382.