[192] Blackstone, Commentaries, Vol. IV. p. 286.
[193] Speech on the Lords’ Amendments to the Bill for the Regulation of Trials in Cases of Treason, December 11, 1691: Hansard’s Parliamentary History, Vol. V. col. 678.
[194] Secretary Seward to Provisional Governor Marvin of Florida, September 12, 1865: McPherson’s Political History of the United States during Reconstruction, p. 25.
[195] Howell’s State Trials, Vol. III. col. 1421.
[196] Coleridge.
[197] Statutes at Large, Vol. XIV. pp. 430-432.
[198] Section 1.
[199] Aldridge v. Williams, 3 Howard, R., 24.
[200] See, ante, p. 147.
[201] Bacon, Upon the Statute of Uses, Introductory Discourse: Works, ed. Spedding, (Boston, 1864,) Vol. XIV. p. 285.