[330]. Johnson, Laws and Canons, ii. p. 194.

[331]. 25 Ed. III. c. 4.

[332]. J. F. Stephen, Hist. Crim. Law, i. p. 461.

[333]. Meiklejohn, Hist. Eng. vol. i. p. 165. London, 1895.

[334]. Lord Auckland, Principles, p. 173.

[335]. Thomas Smith, De Republica Anglorum, Alston’s ed. p. 103. Cambridge, 1906.

[336]. D. Barrington, Observations on the More Ancient Statutes, p. 443.

[337]. Hale, Pleas of the Crown, ii. p. 372.

[338]. J. F. Stephen, Hist. Crim. Law, i. p. 460.

[339]. Pollock and Maitland, Hist. Eng. Law, i. p. 426.