[1820] See Fortescue de Laud. Legg. Angliæ. cap. xxxiii.—The jealousy with which all attempted encroachments of the Roman law were repelled is manifested in a declaration of Parliament in 1388. “Que ce royalme d’Engleterre n’estait devant ces heures, ne à l’entent du roy nostre dit seignior et seigniors du parlement unque ne serra rulé ne governé par la ley civill.”—Rot. Parl., II Ric. II. (Selden’s Note to Fortescue, loc. cit.).
[1821] De Laudibus Legum Angliæ, cap. xxii.
[1822] See Jardine’s “Reading on the Use of Torture in the Criminal Law of England,” p. 7 (London, 1837), a condensed and sufficiently complete account of the subject under the Tudors and Stuarts.
[1823] Partim tormentis subjecti, partim crudelissime laniati, et partim etiam furca suspensi fuerant.—Wilkins Concil. III. 617.
[1824] Jardine, op. cit. pp. 8-9, 24-5. It is due to Sir Thomas to add that he earnestly begs Lord Burghley to release him from so uncongenial an employment.
[1825] Ibid. pp. 8, 47.
[1826] Bacon’s Works, Philadelphia, 1846, III. 126.
[1827] Strype’s Eccles. Memorials, III. 101.
[1828] Burnet, Hist. Reform. Bk. III. pp. 341-2.
[1829] According to Nicander Nucius (Travels, Camden Soc. 1841, pp. 58, 62), the investigation of these deceptions with the severest tortures, Βασάνοις ἀφορήτοις, was apparently the ordinary mode of procedure.