[32] Lord Kames’ Historical Law Tracts. Criminal Law. 1776.
[33] Enquiry into the Late Increase of Robbers (1751).
[34] Meredith’s speech of May 13, 1777, in Parl. Deb., xix. 239.
[35] Lecky’s England, i. 506.
[36] Speech, May 11, 1810.
[37] Romilly’s Memoirs, ii. 322.
[38] Hansard, and Campbell’s Chief Justices, iii. 233. The arguments are almost Paley’s word for word.
[39] Stephen’s English Criminal Law, 156, 178.
[40] Sir G. Staunton’s Penal Code of China, 347, 416.
[41] See several instances in Baring Gould’s Curiosities of Olden Times, in the chapter on Queer Culprits.