[456] Dalton, Justice, quoted Stephen, History of the Criminal Law, i. 195. Temp. James I.
[457] Colquhoun, Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis, quoted Stephen i. 195.
[458] Ralph i. 399. See also the Statutes: 13 C. II c. 6, 14 C. II c. 3, 15 C. II c. 4.
[459] 6 State Trials 566–630.
[460] £1000 was stolen in cash, and over £2000 in jewelry.
[461] 6 State Trials 572–575.
[462] By two Germans and a Pole, acting, it was said, under orders from Count Königsmark, who had been courting Mr. Thynne’s bride.
[463] Reresby, Memoirs 235, 236.
[464] Reresby, Memoirs 281, 282.
[465] This was the recognised appellation of a J.P. in the seventeenth century.