[5] The Laws in force for the prohibition, regulation or licensing of vice in England and other countries. By Sheldon Amos, 1877 (Stevens and Sons), pp. 15 and 227.

[6] Speech of the Earl of Chatham on the exercise of the judicature in matters of election, 1763.

[7] Lord Chatham’s Speeches.

[8] Creasy, English Constitution, p. 148.

[9] Middle Ages, chap. ii, p. 324.

[10] Ibid.

[11] Ibid.

[12] De Lolme on the Constitution, p. 354.

[13] De Lolme, p. 171.

[14] Blackstone, book iii, p. 378.