FOOTNOTES:
[1] See the Judgment of the Judges, ordered by the House of Lords to be printed, (and from which the quotations in this article have been made,) read to the House of Lords by Lord Chief-Justice Tindal, on the 2d September 1844.
[2] State Prosecutions, pp. 9, 10. No. cccxxxix. Vol. lv.
[3] Blackstone's Commentaries, vol. i. p. 302.
[4] Several distinct offences may undoubtedly be included, in as many counts, in one indictment.
[5] Two of the defendants' (the two priests) names do not appear in the record of the verdict, as one of them (Tyrrell) died before the trial, and as to Tierney, the Attorney-General entered a nolle prosequi.
[6] Comyn's Digest, title Pleader, 3 B. 18.
[7] This is the proper expression. See M'Queen's Practice of the House of Lords, p. 256. "They are summoned for their advice in point of law, and the greater dignity of the proceedings" of the Lords.—(Blackst, Comm. p. 167.)
[8] 1 Blackstone's Commentaries, p. 69.
[9] Opinions of the Judges, &c.—(Pp. 1-3.)