FOOTNOTES:
[1] Fraser's Magazine, No. xvi. p. 169.
[2] Evidence of Mr Murray, a magistrate at Union Hall, before the Parliamentary Committee of 1834.
[3] Report of Police Commissioners, 1839.
[4] See Stubb's "Constitutional History," end of para. 60.
[5] In the reign of Edward VI. the well-known legal maxim, "The King never dies," was first enunciated; since which time it has been held that there can be no break in the continuity of kingship; that is to say, that the accession of each succeeding monarch and the decease of his predecessor are simultaneous.
[6] Chron. Ang. S., ad ann., 1135.
[7] "Thane" is here used in the loose and popular sense to signify the resident owner of considerable territorial possessions.