Note 26 — Chapter XIII · ON THE STATE OF THE CONSTITUTION UNDER CHARLES II.
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The court of King's Bench directed a habeas corpus to the governor of Jersey, to bring up the body of Overton, a well-known officer of the commonwealth, who had been confined there several years. Siderfin's Reports, 386. This was in 1668, after the fall of Clarendon, when a less despotic system was introduced.