Note 243 — Chapter XV · ON THE REIGN OF WILLIAM III. (continued 2)
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State Trials, xii. 1245; Ralph, 420; Somers Tracts, x. 472. The Jacobites took a very frivolous objection to the conviction of Anderton, that printing could not be treason within the statute of Edward III., because it was not invented for a century afterwards. According to this rule, it could not be treason to shoot the king with a pistol or poison him with an American drug.