Note 230 — Chapter XV · ON THE REIGN OF WILLIAM III.

Foster's Discourse on High Treason, 196; State Trials, xii. 646, 790, 818; xiii. 62 (Sir John Friend's case) et alibi. This important question having arisen on Lord Russell's trial, gave rise to a controversy between two eminent lawyers, Sir Bartholomew Shower and Sir Robert Atkins; the former maintaining, the latter denying, that a conspiracy to depose the king and to seize his guards was an overt act of compassing his death. State Trials, ix. 719, 818.

See also Phillipps's State Trials, ii. 39, 78; a work to which I might have referred in other places, and which shows the well known judgment and impartiality of the author.