Note 498 — Chapter XVII
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Laud said in his defence: "The result must be of the same nature and species with the particulars from which it rises. But 'tis confessed no one of the particulars are treason, therefore, neither is the result that rises from them. And this holds in nature, in morality, and in law."—Works, iv. 380.
In reply to Serjeant Wylde's argument, that the misdemeanours together, by accumulation made up treason, Laud's advocate wittily observed: "I crave your mercy, good Mr. Serjeant, I never understood before this time that two hundred couple of black rabbits would make a black horse."