Note 180 — Chapter V
Reading edition
See Speeches by Lane and St. John (Rushworth's Trial of Strafford, 671, et seq.); then read what follows:
"It certainly does astonish us that men, however they may have condemned the conduct of Strafford, could bring themselves to believe that he was guilty of the crime of high treason; for they could hardly have been deceived by the wicked sophistry of St. John that an attempt to subvert the fundamental laws of the kingdom was high treason at common law, and still remains so, or by the base opinion delivered by the judges—that this amounts to high treason under the Statute of Edward III."—Campbell's Lives of the Chancellors, iv. 15.