Note 24 — INTRODUCTION.
Reading edition
Hale's Precedents in Criminal Causes, xxxix., xliii.; compare Hallam's Const. Hist., i. 180. The extracts from Court Books in Hale are my authority for what follows. I may add here that, soon after the accession of Elizabeth, the bishops complained of interference with their office in discipline, and correction of evil manners, by inhibitions obtained from the courts of the Archbishop of Canterbury.—Strype's Parker, i. 161.