Note 29 — INTRODUCTION.
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Brodie, i. 198. He adds: "Though fines were imposed, not one was levied in Elizabeth's time by any judicial process out of the Exchequer, 'nor any subject, in his body, lands, or goods, charged therewith.'"—Coke's 4th Inst., 326, 332; 4th Inst., 331.
In various printed books the legality of the Court was questioned. The ex officio oath was objected to as a sinister practice of the Romish clergy, and contrary to fundamental laws of liberty.—Burn's High Commission (a pamphlet published by J. Russel Smith, 1865), 14.