Note 52 — Chapter VIII · Benefit of Clergy.

American Com. Ky. p. 407. Ch. 21.

That Thackeray was thoroughly familiar with the law governing the Benefit of Clergy and the nature of the punishment inflicted on the culprit pleading guilty of an offense clergyable at common law, is evidenced by his presentation of the plea in favor of Lord Mohun, the Earl of Warwick, Col. Westbury and Henry Esmond, in his interesting plot, in “Henry Esmond.”