Note 159 — Chapter I · PENAL METHODS OF THE MIDDLE AGES
Reading edition
“... Of the 160 offences referred to by Blackstone as punishable by death, four-fifths had been made so during the reigns of the first three Georges.”—J. A. M. Irvine, Chambers’s Encyclopædia, ii. p. 743, art. “Capital Punishment.” London, 1888.