Note 7 — Chapter I · CRIMES AND CRIMINALS.

“If Dr. Dodd does not suffer the sentence of the law,” said Lord Mansfield to the King in Council, “then the Perreaus have been murdered.” The Lord Chief Justice held an opinion in common with most reflecting men of that age, that death for forgery was indispensable to protect commercial credit. Lord Campbell, in his ‘Lives of the Lords Chief Justice,’ states that he heard a Judge say, after passing the death sentence for forgery, “May you find the mercy above which a due regard to the credit of the paper currency of this country forbids you to hope for here.”