Note 31 — HISTORY
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The Act making poisoning high treason was repealed by 1 Edward VI., c. 12, sec. 12, which made poisoning wilful murder, to be punished as murder. Harrison was therefore mistaken in writing of the punishment as if it still existed. Curiously enough Bacon, on the trial of the Earl of Somerset, eulogised Henry’s Act, without hinting at its repeal.