Note 48 — HISTORY
Reading edition
Hawkins (William), “A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown,” 1771, c. 48, p. 443. See for details, Sir William Stanford, “Les Plees del Coron.,” 1560, fol. 182, 182b. Sir Matthew Hale, “Hist. Placit. Coronæ,” i. 350-1. “Les Reports de Henry Rolle,” 1675, i. 185-7, containing a good example of law-French of the time of James I., the most exquisite jargon ever invented by man. Coke, “Institutes,” part iii., 1644, p. 210, where Coke gives scriptural authority for all the horrors of the sentence. In passing sentence on the Gunpowder Plot men Coke gave an elaborate justification of each part of the sentence (“State Trials,” ii. 184).