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A44117	The learned readings of Sir Robert Holbourne, Knight upon the statute of 25 Edw. 3. cap. 2, being the statute of treasons : to which is added cases of [brace] prerogative, treason, misprision of treason, felony, &c. / written by the Right Honourable Francis Bacon ... ; and now reprinted for publick benefit.	Holborne, Robert, Sir, d. 1647.; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. Cases of treason.	1681 (1681)	Wing H2373; ESTC R34943	30,681	150

to enquire of onely and certifie to the Justices of Goal Delivery but those that are against the peace simply they are to enquire and punish 3. The third is To enquire of punish and remove all publick Nusances and grievances concerning Infection of Air corruption of Victuals ease of chaffer and contract of all other things that may hurt or grieve the people in general in their health quiet and welfare And to these three ends as matters of policy subordinate the Court Leet hath power to call upon the pledges that are to be taken for the good behaviour of the Residents that are not Tenants and to enquire of all Defaults of Officers as Constables Ale-tasters c. and for choice of Constables as aforesaid The Jurisdiction of these Leets is ever remaining in the King and in that case exercised by the Sheriff in his turn which is the grand Leet granted over to Subjects but yet it is still the Kings Court. 2. To the second as was said The Election of the pety Constable is at the Court Leet by the Inquest that makes the Presentments the Election of the Head Constables is by the Justices of the Peace at their Quarter Sessions 3. To the third The Office is annual except they be removed 4. To the fourth They be men as it is now used of inferiour yea of base condition which is a meer abuse or degenerating from the first Institution for the pety Constables in Towns ought to be of the better sort of Resiants in the said Town save that they ought not to be Aged or sickly but men of able Bodies in respect of keeping Watch and toil of their place neither ought they to be in any mans Livery And the High Constables ought to be of the ablest sort of Freeholders and of the substantiallest sort of Yeomen next to the degree of Gentlemen but they ought to be such as are not incumbred with any other Office as Mayor Under-sheriff Bailiff c. 5. To the fifth They have no allowance but are bound by Duty to perform their Offices gratis which may the rather be endured because it is but Annual and they are not tyed to keep or maintain any Servants or under-ministers for that every one of the King's People are bound to assist them 6. To the sixth Upon complaint made of his refusal to any one Justice of Peace the said Justice may bind him over to the Sessions where if he cannot excuse himself by some just allegation he may be fined and imprisoned for his Contempt 7. To the seventh The Authority of Constables as it is substantive and of it self or substituted and astricted to the Warrants and Commands of the Justices of Peace so again it is Original or Additional for either it was given them by the Common Law or else annexed by divers Statutes And as for subordinate Power wherein the Constable is onely to execute the Commandments of the Justices of Peace and likewise the additional power which is given by divers Statutes it is hard to comprehend them in any brevity For that they do correspond to the Office and Authority of the Justices of Peace which is very large and are created by the branches of several Statutes which are things of divers and dispersed natures But for the original and substantive Power of a Constable it may be reduced to three heads 1. For matter of Peace only 2. For matter of Peace and the Crown 3. For matter of Nusance Disturbance and Disorder although they be not accompanied with violence and breach of Peace For pacifying of Quarrels begun the Constables may upon hot words given or likelihood of breach of peace to ensue command them in the Kings name to keep the Peace and to depart and forbear and so he may where an Affray is made part the same and keep the Parties asunder and arrest and commit the Breakers of the Peace if they will not obey and call Power to assist him for the same purpose For punishment of breach of Peace past the Law is very sparing in giving any Authority to Constables because he hath no power judicial and the Use of his Office is rather for preventing or staying of Mischief than for punishing of Offences for in that part he is rather to execute the Warrants of the Justices or when suddden matter ariseth upon his view or notorious circumstances to apprehend Offenders and carry them before the Justice of Peace and generally to imprison in like cases of necessity where the case will not endure the present carrying before the Justices And thus much for the matters of Peace For matters of the Crown the Office of the Constable consisteth chiefly in four parts 1. The first is Arrest 2. The second is Search 3. The third is Hue and Cry 4. And the 4th is Seisure of goods All which the Constable may perform of his own Authority without any Warrant of the Justices of Peace 1. For first If any man will lay Murder or Felony to another's charge or do suspect him of Murder or Felony he may declare it to the Constable and the Constable ought upon such Declaration or Complaint carry him before a Justice and if by common voice or Fame any man be suspected the Constable of Duty ought to arrest him and bring him before a Justice though there be no other accusation 2. If any house be suspected for the receiving or harbouring of any Felon the Constable upon complaint or common fame may search 3. If any fly upon the Felony the Constable ought to raise Hue and Cry and search for his goods and keep them safe without impairing and to inventary them in the presence of honest neighbours 4. For matters of common Nusance and grievance they are of a very variable nature according to the several comforts which mans Life and Society requireth and the contraries which infest the same In all which be it matter of corrupting Air Water or Victuals or stopping straitning or indangering passage or general deceits in Weights Measures Sizes or counterfeiting Wares and things vendible the Office of the Constable is to give as much as in him lies Information of them and of the offenders in Leets that they may be presented But because Leets are kept but twice in the year and many of these things require present or speedy remedy the Constable in things of notorious and vulgar nature ought to forbid and repress them in the mean time 8. To the eighth They are for their Contempt to be fined and imprisoned by the Justices in their Sessions 9. To the ninth The Oath they take is in this manner YOV shall swear that you shall well and truly serve the King and the Lord of this Law-day and you shall cause the Peace of our Lord the King to be well and duely kept to your power And you shall arrest all those that you see committing Riots Debates and Affrayes in breach of Peace And you shall well and duely endeavour

your self to your best knowledge that the Statutes of Winchester for Watch Huy and Cry and the Statutes made for the punishment of sturdy Beggars Vagabonds Rogues and other idle Persons coming within your Office be truly executed and the Offenders punished And you shall endeavour upon complaint made to apprehend Barreters and riotous Persons making Affrays and likewise to apprehend Felons and if any of of them make resistance with force and multitude of mis-doers you shall make Out-cry and pursue them till they be taken and shall look unto such Persons as use unlawful Games and you shall have regard unto the maintenance of Artillery And you shall well and duely execute all Process and Precepts sent unto you from the Justices of Peace of the County and you shall make good and faithful presentments of all Blood-sheds Out-cries Affrays and Rescues made within your Office and you shall well and duely according to your Power and knowledge do that which belongeth to your Office of Constable to do for this year to come So help c. 10. To the tenth The Authority is the same in substance differing onely in extent The pety Constable serving onely for for one Town Parish or Borough the Head Constable serving for the whole Hundred Neither is the petty Constable subordinate to the Head Constable for any commandment that proceeds from his own Authority but it is used that the Precepts of the Justices be delivered unto the High Constables who being few in number may better attend the Justices and then the Head Constables by vertue thereof make their Precepts over to the petty Constables 11. To the eleventh In case of necessity he may appoint a Deputy or in default thereof the Steward of the Court Leet may which Deputy ought to be sworn Now to conclude the Office of Constables consists wholly in these three things viz. Their Office concerning 1. The conservation of the Peace 2. The serving the Precepts and Warrants of the Justices 3. Their attendance for the execution of Statutes CHAP. XXI Of the Jurisdiction of Justices Itinerantes in the Principality of Wales THese Justices have power to hear and determine all criminal Causes which are called in the Laws of England The Pleas of the Crown and herein they have the same Jurisdiction that the Justices have in his Majesties Bench commonly called the Kings Bench. They have Jurisdiction to hear and determine all civil Causes which are called in the Laws of England Common Pleas and do take knowledgement of all Fines levied of Lands or Hereditaments without suing out any Dedimus potestatem and herein they have the same Jurisdiction that the Justices of the Common Pleas do execute at Westminster Also they may hear and determine all Assises upon Disseisins of Lands or Hereditaments wherein they equal the Jurisdiction of the Justices of the Assize Justices of Oyer and Terminer may hear and determine all notable Violences and Outrages perpetrated or done within their several Precincts of the Principality of Wales In the Kings Gift are 1. The Prothonotory his Office is to draw all Pleadings and to enter and engross all Records and Judgments in civil Causes 2. The Clerk of the Crown his Office is to draw and engross all Proceedings Arraignments and Judgments in criminal causes In the disposing of the Judge 1. The Marshal whose Office is to attend the Persons of the Judges at their coming sitting and going from the Sessions or Court 2. The Crier He is tanquam publicus Praeco to call forth such Persons whose appearances are necessary and to impose silence to the People There is a Commission under the great Seal of England to certain Gentlemen giving them power to preserve the Peace and to resist and punish all turbulent Persons whose misdemeanours may tend to the disquiet of the People and these be called the Justices of the Peace and every of them may well and truly be called and termed Eirenarcha The chief of them is called Cusos Rotulorum in whose custody all the Records of their Proceedings are resident Others there are of that number called Justices of Peace and Quorum because in their Commission they have power to sit and determine Causes concerning breach of Peace and misbehaviour the words of their Commission are conceived thus Quorum such and such unum vel duos c. esse volumus and without some one or more of them of the Quorum no Sessions can be holden And for the avoiding of a superfluous number of such Justices for through the Ambition of many it is counted a credit to be burthened with that Authority the Statute of 38 Hen. 8. hath expresly prohibited that there shall be but eight Justices of Peace in every County These Justices being appointed by the Lord Keeper do hold their Sessions quarterly In every Shire where the Commission of the Peace is established there is a Clerk of the Peace for the Entring and Engrossing of all Proceedings before the said Justices And this Officer is appointed by the Custos Rotulorum Every Shire hath its Sheriff which word being of the Saxon English is as much to say as Shire Reeve or Minister of the County His Function or Office is twofold 1. Ministerial 2. Judicial As touching his Ministerial Office he is the Minister and Executioner of all the Process and Precepts of the Courts of Law and thereof ought to make Return and certificate 34 H. 8. c. 16. As touching his Judicial Office he hath Authority to hold two several Courts of distinct natures The one called the Tourne because he keepeth his turn and circuit about the Shire and holdeth the same Court in several places wherein he doth enquire of all Offences perpetrated against the Common Law and not forbidden by any Statute or Act of Parliament and the Jurisdiction of this Court is derived from Justice distributive and is for criminal offences and is held twice every year The other is called the County Court wherein he doth determine all petty and small Causes civil under forty shillings arising within the said County and thereof it is called the County Court The jurisdiction of this Court is derived from Justice Commutative and is held every Month The Office of the Sheriff is annual and in the Kings gift whereof he is to have a Patent Every Shire hath an Officer called an Escheator which is an Office to attend the Kings Revenue and to seize into his Majesties hands all Lands either escheated Goods or Lands forfeited and therefore is called Escheator And he is to inquire by good Inquest of the death of the King's Tenants and to whom their Lands are descended and to seize their Bodies and Lands for Ward if they be within age and is accountable for the same and this Officer is named by the Lord Treasurer of England There are in every Shire two other Officers called Crowners or Coroners they are to enquire by Inquest in what manner and by whom every Person dyeth of a violent death and to enter the same of Record which is matter criminal and a Plea of the Crown and therefore they are called Coroners or Crowner as one hath written because their enquiry ought to be publick in corona populi 34 H. 8.20 These Officers are chosen by the Free-holders of the Shire by vertue of a Writ out of the Chancery De Coronatore elegendo And of them I need not to speak more because these Officers are in use elsewhere Forasmuch as every Shire is divided into Hundreds it is also by the said Statute of 34 H. 8. cap. 26. ordered that two sufficient Gentlemen or Yeomen shall be appointed Constables of every Hundred Also there is in every Shire one Goal or Prison appointed for the restraint of Liberty of such Persons as for their offences are thereunto committed until they shall be delivered by course of Law In every Hundred of every Shire the Sheriff thereof shall nominate sufficient Persons to be Bailiffs of that Hundred and Under-ministers of the Sheriff and they are to attend upon the Justices in every of their Courts and Sessions THE CONTENTS Of the Readings c. LEcture I. Pag. 3. The Definition of Treason 5. The first Case 20. Lecture II. 41. The Second Case 49. Lecture III. 62. The Contents of the Cases of Treason c. CHAP. I. CAses of Treason Pag. 73. Chap. II. The Punishment Tryal and Proceeding in Cases of Treason 78. Chap. III. Cases of Misprision of Treason 83. Chap. IV. The Punishment Tryal and proceeding in Cases of Misprision of Treason ibid. Chap. V. Cases of pety Treason 84. Chap. VI. The Punishment Tryal and proceedings in cases of Pety Treason 85. Chap. VII Cases of Felony 86. Chap. VIII The Punishment Tryal and proceedings in cases of Felony 93. Chap. IX Cases of Felony de se with the Punishment Tryal and Proceedings 98. Chap. X. Cases of Premunire 99. Chap. XI The Punishment Tryal and proceeding in Cases of Premunire 102. Chap. XII Cases of Abjuration and Exile and the Proceedings therein 103. Chap. XIII Cases of Heresie and the Tryal and Proceedings therein 106. Chap. XIV The King's Prerogative in Parliament 107. Chap. XV. The Kings Prerogative in matters of War or Peace 108. Chap. XVI The Kings Prerogative in matters of Moneys 110. Chap. XVII The Kings Prerogative in matters of Trade and Traffick 111. Chap. XVIII The Kings Prerogative in the Persons of his Subjects 112. Chap. XIX An Answer to the Question proposed by Sir Alexander Hay Knight touching the Office of Constables 114. Chap. XX. Three ends of the Institution of the Court Leet 118. Chap. XXI The Jurisdiction of Justices Itinerantes in the Principality of Wales Pag. 132. FINIS

there is an express proviso for him being the Companion for he is a Companion to the Queen A second Difference between our Case and the Case of the Mistress is that she is his Mistress but gratia and under the power of her Husband but in our Case the King marital hath a Superiority over his Wife as he is her Husband and so our Case is a farre stronger Case If a Child kills his Father or Mother this is Petty Treason and so it was also at the Common Law before the making of this Statute 21 E. 3.17 Bro. tit Sanctuar 2. Bro. tit Treas 6. 21 E. 3.17 Bro. Tit. Sanct. 2. and Bro. Tit. Treas 6. because there is a higher majority of Reason than that of a Servant which is the Reason of the Submission and Duty that is to the Father and Mother from the Child and where there is a majority of Reason or a parity of Reason for the one Case as there is for the other there is always the same Law But you will Object 1 2 Ph. Mar. c. 9. there is a Statute made 1 2 Phil. Mar. cap. 9. that if any shall imagine the death of the King that it shall be Treason and therefore he was not provided for before this Statute and therefore this Statute was made if it were Treason before this Statute then this Statute was made in vain and to no purpose That that Statute doth provide as well for the preservation of the Queen Answ as for the King and makes it Treason for any to compass the death of the Queen and therefore ●t cannot be concluded from ●hence that it was not Treason to compass her death before that Statute The second Reason is because that Statute doth provide for other matters as it doth there appear The next Point is the declaring of this his imagination to I. D. which is an Overt Act 1 Mar. Bro. tit treas 24. The second point for an overt Act is the declaring of his Mindand Intentions to others by such words as imply an Act to follow or by bidding a man to do what he hath intended or to do any thing that may tend to his purpose or by writing to declare his mind but if a man have a thought of Killing the King this is onely Primus motus and although he afterwards tells another that he had such a thought this is no Overt Act but i● he doth cherish this thought then it becomes his own and then he tells it to another that he hath such an intention this is an Overt Act for the words he doth speak are words executory and imply that he will do such an Act Or if A. conspire with B. to kill the King this is an Overt Act but to imagine with himself is not because it cannot come to be known words of encouragement to others is an Overt Act also For conspiring to levy War is the next and this is Treason within this Law although it be not within the words of the Statute but yet it is within the meaning and reason of the Statute for how is it possible for any to Levy War but he must conspire the death of the King Nota. or his deposing at least and the conspiring to do either of these is Treason within this Law as aforesaid and that within this word Compassing which as I said before ●s of a very large extent but I must confess the Intention is not so bad as an actual Levying of War and yet it is as bad in him that doth intend it And this Levying o● War doth mediately look a● the person of the King though not immediately and so in that respect it is Treason and so it is of deposing and so is the Statute of 1 E. 6. cap. 12. and so you shall find it in Doctor Storie 's case 13 Eliz Dyer 298. b. 1 E. 6.12 Dyer Story 's Case 13 Eliz. Dyer 298. who did conspire with a Foreign Prince to invade this Land and shewed him a means how to conquer this Kingdom and yet there was no Act done by that Prince against the Queen yet this is adjudged Treason and the reason there yielded was because this Invasion could not possibly be without great hazard and peril to the person of the Queen which is a very full Case in proving of this point 19 H. 6.47 But a conspiring to Coyn Money is not Treason within this Law because it is not against the person of the King but yet if two shall conspire to coyn Money and one doth it alone without the other yet this is Treason in both The third point is that I. S. after he became mad kills the Queen this is Treason within this Law first because a man may counterfeit himself to be mad and he may do it so cunningly as it cannot be discerned whether he be mad or no. The second Reason is in respect of the great esteem that the Law gives to the person of the King for he is the Fountain of Justice and for the proof of this point that it may be understood we ought to see what the Common Law was before the making of this Statute as to this Point and then we ought to enquire and see how the Law is altered since the making of the Statute and by this means we shall find out the Law and the reason thereof it is true that the Law without special words will not bind an Insant or a Mad-man as to the punishment of their Bodies but yet it will extend to their Lands and Estates but this our Law is no new Law but only a Declarative Law and in that Case general words will bind an Infant or a Mad-man without any special words That it was Treason at the Common Law is apparent in Britton and the Mirrour of Justice and this Statute doth not declare who shall be Traytors but what shall be Treason and therefore by this Act it is Treason in a Mad-man or whomsoever shall commit it for a Mad-man is not excepted out of this Law and to make this appear more fully you may be pleased to read the Case of Beverly See Beverleys Case Com. 124. in Com. 124. That a man that is non composmentis may commit High Treason although he cannot commit Petty Treason nor Felony Daltons Just 206. and so it is also in Dalton's Justice of Peace 206. that if a man that is non compos mentis shall kill the King this is High Treason Nay Beverley's Case goes farther and sayes That if he shall offer only to kill the King this is High Treason Nota. because the King is Caput salus Reipub. à Capite bona valetudo transit in omnes and for this Cause his person is so Sacred that none must offer the least violence to him but he is Reus criminis laesae Majestatis pereat unus ne pereant omnes The second Conclusion is That I. S. is

Statute Another Reason is because the Statute doth not say who shall be Traytors but what shall be Treason and this word Treason shall be taken with all its Concomitants and Accidents as it was at Common Law and then that was a concomitant to Treason that the Succourer should be a Traytor But it is so in 3 H. 7. fol. 10. Object that the Succourer in Treason is no Traytor The Reason of that Case is Answ because the Judgement was that he knowing eam proditionem praedictam perpetrdffe felonice hospitalis fuit and this was not grand because he was in that Case indicted as an Accessary and was not indicted as a Traytor for there can be no Accessaries in Treasons as there is in Felonies See Fitz. Tit. Cor. 55. Fitz. Tit. Coron 55. Bro. Tit. Coron 135. Bro. Tit. Coron 135. and for express Authority it is in 1 H. 6.5 for if this Statute had made Felony Treason and one doth commit that Treason and A. succours him knowing of it it had been absurd for to have said that the Succourer should have been only a Felon but our Case is stronger for this Law doth not make any one a Traytor but only declares what shall be adjudged Treason but if this Statute had exprest that all Abettors should have been Traytors then the Receivers or Succourers should not have been Traytors within this Law for then the intent of the Makers would plainly appear that it was not intended that the Receivers or Succourers after the Fact should have been within this Law but only the Abettors before and at the Fact Lecture III. THis Lecture is of Petty Treason and Petty Treasons doth very little differ from Felonies for by the pardon of all Felonies all Petty Treasons are pardoned Stamf. fol. 2. b. Stam. fol. 2. b. but it hath some correspondency with other Treasons and that is in respect of the Duty and Obedience that is due to each other as it is from the Subjects to the King so from the Servant to the Master All Servants although they receive no Wages but only Meat and Drink are within this Law A Servant that is not compellable to serve by this Statute yet if he doth serve he is within this Law And so is a Bayliff of a Mannor for if he kill the Lord of the Mannor it is Petty Treason within this Law A Steward of a Court Leet or Court Baron is not within this Law A Wife divorc'd for Adultery is within this Law although a Queen divorc'd for Adultery be not within this Law as ye have heard before Ordinaries are of two sorts Ordinarius loci Ordinarius Dioces Ordinarius leci Ordinarius Dioces and the Superior Ordinaries they are all within this Law Ordinarius loci as that of the Dean of Westminster Ordinarius Dioces is the Bishop of the Diocess and the Superior Ordinary is the Archbishop they are all within this Law in respect of Obedience that is due to them A Child killing his Father or his Mother he is within this Law as you heard before although he he be not named in it yet there is a majority of Treason in it more than that of a Servant and therefore is within that intent and reason of the Law And so it is in Dalton If one command another to kill his Master who doth it yet it is not Treason within this Law unless he be there present when the Fact is done 40 Ass 25. 40 Ass 25. If a Wife command a Servant to kill her Husband and he doth it it is Treason in both within this Law and so it appears that Abettors and Partners are within the first Part of this Statute concerning Petty Treasons although they are not named If a Servant goes from his Master and then kills him this is Petty Treason within this Law for it shall be intended that he had such an intention to kill him before he departed out of his Service Bro. Tit. Treas 15. 33 Ass 7. 33 Ass 7. And so is a Quarrel in Westminster-Hall the Courts sitting and then go out of the Hall into the Pallace-yard and then one strikes the other this is punishable with the same punishment as if he had struck him in the Hall for the punishment shall be to the loss of his hand and the forfeiture of his goods and perpetual imprisonment as it is in Darcies Case 1 2 Eliz. Dyer 188. in the 1 2 of Eliz. Dyer 188. But some of these Offences were Treason at the Common Law as the Son killing of the Father 21 E. 3.17 21 E. 3.17 and of a Maid-servant killing her Mistress 21 Ass 30. 21 Ass 30. If a Servant kill his Mistress this is Petty Treason within this Law and yet she is not named but is to be intended upon the same reason with his Master and the Obedience is due to the one as well as the other 19 H. 6.37 19 H. 6.37 Treason ought to be fully proved as it appears by the words of the Statute and that is to be by two Witnesses for the proving of every Treason And the Statute of 1 E. 1 E. 6. 6. is not repealed as to this Point by the Statute of Phil. and Mar. but only the Trials in the Counties and not concerning Witnesses as by that Statute more at large appears And in the 14 of Eliz. in the Lord Lumley's Case 14 Eliz. Lumley's Case it was agreed that the Statute 1 E 6. was not reversed by the old Statute The Tryal of Lords of Parliament ought to be per Pares but in some Cases he shall not have his Tryal per Pares 13 H. 8.11 12. Bro. Tit. Treas 29 33. as in an Appeal but in an Indictment he shall and the Indictment shall be received into Parliament because an Indictment is the Kings Suit and the Statute of Magna Charta is nec fuper eum ibimus nec super eum mittimus and this is to be intended in the Kings suit 10 E. 4. b. 10 E. 4. b. But a Lord may refuse his Tryal per Pares if he will as it was adjudged 1 Phil. Mar. Bro. in the L. Gray's Case 1 Phil. Mar. Bro. Lord Grays Case 13 Jac. but in the Lord of Castlehaven's Case it was held the contrary If a man be kill'd in Rebellion he shall forfeit his Lands and is a Traytor but there ought to be an Inquisition taken of him and that shall be a sufficient Tryal As the Case in 13 Jac. Br. If a man do cast himself into the Water and never is found after yet if it be presented by the Justice of Peace this is sufficient to make him forfeit his Goods As for those Treasons which are not here declared the Judges Authority takes Indictments of them but they ought not to be proceeded against to Judgment for nothing is to be done in point of Judgement in such a Case till it be

Entry or Recovery in a Writ of Escheat or Death of the Party attainted In Felony there can be no proceeding with the Accessary before there be a proceeding with the Principal If he dye or plead his Pardon or have his Clergy before Attainder the Accessary can never be dealt with In Felony if the Party stand mute and will not put himself upon Tryal or challenge peremptorily above that the Law allows he shall have Judgment not of hanging but of penance of pressing to death but there he saves his Lands and forfeits only his Goods In Felony at the Common Law the benefit of Clergy or Sanctuary was allowed but now by Stat. it is taken away in most cases In Felony Bail may be admitted where the Fact is not notorious and the Person not of ill name In Felony no Councel is to be allowed to the Party no more than in Treason In Felony if the fact be committed beyond the Seas or upon the Seas super altum mare there is no Tryal at all in one case nor by course of Jury in the other but by the Jurisdiction of the Admiralty In Felony no witness shall be received upon Oath for the Parties Justification no more than in Treason In felony if the Party be non sanae memoriae although it be after the fact he cannot be tryed nor adjudged except it be in course of Outlawry and that is also erroneous In felony the Death of the Party before Conviction dischargeth all Proceedings and Forfeitures In felony if the Party be once acquit or in peril of Judgment of Life lawfully he shall never be brought in question again for the same fact In felony the prosecution may be either at the King's Suit or by way of Appeal the Defendent shall have his course and produce Witnesses upon Oath as in Civil Causes In Felony the King may grant hault Justice to a Subject with the Regality of Power to pardon it In Felony the Tryal of Peers is all one as in case of Treason In Felony the Proceedings are in the King's Bench or before Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer or of Goal-delivery and in some case before Justices of the Peace CHAP. IX Cases of Felony de se with the Punishment Tryal and Proceedings IN the Civil Law and other Laws they make a difference of Cases of Felony de se for where a man is called in question upon any capital Crime and killeth himself to prevent the Law there they give the Judgment in all points of forfeiture as if they had been attainted in their Life-time And on the other side where a man killeth himself upon impatience of Sickness or the like they do not punish it at all but the Law of England taketh it all in one degree and punisheth onely with loss of Goods to be forfeited to the King who generally grants them to his Almoner where they be not sormerly granted unto special Liberties CHAP. X. Cases of Premunire WHere a man purchaseth or accepteth any provision that is collation of any Spiritual Benefice or Living from the See of Rome it is Premunire Where a man shall purchase any Process to draw any People of the Kings Allegiance out of the Realm in plea whereof the cognizance pertains to the Kings Court and cometh not in Person to answer his contempt in that behalf before the King and his Council or in his Chancery it is Premunire Where a man doth sue in any Court which is not the King's Court to defeat or impeach any Judgment given in the Kings Court and doth not appear to answer his Contempt it is Premunire Where a man doth purchase or pursue in the Court of Rome or elsewhere any Process Sentence of Excommunication Bull or Instrument or any other thing which toucheth the King in his Regality or his Realm in prejudice it is Premunire Where a man doth affirm or maintain any Foreign kind of Jurisdiction Spiritual or doth put in ure or execution any thing for the advancement or setting forth thereof such Offence the second time committed is Premunire Where a man refuseth to take the Oath of Supremacy being tendred by the Bishop of the Diocese if it be an Ecclesiastical Person or by a Commission out of the Chancery if he be a Temporal Person it is premunire Where a Dean and Chapter of any Church upon the Conge de Lier of an Archbishop or Bishop doth refuse to elect any such Archbishop or Bishop as is nominated unto them in the Kings Letters missive it is Premunire Where a man doth contribute or give relief to any Jesuit or Seminary Priests or to any Person brought up therein and called home and not returning it is case of Premunire Where a man is a Broker of an usurious contract above ten in the hundred it is Premunire CHAP. XI The Punishment Tryal and Proceeding in Cases of Premunire THe Punishment is by Imprisonment during Life forfeiture of Goods forfeiture of Lands in fee simple forfeiture of the profits of Lands Intailed or for Life The Trial and Proceeding is as in cases of Misprision of Treason and the Tryal is by Peers where a Peer of the Realm is the Offender Striking any man in the face of the King's Courts is forfeiture of Lands perpetual Imprisonment and loss of that hand CHAP. XII Cases of Abjuration and Exile and the Proceedings therein WHere a man committeth any Felony for the which at this day he may have priviledge of Sanctuary and confesseth the Felony before the Coroner he shall abjure the Liberty of the Real and chuse his Sanctuary and if he commit any new offence or leave his Sanctuary he shall lose the Priviledge thereof and suffer as if he had not taken Sanctuary Where a man not coming to the Church and being a Popish Recusant doth perswade any the Kings Subjects to impugn his Majesties Authority in Causes Ecclesiastical or shal perswade any Subject to come to any unlawful Conventicles and shall not after conform himself within a time and make his submission he shall abjure the Realm and forfeit his Goods and Lands during Life and if he depart not within the time prefixed or return he shall be in the degree of a Felon Where a man being a Popish Recusant and not having Lands to the value of 20 Marks per annum nor goods to the value of 40 l. shall not repair to his dwelling or place where he was born and there confine himself within the compass of five miles he shall abjure the Realm and if he return he shall be in case of a Felon Where a man kills the King 's Deer in Chases or Forests and can find no Sureties after a years Imprisonment he shall abjure the Realm Where a man is a Trespasser in Parks or in Ponds of fish and after three years Imprisonment cannot find Sureties he shall abjure the Realm Where a man is a Ravisher of any Child whose Marriage belongs to any Person and marrieth the said Child after years