. The complete works of Henry Fielding, esq., with an essay on the life, genius and achievement of the author. n ly houses; was high treason, because la regal power to reform that which be- j by his law and justices to correct and 1 be a strange way and mischievous to all a rude rabble, without an indictment to inner against all persons houses which vdy houses, for then no man were safe; vernment out of the Kings rivilege of the people, which lit upon an indictment first upon a legal trial by an- was heard to make his ings of this nation had I such outrages had been ed capitally against the of
. The complete works of Henry Fielding, esq., with an essay on the life, genius and achievement of the author. n ly houses; was high treason, because la regal power to reform that which be- j by his law and justices to correct and 1 be a strange way and mischievous to all a rude rabble, without an indictment to inner against all persons houses which vdy houses, for then no man were safe; vernment out of the Kings rivilege of the people, which lit upon an indictment first upon a legal trial by an- was heard to make his ings of this nation had I such outrages had been ed capitally against the offend- ■■ lers in the star-chamber, . 10 by milder ways, if it nd obedience; yet that lenity of not hinder the King, when he d in a severer way, to take that law, and to make greater .now the law is not wanting of the King and his people, as to let such —;. .1 -lunishment, which is at this time we ourselves have seen a rebel- ople together upon fairer pre- - . ;uch persons use at first to declare design, but when they see that they maj History of the Pleas of the Crown, vol. i. p. 134.■ IIIV iinoll. Wf BOSAVERN PENLEZ 265 y effect their design, then they will not stick to go further,and give the law themselves, and destroy all that opposethem; but yet because there was no body of the long robethere but my brother Wylde, then Eecorder of London, andmyself, and that this example might have the greater author-ity, I did resolve that the jury should find the matter specially,and then I would procure a meeting of all the judges ofEngland, and what was done should be by their opinion, thatso this question might have such a resolution as no personafterwards should have reason to doubt the law, and allpersons might be warned how they for the time to comemingle themselves with such rabble on any kind of suchpretences. And afterwards out of six against whom special verdictswere found, four were executed. In the 13th year of Queen Elizabeth, it was made treasonto compass, imagine,
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