William Blackstone: Of High Treason

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   1. Book. I ch. 10.
   2. c. 1. § 7.
   3. l. 1. c. 2.
   4. Sp. L. b. 12. c. 7.
   5. 1 Hal. P. C. 80.
   6. Britt. c. 22. 1 Hawk. P. C. 34.
   7. Qui de nece virorum illustrium, qui consiliis et consistorio nostro intersunt, senatorum etiam (nam et ipsi pars corporis nostri sunt) vel cujuslibet postremo, qui militat nobiscum, cogitaverit: (eadem enim severitate voluntatem sceleris, qua effectum, puniri jura voluerint) ipse quidem, utpote majestatis reus, gladio feriatur, bonis ejus omnibus fisco nostro addictis. [He who shall meditate the death of any of those illustrious men who assist at our councils; likewise of the senators (for they are a part of ourself) or lastly of any of our companions in arms; shall, forasmuch as he is guilty of treason, perish by the sword, and all his goods be confiscated: for the law will punish the intention, and the perpetration of the crime with equal severity.] (Cod. 9. 8. 5.)
   8. Gravin. Orig. 1. § 34.
   9. 1 Hal. P. C. 101.
   10. 3 Inst. 7. 1 Hal. P. C. 106.
   11. 3 Inst. 7. 1 Hal. P. C. 104.
   12. 1 Hawk. P. C. 36.
   13. 1 Hal. P. C. 104.
   14. Vol. 1. pag. 212.
   15. By the ancient law compassing or intending the death of any man, demonstrated by some evident fact, was equally penal as homicide itself. (3 Inst. 5.)
   16. 1 Hal. P. C. 107.
   17. 3 Inst. 6.
   18. Plutarch. in vit.
   19. 3 Inst. 12.
   20. 1 Hal. P. C. 109.
   21. 1 Hawk. P. C. 38. 1 Hal. P. C. 119.
   22. 1 Hal. P. C. 115.
   23. Cro. Car. 125.
   24. Ibid.
   25. Foster. 198.
   26. 1 Hal. P. C. 118. 1 Hawk. P. C. 38.
   27. 3 Inst. 9.
   28. Feud. l. 1. t. 5.
   29. Ibid. t. 21.
   30. 1 Hawk. P. C. 37.
   31. 1 Hal. P. C. 132.
   32. Ibid. 136.
   33. 3 Inst. 9. Foster. 211. 213.
   34. 3 Inst. 10.
   35. Foster. 219.
   36. Ibid. 216.
   37. 1 Hawk. P. C. 38.
   38. Foster. 216.
   39. 3 Inst. 16.
   40. 1 Hawk. P. C. 42.
   41. Ibid. 43.
   42. 1 Hal. P. C. 231.
   43. 1 Hal. P. C. 259.
   44. Stat. 1 Hen. IV. c. 10.
   45. C. 9. 24. 2. Cod. Theod. de falsa moneta [of false money], l. 9.
   46. Pott. Ant. l. 1. c. 26.
   47. l. 14. c. 7.
   48. l. 3. c. 3. § 1 & 2.
   49. l. 1. c. 22.
   50. 1 Hal. P. C. 224.
   51. Ff. 48. 4. 6.
   52. State Tr. IX. 680.
   53. 1 Hal. P. C. 382.
   54. This punishment for treason Sir Edward Coke tells us, is warranted by diverse examples in scripture; for Joab was drawn, Bithan was hanged, Judas was embowelled, and so of the rest. (3 Inst. 211.)
   55. 1 Hal. P. C. 351.
   56. 3 Inst. 52.
   57. 1 Hal. P. C. 351.
   58. 1 Hal. P. C. 399.