Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-1769)Sir William Blackstone Of High Treason
NOTES

     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.