High treason
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The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
The capital legal charge of betraying the sovereign or subverting the realm's government, central to Strafford's condemnation and to the proposed treatment of papal agents.
The sixth head concerneth such as shall come into the kingdom with titles of being the Pope’s nuncio, that it may be declared that if any man come into this kingdom with instructions from the Pope of Rome, it be a case of high treason;
Provided that no judge or judges, justice or justices whatsoever, shall adjudge or interpret any act or thing to be treason, nor hear or determine any treason nor in any other manner than he or they should or ought to have done before the making of this Act, and as if this Act had never been had nor made;
Whereas the knights, citizens and burgesses of the House of Commons in this present Parliament assembled, have, in the name of themselves and of all the Commons of England, impeached Thomas Earl of Strafford of high treason, for endeavouring to subvert the ancient and fundamental laws and government of His Majesty’s realms of England and Ireland, and to introduce an arbitrary and tyrannical govern …
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
The legal category of high-treason, its proper definition, its dangerous tendency to be extended by analogy, and its catastrophic misuse illustrated by the Titus Oates affair.
But unhappily Titus Oates was believed;
The crime of coining false money is deemed high-treason in the second degree, and justly.
The same Titus Oates and another witness deposed, that fifty Jesuits had conspired to assassinate Charles II.