High treason
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in the texts
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;
Be it therefore enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, and by the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by authority of the same, that the said Earl of Strafford, for the heinous crimes and offences aforesaid, stand and be adjudged and attainted of high treason, and shall suffer such pains of death, and incur the forfeitures of his goods and chattels, lands, tenements …
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.
High-treason is an offence committed against the security of the commonwealth, or of the king its representative.
The crime of coining false money is deemed high-treason in the second degree, and justly.
The Jesuit Titus Oates being legally interrogated in the House of Commons, and having upon his oath declared, that he had related the whole truth, yet afterwards accused the secretary of the Duke of York, and several others, of high-treason, and his information was admitted.