CHAP.

PAGE

67

69

75

86

87

92

94

105

-

111

II. Of Frauds relating to Bullion, and of counterfeiting

Bullion

III. Of the making, mending, or having in posses-

sion, any Instruments for Coining

IV. Of receiving, uttering, or tendering, counterfeit

Coin

V. Of buying, selling, receiving, or paying for counter-

feit Coin at a lower rate than its denomination

imports

VI. Of serving, or procuring others to serve, Foreign

States

VII. Of seducing Soldiers and Sailors to desertor

mutiny

VIII. Of Piracy

IX. Of neglecting Quarantine, and of spreading con-

tagious Disorders, and of injury to the public

health

X. Of Offences against the Revenue Laws relating

to the Customs or Excise

XI. Of hindering the exportation of Corn, or pre-

venting its circulation within the kingdom

XII. Of administering or taking unlawful Oaths

XIII. Of misprision of Felony, and of compounding

Offences

XIV. Of Offences by persons in office

XV. Of buying and selling Offices

XVI. Of Bribery

XVII. Of neglecting or delaying to deliver Election

Writs

XVIII. Of dealing in Slaves

XIX. Of Forestalling, Regrating, and Ingrossing, and

of Monopolies

XX. Of Maintenance and Champerty, and of buying and

selling pretended Titles

XXI. Of Embracery, and dissuading a witness from

giving Evidence

XXII. Of Barratry, and of suing in the Name of a fictitious

Plaintiff

XXIII. Of Bigamy

XXIV. Of Libel, and indictable slander

XXV. Of Riots, Routs, and unlawful Assemblies

121

124

131

135

147

154

161

163

168

175

182
CHAP.

PAGE

XXVI. Of Affrays

291

XXVII. Of Challenging to Fight

297

XXVIII. Of Disturbances in Places of Public Worship 299

XXIX. Of Forcible Entry and Detainer

304

XXX. Of Nuisances

317

XXXI. Of obstructing Process, and of Disobedience to

Orders of Magistrates

408

XXXII. Of Escapes

416

XXXIII. Of Prison-breaking by the Party confined 427

XXXIV. Of Rescue; and of actively aiding in an Escape,

or in an Attempt to Escape

433

XXXV. Of returning, or being at large after Sentence of

Transportation; and of rescuing or aiding the

Escape of a Person under such Sentence 442

XXXVI. Of Gaming

455

XXXVII. Of Usury and illegal Brokerage

458

XXXVIII. Of Offences relating to Dead Bodies

464

XXXIX. Of going armed in the night-time for the De-

struction of Game, and of assaulting Game-

keepers

469

a

BOOK III.

OF OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSONS OF INDIVIDUALS.

CHAP.

PAGE

I. Of Murder

483

II. Of Manslaughter

579

III. Of excusable and justifiable Homicide

656

IV. Of destroying Infants in the mother's womb 671

V. Of Rape, and the unlawful carnal knowledge of

Female Children

675

VI. Of Sodomy

698

VII. Of the forcible abduction and unlawful taking

away of Females, and of clandestine Marriages 701

VIII. Of Kidnapping and Child-stealing

- 716

CHAP.

PAGE

IX. Of attempts to Murder, of Mayhem or Maiming,

and of doing or attempting some great bodily

harm

X. Of common and aggravated Assaults

XI. Of Maiming, &c. by the furious driving, &c. of

stage coachmen

XII. Of setting spring guns, &c.

719

750

783

784

BOOK IV.

OF OFFENCES AGAINST PROPERTY PUBLIC OR PRIVATE.

CHAP.

PAGE

I. Of Burglary

785

II. Of Sacrilege or of breaking into any church or

chapel and stealing therein

843

III. Of House-breaking

847

IV. Of stealing in a dwelling-house, any person

therein being put in fear

850

V. Of stealing in a dwelling-house to the value of 51.

853

VI. Of breaking, &c. and stealing in a building

within the curtilage

860

VII. Of breaking, &c. and stealing in any Shop,

Warchouse, or Counting-house

865

VIII. Of Robbery from the person

867

or more

-

-

3. (Westm. 1.) c. 3. Escape

,

28. c. 11. Champerty

nance

423 5. c. 10. Embracery-Jurors 183

c. 9. Concealment 5. c. 14. Apprehending Night-

of Felony 131, 138

walkers, &c.

601

c. 25. Champerty 178 14. c. 10. Gaoler, (misconduct of) 136

c. 26. Extortion of 23. c. 6. Cheat

174

Sheriffs, &c. 142, 144 st. 5, c. 2. Coining, &c. 46 n. (v)

c. 29. Counsel

178

58, 59

c. 34. False news 31. c. 14, Escape

423

234, 238 34. c. 1. Barratry-Punishment 185

13. (Westm. 2.) c. 49. Champerty, 34. c. 1. Suppression of Riots 287

Buying Titles

34. c. 8, Embracery-Jurors 183

179, 180 38. c. 12. Embracery-Jurors 183

- Mainte-

179

28. st. 3, c. 20. Gold, &c.-Alloy 67

RICHARD II.

1. c. 4. Maintenance

181

EDWARD II.

1. c. 9. Buying Titles

180

1. st. 2. De frangentibus prisonam

2. st. 1, c. 5. Scandalum Magna-

tum

238, n. (w)

427, 433, 435

5. c. 7. Forcible Entry

312

5. c. 8. Forcible Entry

305

7. c. 13. Persons going armed 292

EDWARD III.

12. c, 2. Buying and selling Of-

fices

148

2. c. 3. Persons going armed, and 12. c. 11. Scandalum Magnatum

Night-walkers 292, 601

238, n. (w)

5. c. 8. Marshal of K. B. suffer- 13. c. 8. Undue abatement of

ing Escapes

419, 424

Commodities

174
RICHARD II.

Page

HENRY VIII.

Page

15. c. 2. Forcible Entry and De- 27. c. 4. Admiralty-Trial 102
tainer

305, 308 28. c. 15. Piracy 94, 98, et seq. 167

15. c. 3. Admiral's Jurisdiction in

Trial of Murders, &c.,

Homicide
100, 550

committed at Sea

17. c. 8. Suppressing Riots 287, n. (n)

550, 563, 570

20. c. 1. Persons going armed 292 32. c. 9. Maintenance—Buying Titles

180, 181

Embracery of Jurors 183

HENRY IV.

33. c. 9, s. 11. Cockpit, Gaming-

house

324

4. c. 5. Selling Offices

148 37. c. 9. Usury

158

13. c. 7, s. 1. Suppression of Riots 287

EDWARD VI.

HENRY V.

1. c. 1. Reviling the Sacrament 230

2. c. 8. Posse comitatus.--Suppres- 2 & 3. c. 2, s. 6. Desertion in time

sion of Riots 91, 287, n. (12)

of War

93

2. c. 9. Suppression of Riots ib. 3 & 4. c. 21. Forestalling, &c. 168

16. Præmunire

717 5 & 6. c. 4. Quarrelling, &c., in the

Church or Church-

yard

299

HENRY VI.

s. 2. Striking, &c., in the

Church-yard 299, 761

2. c. 14. Suppression of Riots

c. 14. Forestalling, &c. 168, 169
287, n. (n)

c. 16, s. 1. et seq. Selling

8. c. 9. Forcible Entry, &c. 305, 308,

Offices 148, 149, 150, 153

311, 312, 313, 315

c. 25. Alehouses

322

18, c. 19. Desertion of Soldiers 93

3. c. 1. Concealment of Of-

fences-Coroner 131, 138

PHILIP AND MARY.

19. c. 13. Suppression of Riots

287, n. (n) 3. c. 3. Forestalling, &c.

168

4 & 5. c. 3, s. 9. Desertion in time

of War

93

HENRY VIII.

ELIZABETH.

4. c. 8. Speeches in Parliament

protected 225, n. (f)

21. c. 13. Spiritual Persons taking

Farms

51

22. c. 5, s. 1. et seq. Statute of

Bridges 385, 391, 392,

398, 399, 400, 401, 402

26. c. 6. Trial of Murders, &c., in

Wales

55

1. c. 1. Reviling the Sacrament 230

1. c. 2. Derogation of Book of

Prayer

ib.

1. c. 17. Taking Fish

381

5. c. 1. Killing one attaint, &c. 485

5. c. 4, s. 31. Serving Appren-

ticeship

49