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., chap. xxi).

[47] “Primo per plateas Londoniæ ad caudas equinas tractus usque ad patibulum altissimum sibi fabricatum, quo laqueo suspensus, postea semivivus dimissus, deinde abscisis genitalibus et evisceratis intestinis ac in ignem crematis, demura absciso capite ac trunco in quatuor partes secto, caput palo super pontem Londoniæ affigitur; quadrifida vero membra ad partes Scotiæ sunt transmissa” (“Flores Hist.,” ed. Luard, iii. 124).

Another chronicler expressly states “ultimo decollatur,” and a third, “demum decollatus est.” Walsingham, Ypodigma, ed. Riley, p. 235; Chron. Rishanger, ed. Riley, pp. 225, 226.

[48] Hawkins (William), “A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown,” 1771, c. 48, p. 443. See for details, Sir William Stanford, “Les Plees del Coron.,” 1560, fol. 182, 182b. Sir Matthew Hale, “Hist. Placit. Coronæ,” i. 350-1. “Les Reports de Henry Rolle,” 1675, i. 185-7, containing a good example of law-French of the time of James I., the most exquisite jargon ever invented by man. Coke, “Institutes,”