...builded •"Among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than 160 haye been declared by Act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clersry, or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death."— Blackstone, Commentaries, 176S. Ill...

...Blackstone tells us that even in his day it was a melancholy truth that among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than one hundred and sixty were declared by Act of Parliament to be felonious without benefit of clergy; or in other words, to...

...to Blackstone, when he wrote his Commentaries, there were, — "Among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than one hundred and sixty, declared by Act of Parliament to be without benefit of clergy; or, in other words, to be worthy of...

...1769, that " among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than 160 had been declared by Act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy." The class of offenders usually executed at Tyburn, and the spectacle presented there when executions...

...melancholy truth, that among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than an hundred and sixty have been declared by act of parliament to be felonious without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death."* Within these...

...impunity to it." Again Blackstone : "It is a melancholy truth that among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than one hundred...been declared by act of Parliament to be felonies . . . worthy of instant death. So dreadful a list instead of diminishing increases the number of offenders."...

...capital by some subsequent act. Blackstone says (4 Com. 18) that, "among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than one hundred...Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy." This may possibly give an exaggerated idea of the number of capital offenses, for many particular offenses...

...Blackstone says that "among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit no less than 160 have been declared by act of parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy." This passage has often been quoted, but it must be observed that the number of capital offenses on...

...eighteenth century, remarks that: It is a melancholy truth that, amongst the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than one hundred...sixty have been declared by act of parliament to be felonious without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death.3 These one...

...Commentaries on the Laws of England, published in 1769, Blackstone says: "Among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than one hundred...parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy (punishable by death)." The death penalty was carried out by hanging, burning, or the axe and, during...