of death; and therefore death is no such terrible enemy when a man hath so many attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it; fear pre-occupieth it; nay, we read, after Otho the emperor had slain himself, pity (which is the tenderest of affections) provoked many to die out of mere compassion to their sovereign, and as the truest sort of followers. Nay, Seneca adds, niceness and satiety; "Cogita quamdiu eadem feceris; mori velle, non tantum fortis, aut miser, sed etiam fastidiosus potest." A man would die, though he were neither valiant nor miserable, only upon a weariness to do the same thing so oft over and over. It is no less worthy to observe how little alteration in good spirits the approaches of death make; for they appear to be the same men till the last instant. Augustus Cæsar died in a compliment: "Livia, conjugii nostri memor, vive et vale;" Tiberius in dissimulation, as Tacitus saith of him, "Jam Tiberium vires et corpus, non dissimulatio, deserebant;" Vespasian in a jest, sitting upon the stool, “Ut puto Deus fio;" Galba with a sentence, "Feri, si ex re sit populi Romani," holding forth his neck; Septimus Severus in dispatch, "Adeste, si quid mihi restat agendum," and the like. Certainly the Stoics bestowed too much cost upon death, and by their great preparations made it appear more fearful.

Is not the frequency of suicide and the occasional instances of mothers destroying their bastard children some evidence that there are passions more powerful than the fear of death?

CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF STATUTABLE

CAPITAL OFFENCES.

EDWARD III.

Bringing false money into the realm, counterfeit to the money in England, knowing the same to be such. 25 Edw. 3. st. 5. c. 2. s. 1. A. D. 1352.

Counterfeiting the coin of this realm. Ditto.

To compass or imagine the death of the King or Queen, or their eldest son and heir. Ditto.

To violate the king's companion, or his eldest daughter unmarried, or the wife of the king's eldest son and heir, Ditto.

HENRY VII.

Taking any maid, widow or wife, having substance in moveable goods, lands or tenements, or being heir apparent to her ancestors, against her will, for lucre of the substance, and marrying her. 3 Hen. 7. c. 2. s. 1. A. D. 1418. and 39 Eliz. c. 9. s. 1. A. D. 1597.

Receivers of such women so taken away.

HENRY VIII.

Robbing any churches, chapels, or other holy places, or aiding, counselling, or helping therein. 23 Hen. 8. c. 1.

s. 3. A. D. 1532.

Baggery committed with mankind or beast (N. B. Emissio seminis et penetratio both held necessary.) 25 Hen. 8. c. 6, s. 1. A. D. 1534.

Breaking or entering into any of the king's houses, to the intent to steal any of the king's goods, though his majesty be absent, or any other house, where it shall fortune the same his majesty to be lodged or abiding therein: the persons so offending, their abettors, procurers, counsellors and receptors (for form of trial, vid. the act). 33 Hen. 8. c. 12. 3. 27. A. D. 1542.

EDWARD VI.

When any murder or felony shall be committed in one county, and another person shall in any manner of ways be accessary to ditto in another, an indictment taken upon the circumstance of ditto in the county where such offences of accessary, &c. shall be committed, shall be as good as if the principal offence had been committed within the same, &c. 2 & 3 Edw. 6. c. 24. s. 4. A. D. 1548-9.

Stealing any horse, gelding, or mare, 2 & 3 Edw. 6. c. 33. s. 1. A. D. 1548-9.

Robbery in a booth or tent, in a fair or market.)-N. B. The owner or servant, &c. being within the same). 5 & 6 Edw. 6. c. 9. s. 5. A. D. 1551-2.

Robbing any person in any part of his dwelling house or dwelling place, the owner or dweller in ditto, or his wife, his children or servants being then within the same, or in any other place within the precinct of the same, whether the said shall be waking or sleeping. 6 Edw. 6. c. 9. s. 4. A. D. 1552.

Accessaries before the fact in robbing any person in any booth or tent in any fair or market, the owner, his wife, his children or servants, then being within the same, whether such, &c. shall be waking or sleeping. 6 Edw. 6. c. 9. s. 5. A. D. 1552.

Accessaries before the fact in robbing any person in any part of his dwelling house or dwelling place, the owner or dweller, or his wife, his children or servants, being then within the same, or in any other place within the precinct of the same, whether such, &c. shall be waking or sleeping. 6 Edw. 6. c. 9. s. 4. A. D. 1552.

MARY.

Any person who shall falsely forge or counterfeit the king's sign manual, privy signet, or privy seal, or shall be a counsellor, procurer, aider or abettor therein. 1 Mary, sess. 2. c. 6. s. 2.

A. D. 1553.

Counterfeiting the same, or foreign realm, made current by the king's consent. 1 Mar. sess. 2. c. 6. s. 2. A. D. 1553.

Bringing false money into the realm counterfeit to the gold or silver coin of foreign realms current, &c. within this realm, &c. knowing the same to be such. 1 & 2 P. & M. c. 11. s. 2. A. D. 1553-4.

Accessaries in committing or doing any petit treason or wilful murder, or in committing any robbery in any dwelling house, or in or near any highway, or in any other the king's dominions, or in wilfully burning of any dwelling houses, or barns wherein any grain or corn shall happen to be. 4 & 5 P. & M. c. 4. s. 1. A. D. 1556-7.

ELIZABETH.

Clipping, washing, rounding or filing the coin of the realm, or of any other, made current by the king's consent. 5 Eliz. c. 11. s. 2. A. D. 1563.

Persons indicted or appealed, for feloniously taking of any money, goods or chattels, from the person of any other, privily without his knowledge, in any place whatsoever. 8 Eliz. c. 4. s. 2. A. D. 1566.

Rape. 18 Eliz. c. 7. s. 1. A. D. 1576.

Carnally knowing and abusing any woman child under the age of ten years, whether with her consent or against it. 18 Eliz. c. 7. s. 4. A. D. 1576.

Burglary. 18 Eliz. c. 7. s. 1. A. D. 1576.

Impairing, diminishing, falsifying the coin of this realm, or of any other made current by the king's consent. 18 Eliz. c. 1. s. 1. A. D. 1576.

Accessaries in aiding and abetting in committing a rape. 18 Eliz. c. 7. s. 1. A. D. 1576.

Withdrawing any subject from his natural obedience to the king, or from the established religion to the Romish religion, or doing any overt act to that intent. 23 Eliz. c. 1. s. 2. A. D. 1576.

Any person being willingly absolved or withdrawn from, &c. above, or willingly reconciled to any such pretended authority or potentate. 23 Eliz. c. 1. s, 2. A. D. 1581.

Accessaries both before and after, in horse stealing. 31 Eliz. c. 12. s. 5. A. D. 1592.

Accessaries in taking away a woman against her will, who hath lands or goods, or is heir apparent to her ancestors.→→→ N. B. Notwithstanding she shall afterwards consent to marry him. 39 Eliz. c. 9. s. 1. 2. A. D. 1597.

And procurers or accessaries before the offence committed. 39 Eliz. c. 9. s. 1. 2. A. D. 1597.

JAMES I.

Stabbing, or thrusting, &c. any person that hath not then any weapon drawn, or that hath not then first stricken the party, which shall so stab, &c.: so as the person so stabbed, &c. shall die within the space of six months then next following (although it cannot be proved that the same was done of malice forethought). 1 Jam. 1. c. 8. s. 2. A. D. 1603.

other

Putting in practice to absolve or withdraw any from obedience, or reconcile them to the see of Rome or to any prince, or potentate. 3 Jac. 1. c. 4. s. 22. A. D. 1605. And if any person shall be willingly absolved or withdrawn &c. as aforesaid.-Vid. above. $ Jac. 1. c. 4. s. 23. ‘A. D. 1605,

Accessaries in procuring any fine, recovery, deed enrolled, statute, recognizance, bail or judgment, to be acknowledged in the name of another. 21 James 1. c. 26. s. 2. A. D. 1623.

Acknowledging or procuring any fine, recovery, deed enrolled, statute, recognizance, bail or judgment, in the name of any other person, not privy or consenting to the same.-N. B. But this not to extend to attorneys acknowledging judgments, &c. for their clients. 21 Jac. 1. c. 26. s. 2. A. D. 1620.

CHARLES II.

Feloniously cutting and taking, stealing or carrying away, any cloth, or other woollen manufactures from the rack, or tenters, in the night time. 22 Car. 2. c. 5. s. 3. 4. A. D. 1670.