Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Observations on the Origin of the Trial by Council of War: Or the Present Court-Martial
Yet the commission of High Constable granted to the Earl of Rivers, more than a century later, shows that the law was not respected. The criminal jurisdiction of the court appears to have then again extended to a great variety of undefined offences, and to have been exercised by the High Constable without any regulated form of trial, and without restriction as to punishment, no appeal to the king even being allowed against his decrees.
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