...great Encouragement of enormous Offenders, • contrary, as we conceive, to the Laws of our Country; the : Peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, his Crown and Dignity, 1 and particularly to the Welfare of this Your Colony. ' THAT the said Causton did greatly discourage...

...proceeds to assuit his pretensions by a tliew of force. This sort of conduct being somewhat against the peace of our sovereign lord the king, his crown and dignity, the British magistrate causes the " pretender," as he is called by the reigning potentate, to be seized...

...the said Ralph, of murder and sacrilege, now, or of late, done and committed by you, the said Ralph, contrary to the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, his crown and dignity : and I do hereby require and charge you, the said Ralph, to forthwith surrender and give up your own...

...to teize him, and] without giving any information respecting him to the proper authorities, against the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, his crown and dignity, and against the laws in force in this Colony, and in defiance of the proclamation of martial law issued...

...and there feloniously killed and murdered the said Richard Hun in manner and form abovesaid, against the peace of our sovereign lord the king, his crown and dignity. Subscribed in this manner : Thomas Barawell, Coroner of the city of London. After that the twenty-four...

...to be committed against their ' peace, sword and dignity,' — and not, as in later ages, ' against the peace of our sovereign lord the king, his crown and dignity.' In the reign of Henry VIII the privileges of the county palatine were abridged, and all writs and processes...

...people. Herein tbey asserted, upon oath " That John Wesley, clerk, had broken the laws of the realm, contrary to the peace of our sovereign lord the king, his crown and dignity. "1. By speaking and writing to Mrs. Williamson, against her husband's consent. "2. By repelling her...

...the said Ralph, of murder and sacrilege, now, or of late, done and committed by you, the said Ralph, contrary to the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, his crown and dignity : and I do hereby require and charge you, the said Ralph, to forthwith surrender and give up your own...

...the Bank of England ; in contravention of the Statutes in that case made and provided, and against the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, his crown, and dignity. To this indictment, Christopher Nubbles, in a low and trembling voice, pleaded Not Guilty : and here...

...and hearken to their cause; they stand indicted provt in the indictment, mutatis mutandis — against the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, his crown and dignity. Upon this indictment they have been arraigned, arid thereunto have severally pleaded Not Guilty : and,...