...Edward HI which defined the offense as being committed: When n man doth compass or imagine* the denth of our lord the King, or of our Lady his Queen, or of thoir eldest son and heir; or if a man doth violate the KJIIK'-I companion, or tin- King's oldest daughter...

...related subject of treason and interpreting the first article of the Treason Act, 1351, which reads: " When a man doth compass or imagine the death of our...our lady his queen, or of their eldest son and heir ", Hale (ibid., para. 100) expressed the view that these words " extend to his successor, as well as...

...Request of the Lords, and of the Commons, hath made Declaration in the manner as hereafter follows; That is to say, when a Man doth Compass, or Imagine the Death of our Lord the King, of our Lady the Queen, or of their Eldest Son and Heir; or if a Man doth violate the Kings Companion,...

...measures against unarmed agitators. Under the Act of 1351 (which is still in force) it is high treason when 'a man doth compass or imagine the death of our lord the king or our lady his queen, or of their eldest son and heir; or if a man do violate the king's companion or...

...recently, John Barrell has examined how the ambiguous wording of the statutory definition of high treason ("when a man doth compass or imagine the death of our lord the king") was deployed during the trials as part of a "dramatised and staged conflict between the various discourses...

...oier et terminer esteiantz en lour places en fesantz lour offices.45 [when a man compasses or imagines the death of our lord the king, or of our lady his consort, or the king's eldest unmarried daughter, or of their eldest son and heir; or if a man violate...

...shall be adjudged treason," and specifically to the clause stating that "treason shall be said . . . When a man doth compass or imagine the death of our lord the King."62 According to John Bellamy, between 1352 and 1485 "the most important development in the interpretation...

...general contentment. He discussed the sections of 25 Edward III that were most relevant to the case: "When a man doth compass or imagine the death of our lord the king, or of our lady his queen, or of his eldest son and heir. Or if a man levy war against our lord the king in his realm, or be adhered...

...formulation is located in the famous statute of 1352, the progenitor of all subsequent legislation: "When a Man doth compass or imagine the Death of our...Lady his [Queen] or of their eldest Son and Heir" (25 Edward II 5 c. 2). The act was revised, audaciously, under Cromwell's auspices for Henry VIII in...

...majesty itself, it is then called by way of eminent distinction high treason. This crime arises whenever a man doth compass or imagine the death of our lord the king, or of our lady the queen, or of their eldest son and heir; or if a man do violate the king's companion, or the eldest...