Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-1769)Sir William Blackstone Of Offenses Against God and Religion
NOTES

     1.    See pag.5.
     2.    See Vol. 1. pag. 123, 124.
     3.    Beccar. ch. 8.
     4.    Cod. 1.7.1.
     5.    Ibid. 6.
     6.    l. 3. c. 9.
     7.    Mescroyantz in our ancient law-books is the name of unbelievers.
     8.    1 Hal. P.C. 384.
     9.    cap.de haercticis.
   10.    Decretal. l. 5. t. 40. c. 27.
   11.    Cod. l.1. tit.5.
   12.    c. de haereticis.
   13.    Cod. 1. 5. 4.
   14.    Baldus in Cod. 1. 5. 4.
   15.    P.N.B. 269.
   16.    Hal. P.C. 395.
   17.    So called not from lolium, or tares, (which was afterwards devised, in order to justify the burning of them from Matth. 13:30.) but from one Walter Lolhard, a German reformer. Mod.Un.Has.xxvi.13.Spelm. Gloss.371.
   18.    Hen. IV. c. 15.
   19.    5 Rep. 23. 12 Rep. 56 92.
   20.    1 Hal. P.C. 405.
   21.    Vol. 1. pag. 98.
   22.    31 Eliz. c.1. 17 Car. II. c.2. 22 Car. II. c.1.
   23.    Sir Humphrey Edwin, a lord mayor of London, had the imprudence soon after the toleration act to go to a presbyterian meeting-house in his formalities: which is alluded to by dean Swift, in his tale of a tub, under the allegory of Jack getting on a great horse, and eating custard.
   24.    See Hawkins's pleas of the crown, and Burn's justice.
   25.    Sp. L.b. 19. c. 27.
   26.    Star. 13 Car.II. st.2. c. 1.
   27.    Stat. 25 Car. II. c.2.
   28.    1 Hawk. P.C. 7.
   29.    1 Ventr. 293. 2 Strange, 834.
   30.    Cod. l.9. t.18.
   31.    Exod. 22:18.
   32.    3 Inst. 44.
   33.    Sp.L. b. 12. c. 5.
   34.    Mr. Addison, Spect. No. 117.
   35.    Voltaire Siecl. Louis xiv. Mod. univ. Hist.xxv.215. Yet Vouglans, (de droit criminel, 353.459.) still reckons up sorcery and witchcraft among the crimes punishable in France.
   36.    1Hawk. P.C. 7.
   37.    3 Inst. 156.
   38.    See Vol. II. pag. 279.
   39.    c. 24.
   40.    Poph. 208.
   41.    1 Siderf. 168.
   42.    Scobell. 121.
   43.    See Vol. III. pag. 139.
   44.    See Vol. pag. 458.
   45.    Dalt. just. ch. 11.