212.
[20] State Trials, Vol. V. p. 169.
[21] State Trials, Vol. IV. from p. 538 to 552.
[22] State Trials, Vol. IX. p. 606*. Die Lunae, 28? Julii 1746
[23] Id., Vol. XI. p. 262.
[24] Kelyng's Reports, p. 54.
[25] Rushworth, Vol. II. pp. 93, 94, 95, 100.
[26] Foster's Crown Law, p. 145.
[27] See the Appendix, No. 1.
[28] Rushworth, Vol. II. p. 475, et passim.
[29] Coke, 4 Inst. p. 5.
[30] This is confined to the judicial opinions in Hampden's case. It
does not take in all the extra-judicial opinions.
[31] "_Dissentient._
"1st. Because, by consulting the Judges out of court, in the absence of
the parties, and with shut doors, we have deviated from the most
approved and almost uninterrupted practice of above a century and a
half, and established a precedent not only destructive of the justice
due to the parties at our bar, but materially injurious to the rights of
the community at large, who in cases of impeachments are more peculiarly
interested that all proceedings of this High Court of Parliament should
be open and exposed, like all other courts of justice, to public
observation and comment, in order that no covert and private practices
should defeat the great ends of public justice.
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