8. c. 8. 5 El. c.
16 and I Jac. I. c. 12. seem to be only in confirmation of the Common
law. 9 G. 2. c. 25. punishes them with pillory, and a year's
imprisonment. 3 E. 6. c. 15. 5 El. c. 15. punish fond, fantastical
and false prophecies, by fine and imprisonment.
(* 41) I Ann. c. 9. 2.
(* 42) As every treason includes within it a misprision of
treason, so every felony includes a misprision, or misdemeanor. I
Hale P. C. 652. 708. "Licet fuerit felonia, tamen in eo continetur
misprisio." 2 R. 3. 10. Both principal and accessary, therefore, may
be proceeded against in any case, either for felony or misprision, at
the Common law. Capital cases not being mentioned here, accessaries
to them will of course be triable for misprisions, if the offender
flies.
(* 43) E. I. c. 12.
(* 44) Whether the judgment of penance lay at Common law. See 2
Inst. 178. 2 H. P. C. 321. 4 Bl. 322. It was given on standing mute;
but on challenging more than the legal number, whether that sentence,
or sentence of death is to be given, seems doubtful. 2 H. P. C. 316.
Quaere, whether it would not be better to consider the supernumerary
challenge as merely void, and to proceed in the trial? Quaere too,
in case of silence?
(* 45) "Cum Clericus sic de crimine convictus degradetur non
sequitur alia poena pro uno delicto, vel pluribus ante degradationem
perpetratis.
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