Satis enim sufficit ei pro poena degradatio, quae est
magna capitis diminutio, nisi forte convictus fuerit de apostatia,
quia hinc primo degradetur, et postea per manum laicalem comburetur,
secundum quod accidit in concilio Oxoni celebrato a bonae memoriae S.
Cantuanen. Archiepiscopo de quodam diacono, qui se apostatavit pro
quadam Judaae; qui cum esset per episcopum degradatus, statim fuit
igni traditus per manum laicalem." Bract. L. 3. c. 9. 2. "Et mesme
cel jugement (i. e. qui ils soient ars eyent) sorcers et sorceresses,
et sodomites et mescreauntz apertement atteyntz." Britt. c. 9.
"Christiani autem Apostatae, sortilegii, et hujusmodi detractari
debent et comburi." Fleta, L. I. c. 37. 2 see 3. Inst. 39. 12. Rep.
92. I H. P. C. 393. The extent of the clerical privilege at the
Common law. I. As to the crimes, seems very obscure and uncertain. It
extended to no case where the judgment was not of life, or limb. Note
in 2. H. P. C. 326. This therefore excluded it in trespass, petty
larceny, or killing se defendendo. In high treason against the person
of the King, it seems not to have been allowed. Note I. H. P. C.
185. Treasons, therefore, not against the King's person immediately,
petty treasons and felonies, seem to have been the cases where it was
allowed; and even of those, not for insidiatio varium, depopulatio
agrorum, or combustio domorum.
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