The lay-mans lawyers revievved & enlarged being a second part of the practice of the law, relating to the punishment of offences committed against the publique peace : containing the forms of process, indictments, and proceeding to judgement, as well in all manner of crimes deserving death, as others of corporall and pecuniary punishments : also a discourse of pardons and remissions of punishments, the office and duty of a goaler, constable, and other assistants for preservation of the peace / by Tho. Forster ... ; with an exact table, relating to all the matters therein contained.

Mich. Term. 40. & 41. Eliz.

LAncelot Flower was Indicted upon the Statute of 5. Eliz for Perjury, in giving false Evidence to the great Inquest at the Sessions holden at Wis∣bich, &c. upon an Indictment of Riot, and this Indictment was removed into the Kings Bench, and Flower by the judgement of the Court was dis∣charged of the Indictment. For the Statute of 5 Eliz. cap. 14. hath two Branches; the first is, a∣gainst procurers of Perjury, and this is in mat∣ter depending in suit by Bill. Writ, Action or In∣formation, so that procurement of Perjury upon the Indictment is out of this branch. The second branch (on which Flower was Indicted) is provided against them who commit Perjury by his, or their deposition in any of the Courts above mentioned, or being examined in perpetuam rei memoriam; and although this clause be generall and not restrained by any words to such perticular suits as the first was, yet in good con∣struction, this branch shall have reference to the former, and shall be expounded by it; for otherwise the party who commits the Perjury upon the In∣dictment shall be punished by this later branch, and he which subornes and procures him to commit the Perjury shall pass unpunished, which is against Rea∣son, and the intent of the makers of the Act.