ABSTRACT
Besides those overt-acts of treason now recounted, the most of all of which the insurgents were guilty of, they were guilty of several acts of felony, such as burning private property, and demolishing private houses, and committing several acts of robbery and open violence…. The crime, as applied to the fact, is palpable and direct; pulling down all inclosures, demolishing all brothels or bawdy-houses, or chapels, making insurrections, in order to redress grievances, real or pretended, is levying war within the realm, and against the King, though they have no design against his person…. The rabble had augmented their numbers by setting the felons at liberty. If the military had not been called in, none of your lordships can hesitate to agree with me, that within a very few hours the capital would have been in flames, and shortly reduced to an heap of rubbish.
