How To Use High treason In A Sentence
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In July plots were discovered against James and Raleigh was arrested and charged with high treason.
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Graphics are not what they were - no swirl of copperplate breaking into black lettering for ‘High Treason’ - but the same appetite is being served.
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Released on bail, Lilburne, who from prison had issued an "Agreement of the Free People," calling for annual parliaments elected by manhood suffrage and the free election of unendowed church ministers in every parish, now published an "Impeachment for High Treason against Oliver Cromwell and his son-in-law, James Ireton," and declared that monarchy was preferable to a military despotism.
The Rise of the Democracy
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These cram it, not with lectures on political economy, books on international law, or any thing of that sort, but with food much more to its taste -- the very best honey, and a kind of _royal food_, which I suppose it is considered high treason for a subject to touch.
Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside
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Because we sinned and thus committed high treason against the God of creation, we don't even deserve to exist!
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Britain abolished the death penalty for murder in 1965 and phased it out for rarer crimes including piracy and high treason over the next 33 years.
Times, Sunday Times
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The case before Judge Hoff was not one of high treason but one of unlawful extradition.
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The blood of one convicted of high treason is "attaint," and his deprivations extend to his descendants, unless Parliament remove the attainder.
The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc
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In fact, except Oliver Cromwell, King William, a few gentlemen who had the misfortune to be executed or exiled for high treason, and every dissenting minister that he has or can find occasion to notice, there are hardly any persons mentioned who are not stigmatized as knaves or fools, differing only in degrees of "turpitude" and "imbecility".
Famous Reviews
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Such thoughts were considered high treason as recently as the beginning of this year.
Times, Sunday Times
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Essex -- such was the title recently bestowed on Cromwell -- was without warning arrested and attainted of high treason.
England under the Tudors
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They died maintaining that high treason had been committed against the people of England.
The Search for Justice - a history of Britain and the British people Volume III
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And once a royal messenger (called a pursuivant-at-arms) came down in person, and carried the great lady to London, and there she stayed many days, and was threatened with many things and great punishments, yea, even to be tried by the Lord Jeffreys for high treason, in resisting the king's order to deliver up her grandchild to its natural guardian -- which was its father, the Viscount Mallerden, now created by royal favour
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844
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The reason for death (as Dan's illustration depicts) is that all humans have committed high treason against our Creator because we sinned in Adam.
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Hawkubite days; but this would be a more dramatic matter, with high treason, block, and axe all looming in the background. '
Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734
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In the foreground of their calumnies stood the two charges of Œdipodean incest and Thyestean banquets, together with that of foreign, outlandish customs, and also of high treason.
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries
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To be a "papist" or "hear Mass" -- which were construed as the same thing -- was punishable by death as high treason.
A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
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Following the overthrow of the Raterepublik, he was indicted for high treason but was subsequently acquitted of all charges.
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Britain abolished the death penalty for murder in 1965 and phased it out for rarer crimes including piracy and high treason over the next 33 years.
Times, Sunday Times
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William de la Pole rescues Edward III., detained in Flanders by want of money, and is made a knight-banneret; his son Michael is created earl of Suffolk; one of his grandsons is killed at Agincourt; another besieges Orléans, which is delivered by Joan of Arc; he becomes duke of Suffolk, is impeached in 1450 for high treason and beheaded; no honour is lacking to the house.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance
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For my part, I consider Witchcraft the most nefandous high treason against the Majesty on High!
Dulcibel A Tale of Old Salem
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Britain abolished the death penalty for murder in 1965 and phased it out for rarer crimes including piracy and high treason over the next 33 years.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hilary and most of the Democratic Party should be indicted, tried, convicted and executed for High Treason - any "internationalist" or any Gun control advocate is a TRAITOR!!
One More Sign That The End Is Near
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The non-intellectual wing of the Christian Right Community has committed a sacrilege and blasphemy, (to say nothing of the secular crime of high treason), because they have accepted the fiction of a cynical team of writers, who depict the god they describe as a homicidal, Demonic, maniac, and touted these despicable properties as "holiness," and used that as an excuse to support and urge the slaughter of their chosen Muslim fantasy enemies.
THE SHAMELESS END-DAYS FICTIONAL REPLACEMENT FOR REVELATION.
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For the latter part of the power of the prerogative, or that whereby they are the supreme judicatory of this nation, and of the provinces of the same, the cognizances of crimes against the majesty of the people, such as high treason, as also of peculation, that is, robbery of the treasury, or defraudation of the commonwealth, appertains to this tribe.
The Commonwealth of Oceana
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Against her are three counts of high treason, one count grand theft auto, one count resisting custody, one count unordered arson.
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Radical leaders were arrested on charges of high treason after they held a national convention.
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Apparently this is akin to high treason.
The Sun
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Everyone knows that murder and manslaughter, kidnapping and terrorism, treason and high treason existed long before today's penal codes.
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High treason was a crime against the state which meant, in practice, against the monarch.
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Britain abolished the death penalty for murder in 1965 and phased it out for rarer crimes including piracy and high treason over the next 33 years.
Times, Sunday Times
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Six hundred years to the day since he was executed for high treason, descendants of Archbishop Richard Scrope arrived from across the globe for a service at the city's cathedral to commemorate his life.
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He was impeached of high treason by the Long Parliament in 1640, committed to the Tower in 1641, tried in 1644, condemned, and beheaded.
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But the autumn of 1945 was not a time noted for sensitivity to the legal niceties of high treason.
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They might be silly, or courting danger but are not high treason.
THE HITLER-HESS DECEPTION
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William de la Pole rescues Edward III., detained in Flanders by want of money, and is made a knight-banneret; his son Michael is created earl of Suffolk; one of his grandsons is killed at Agincourt; another besieges Orléans, which is delivered by Joan of Arc; he becomes duke of Suffolk, is impeached in 1450 for high treason and beheaded; no honour is lacking to the house.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance
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Britain abolished the death penalty for murder in 1965 and phased it out for rarer crimes including piracy and high treason over the next 33 years.
Times, Sunday Times
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Act through Parliament which declared that nothing contained in the dictatory law of Queen Anne gave the privilege of a natural born subject to any child, born or to be born abroad, whose father at the time of his or her birth either stood attainted of high treason, or was in the actual service of a foreign state in enmity to the crown of
Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton
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A king of England was being openly and publicly tried for high treason.
The English Civil War: A People's History
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The defendant was convicted of high treason and sentenced to death.
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Act was passed by which the first refusal of the oath of royal supremacy was praemunire, the second, high treason.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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The case before Judge Hoff was not one of high treason but one of unlawful extradition.
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The result of this conferrence was, that the charge of High Treason was abandoned, and we were to be held to bail for
Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3
