A Treatise on Federal Impeachments : With an Appendix Containing, Inter Alia, an Abstract of the Articles of Impeachment in All the Federal Impeachment in This Country and in England (Classic Reprint)

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The writers on the judicial history of England disagree as to when the English impeachments began. Stephens in his His tory of the Criminal Law of England says 1 that the first case was against David, the brother of Llewellyn in 1283. Pike in his Constitutional History of the House of Lords says 2 that it was against Richard Lyons, a merchant of London, in 1376. Hallam in his Constitutional History of England 3 and Anson in his Law and Custom of the Constitution 4 agree with Pike that it was in 1376, but say that it was against Lord Latimer.

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