[Footnote n: _Bedefordscire. Maner. Lestone redd. per annum xxii lib. &c: ad opus reginae ii uncias auri.----Herefordscire. In Lene, &c, consuetud. ut praepositus manerii veniente domina sua (regina) in maner. praesentaret ei xviii oras denar. ut esset ipsa laeto animo._ Pryn. Append. to _Aur. Reg._ 2, 3.] [Footnote o: _causa coadunandi lanam reginae._ Domesd. _ibid._] [Footnote p: _Civitas Lundon. Pro oleo ad lampad. reginae._ _Mag. rot. pip. temp. Hen. II. ibid._] [Footnote q: _Vicecomes Berkescire, xvi l. pro cappa reginae._ (_Mag. rot. pip. 19--22 Hen. II. ibid._) _Civitas Lund. cordubanario reginae xx s._ _Mag. Rot. 2 Hen. II._ Madox hist. exch. 419.] [Footnote r: _Pro roba ad opus reginae, quater xx l. & vi s. & viii d._ _Mag. Rot. 5 Hen. II. ibid._ 250.] [Footnote s: _Solere aiunt barbaros reges Persarum ac Syrorum--uxoribus civitates attribuere, hoc modo; haec civitas mulieri redimiculum praebeat, haec in collum, haec in crines, &c._ _Cic. in Verrem._ _lib._ 3. _c._ 33.] [Footnote t: See Madox _Disceptat. epistolar._ 74. Pryn. _Aur. Regin._ Append. 5.] [Footnote u: _lib._ 2. _c._ 26.] [Footnote w: Mr Prynne, with some appearance of reason, insinuates, that their researches were very superficial. _Aur. Reg._ 125.] ANOTHER antient perquisite belonging to the queen consort, mentioned by all our old writers[x], and, therefore only, worthy notice, is this: that on the taking of a whale on the coasts, which is a royal fish, it shall be divided between the king and queen; the head only being the king's property, and the tail of it the queen's. "_De sturgione observetur, quod rex illum habebit integrum: de balena vero sufficit, si rex habeat caput, et regina caudam._" The reason of this whimsical division, as assigned by our antient records[y], was, to furnish the queen's wardrobe with whalebone. [Footnote x: Bracton, _l._ 3. _c._ 3. Britton, _c._ 17. Fleta, _l._ 1. _c._ 45 & 46.] [Footnote y: Pryn. _Aur. Reg._ 127.] BUT farther: though the queen is in all respects a subject, yet, in point of the security of her life and person, she is put on the same footing with the king. It is equally treason (by the statute 25 Edw. III.) to compass or imagine the death of our lady the king's companion, as of the king himself: and to violate, or defile, the queen consort, amounts to the same high crime; as well in the person committing the fact, as in the queen herself, if consenting. A law of Henry the eighth[z] made it treason also for any woman, who was not a virgin, to marry the king without informing him thereof. But this law was soon after repealed; it trespassing too strongly, as well on natural justice, as female modesty. If however the queen be accused of any species of treason, she shall (whether consort or dowager) be tried by the house of peers, as queen Ann Boleyn was in 28 Hen. VIII. [Footnote z: Stat. 33 Hen. VIII. c. 21.]