_L._ I think it does. But he confirms it also in the same chapter, by holy Scripture. Thus Joab for treason (1 _Kings_ ii. 28), was drawn from the horns of the altar; that is proof for drawing upon a hurdle: _Esth._ ii. 22; Bigthan for treason was hanged; there is proof for hanging: _Acts_ i. 18; Judas hanged himself and his bowels were poured out; there is for hanging and embowelling alive: 2 _Sam._ xviii. 14; Joab pierced Absalom’s heart; that is proof for pulling out a traitor’s heart: _Sam._ xx. 22; Sheba the son of Bichri had his head cut off; which is proof that a traitor’s head ought to be cut off: 2 _Sam._ iv. 12; they slew Baanah and Rechab, and hung up their heads over the pool of Hebron; this is for setting up of quarters: and lastly for forfeiture of lands, and goods, _Psalms_ cix. 9-15: _Let their children be driven out, and beg, and other men make spoil of their labours, and let their memory be blotted out of the land._ _P._ Learnedly said; and no record is to be kept of the judgment. Also the punishments divided between those traitors, must be joined in one judgment for a traitor here. _L._ He meant none of this, but intended (his hand being in) to show his reading, or his chaplain’s, in the Bible. _P._ Seeing then for the specifying of the punishment in case of treason, he brings no argument from natural reason, that is to say, from the common-law; and that it is manifest that it is not the general custom of the land, the same being rarely or never executed upon any peer of the realm, and that the King may remit the whole penalty, if he will: it follows, that the specifying of the punishment depends merely upon the authority of the King. But this is certain, that no judge ought to give other judgment, than has been usually given and approved either by a statute, or by consent express or implied of the sovereign power. For otherwise it is not the judgment of the law, but of a man subject to the law. _L._ In petit treason the judgment is, to be drawn to the place of execution, and hanged by the neck; or if it be a woman, to be drawn and burnt. _P._ Can you imagine that this so nice a distinction can have any other foundation than the wit of a private man? _L._ Sir Edward Coke upon this place says, that she ought not to be beheaded or hanged. _P._ No, not by the judge, who ought to give no other judgment than the statute or the King appoints; nor the sheriff to make other execution than the judge pronounceth; unless he have a special warrant from the King. And this I should have thought he had meant, had he not said before, that the King had given away all his right of judicature to his courts of justice. _L._ The judgment for felony is— _P._ Heresy is before felony in the catalogue of the pleas of the Crown.