whistlewood

Updated: July 5, 2026

Is it meant that a person arraigned for high treason may tender evidence to prove that the Sovereign has married a Papist? Would Whistlewood, for example, have been entitled to an acquittal, if he could have proved that King George the Fourth had married Mrs. Fitzherbert, and that Mrs. Fitzherbert was a Papist? It is not easy to believe that any tribunal would have gone into such a question.

Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay - The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3