Even the council in the marches of Wales was empowered, by their very commission, to make use of torture whenever they thought proper.[v] * Rymer, vol.xvi.p.

279.
** 7 Edw.VI.cap.20.See Sir John Davis's Question concerning Impositions, p.

9.
*** In 1588, the lord mayor committed several citizens to prison, because they refused to pay the loan demanded of them.

Murden, p.

632.
**** Harrison, chap.