Also facts of hostility against the present state of the commonwealth, are greater crimes than the same acts done to private men: for the damage extends itself to all: such are the betraying of the strengths or revealing of the secrets of the commonwealth to an enemy; also all attempts upon the representative of the commonwealth, be it a monarch or an assembly; and all endeavours by word, or deed, to diminish the authority of the same, either in the present time or in succession: which crimes the Latins understand by crimina laesae majestatis , and consist in design, or act, contrary to a fundamental law.

Likewise those crimes, which render judgments of no effect, are greater crimes than injuries done to one or a few persons; as to receive money to give false judgment or testimony, is a greater crime than otherwise to deceive a man of the like, or a greater sum; because not only he has wrong that falls by such judgments; but all judgments are rendered useless, and occasion ministered to force and private revenges.