such as be not replevisable by the laws of this realm, and yet, the rather to hide their affections in that behalf, have assigned the cause of their apprehension to be but only for suspicion of felony, whereby the said offenders have escaped unpunished, and do daily, to the high displeasure of Almighty God, the great peril of the king and queen's true subjects, and encouragement of all thieves and evil-doers;—for reformation whereof be it enacted, that no justice of peace shall let to bail or mainprize any such persons, which for any offence by them committed, be declared not to be replevised or bailed, or be forbidden to be replevised or bailed, by the statute of Westminster the first; and furthermore, that any persons arrested for manslaughter or felony, being bailable by the law, shall not be let to bail or mainprize by any justices of peace, but in the form therein after prescribed."—In the two preceding statutes, the words bailable, replevisable, and mainpernable, are used synonymously[1], or promiscuously, to express the same single intention of the legislature, viz. not to accept of
- ↑ 2 Hale, P.C. 2. 124.
