43 El. c. 13. confined to four counties. 22 ^ 23 Car. 2. c.
     7; 9 G. 1. c. 22, 9 G. 3. c. 29.

** Arson was a felony at Common law—­3 Inst. 66; punished by a fine, Ll.  AEthelst. 6.  But LI.  Cnuti, 61. make it a ’scetus inexpiable.’  ’Hus brec and baernet and open thyfth and asbereniorth and hlaford swice after woruld laga is boileds.’  Word for word, ’House break and burnt, and open theft, and manifest murdher, and lord-treachery, after world’s law is bootless.’  Bracton says, it was punished by death.  ’Si quis turbida seditione iricendium fecerit nequiter et in felonia, vel ob inimicitias, vel praedandi causa, capital puniatur pcena vel sententia.’  Bract.  L. 3. c. 27.  He defines it as commissible by burning ’cedes alien as.’  Ib.  Britton, c. 9.  ’Ausi soitenquis de ceux que felonise-ment en temps de pees eient a litre blees ou autre messons ars, et ceux que ser-rount de ceo alteyniz, soient ars issint que eux soient punys par mesme cele chose dount ils pecherent.’  Fleia, L. I. c. 37. is a copy of Bracton.  The Mirror, c. 1.  Sec. 8. says, ’Ardours sont que ardent cilie, ville, maison home, maison beast, ou auters chatelx, de lour felonie en temps de pace pour haine ou vengeance.’  Again, c. 2.  Sec.  II., pointing oul the words of the appellor ’jeo dise que Sebright, &c. entiel meas. on ou hiens mist de feu.’  Coke, 3 Inst. 67. says, ’The ancient authors extended this felony further than houses, viz. to stacks of corn, waynes or carts of coal, wood, or other goods.’  He defines it as commissibie, not only on the inset houses, parcel of the mansion-house, but the outset also, as barn, stable, cow- house, sheep-house, dairy-house, mill-house, and the like, parcel of the mansion house.’  But ’burning of a barn, being no parcel of a mansion-house, is no felony,’ unless there be corn or hay within it.  Ib.  The 22 k. 23 Car. 2. and 9 G. 1. are the principal statutes against arson.  They extend the offence beyond the Common law.

If any person shall, within this Commonwealth, or, being a citizen thereof, shall without the same, wilfully destroy,* or run** away with any sea-vessel, or goods laden on board thereof, or plunder or pilfer any wreck, he shall be condemned to hard labor five years in the public works, and shall make good the loss of the sufferers threefold.

     * Ann. st. 2. c. 9. 12 Ann. c. 18. 4 G. 1. c. 12. 26 G. 2.
     c. 19.

     ** 11 h 12 W.3. c.7.

Whosoever committeth Robbery,* shall be condemned to hard labor four years in the public works, and shall make double reparation to the persons injured.

* Robbery was a felony at Common law. 3 Inst. 68.  ’Scelus inexpiable,’ by the LI.  Cnuti. 61. [See before in Arson.] It was punished with death.  Briit c. 15, ’De robbours et de larouns et de semblables mesfesours, soitaussi ententivernent enquis—­et tauntost soient ceux robbours juges a la morl.’  Fleta says, ’Si quis conviclus fuerit de bonis