That letter, indeed, was not legal evidence to prove that the person to whom it was addressed had been guilty of high treason; but it raised suspicions which are now known to have been well founded.
A few of the ringleaders were brought to trial at the next Bury assizes, and were convicted of high treason; but their lives were spared.
I arrest thee of High Treason, by the name of Thomas Grey, Knight of Northumberland Scro.
I arrest thee of High Treason, by the name of Thomas Lord Scroope of Marsham.
I arrest thee of High Treason, by the name of Richard Earle of Cambridge.
The Judge then pronounced upon both prisoners the sentence of the law of high treason, with all its horrible accompaniments.
Know'st thou not thou hast incurred the pains of high treason?
How say you, good men of inquest, were these men guilty of high treason--ay or no?
The lords Powis, Stafford, Arundel, Peters, and Bellasis were committed to the Tower, and were soon after impeached for high treason.
We must grasp it well if we wish to understand not only the cruelty of the accusations brought under the law of high treason, but also the whole family policy followed by the second emperor.
His father, who had been a great friend of Germanicus, had been one of the victims of Sejanus, and accused in the time of Tiberius under the law of high treason, he had committed suicide.
Renouard, who had accepted the office, to proceed against Louis Bonaparte on the charge of high treason.
Every act by which the President of the Republic dissolves the National Assembly, prorogues it, or impedes the execution of its decrees, is high treason.
Every measure by which the President of the Republic shall dissolve the National Assembly, prorogue it or impede the performance of its decrees, is high treason.
Amid fresh invectives against the religion she practised, he condemned her to be burned alive--which was the proper punishment for high treason--ordering the sheriff to prepare for her execution that same afternoon.
He caused Ankarstrom to be arrested and accused of high treason, it being alleged against him that he had advised the people of Gothland not to take up arms against the Russians.
Almost exactly a month later--on August 27th the Lady Alice Lisle was brought to the bar of the court-house at Winchester upon a charge of high treason.
They sketched out an Ordinance to the effect that whatsoever King of England should in future levy war against the Parliament and the Kingdom should be guilty of High Treason, and they appointed a Committee to prepare such an Ordinance.
They declared it insolent and dangerous, and adjudged all who should persevere in it guilty of high treason.
Napoleon; and this, along with another unfilial action of the prince, furnished an excuse for a charge of high treason.
And thus it came to pass that even the soldiery that still cherished the Republic raised not a musket while the Empire was founded, and Moreau was accused of high treason.
Agonized by the tales of disaster already spread abroad by wounded soldiers, it eagerly assented to Lafayette's proposal to sit in permanence and declare any attempt at dissolution an act of high treason.
England, however, prided herself on her merchant service: to that she looked as the nursery for the royal navy: and the abandonment of the world's carrying trade to neutrals would have seemed an act of high treason.
The question proposed by your Lordships is, Whether it be necessary that an overt act of high treason should be proved to be committed on the particular day laid in the indictment?
It is known that statutes made, not to open and enlarge, but on fair grounds to straiten proofs, require two witnesses in cases of high treason.
Somerset was accused of high treason, on account of the projected insurrections, and of felony in laying a design to murder privy counsellors.
The parliament made it high treason to deny the dissolution of Henry's marriage with Anne of Cleves.
In a quarter of an hour it returned into court with a verdict of guilty of high treason.
The Council solemnly rebuked him for his secret conferences with, and offers of means of escape to, an English subject attainted of high treason, and since 'detected in other heinous crimes.
It was to the purport that Ralegh, being attainted already of high treason, could not be drawn in question judicially for any crime since committed.
At its next sitting it summoned the judges before its tribunal, and in its turn declared them to be themselves guilty of high treason.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "high treason" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
