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230. "But it lingered on until comparatively recent times, even in
where It was withdrawn from at! others who had hitherto claimed it,
an Act of Edward VI. saved it for 'a Lord or Peer of the Realm though he
cannot read.^ Readers of Esmond will remember the of Lord.
Mohun by this means from the penalties of his with Lord
Castlewood.*'—Medley, English Constitutional History, p. 611. Benefit of
clergy was abolished by statute in 1827*