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1607 R. Pricket Iesuits Miracles sig. E3^v To be state traytors.

1629 H. Burton Babel No Bethel Ep. Ded. sig. ¶4 Imposters, state-treachers, troublers, and betrayers.

1643 Elegie vpon John Pym (single sheet) Who shall receive the Guerdon of his fall? Or preach State-Treason at his Funerall?

1660 A. Moore Compend. Hist. Turks 1283 All State-offendours to be judged by the Council of Hungary.

1664 E. Bagshaw Case & Usage 4 One, who never was guilty of any State-crime, but the desiring of a sober Liberty.

1668 H. Savage Balliofergus 114 To return home and become a State-criminal.

1693 J. Kettlewell Of Christian Communion iii. 33 Such Rightful state may punish [the refusal to give allegiance] by state punishments, as it may all other state offences.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. vii. 129 Having in my Life perused many State-Tryals, which I ever observed to terminate as the Judges thought fit to direct.

1798 H. M. Williams Tour Switzerland I. 122 A castle, which is the northern bastile of the canton of Berne for state-offenders.

1839 E. Bulwer-Lytton Richelieu ii. i. 70 Who ever Heard of its being a state-offence to kiss The hand of one's own wife.

1893 W. St. Clair Baddeley Queen Joanna I of Naples 4 His just indignation at this state-crime.

1916 A. S. Kaun tr. A. Kornilov Mod. Russ. Hist. I. ii. 26 Serfs were forbidden to complain against their masters, except in cases of state treason.

1956 Ann. Reg. 1955 283 A State trial which had prejudicial consequences for Mapai.

2007 R. Cornall in A. Lynch et al. Law & Liberty in War on Terror v. 52 Australia..did not need sophisticated anti-terrorism offences. We could rely..on traditional State offences.