"[I]n 1746 the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas gave judgment for £1000
damages in favour of a Lieutenant Frye against the president of a court
martial which had wronged him, and then encouraged Frye to sue the other
members. When they protested through the Lords of the Admiralty to the
King, the Chief Justice had the whole lot of them arrested for contempt
and released them, when they apologised, with the warning: ‘Whosoever
set themselves up in opposition to the law or think themselves above the
law will find themselves mistaken.’"
Above it all
