[3] The court resolved: As authority, Coke reported citation to a statute enacted by King Edward III of England in 1275, which he said merely affirmed the pre-existing common law.

[1] After the Glorious Revolution, William Hawkins and Sir Michael Foster thought no forced entry was permissible if a warrant issued on bare suspicion.

[1] In his Commentaries on the Laws of England, Sir William Blackstone emphasized the castle doctrine but took the view that forced entry was permitted if the suspected felony had actually occurred.

[1] The rule was relied upon in the landmark case of Entick v Carrington [KB 1765], when Lord Camden held that no general warrant could issue on suspicion of seditious libel.

[1] The sentiment of "an Englishman's home is his castle" became very popular,[7] with William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham famously speaking against the Cider Bill of 1763 by telling Parliament: The poorest man may, in his cottage, bid defiance to all the force of the Crown.