 balk at claims that people who said unpopular or obnoxious things were traitors, because the Crown would just call you a traitor. And treason has elements. So these judges, at least, were a bit persnickety and said, well, we don't see the elements of treason here. So what the British Crown did is they created the Star Chamber and accused them of sedition so that they didn't have to prove the elements of treason. It had all the benefits.