 | England - 1871 - 836 pagine
...rogues and vagabonds, or sturdy beggars, shall for tho first offence bo grievously whipped, and burnt through the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an inch about, and for tho second lie deemed felons, and for the third suffer death as felons." Among rogues,... | |
 | Great Britain. Foreign Office, Great Britain. Local Government Board - 1875 - 510 pagine
...rogues and vagabonds or sturdy beggars are for the first offence 'to be grievously whipped and burned to the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an inch about ; for the second they are to be deemed felons ; for the third to suffer death as felons, without... | |
 | Luke Owen Pike - 1876 - 754 pagine
...Edward VI. The word slave, indeed, was omitted ; but a vagabond above the age of fourteen years was to be grievously whipped, and burned ' through the...right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an inch' unless some responsible person would take him into service for a year. If, after the age of eighteen,... | |
 | 1876 - 1072 pagine
...The 14 Eliz. c. 5 directed that — " A vagabond above the age of fourteen years shall be adjudged to be grievously whipped and burned through the gristle...right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an inch, unless some credible person will lake him into service for a year. And if, being of the age of eighteen... | |
 | Luke Owen Pike - 1876 - 752 pagine
...Edward VI. The word slave, indeed, was omitted ; but a vagabond above the age of fourteen years was to be grievously whipped, and burned ' through the...the right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an inchl unless some responsible person would take him into service for a year. If, after the age of eighteen,... | |
 | Stephen Dowell - 1876 - 418 pagine
...in the old heroic manner. th« reign The vagabond is to be ' grcviously whipped, and burned i»th. through the gristle of the right ear, with a hot iron of the compass of an inch, and if he after do fall again into a roguish life, he shall suffer death as a felon,* and power is given to... | |
 | Stephen Dowell - 1876 - 444 pagine
...to check the increasing evil in the old heroic manner, the reign The vagabond is to be ' greviously whipped, and burned through the gristle of the right ear, with a hot iron of the compass of au inch, and if he after do fall again into a roguish life, he shall suffer death as a felon,' and... | |
 | Charity Organisation Society (London, England) - 1876 - 726 pagine
...of life, that then immediately he or she 1 shall be adjudged to be grievously whipped, and burnt ' through the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron of the ' compass of an inch about. If the said persons so marked ' do eftsoonsf fall again to any kind of roguish or vagabond '... | |
 | Frederick William Wyon - 1876 - 638 pagine
...execution. The penalty for vagrancy in the time of Elizabeth was to be grievously whipped, and burnt through the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an inch about, unless some honest person were willing to take the offender into his service for a year. The... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1876 - 636 pagine
...of Elizabeth to be rogues and vagabonds, and, whether male or female, liable on a first conviction " to be grievously whipped and burned through the gristle of the right ear with an hot iron of the compass of an inch about, manifesting his or her roguish kind of life." A second... | |
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... grievously whipped and burned through the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an inch about, as a manifestation of his wicked life, and due punishment received for the same. 
