 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1879 - 580 pagine
...took the following frightful shape : " 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 take him into Service lor a Year. And if being of the Age of eighteen... | |
 | Leo Salingar - 1974 - 372 pagine
...they are found that they 'belong' to a nobleman, they are b'able to be gaoled, whipped and even 'burnt through the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an inch about'. For this savage humiliation, they are classified not merely with bearwards and minstrels but... | |
 | Ernest W. Pettifer - 1992 - 180 pagine
...gaol, and, if convicted at the next Quarter Sessions or Assizes, to be "grievously whipped, and burnt through the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an inch about," so that it would appear that the earlier statute had not greatly reduced the numbers of the... | |
 | David A. Snow, Leon Anderson - 1993 - 412 pagine
...Branding was common, as was ear boring, which was introduced in a 1572 statute that required all vagabonds to be "grievously whipped and burned through the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron an inch in diameter." 30 Imprisonment of vagrants was common, and they were often confined in the bridewell,... | |
 | Robert Jütte - 1994 - 260 pagine
...breasts. Ear-boring is first mentioned in a statute passed in 1572, requiring all apprehended vagabonds to be 'grievously whipped and burned through the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron ' an inch in diameter. We have evidence that this degrading punishment was in fact executed on several... | |
 | Jacqueline Stevens - 1999 - 330 pagine
...standard punishment, "if he happen to be convicted for vagabound" is that he is "immediately adjudged to be grievously whipped and burned through the gristle of the right ear with an hot iron of the compass of an inch about, as a manifestation of his wicked life."'0'' The third... | |
 | Angus Stroud - 1999 - 246 pagine
...apprehended, committed to prison, and tried ... if he happen to be convicted for a vagabond ... he is then ... grievously whipped and burned through the gristle of the right ear with an hot iron ... if he be taken a second time, he shall then be whipped again, bored likewise through... | |
 | Chris Andrews - 2002 - 124 pagine
...before one of the Justices of the Peace. If such a person is convicted/ immediately he or she shall be grievously whipped and burned through the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron. Quoted in Bagley and Bagley, The English Poor Law, (1966) Source E , FromanActfor che Punishment of... | |
 | Angela Kathryn Stout, Richard Alan Dello Buono, William J. Chambliss - 2004 - 444 pagine
...beggars shall ... be committed to the common gaol ... he shall be grievously whipped, and burnt thro' the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an inch about; . . . And for the second offense, he shall be adjudged a felon, unless some person will take... | |
 | A. Roger Ekirch - 2005 - 492 pagine
...Prostitutes wore a green stripe and Jews, a yellow ring. An English statute in 1572 required that vagrants be "grievously whipped and burned through the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron." 10 Marked already by their tattered garments and physical infirmities, the lower orders reputedly exhibited... | |
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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. 
