 | William Shakespeare - 1901 - 388 pagine
...committed to prison, and tried at the next assizes, if he be convicted for a vagabond, he is then adjudged to be grievously whipped, and burned through the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron, as a manifestation of his wicked life, and due punishment received for the same. If he be taken the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1901 - 628 pagine
...committed to prison, and tried at the next assizes, if he be convicted for a vagabond, he is then adjudged to be grievously whipped, and burned through the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron, as a manifestation of his wicked life, and due punishment received for the same. If he be taken the... | |
 | Edward Potts Cheyney - 1904 - 794 pagine
...her body be bloody." According to another the sturdy beggar 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." Houses of correction were to be built in which those who were strong in body but unwilling... | |
 | EDWARD.P. CHEYNEY - 1904 - 882 pagine
...her body be bloody." According to another the sturdy beggar 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." Houses of correction were to be built in which those who were strong in body but unwilling... | |
 | George Gunton - 1893 - 428 pagine
...commanding that, to rid the country of wandering vagrants, all such shall be "grievously whipped, and burnt through the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron, of about the compass of an inch, manifesting his or her roguish kind of life, and his or her punishment... | |
 | Edward Channing - 1905 - 606 pagine
...the future vagabonds and sturdy beggars, women as well as men, should be grievously whipped, and then burned through the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron one inch in diameter. It behooved a person so marked to secure employment, for if such a one were again... | |
 | Robert Blatchford - 1906 - 272 pagine
...testimony of two honest and credible witnesses " of being a " rogue," " he is then immediately adjudged to be grievously whipped, and burned through the gristle...right ear, with a hot iron of the compass of an inch about." Amongst the " rogues " were included actors, jugglers, fencers, minstrels, and tinkers ! Harrison... | |
 | Peter Hampson Ditchfield - 1907 - 344 pagine
...since guided our Legislature. But even under this Act vagabonds were ordered to be whipped and burnt through the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an inch about, while death awaited the runaway. In spite of all these devices for the cure of the evil, vagrancy... | |
 | Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve - 1908 - 310 pagine
...According to the 14 Elizabeth, cap. 5, if convicted of vagabondage, he was " grievously whipped, and burnt through the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an inch about . . . except some honest person take such offender into his service for one whole year next following."... | |
 | George Campbell Macaulay - 1910 - 422 pagine
...the testimony of two honest and credible witnesses upon their oaths, he is then immediately adjudged to be grievously whipped and burned through the gristle...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. And this judgment... | |
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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. 
