 | Jean Froissart, William Harrison, Thomas Malory - 1910 - 420 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... | |
 | Frank Aydelotte - 1913 - 228 pagine
...whose masters have died. All the rest, being over fourteen years of age, the law declared were to be whipped and burned through the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron one inch in circumference, unless some master could be found to take them to service for a year. For... | |
 | William Paul McClure Kennedy - 1914 - 188 pagine
...vagabonds and sturdy beggars " above the age of sixteen were on conviction " grievously whipped and burnt through the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an inch about." This punishment could only be escaped by the willingness of someone to take the convicted person... | |
 | Mark Starr - 1919 - 208 pagine
...expropriated, for one of the Elizabethan statutes lays it down that "Lusty and valiant beggars" were to be "grievously whipped and burned through the gristle of the right ear with an iron of the compass of an inch about" as a lasting sign of punishment. Before Elizabeth, in Henry... | |
 | 1920 - 546 pagine
...begging should be sent to jail until the next sessions, and if then convicted should be whipped and burnt through the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an inch about; for a second offense he should suffer as a felon; and for a third, he should be adjudged to... | |
 | Alfred Milnes - 1920 - 192 pagine
...which harshness had failed to dispose. By a statute, 14 Eliz. c. 5, " Lusty and valliant beggars " were to be " grievously whipped and burned through the gristle of the right ear with an iron of the compass of an inch about, manifesting his or her rogueish life, and his or her punishment... | |
 | Myrna M. Boyce - 1922 - 422 pagine
...loitering and refusing to work for such reasonable wage as is commonly given, should, for the first offense be grievously whipped, and burned through the gristle...right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an inch about."7 Among the later enactments were the statutes of Elizabeth for the years 1598 and 1601, under... | |
 | Sir Edward Abbott Parry - 1926 - 312 pagine
...Kent in 1567, and describes the laws that were then in force to put them down. A first offender was " 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 and due punishment... | |
 | Robert Gore-Browne - 1928 - 314 pagine
...law; and by an act of 1572 all bearwards and common players wandering, without licence were subject to be grievously whipped, and burned through the gristle of the right ear." "Your generation too," I turned to Delia, "does not care for the play." "There's so much dancing,"... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1909 - 284 pagine
...at the next assizes, if he be convicted for a vagabond, he is then adjudged to be grievouslywhipped, and burned through the gristle of the right ear with a hot' iron, as a manifestation of his wicked life, and due punishment rereived for the same. If he be taken the... | |
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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. 
