 Vagabond above the age of fourteen years shall be adjudged to be grievously whipped and burned through the Gristle of the right Ear with a hot Iron of the Compass of an Inch, unless some credible Person will take him into Service for a Year.  Notes and Queries - Page 1821884Full view - About this book
 | 1887 - 654 lehte
...sturdy beggars "should for the first offence be grievously whipped, and burned through the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an inch about ; for the second be deemed as felons ; and for the third suffer death without benefit of clergy."... | |
 | 1888 - 932 lehte
...of two justices at the least, were subject " to be grievously whipped and burned through the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an inch about " This statute was superseded by 89 Eliz. c. 4, under which the punishnent of the strolling player... | |
 | Francis Aidan Gasquet - 1889 - 642 lehte
...should, on the conviction of soodious an offence, be grievously whipped and burned through the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an inch,, unless some one would take him into service. The branding was sent clean through the gristle of the ear. The condition... | |
 | 1903 - 658 lehte
...vagabond, if above the age of fourteen years, was grievously whipped, and ''burned through the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an inch." According to Holinshed's Chronicle, rogues were great annoyers to the commonwealth in the time of the... | |
 | Sir John Simon - 1890 - 536 lehte
...aforesaid as his slave." be adjudged to be grievously whipped, and burned through the CHAP. v. gristle of the right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an Legislation. inch, unless some credible person will take him into service for a year ; and if, being... | |
 | Gypsy Lore Society - 1891 - 436 lehte
...1st June 1574 was to be imprisoned, and, if convicted, to be " scourged and burnt throw the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an inch about."3 But if 1 "A well-known Gypsy trick," says Mr. Lucas ( Yetholm History of the Gypsies, p. 145).... | |
 | George Burnett Barton - 1889 - 752 lehte
...vagabond above fourteen years of age was to be grievously whipped, and burned ' ' through the grissle of the right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an inch," unless some responsible person should take him >nto service for a year. Branding in the hand was subsequently substituted... | |
 | David MacRitchie - 1894 - 140 lehte
...1st June 1574 was to be imprisoned, and, if convicted, to be " scourged and burnt throw the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an inch about." 2 But if " some honest and responsible person " agreed to take the offender into his service,... | |
 | George Walter Prothero - 1894 - 604 lehte
...then immediately he or she 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 . . . ; which judgment shall also presently be executed, except some honest person, valued at... | |
 | Sir John Simon - 1897 - 558 lehte
...aforesaid as his slave." be adjudged to be grievously whipped, and burned through the CHAP. V. gristle of the right ear with a hot iron of the compass of...being of the age of eighteen years, he after do fall into a roguish life, he shall suffer death as a felon unless some credible person will take him into... | |
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