 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
 | William Turner Comber - Agriculture and state - 1808 - 416 pages
...(App. XV. d.) subjecting vagabonds above fourteen to be whipped, and burnt through the gristle of the ear with a hot iron, of the compass of an inch, unless some person would take him into his service for a year; and if eighteen, and he fall again into a roguish... | |
 | James Ebenezer Bicheno - Poor laws - 1824 - 190 pages
...Eliz. c. 5. that these wretched outcasts were to be grievously whipped, and burnt through the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an inch about ; the second offence made them guilty of felony ; the third, felony without benefit of clergy.... | |
 | Alexander Dunlop - Poor laws - 1825 - 168 pages
...above the age ' of 14 years shall be adjudged to be grievously whipped, and burnt ' through the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron, of the compass '...inch, unless some credible person will take him into his service ' for a year ; and if, being of the age of 18 years, he after so fall again ' into a roguish... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1826 - 624 pages
...there fed upon bread and water ; he was then to be ' grievously whipped, and burned through the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron, of the compass of an inch ;' and if, ' being of the age of eighteen years, he fell again to his roguish life,' he was to suffer... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1844 - 1114 pages
...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...year; and if, being of the age of eighteen years, be after do fall again into a roguish life, he shall suffer death as a felon, unless some credible... | |
 | John Reeves - Law - 1829 - 280 pages
...should be adjudged to 16 CHAP, be grievously whipped and burnt through the gristle of the y _, -^ "i right ear, with a hot iron of the compass of an inch, unless ELIZAS, some creditable person would take him into his service for a year. And if being of the age... | |
 | Alexander Dunlop - Ecclesiastical law - 1830 - 446 pages
...above the nge of 14 years shall be adjudged to be g1ievously whipped, and burnt through the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron, of the compass of...inch, unless some credible person will take him into his service for a year ; and if, being of the age of 18 years, he after so fall again into a roguish... | |
 | Luke Howard - 1834 - 410 pages
...felon. Repealed bv 14th Eliz. Chap. 5, which enjoins grievous whipping and boring throngi the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an inch,* &c. &c. In 39 Eliz. Chap. 4. See a comprehensive description of such as shall be deemed Rogues and... | |
 | George Browning - Europe - 1834 - 664 pages
...— sturdy beggars shall for the first offence be grievously whipped, and burnt through the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an inch about ; for the second, be deemed felons ; and for the third, suffer death without benefit of clergy.... | |
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