 | William Turner Comber - 1808 - 416 pages
...hundreds of the same county. d. 14th Eliz. c.5. AD 1672. A vagabond above 14 shall be whipped and burnt through the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron of the compass compass of an irrh, uuless some person will take him into his service for a year. If 18, and he fall... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1814 - 602 pages
...pass an Act on the same subject herself, the vagabond was only to be " greivously whipped and burnt through the gristle of the right ear, with a hot iron of an inch about }** unless some one "would tak£ him for a ye*ar." A»d that he was not to 226 the Medes... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - 580 pages
...reasonable wages as is commonly given," 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 as felons, without benefit of... | |
 | James Ebenezer Bicheno - 1824 - 190 pages
...for we find in 14 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. In consequence... | |
 | Alexander Dunlop - 1825 - 168 pages
...contents. ' A vagabond 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 ' of an inch, unless some credible person will take him into his service ' for a year ; and if, being of the age... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1826 - 624 pages
...to be put in the stocks for three days and nights, and there fed upon bread and water ; he was then to be ' grievously whipped, and burned through 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 - 1844 - 1114 pages
...Relief of the Poor and Impotent." which enacts that "A vagabond above the age of fourteen years shall be adjudged to be grievously whipped and burned through...right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an inch, unless some credible person will take him into service for a year; and if, being of the age of eighteen... | |
 | John Reeves - 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... | |
 | Alexander Dunlop - 1830 - 446 pages
...: — " A vagabond 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 an inch, unless some credible person will take him into his service for a year ; and if, being of the age of... | |
 | Great Britain. Poor Law Commission - 1834 - 512 pages
...rogues and vagabonds, or 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 as felons without benefit of clergy.... | |
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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. 
