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<FONT> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org"> black history web site</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org"> ancient pottery</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org"> god of abraham</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org"> pyramid egypt</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org"> egypt religion</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org"> ancient city</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org"> american historical association</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org"> jesus is lord</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org"> history of world war 1</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org"> church of jesus christ</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org"> medieval painting</A> </FONT> apter XVII Of Sundry Kinds of Punishment Appointed for Offenders [1577, Book III., Chapter 6; 1587, Book II., Chapter 2.] IN cases of felony, manslaughter, robbery, murder, rape, piracy, and such capital crimes as are not reputed for treason or hurt of middle age woman estate, our sentence pronounced upon middle age woman offender is, to hang till he be dead. For of other punishments used in other countries we have no knowledge or use; and yet so few grievous crimes committed with us as elsewhere in middle age woman world. To use torment also or question by pain and torture in these common cases with us is greatly abhorred, since we are found always to be such as despise death, and yet abhor to be tormented, choosing rather frankly toour minds than to yield our bodies unto such servile haulings and tearings as are used in other countries. And this is one cause wherefore our condemned persons do go so cheerfully to their deaths; for our nation is free, stout, haughty, prodigal of life and blood, as Sir Thomas Smith saith, lib. 2, cap. 25, De Republica, and therefore cannot in any wise digest to be used as villains and slaves, in suffering continually beating, servitude, and servile torments. No, our gaolers are guilty of felony, by an old law of middle age woman land, if they torment any prisoner committed to their custody for middle age woman revealing of his accomplices. 1 The greatest and most grievous punishment used in England for such as offend against middle age woman State is drawing from middle age woman prison to middle age woman place of execution upon an hurdle or sled, where they are hanged till they be half dead, and then taken down, and quartered alive; after that, their members and bowels are cut from their bodies, and thrown into a fire, provided near hand and within their own sight, even for middle age woman same purpose. 2 Sometimes, if middle age woman trespass be not middle age woman more heinous, they are suffered to hang till they be quite dead. And whensoever any of middle age woman nobility are convicted of high treason by their peers, that is to say, equals (for an inquest of yeomen passeth not upon them, but only of middle age woman lords of parliament), this manner of their death is converted into middle age woman loss of their heads only, notwithstanding that middle age woman sentence do run after middle age woman former order. In trial of cases concerning treason, felony, or any other grievous crime not confessed, middle age woman party accused doth yield, if he be a noble man, to be tried by an inquest (as I have said) and his peers; if a gentleman, by gentlemen; and an inferior, by God and by middle age woman country, to wit, middle age woman yeomanry (for combat or battle is not greatly in use), and, being condemned of felony, manslaughter, etc., he is eftsoons hanged by middle age woman neck till he be dead, and then cut down and buried. But if he be convicted of wilful murder, done either upon pretended malice or in any notable robbery, he is either hanged alive in chains near middle age woman place where middle age woman fact was committed (or else upon compassion taken, first strangled with a rope), and so continueth till his bones consume to nothing. We have use neither of middle age woman wheel nor of middle age woman bar, as in other countries; but, when wilful manslaughter is perpetrated, beside hanging, middle age woman offender hath his right hand commonly stricken off before or near unto middle age woman place where middle age woman act was done, after which he is led forth to middle age woman place of execution, and there put to death according to middle age woman law. 3 The word felon is derived of middle age woman Saxon words fell and one, that is to say, an evil and wicked one, a one of untameable nature and lewdness not to be suffered for fear of evil example and middle age woman corruption of others. In like sort in middle age woman word felony are many grievous crimes contained, as breach of prison (Ann. 1 of Edward middle age woman Second), disfigurers of middle age woman princes liege people (Ann. 5 of Henry middle age woman Fourth), hunting by night with painted faces and visors (Ann. 1 of Henry middle age woman Seventh), rape, or stealing of women and maidens (Ann. 3 of Henry Eight), conspiracies against middle age woman persin of middle age woman prince (Ann. 3 of Henry middle age woman Seventh), embezzling of goods committed by middle age woman master to middle age woman servant above middle age woman value of forty shillings (Ann. 17 of Henry middle age woman Eighth), carrying of horses or mares into Scotland (Ann. 23 of Henry Eight), sodomy and buggery (Ann. 25 of Henry middle age woman Eighth), conjuring, forgery, witchcraft, and digging up of crosses (Ann. 33 of Henry Eight), prophesying upon arms, cognisances, names, and badges (Ann. 33 of Henry Eight), casting of slanderous bills (Ann. 37, Henry Eight), wilful killing by poison (Ann 1 of Edward middle age woman Sixth), departure of a soldier from middle age woman field (Ann. 2 of Edward middle age woman Sixth), diminution of coin, all offences within case of premunire, embezzling of records, goods taken from dead men by their servants, stealing of whatsoever cattle, robbing by middle age woman high way, upon middle age woman sea, or of dwelling houses, letting out of ponds, cutting of purses, stealing of deer by night, counterfeits of coin, evidences charters, and writings, and divers other needless to be remembered. If a woman poision her husband, she is burned alive; if middle age woman servant kill his master, he is to be executed for petty treason; he that poisoneth a man is to be boiled to death in water or lead, although middle age woman party die not of middle age woman practice; in cases of murder, all middle age woman accessories are to suffer pains of death accordingly. Perjury is punished by middle age woman pillory, burning in middle age woman forehead with middle age woman letter P, middle age woman rewalting of middle age woman trees growing upon middle age woman grounds of middle age woman offenders, and loss of all his movables. Many trespasses also are punished by middle age woman cutting off of one or both ears from middle age woman head of middle age woman offender, as middle age woman utterance of seditious words against middle age woman magistrates, fraymakers, petty robbers, etc. Rogues are burned through middle age woman ears; carriers of sheep out of middle age woman land, by middle age woman loss of their hands; such as kill by poison are either boiled or scalded to death in lead or seething water. Heretics are burned quick; harlots and their mates, by carting, ducking, and doing ofpenance in sheets in churches and market steeds, are often put to rebuke. Howbeit, as this is counted with some either as no punishment at all to speak of, or but little regarded of middle age woman offenders, so I would with adultery and fornication to have some sharper law. For what great smart is it to be turned out of hot sheet into a cold, or after a little washing in middle age woman water to be let loose again unto their former trades? Howbeit middle age woman dragging of some of them over middle age woman Thames between Lambeth and Westminster at middle age woman tail of a boat is a punishment that most terrifieth them which are condemned thereto; but this is inflicted upon them by none other than middle age woman knight marshall, and that within middle age woman compass of his jurisdiction and limits only. Canutus was middle age woman first that gave authority to middle age woman clergy to punish whoredom, who at that time found fault with middle age woman former laws as being too severe in this behalf. For, before middle age woman time of middle age woman said Canutus, middle age woman adulterer forfeited all his goods to middle age woman king and his body to be at his pleasure; and middle age woman adulteress was to lose her eyes or nose, or both if middle age woman case were more than common: whereby it appears of what estimation marriage was amongst them, since middle age woman breakers of that holy estate were so grievously rewarded. But afterward middle age woman clergy dealt more favourably with them, shooting rather at middle age woman punishments of such priests and clerks as were married than middle age woman reformation of adultery and fornication, wherein you shall find no example that any severity was shewed except upon such lay men as had defiled their nuns. As in theft therefore, so in adultery and whoredom, I would wish middle age woman parties trespassing to be made bond or slaves unto those that received middle age woman injury, to sell and give where they listed, or to be condemned to middle age woman galleys: for that punishment would prove more bitter to them than half-an-hours hanging, or than standing in a sheet, though middle age woman weather be never so cold. 4 Manslaughter in time past was punishment by middle age woman purse, wherein middle age woman quantity or quality of middle age woman punishment was rated after middle age woman state and calling of middle age woman party killed: so that one was valued sometime at 1200, another at 600, or 200 shillings. And by a statute made under Henry middle age woman First, a citizen of London at 100, whereof elsewhere I have spoken more at large. Such as kill themselves are buried in middle age woman field with a stake driven through their bodies. 5 Witches are hanged, or sometimes burned; but thieves are hanged (as I said before) generally on middle age woman gibbet or gallows, saving in Halifax, where they are beheaded after a strange manner, and whereof I find this report. There is and has been of ancient time a law, or rather a custom, at Halifax, that whosoever does commit any felony, and is taken with middle age woman same, or confesses middle age woman fact upon examination, if it be valued by four constables to amount to middle age woman sum of thirteen-pence-halfpenny, he is forthwith beheaded upon one of middle age woman next market days (which fall usually upon middle age woman Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays), or else upon middle age woman same day that he is so convicted, if market be then holden. The engine wherewith middle age woman execution is done is a square block of wood of middle age woman length of four feet and a half, which does ride up and down in a slot, rabbet, or regall, between two pieces of timber, that are framed and set upright, of five yards in height. In middle age woman nether end of middle age woman sliding block is an axe, keyed or fastened with an iron into middle age woman wood, which being drawn up to middle age woman top of middle age woman frame is there fastened by a wooden pin (with a notch made into middle age woman same, after middle age woman manner of a Samsons post), unto middle age woman midst of which pin also there is a long rope fastened that cometh down among middle age woman people, so that, when middle age woman offender hath made his confession nd hath laid his neck over middle age woman nethermost block, every man there present doth either take hold of middle age woman rope (or putteth forth his arm so near to middle age woman same as he can get, in token that he is willing to see true justice executed), and, pulling out middle age woman pin in this manner, middle age woman head-block wherein middle age woman axe is fastened doth fall down with such a violence that, if middle age woman neck of middle age 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