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  The Earnings of Authors--"Declined with Thanks"--Epigrams on Authors--Poetical Graces--Poetry on Panes


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id: 16419
author: Brooks, Henry M. (Henry Mason)
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  recorded of the old English law of hanging the remains of executed Punishment for wearing long hair in New England. Law in England and well Executed it wou''d in a little Time prove the sentence of the Court, was punished by being publicly ducked in copying this account says that the "crime is old, but the punishment Curious list of punishments in the early days of New England. State Street on two several days, be confined in Prison for the term Sentences by the Supreme Judicial Court at Salem, Nov. 18, 1786. sentenced to pay said Perkins £18-4-0, and be whipped 25 stripes. goods of John Brooks, was sentenced to pay said Brooks £16-8-0, Salem, sentenced to be severely whipped." criminal laws of England at the time, and the number of capital Called to the place of Execution in the 39th year of my age, I

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  The Olden Time Series, Vol. 5: Some Strange and Curious Punishments Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts


id: 29117
title: Bygone Punishments
author: Andrews, William
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  those "good old times" little regard was paid for human life. At Nottingham in the olden time the culprits were usually taken to St. Mary''s Church, where the officiating clergyman preached their funeral "The habit of gibbeting or hanging in chains the body of the executed rare book: "Halifax and its Gibbet Law placed in a True Light." It was [Illustration: PILLORY, WHIPPING-POST, AND STOCKS, WALLINGFORD.] In the middle ages frequently a pillory, whipping-post, and stocks were illustration of one of these old-time finger-pillories. This old-time instrument of punishment was more generally used in North common law might place persons in the stocks to keep them in hold, but remain the old parish stocks near to the church, and bear the date of Notices of whipping sometimes appear in old church books. attention to the old-time punishments of the town, and the first or brank, formerly used with the ducking-stool, as a punishment for


id: 34005
title: Curious Punishments of Bygone Days
author: Earle, Alice Morse
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  old-time laws, punishments and penalties has evoked this volume. writer lived in the days when the pillory, stocks and whipping-post against the men of the day in punishment for real crimes and offenses. "engines of punishment," such as the stocks, bilboes, pillory, brank, restraining evil--stocks for men, a ducking-stool for women, and a pound Pillory, a pair of Stocks, a Whipping Post and a Ducking-Stool in such damages, the woman shall be punished by Ducking, and if the slander be Writing of punishments of bygone days, an English rhymester says: officer at a town meeting" was ordered to stand two hours in the pillory Instances of punishment in Boston by the pillory of both men and women or three days in prison, he was set an hour at the whipping post with a In 1639 three Boston women received this form of public punishment; of


id: 37650
title: An Enquiry into the Causes of the Frequent Executions at Tyburn (1725)
author: Mandeville, Bernard
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  before, Jonathan Wild, self-proclaimed "Thief-Catcher General of _Great many pamphlets of the time concerned with the criminal and the lower Mandeville''s suggestion that the bodies of the executed be turned over J., _Hanging not punishment enough, for Murtherers, High-way Men, and that if he who takes Money for stolen Goods is a principal Felon, and appear in open Court, and speak before a Judge, are terrible Things to stole from a Man that is of vast Concern to him, and yet of no Use but now I have been writing, I have heard Men of Worth and good Sense come stolen Goods, even tho'' there was no express Law against it, is, on many Stealing, but likewise makes it Felony, knowingly to buy stolen Goods; publick Good and common Security, in which he has a Share. _Of Regulations concerning_ FELONS _in Prison, and the good Effects


id: 50520
author: Griffiths, Arthur
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  King''s prison-house, the royal gaol and penitentiary. "The King," says Comines, "had ordered several cruel prisons to be until within three years of the death of the King, who, after a long person and handing him over to Louis XI, who had claimed the prisoner. King Louis XII of France, and his second queen, Anne of Brittany. the Armagnacs held the Bastile and the person of the king''s eldest the new King, was no more than nine years of age, and once again France this favor came in person to Paris to thank the King. the return of the King to Paris he should leave the Bastile. King with great reluctance signed an order for the arrest of Cinq Mars, part played by the two great prisons, Vincennes and the Bastile, and prisoner" with him to Paris; to make the long journey across France

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  Early French Prisons Le Grand and Le Petit Châtelets; Vincennes; The Bastile; Loches; The Galleys; Revolutionary Prisons


id: 43986
title: The Criminal & the Community
author: Devon, James
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  prison--Crime resulting from insanity--Case of theft--Of lived and worked among the masses of the people knows better. In Scotland there is no difficulty in freeing insane persons from prison. X 1.--A man is brought to prison for the first time charged with a series Mental powers that may be sufficient to enable a man to work and live in for a man cannot be at the same time working outside to support his family the offenders in many cases find themselves in prison for the first time His work is to do the prisoners good in a way they can understand; and he offences in prison, and the governor has power in minor cases to deal with as usually the short-time prisoner is not a person of means, his position The position of the man who has been in prison is not so bad as that of


id: 46746
title: The Chronicles of Newgate, vol. 2/2
author: Griffiths, Arthur
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  State of crime on opening new gaol--Newgate full--Executions very but in the end Day was sentenced to two years'' imprisonment in Newgate, failed to convict and punish prisoners charged with unnatural crimes. those in other London prisons, for Newgate was not the only place of White Cross Street prison, Newgate continued to be a reproach to those the female prisoners in Newgate."[57] These devoted persons gave between prisoners and their friends should take place at stated times, change had taken place in Newgate since the passing of the prison pass letters to the female prisoners; and the men could also at any time the lamentable condition of the prisons of the city of London,--Newgate, not the last prisoners by many who passed through Newgate charged with which took place at another prison than Newgate, is rather beyond the COO, Thomas, case of, over twenty years a prisoner in Newgate, i.


id: 59287
title: Freeway
author: Walton, Bryce
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  Stan wanted to scream at the big sixteen-cylinder Special to go faster. "My wife''s sick," Stan said. Stan said, "I wanted to use his phone to try to get a doctor to examine "I know," Stan said. "The car''s okay," Stan said. Stan got out and shoved past the old man. Behind the man, Stan saw the kid. "I''d like to use your phone, please," Stan said. Anna may die now, Stan thought as he stood there bent over a little, "Get up," Stan yelled into the man''s face. "But what''s the use?" Stan said. "But being on the Freeway," Stan said, "they''ll catch up with us! "Stan!" Anna said sharply. "I don''t want to run away from it," Stan said. "You''re not running away from anything," the old man said. Stan looked into the old man''s face a long moment. Stan finally nodded and took Anna''s arm and they started toward the


id: 57689
title: The Punishment of Children
author: Adler, Felix
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  shadow of the fault to darken the whole nature of the child. When punishment is necessary let it come upon the child like the action rewards, parents contribute to pervert the character of their children child the natural penalties of its transgression_, of causing it to avoid evil, of building up the moral nature of the child, by leading it the natural penalties, though the child knows what they are and perhaps In order that a parent shall properly influence a child''s character, it Take the case, for instance, of obstinacy; a child is told to do a between the different causes of falsehood in the young child, in order cause which has tempted the child in any given case. the objection of the parent who says, "I know the character of my child; out by saying that not one parent in a thousand knows his child''s


