[115] ‘Ancient Law.’
[116] Bernardo Visconti, Duke of Milan, in the 14th century, made a capital punishment, or more exactly the act of killing, last for forty days.
[117] Pike, ‘Hist. of Crime,’ i. 210.
[118] By “Halifax law” any thief who within the precincts of the liberty stole thirteen pence could on conviction before four burghers be sentenced to death. The same law obtained at Hull, hence the particular prayer in the thieves’ Litany, which ran as follows: “From Hull, Hell, and Halifax, good Lord, deliver us.”
[119] Loftie, ‘Hist. of London,’ 1883, vol. ii. 215.
[120] Waller, the Tyebourne and Westbourne paper read before the London and Middlesex Archæological Society.
[121] ‘History of Paddington.’
[122] See account of Courvoisier’s trial in cap. vii., vol. ii.
[123] See ante, p. 186.
[124] ‘Memorials of George Selwyn,’ I. 11.