Penal Methods of the Middle Ages: Criminals, Witches, Lunatics

by George Burnham Ives

[690]. Quoted by Beach, Hunterian Oration, 1891.

[691]. W. Massie, A History of England during the Reign of George III., iii. p. 207. London, 1865.

See also J. M. D. Meiklejohn, Hist. Eng. Pt. ii. p. 330.

[692]. Massie, Hist. p. 208.

[693]. Wynter, Insanity, p. 80.

[694]. J. H. Jesse, Memoirs of the Life of George III., iii. pp. 95 and 274. Later on he was placed in the better care of Dr. Willis, a clergyman who was much celebrated for his management of mad people; see Jesse, iii. p. 90, etc.

[695]. Hunterian Oration, p. 5.

[696]. Besant, London in the Eighteenth Century, p. 377. See also Charles Reade’s book, Hard Cash.

[697]. See Conolly’s description of the old-time reception of a private patient.—Treatment of the Insane, p. 138.

[698]. D. H. Tuke, Hist. p. 171.