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

by George Burnham Ives

[699]. R. Gardner Hill, Lunacy; its Past and its Present, p. 7. London, 1870.

[700]. R. Gardner Hill, p. 6.

[701]. J. B. Sharpe, Report and Minutes of Evidence on the Madhouses of England; evidence of G. Higgins, pp. 12 and 13; of R. Fowler, p. 308; and of H. Alabaster, p. 326. London, 1815.

[702]. Edinburgh Review, xxviii. p. 445. Edinburgh, 1817.

[703]. Jonathan Gray, History of York Asylum, p. 12. York, 1815.

[704]. See Conolly’s amazing denunciation in his Treatment of the Insane.

[705]. A female patient was got with child by the head keeper; he was subsequently given a piece of plate, and kept a private madhouse of his own; see Sharpe, Report and Min. of Ev. p. 14.

[706]. Gray, chap. iv.; ibid. p. 26; Beach, p. 4.

[707]. S. W. Nicoll, An Enquiry into the Present State and Visitation of Asylums, p. 10, etc. London, 1828.

[708]. Sharpe, p. 12; Gray, p. 23.