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

by George Burnham Ives

[709]. Sharpe, Report and Min. of Ev. pp. 277, 290, 297.

[710]. Ibid. p. 46.

[711]. For instance, at Bethnal Green Asylum.—Beach, p. 12.

[712]. As late as 1837.—Tuke, Hist. p. 81.

[713]. Sharpe, p. 46.

[714]. Ibid. p. 85.

[715]. Ibid. p. 48.

[716]. See Besant, London in the Eighteenth Century, where a print is given of this prisoner in his cell at p. 375.

[717]. Treatment of the Insane, p. 28.

[718]. Sharpe, Report and Min. of Ev. p. 120.