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

by George Burnham Ives

[169]. See 8 & 9 Will. III. c. 27, A.D. 1697.

[170]. See, for instance, the removal of Governor Bambridge by 2 Geo. II. c. 32.

T. Bird, Letters from the Shades. London, 1729.

Re Governor Huggins, etc., see Report of a Committee of the House of Commons, pp. 25, 26, 27. London, 1729.

[171]. Gaol fees were abolished in 1774 by 14 Geo. III. c. 20.

[172]. J. M. D. Meiklejohn, Hist. Eng. ii. p. 276. London, 1890.

[173]. See The Tryal of William Acton, Deputy-Keeper of the Marshalsea Prison, p. 4, etc. London, 1729.

And also Cases in Parliament, 1684–1737. British Museum, 515, l. 5 (39), re Bambridge, etc.

[174]. Howard, p. 17.

[175]. Tryal of Acton, p. 5.