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

by George Burnham Ives

[234]. The Statute 9 Ed. II. c. 10 (1315) is also to this effect.

[235]. Besant, Mediæval London, p. 201.

[236]. Besant, Mediæval London, p. 212.

[237]. Frequently Dover, where numbers congregated awaiting shipment. See Pike, Hist. Crime, i. p. 232.

[238]. Britton, lib. i. ch. xvii.

[239]. And see 9 Ed. II. c. 10: “They that abjure the realm shall be in Peace so long as they be in Church or Highway.”

[240]. Blackstone, Commentaries, bk. iv., Sharswood’s ed. ii. p. 332. Philadelphia, 1878.

[241]. 22 Hen. VIII. c. 14.

[242]. As to branding, vide 21 Hen. VIII. c. 2.

[243]. A. P. Stanley, Westminster Abbey, p. 346. London, 1882.