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

by George Burnham Ives

[476]. 5 Anne c. 6.

[477]. Carter, Hist. Eng. Legal Inst. p. 247, ed. 1902.

[478]. J. F. Stephen, Hist. Crim. Law, i. 463.

[479]. 4 Geo. I. c. 11.

[480]. Holdsworth, Hist. p. 383.

[481]. J. F. Stephen, Hist. Crim. Law, p. 463.

[482]. 19 Geo. III. c. 74, s. 3.

[483]. 7 & 8 Geo. IV. c. 28, s. 6, A.D. 1827.

[484]. Yet as Professor Menger expressed it, “Nothing can be so unequal as the equal treatment of unequals.”

[485]. J. F. Stephen, Hist. Crim. Law, iii. p. 27.