[365] P. 42.
[366] ‘Speaking now of country and agricultural parishes, I do not know above one instance in all my experience.’
[367] Some Enclosure Acts prescribed special penalties for the breaking of fences. See cases of Haute Huntre and Croydon in Appendix.
[368] See Mr. Estcourt’s evidence before Select Committee on Secondary Punishments, 1831, p. 41.
[369] Present State of the Law, p. 41.
[370] From Ploughshare to Parliament, p. 186; the Annual Register for 1791 records the execution of two boys at Newport for stealing, one aged fourteen and the other fifteen.
[371] Sydney Smith, Essays, p. 487.
[372] Vol. ii. p. 153.
[373] Romilly, Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 181.
[374] It was again rejected in 1813 by twenty to fifteen, the majority including five bishops.