[156] Burk’s History of Virginia, Petersburg, 1805, ii. 300.
[157] Hening’s Statutes, iii. 537. For the loss of this slave by emancipation his master was indemnified by a payment of £40 from the colonial treasury.
[158] Hening, iii. 461; vi. 111. In England in the Middle Ages such mutilation was a common punishment for rape; sometimes, in addition, the culprit’s eyes were put out. See Pollock and Maitland, History of English Law before the Time of Edward I. ii. 489.
[159] Hening, iii. 210.
[160] Hening, vi. 105.
[161] Hening, vi. 107.
[162] Hening, v. 558.
[163] Hening, vi. 112.
[164] Hening, iii. 87, 88.
[165] Bruce, op. cit. ii. 129.