[32] See Capt. Basil Hall’s ‘Fragments of Voyages and Travels,’ chap. xvi. p. 89.
[33] Leigh Hunt’s Journal, No. 6, for Jan. 11, 1851.
[34] ‘The Colonies,’ by Col. C. J. Napier, 1833.
[35] If any person or persons shall ... profanely swear or curse ... for every such offence the party so offending shall forfeit and pay to the use of the poor of the parish where such offence or offences shall be committed the respective sums hereinafter mentioned; that is to say, every servant, day-labourer, common soldier, or common seaman, one shilling; and every other person two shillings; and in case any of the persons aforesaid shall, after conviction, offend a second time, such person shall forfeit and pay double, and if a third time treble the sum respectively.—6 & 7 William and Mary, c. 11.
[36] Coll. of State Papers, Domestic, 1595, p. 12.
[37] Borough records of the City of Glasgow, 1573-1581.
[38] Aberdeen Presbytery Records, printed by the Spalding Club.
[39] Within the precincts of royal palaces regulations seem to have been made from time to time to clear the atmosphere of all impious particles. According to a work by Alexander Howell, the Dean of St. Paul’s, printed in 1611, King Henry I. prescribed a scale of fines according to a table as follows:—
| “If he were: | { | a Duke 40 shillings. |
| a Lord 20 do. | ||
| a Squire 10 do. | ||
| a Yeoman 3s. 4d. | ||
| a Page, to be whipt.” | ||
| ‘A Sword against Swearers,’ 1611. |
[40] 21 Jac. I. c. 20.