...greater degree) " wandering abroad without the licence of two justices at the least, were subject " to be grievously whipped and burned through the gristle of the right ear with a hot (n) It should be noticed that in this as in some of the other dates in this Introduction the authorities...

...and refusing to work for such reasonable wages as is commonly given," should " for the first offence be grievously whipped, and burned through the gristle...right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an inch about.'' For the'second offence such persons were to be declared felons; and for the third they were...

...next sessions or jail delivery without bail, and on conviction shall be adjudged to be grieviously whipped, and burned through the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an inch about, manifesting his or her rougish kind of life and his or her punishment received for the same."...

...Commonwealth. The 14th of Elizabeth provided that these terrible, sturdy beggars "should for the first offence be grievously whipped, and burned through the gristle...right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an inch about ; for the second be deemed as felons ; and for the third suffer death without benefit of clergy."...

...to prison, and tried at the next assizes, if he be convicted for a vagabond, he is then adjudged lo be grievously whipped, and burned through the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron, as a manifestation of his wicked life, and due punishment received for the same. If he be taken the...

...greater degree),11 wandering »broad without the licence of two justices at the least, were subject " to be grievously whipped and burned through the gristle...right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an inch about " This statute was superseded by 89 Eliz. c. 4, under which the punishnent of the strolling player...

...a vagrant. Everysuch one over 14, male or female, should, on the conviction of soodious an offence, be grievously whipped and burned through the gristle...right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an inch,, unless some one would take him into service. The branding was sent clean through the gristle of the...

...great Elizabeth," any poor wretch adjudged to be a vagabond, if above the age of fourteen years, was grievously whipped, and ''burned through the gristle...right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an inch." According to Holinshed's Chronicle, rogues were great annoyers to the commonwealth in the time of the...

...term aforesaid as his slave." be adjudged to be grievously whipped, and burned through the CHAP. v. gristle of the right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an Legislation. inch, unless some credible person will take him into service for a year ; and if, being...

...this Act after 1st June 1574 was to be imprisoned, and, if convicted, to be " scourged and burnt throw the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an inch about."3 But if 1 "A well-known Gypsy trick," says Mr. Lucas ( Yetholm History of the Gypsies, p. 145)....