Next morning several felons were hanged, and certain concealed lands sequestrated to the King's use; neither of which proceedings were calculated to increase his Majesty's popularity.
In 1540 began the practice of giving bodies of hanged felons to surgeons to dissect.
James' council used torture to obtain information from accused felons about possible conspiracies against him.
Students learned anatomy, for which they received the corpses of four executedfelons a year.
Persons affected by the plague may not leave their houses or be deemed felons and suffer death.
All must be ready at the command and summons of sheriffs, and at the cry of the country, to sue and arrest felons as necessary as well within franchise as without.
Notorious felons who would not consent or put themselves on inquests for felonies with which they were charged at royal courts were put in strong and hard imprisonment to persuade them to accept trial by assize.
If twelve or more people who riotously and tumultuously assemble and disturb the peace, do not disburse within an hour of an order to disburse by a justice or sheriff or mayor, they shall be deemed felons without benefit of clergy.
He gathered the rents, the annuities, the stray animals, the deodands, the fees due to the King, the goods of felons and traitors.
That felonsescape punishment by procuring charters of pardon; 10.
The jail was happily preserved throughout; for the addition of four or five hundred felons to the bad characters of my district might have complicated matters.
These were largely escaped felons from the Meerut jail; and the fact that they were quite indiscriminate in their lawlessness enabled me to rally most of the well-doing people on my side.
The refuse and rabble of the town were by this time swarming out of it, armed with sticks and staves; the two thousand and odd felons released from the jails were swarming in, seeking weapons.
Some punishment for life was essential; Englishmen would not endure the perpetual imprisonment of human beings, or the sight of felons in their streets working in chains.
Low in their origin, corrupt in their principles, and detestable in their lives--themselves differing fromfelons in nothing but their position.
Other papers from the hand of Franklin that appeared in the Gazette were A Witch Trial at Mount Holly, An Apology for Printers, A Meditation on a Quart Mugg, Shavers and Trimmers, and Exporting of Felons to the Colonies.
The paper on the "Exporting of Felons to the Colonies" is marked by the grim, biting irony of Swift, but was no severer than the practice of setting British criminals at large in America deserved.
With one accord the wretched felons responded to the language of Christian love and good-will, and declared their readiness to follow the advice of their true friend.
Soon after the outbreak of the plague in Newgate, all the debtors were liberated, and if the keepers had had their own way, the common felonswould have been likewise released.
The debtors are set free," replied the turnkey addressed, "and all but one or two of the common felons are removed.
The first human voice that the Middle Ages heard, the first, voice distinguishable from that of kings, of felons and of beasts, was Abailard's.
In the next century they sent their felons to Botany Bay, and their paupers to America, several shiploads having been discharged on the coast, entirely destitute, directly from poor-houses.
It is on record that daring robberies were concocted in Newgate between felons incarcerated and others at large, who came and went as they pleased.
Thus at Newgate all felons were ironed; it was the same at Chelmsford; but at Bury and Norwich all felons were without irons.
The earliest authentic mention of Newgate as a gaol or prison for felons and trespassers occurs in the records of the reign of King John.
Newgate who were favourers of the felons and robbers there committed, and to remove such as appear faulty.
Newgate, like all other gaols, was at times scandalously over-crowded, not only with the felons and trespassers who long languished waiting trial, but with far less guilty offenders.
Circumstantial felons there will be so long as social circumstance makes for them.
If it is true, then have done with petty piffle about compelling repeating felons, who just won't have it any other way; felons who figure on foraging on society by its leave, else shooting to kill.
Establish Houses of Reception for first-offending and circumstantial felons awaiting trial and transfer, and officer those houses, in so far as may be as to subordinate positions, with graduates of criminological schools.
Clean and uplifting recreative exercises for repeating felons should be regulated to meet the requirements of necessary mental and physical relaxation.
City-bred felons will take on just so much of farming as compulsion compels, or the ulterior motive dictates, and not a stroke at it more.
So much distinctively should be done because by-choice predal felons always constitute the nucleus of crime and criminal intent in America.
A prison population is bound by ties which the hardiest of "trusties" breaks at his grave peril; therefore when it is told that a junta of imprisoned felons is given over inequivocably to support of penal law, reach for the salt.
Unquestionably that would be so in isolated instances, albeit the bulk of predal felons do not have families, and when they do, they are frequently a drag on them.
Some of the slaves dealt in were actually convicted felons sold by the states in which their crimes had been committed.
He liberated a gaol full of ruffians, not to inundate the world with a host of felons and vagabonds, but, simply, to give them a kind of day-rule.
Felons were also drowned in a stream called “the Gestling”; but in 1313 a complaint was made that the prior of Christchurch had diverted the course of the stream, and that criminals could not be executed in that way for want of water.
We could walk about the prison just as we liked and mix with the other prisoners, whether felons or debtors.
There were seventy-one debtors and thirty-nine felons confined on the occasion of our visit.
He is soon told in the most emphatic manner that he is to regard himself as a felon; that he is to live with felons as a felon and observe the habits of a felon.
The first charge is, that "a colony of convicted felons landed here in 1607.
Any charge, therefore, as about the felonsof the colony, is injuriously brought against the memory of the helpless dead.
I find among the items of monthly intelligence in the London Magazine, the records of felons sentenced to transportation to his majesty's plantations in America, and often the different colonies named.
I must confess having long wondered at the persistent statement of Englishmen that the citizens of the United States were the offspring of the vagabonds and felons of Europe.
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