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Brooks, Henry M. (Henry Mason), 1822-1898

"The Olden Time Series, Vol. 5: Some Strange and Curious Punishments Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts"


_William James_, for incontinency, was sentenced to be set in the
bilboes at Boston and Salem, and bound in 20l.
_Thomas Petet, for suspicion_ of slander, idleness and
stubbornness, is to be severely whipt and kept in hold.
_John Smith_, of Medford, for swearing, _being penitent_, was set
in bilboes.
_Richard Turner_, for being notoriously drunk, was fined 2l.
_John Hoggs_, for swearing _God's foot_, cursing his servant,
wishing "a pox of God take you," was fined 5l.
_Richard Ibrook_, for tempting two or more maids to uncleanness,
was fined 5l. to the country, and 20s. a piece to the two maids.
_Thomas Makepeace_, because of his novel disposition, was
informed we were weary of him, unless he reformed.
_Edward Palmer_, for his extortion, taking 33s. 7d. for the plank
and woodwork of Boston stocks, is fined 5l. and censured to be
set an hour in the stocks.
_John White_ is bound in 10l. to be of good behaviour, and not to
come into the company of Bull's wife alone.


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