Legal Antiquities; a Collection of Essays Upon Ancient Laws And Customs
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H. Davenport Adams, "Pains and Penalties," in The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 46, p. 362.) Digitized by GooqIc 278 ANCIENT PUNISHMENTS.
During the reign of Edward II felons were put to death by drowning, for we find that in the sixth year of the reign of that monarch, the jury for the hundred of Cornylo, in Kent, exhibited a presentment to Hervi de Stanton, and his associate justices itinerant, sitting at Canterbury, in the Octaves of St. John the Baptist, importing, that the Prior of the Christ...-church in Can- terbury, did, about eleven years then past, divert the course of a certain stream, called Cestling, in which such felons as were condenmed, to death, within the before-mentioned hundred, ought to suffer judgment by drowning.** Drowning was regarded as an especially appropriate punishment for women in Scotland, at an early day and according to Dr. Hill Burton, in 1624, eleven gipsy women were sentenced to be drowned in the North Loch, of Edinburgh, in the hollow where the Princess street Garden is now located.*' Id 1685 two women, Margaret M'Lauchlan, a widow, and Margaret Wilson, a young girl, of eighteen, were drowned at Wigtownshire, for their religious belief.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
H. Davenport Adams, "Pains and Penalties," in The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 46, p. 362.) Digitized by GooqIc 278 ANCIENT PUNISHMENTS.
During the reign of Edward II felons were put to death by drowning, for we find that in the sixth year of the reign of that monarch, the jury for the hundred of Cornylo, in Kent, exhibited a presentment to Hervi de Stanton, and his associate justices itinerant, sitting at Canterbury, in the Octaves of St. John the Baptist, importing, that the Prior of the Christ...-church in Can- terbury, did, about eleven years then past, divert the course of a certain stream, called Cestling, in which such felons as were condenmed, to death, within the before-mentioned hundred, ought to suffer judgment by drowning.** Drowning was regarded as an especially appropriate punishment for women in Scotland, at an early day and according to Dr. Hill Burton, in 1624, eleven gipsy women were sentenced to be drowned in the North Loch, of Edinburgh, in the hollow where the Princess street Garden is now located.*' Id 1685 two women, Margaret M'Lauchlan, a widow, and Margaret Wilson, a young girl, of eighteen, were drowned at Wigtownshire, for their religious belief.
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