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Middlesex county records
… that it was customary to punish these offenders at the whipping-post or the cart's tail. But after the sixth year of … of petty theft in James's ninth year only five escaped whipping. In the next seven years no one, after conviction at …
Middlesex county records
… to think that the number of petty thieves sentenced to whipping exceeded thirteen. Persons indicted for assault and … 1 Constable " " refusing to execute a warrant for whipping a man and a woman 1 Persons " " selling bread by …