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Old and New London
… murdered; which, though it was afterwards punished by the laws, might seem a presage, that this lion-hearted king …
Old and New London
… sunrise." Formerly, as we learn from Blackstone's "Common Laws of England," "the benefit of the clergy used to be … about. It became necessary, there fore, to enact further laws for the punishment of sturdy and wilful beggars, and ultimately to bring in sundry "poor laws" to meet the case of the other large population which …