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The Olden Time Series, Vol. 5: Some Strange and Curious Punishments - Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts by Henry M. (Henry Mason) Brooks
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_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.

_Thomas Lechford_ acknowledging he had _overset_ himself and is
sorry for it, promising to attend his calling, and not to meddle
with controversies, was dismissed.
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