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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