Volume 1 (of 2) by Alexis de Toqueville]@TWC D-Link book Volume 1 (of 2) 9/26 *z [Footnote s: Code of 1650, p.48.It seems sometimes to have happened that the judges superadded these punishments to each other, as is seen in a sentence pronounced in 1643 (p. 114, "New Haven Antiquities"), by which Margaret Bedford, convicted of loose conduct, was condemned to be whipped, and afterwards to marry Nicholas Jemmings, her accomplice.] [Footnote t: "New Haven Antiquities," p.104.See also "Hutchinson's History," for several causes equally extraordinary.] [Footnote u: Code of 1650, pp. 50, 57.] [Footnote v: Ibid., p. 44.] [Footnote *: This was not peculiar to Connecticut. |