★ Keep up to date with the latest news - subscribe to the Transcribe Bentham newsletter; Find a new page to transcribe in our list of Untranscribed Manuscripts
42
Indirect
Corpus delicti
Instructions
of infinite mischief all over to all Europe. Even in Protestant
countries The Church of England which in common
with other Protestant con churches found it necessary
to put the holy scriptures Bible entire into the hands of
the people, has not thought fit that the whole of
it should be instilled into their ears. It were much
to be witched wished this story against which as commonly understood, many
pious and learned divines have made great objections
were of added to the number of those the rejected portions. [which
it has been thought proper to omitt.]
The English statute-book is I believe as yet
the only one which has had the honour of throwing
by express words the crime of witchcraft out of the penal catalogue.
In the Codex Theresianus, though [drawn up of so late
a date so late] as the year 1773 it has makes as conspicuous has a conspicuous &
honourable place a figure as any other. It would hardly
have place we may venture to believe, in a
Codex Josephinus. In [At Vienna the veteres aviâ
are not now in honour.] At Vienna the reign of
the veteres aviâ is at an end.
Identifier: | JB/087/168/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
|
|||
---|---|---|---|
7 |
|||
087 |
indirect legislation |
||
168 |
indirect |
||
002 |
|||
text sheet |
4 |
||
recto |
f41 / f42 / f43 / f44 |
||
jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]] |
||
27693 |
|||