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Characteristic Punishments
{For Perjury boring of the tongue 1555 – also 1650
{Hume Com Pt1 vol II 151 n.
{Striking off the hand for forging public deo
deo documents & private Lres 1570 ib vol I p.197 n
Striking off the hand In 1603 Walter Graham for assaulting a Minister
was sentenced in addition to other punishmt to
have his right hand struck off ib Pt 1 vol II p.45
Demembration class of offences in Scotch law ib Pt 1. vol II p47-49
Donald Campbell for inflections injurious to the
El of Athole Justice Genl in addition to other
punishments was sentenced in 1673 to have his
tongue bored B 1 v.II. p.208
Pillory.
Et forte a notori forte deducunt up ulloe e
vernaculo su Pilleur, quod depucalobrem sixnipeat;
cusjusmodi efu noscuntur ipsi quibus
hoc suplicii primo* institutum fuit, scilicet
pistores, qui suis in pane fallaciis depulculantur;
a quo UNFINISHED
In Scotld on an average of 30 yrs precedg year 1797
the executions for all Scotld have not exceeded Six in
a year.
"For a period of 15 yrs precedg 1 May 1782 the no
"of pious who suffd death at Edinboro (where by far
"a greater no of capital trials takes place) amounted
"only to 23; that is in evy 2 only 3 pious suffd death."
Hume on Crimes Pt 1 Vol. 1. Introdn p.1. ed. 1797 –
"At the largest
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