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Discolourment
&
Disfigurement

of those by what we are surrounded, whatever
tender tends to diminish good will tends also
to encrease their chance of being exposed to all
sorts of pains.*

When the mal mark is inflicted in the way
of punishment as a testimony of the patients
having committed a certain species of offence
it should of be of such a kind as to shew plainly
that this was the desgn design of it, and that
it may not be confounded with scars or other
accidental marks. Accordingly it is always of
some determinate figure frequently that o the
initial Letter of the name of the offence.

Among In ancient Rome columniators were marked
upon the forehead with the Letter K. With
as the marks prescribed by Statute are an
M for manslaughter, and a T for theft.

In France those who are sentenced to the punishment
of the Gallows were stigmatised with
the Letters G.A.L.‡ ‡ Code Penal p.13th In some cases past of the
punishment for theft consisted in stigma
marking the offender with the Letter V: for a second
offence with two V's.[...] [...] ib. pp.104, 5.

* Stedman (in his Narrative of a recollec an expedition against
the revolted Negroes of Surinam Chap. XXVII) gives an anecdote which
strongly characterizes illustrates what has just been said of the indefinable nature
of this species of punishment.

Identifier: | JB/159/168/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 159.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	159	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	168	Info in main headings field	discolourment & disfigurement
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f2 / / f3 /
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::dusautoy & rump 1809 [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	edward collins
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1809
Notes public		ID Number	53991
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