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C Offences against one's Self. Paederasty

I hope it will be considered in my favour that I can
not make things as I would wish to have them - it
is my business to represent them as they are. It were
my interest that the mischief of this offence were in
proportion to the punishment it ordinarily meets with:
I might then swim with the stream & ...

[If we would be] To be consistent, the principle that was
laid down for judging of adultery must be the
rule of decision here.

To Inf: p.2
1. Whether it is an offence against the peace.
[The English Lawyers who none of them know any have no more what The whole tribe of writers in English Law to Sr W. Blackstone
they mean by the word peace than they do by
many other of the expressions they make most that are most to them
use of] reckon this among offences against the
Peace. It is accordingly treated in all respects as an offence against the Peace They likewise reckon Forgery Coinery &
all sorts of Frauds against among offences against
the Peace. According to the same Purists when a
It is doubted whetherAdultery is not be a breach of the Peace. It is
certain however that whenever a gallant accepts
the an invitation of a married woman another man's wife he does it with
force and arms. This needs no comment

2. Whether against the Security of the individual.
Sir W. Blackstone is more particular - According
to him it is not only an offence against
the peace, but it is of that division of offences against
the peace which are offences against security.
According to him the same writer if a man
is guilty of this kind of filthiness for instance with a cow, as
some men have been known to be, it is an offence against

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	072	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	191	Info in main headings field	paederasty
Image	003	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
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