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To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
SIR , AS the frequent adulteries which have been so generally of late perpetrated have been inserted in all the newspapers , it may not be improper to make known the punishments which were made use of fbrthat crime in the time of our Saxon ancestors , before Christianity had entered our islandand before any Court of Arches or Doctors
Com-, mons was established , which were as follow : " The woman offending , having first her hair cut off , was turned stark-naked out of her husband ' s house , and that in presence of her own kindred : thence she was scourged with whips thorough the town , without regard of birth , beauty , age , or wealth , and never after could find another husband . Those that were unnaturally lewd of their bodies , their
manner was to drown them in filthy mud , and cover them with hurdles . And farther , in the ancient country of the Saxons ( where there was no knowledge of God ) , if either a maiden in her father ' s house , or one having a husband , became a whore , she should be strangled with her own hands closed to her mouth , and the corrupter should be hanged upon the pit wherein she was buried . If she werenot so
. used , then her garments being cut away clown from the girdle-steed , that chaste matrons did scourge and whi p her , and did prick her with knives ; and so was she sent from town to town , whether other fresh and new scourges did meet and torment her unto death . "—This account you will find in Speed ' s Chron . pag . 203 . chap . 4 . If you are so obliging as to publish it , it may have a good effect on
the fair in- our times , when they see how much the sin of adultery was abhorred even by pagans . CHASTITY .
Ar01701
The following is a genuine Copy of a LETTER sent some Years ago lo the DIRECTORS of the EAST-INDIA COMPANY : GENTLEMEN , T AM a clergyman of Ely , in the county of Cambridge ; I have a -u- parcel of fine boysbut not much cash to provide for themM
, . y eldest son I intended for a pillar of the church : with this view I gave him a suitable education at school , and afterwards entered him at Cambridge , where he has resided the usual time , and last Christmas took his degree with some reputation to himself ; but I must at the same time add , that he is more likel y to kick a church down than to support one . He is of a eccentric genius—he had
very no notion of restraint to chapel gates , lectures , & c . and when rebuked b y his master , tutor , & c . for want of obedience to their rules , he ^ treated them in the contemptible light of not being Gentlemen , and seemed to intimate that he should call them to an . account as an affair of honour , & c . This soon disconcerted all my plans for him .
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To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
SIR , AS the frequent adulteries which have been so generally of late perpetrated have been inserted in all the newspapers , it may not be improper to make known the punishments which were made use of fbrthat crime in the time of our Saxon ancestors , before Christianity had entered our islandand before any Court of Arches or Doctors
Com-, mons was established , which were as follow : " The woman offending , having first her hair cut off , was turned stark-naked out of her husband ' s house , and that in presence of her own kindred : thence she was scourged with whips thorough the town , without regard of birth , beauty , age , or wealth , and never after could find another husband . Those that were unnaturally lewd of their bodies , their
manner was to drown them in filthy mud , and cover them with hurdles . And farther , in the ancient country of the Saxons ( where there was no knowledge of God ) , if either a maiden in her father ' s house , or one having a husband , became a whore , she should be strangled with her own hands closed to her mouth , and the corrupter should be hanged upon the pit wherein she was buried . If she werenot so
. used , then her garments being cut away clown from the girdle-steed , that chaste matrons did scourge and whi p her , and did prick her with knives ; and so was she sent from town to town , whether other fresh and new scourges did meet and torment her unto death . "—This account you will find in Speed ' s Chron . pag . 203 . chap . 4 . If you are so obliging as to publish it , it may have a good effect on
the fair in- our times , when they see how much the sin of adultery was abhorred even by pagans . CHASTITY .
Ar01701
The following is a genuine Copy of a LETTER sent some Years ago lo the DIRECTORS of the EAST-INDIA COMPANY : GENTLEMEN , T AM a clergyman of Ely , in the county of Cambridge ; I have a -u- parcel of fine boysbut not much cash to provide for themM
, . y eldest son I intended for a pillar of the church : with this view I gave him a suitable education at school , and afterwards entered him at Cambridge , where he has resided the usual time , and last Christmas took his degree with some reputation to himself ; but I must at the same time add , that he is more likel y to kick a church down than to support one . He is of a eccentric genius—he had
very no notion of restraint to chapel gates , lectures , & c . and when rebuked b y his master , tutor , & c . for want of obedience to their rules , he ^ treated them in the contemptible light of not being Gentlemen , and seemed to intimate that he should call them to an . account as an affair of honour , & c . This soon disconcerted all my plans for him .