A history of vagrants and vagrancy, and beggars and begging; . ved shall have the excess refunded to them, and ifnone will sue, then it should be levied and delivered to the col-lectors of the Quinzime, in alleviation of the towns where suchexcesses were taken. * The stocks were a very ancient form of correction. They figure in picturesof Anglo-Saxon punishments. The latest instance of their use appears to havebeen on the 5th of May, 1862, at Keighley in Yorkshire, when one JosephSpence, alias Boxer, was placed in the stocks, Church Green, for gambling,at the beginning of March, in a lane near
A history of vagrants and vagrancy, and beggars and begging; . ved shall have the excess refunded to them, and ifnone will sue, then it should be levied and delivered to the col-lectors of the Quinzime, in alleviation of the towns where suchexcesses were taken. * The stocks were a very ancient form of correction. They figure in picturesof Anglo-Saxon punishments. The latest instance of their use appears to havebeen on the 5th of May, 1862, at Keighley in Yorkshire, when one JosephSpence, alias Boxer, was placed in the stocks, Church Green, for gambling,at the beginning of March, in a lane near Exleyhead. A crowd of personswitnessed his punishment, which seems to have been intended as a caution tothe numerous persons who then congregated on bypaths and highways forgambling purposes. Three days previously another offender, named IsaacPickering, was similarly punished for three hours for the same offence. Thestocks at Bradford were last used on the 26th July 1860, when John Dodgsona labourer of Idle, was placed in them for six hours for J AND BEGGABS AND BEGGING. 49 Sheriffs, constables, bailiffs, gaolers, nor other officers, shallexact anything of the same servants. The forfeitures of servantsshall be employed to the aid of dismes and quinzimes granted tothe King by the Commons. The justices shall hold their sessions four times a year, and atall times needful. Servants which flee from one country toanother shall be committed to prison. The exemption in favour of natives of Stafford, Lancaster, Derby,and Craven, and the Marches of Wales and Scotland, was of courseto enable them to assist in getting in the harvest wherever labourwas deficient for that purpose. The effect of this statute was, asmight have been expected, the very opposite of that intended byits framers. Labourers took to flight from their native countiesin order to evade its provisions, and many took refuge in corporatetowns in order to obtain their enfranchisement. Strikes and com-binations
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