Chronicles of Newgate, Vol. 1: From the twelfth to the eighteenth century — John Shaqi
Chronicles of Newgate, Vol. 1: From the twelfth to the eighteenth centuryGriffiths, Arthur
History
Chronicles of Newgate, Vol. 1: From the twelfth to the eighteenth century
Griffiths, Arthur
Criminals -- Great Britain; Newgate (Prison : London, England); Prisons -- England; Punishment -- Great Britain
In 1316 Gilbert Peny was bound in the third time in default for selling
bread deficient in weight. He had been twice drawn on the hurdle, and
it was therefore now adjudged that he should be drawn once more, and
should then forswear the trade of a baker in the city for ever. One
of many similar cases is that of William Spalyng, who, for selling
putrid beef at "les Stokkes," the stocks market near Walbrook, was put
upon the pillory, and the carcasses were burnt beneath. Another who
made shoes of unlawful material had them forfeited. Bakers who stole
dough from the moulding-boards of other bakers were exposed on the
pillory with the dough hung about their necks. Richard le Forester, for
attempting to defraud with a false garland or metal chaplet for the
head, was sentenced to stand in the pillory, and afterwards to forswear
the city for a year and a day. Traders convicted of having blankets
vamped in foreign parts with the hair of oxen and of cows were
punished, and the blankets were burnt under the pillory on Cornhill.
Similarly, false gloves, braces, and pouches were burnt in the High
Street of Chepe near the stone cross there. John Penrose, a taverner,
convicted of selling unsound wine, was adjudged to drink a draught
of the said wine, and the remainder was then poured out on his head.
Alice, wife of Robert de Cranstom, was put in the "thew," or pillory
for women, for selling ale by short measure; and so was Margery Hore
for selling putrid soles, the fish being burnt, and the cause of her
punishment proclaimed. Two servants of John Naylere were placed in the
stocks upon Cornhill for one hour, and their sacks burnt beside them,
for selling a deficient measure of charcoal, while their master's
three horses were seized and detained by the mayor's sergeant until
he (Naylere) came and answered for the aforesaid falsity and deceit.
William Avecroft having unsound wine, the sheriffs were ordered to pour
all the wine in the street and wholly make away with it, according to
the custom of the city.
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