The _Yankee_, June 4, 1813, p. 4, cited one of the laws of the naval code established during the reign of Richard I as the “Origin of Tarring and Feathering.” By this law any one lawfully convicted of stealing should have his head shorn, and boiling pitch poured upon his head, and feathers or down strewed upon the same, whereby he might be known until the next landing place was reached, where he was to be left.—See Hakluyt’s “Voyages,” II, 21. Footnote 96: The writer is indebted to Mr. Albert Matthews for the facts which are here presented in regard to the practice of tarring and feathering previous to the year 1775. Footnote 97: _Salem Gazette_, Sept. 6–13, 1768 (No. 7, p. 27). _Boston Evening Post_, Sept. 12, 1768 (No. 1720, p. 3). “Diaries of B. Lynde & B. Lynde, Jr.” (1880), p. 192. Footnote 98: _Boston Evening Post_, Sept. 19, 1768 (No. 1721, p. 3). Footnote 99: _Essex Gazette_, Sept. 20–27, 1768 (No. 9, p. 37). Footnote 100: _Boston Evening-Post_, June 19, 1769 (No. 1760, p. 3). Footnote 101: _Boston Gazette_, Sept. 25, 1769 (No. 755, p. 3). Footnote 102: _Boston Gazette_, Oct. 16, 1769 (No. 758, p. 2). Footnote 103: No. 140, II, 351. Footnote 104: _Boston Gazette_, Jan. 1, 1770 (No. 769, p. 1); June 11, 1770 (No. 792, p. 2); July 2, 1770 (No. 795, p. 2); August 20, 1770 (No. 802, p. 1); _Boston-Gazette_ Supplement July 30, 1770 (No. 799, p. 2); Aug. 6, 1770 (No. 800, p. 2); _Boston News-Letter_, June 21, 1770 (No. 3480, p. 3); _Essex Gazette_, June 19–26, 1770, II, p. 191; June 26–July 3, 1770, II, p. 195; Aug. 7–14, 1770, III, p. 11; _London Gazetteer_, Nov. 17, 1770 (No. 13016, p. 2); “The Letters of James Murray, Loyalist,” edited by Nina Moore Tiffany (1901), pp. 165, 175–178. Footnote 105: _Boston Gazette_, Nov. 1, 1773 (No. 969, pp. 1, 3). See also _Boston News-Letter_, Jan. 27, 1774 (No. 3669, p. 2). Footnote 106: _Boston Gazette_, Nov. 15, 1773 (No. 971, p. 3). Footnote 107: _Boston News-Letter_, Jan. 27, 1774 (No. 3669, p. 2); Feb. 3, 1774 (No. 3670, p. 2); _Massachusetts Spy_, Jan. 27, 1774 (No. 156, p. 3). Footnote 108: _Boston Gazette_, Jan, 31. 1774 (No. 982, p. 3); _Massachusetts Spy_, Feb. 3, 1774 (No. 157, p. 2). On January 17 a handbill signed in the same way had been distributed, giving notice that any “TEA CONSIGNEES” who should come to reside again in Boston would be given “such a Reception as such vile Ingrates deserve.”—_Boston Gazette_, Jan. 17, 1774 (No. 980, p. 3); _Boston Evening Transcript_, Feb. 27, 1903, p. 14. Footnote 109: No. 976, p. 3. Footnote 110: _Boston News-Letter_, Nov. 18, 1773 (No. 3659, p. 2). Footnote 111: “History of Rhode Island” (1878), II, 308–309. Footnote 112: No. 761, p. 3. Footnote 113: