Penal Methods of the Middle Ages: Criminals, Witches, LunaticsIves, George Burnham
History
Penal Methods of the Middle Ages: Criminals, Witches, Lunatics
Ives, George Burnham
Punishment
He died in 1797, and an inscription was erected to him in Westminster
Abbey. See _Dict. Nat. Biog._, and Jonathan Gray, _History of York
Asylum_, p. 18.
Footnote 737:
Samuel Tuke, _Description of the Retreat_, p. 22. York, 1813.
Footnote 738:
The _Description of the Retreat_ near York, already alluded to.
Footnote 739:
To the _York Herald_, dated September 23, 1813. It was signed merely
“Evigilator,” but had been written by Dr. Best, the head of the York
Asylum.
See J. Gray, _Hist._ p. 28; also D. H. Tuke, _Hist._ pp. 129, 148.
Footnote 740:
_Edinburgh Review_, vol. xxviii. p. 433. Edinburgh, 1817.
Footnote 741:
S. W. Nicoll, _An Enquiry_, p. 11; and see Jonathan Gray, _Hist._ p.
31.
Footnote 742:
D. H. Tuke, _Hist._ p. 79.
Footnote 743:
J. Gray, _Hist._ chap. vi.
Footnote 744:
D. H. Tuke, p. 161.
Footnote 745:
D. H. Tuke, p. 157.
Footnote 746:
Nicoll, p. 21.
Footnote 747:
D. H. Tuke, _Hist._ p. 162.
Footnote 748:
_Ibid._ p. 173.
Footnote 749:
J. B. Tuke, _Ency. Brit._ ninth ed.; D. H. Tuke, _Hist._ p. 85; R.
Gardner Hill, _Lunacy_, p. 5.
Footnote 750:
See, for instance, Hunterian Oration, 1891, etc.
Footnote 751:
R. Gardner Hill, _Lunacy_, p. 42.
Footnote 752:
Andrew Wynter, p. 100.
Footnote 753:
Hill, pp. 87, 88.
Footnote 754:
Halliday, _Lunatic Asylums_, p. 2.
Footnote 755:
F. Willis, _A Treatise on Mental Derangement_, p. 6. London, 1823.
Footnote 756:
_Lunatic Asylums_, p. 2.
Footnote 757:
W. A. F. Browne, p. 4.
Footnote 758:
_Borderland of Insanity_, p. 11.
Footnote 759:
Alexander Gibson, in _Ency. Brit._ ninth ed. art. “Insanity (Law).”
Footnote 760:
“That” (kleptomania) “is one of the diseases I was sent here to cure,”
a certain judge is said to have observed; but he did not cure it.
Footnote 761:
One of these legal tests had been a knowledge of the multiplication
table. W. A. F. Browne, p. 3.
Footnote 762:
The “robust” attitude has been shown by Dickens. “That young Pitcher’s
had a fever.” “No!” exclaimed Mr. Squeers. “Damn that boy, he’s always
at something of that sort.” “Never was such a boy, I do believe,” said
Mrs. Squeers; “whatever he has is always catching too. I say it’s
obstinacy, and nothing shall ever convince me that it isn’t. I’d beat
it out of him.”—_Nicholas Nickleby_, chap. vii.
Footnote 763:
D. H. Tuke, _Hist._ p. 96.
Footnote 764:
W. Tallack, _Penological and Preventive Principles_, pp. 249, 250.
London, 1896.
Footnote 765:
_Departmental Committee on Prisons Report_, p. 8. London, 1895.
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