=5. 6. 21 the Session.= The general or quarter sessions were held regularly four times a year on certain days prescribed by the statutes. The length of time for holding the sessions was fixed at three days, if necessity required it, but the rule was not strictly adhered to. See Beard, _The Office of the Justice of the Peace in England_, pp. 158 f. =5. 6. 23 In a cart, to be hang’d.= ‘Theft and robbery in their coarsest form were for many centuries capital crimes.... The question when theft was first made a capital crime is obscure, but it is certain that at every period some thefts were punished with death, and that by Edward I.’s time, at least, the distinction between grand and petty larceny, which lasted till 1827, was fully established.’--Stephen, _Hist. Crim. Law_ 3. 128 f. =5. 6. 24 The charriot of Triumph, which most of them are.= The procession from Newgate by Holbom and Tyburn road was in truth often a ‘triumphall egression,’ and a popular criminal like Jack Sheppard or Jonathan Wild frequently had a large attendance. Cf. Shirley, _Wedding_ 4. 3, _Wks._, ed. Gifford, 1. 425: ‘Now I’m in the cart, riding up Holborn in a two-wheeled chariot, with a guard of Halberdiers. _There goes a proper fellow_, says one; good people pray for me: now I am at the three wooden stilts,’ etc. =5. 6. 48 a body intire.= Jonson uses the word in its strict etymological sense. =5. 6. 54 cheated on.= Dyce (_Remarks_) points out that this phrase is used in Mrs. Centlivre’s _Wonder_, Act 2. Sc. 1. Jonson uses it again in _Mercury vindicated_: ‘and cheat upon your under-officers;’ and Marston in _What You Will_, _Wks._ 2. 387. =5. 6. 64 Prouinciall o’ the Cheaters!= _Provincial_ is a term borrowed from the church. See Gloss. Of the _cheaters_ Dekker gives an interesting account in the _Bel-man of London_, _Non-dram. Wks._ 3. 116 f.: ‘Of all which _Lawes_, the _Highest_ in place, and the _Highest_ in perdition is the _Cheating_ Law or the Art of winning money by false dyce: Those that practise this studie call themselues _Cheators_, / the dyce _Cheaters_, and the money which they purchase [see note 3.4.31, 2.] _Cheates_ [see 1.7.4 and Gloss.]: borrowing the tearme from our common Lawyers, with whome all such casuals as fall to the Lord at the holding of his _Leetes_, as _Waifes_, _Strayes_, & such like, are sayd to be _Escheated to the Lords vse_ and are called _Cheates_.’ =5. 6. 64 Bawd-ledger.= Jonson speaks of a similar official in _Every Man out_, _Wks._ 2. 132: ‘He’s a leiger at Horn’s ordinary (cant name for a bawdy-house) yonder.’ See Gloss.