Note 589 — ELIZABETH 1558-1603

By 39 Eliz. c. 4. (1597-8) ‘dangerous rogues’ were to be sent to the galleys, but it is the only statute so directing and does not seem to have been acted on (Turner, History of Vagrants and Vagrancy, p. 129). Nor am I aware of any allusion to an English galley service in the literature of the time.