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Democracy in America — Volume 1

Editorial note — Chapter II · : Origin Of The Anglo-Americans—Part II

Henry Reeve translation

s [ Code of 1650, p. 48. It seems sometimes to have happened that the judges superadded these punishments to each other, as is seen in a sentence pronounced in 1643 (p. 114, “New Haven Antiquities”), by which Margaret Bedford, convicted of loose conduct, was condemned to be whipped, and afterwards to marry Nicholas Jemmings, her accomplice.]

t [ “New Haven Antiquities,” p. 104. See also “Hutchinson’s History,” for several causes equally extraordinary.]

u [ Code of 1650, pp. 50, 57.]

v [ Ibid., p. 64.]

w [ Ibid., p. 44.]

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