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Legal antiquities

Note 50 — Chapter X · Ancient Punishments.

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Gentleman’s Magazine, Vol. 46, p. 364.

As late as the sixteenth century, in England, counterfeiters were punished by being thrown into boiling water. Gentleman’s Magazine, Vol. 46, p. 364.

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