Note 199 — GEORGE LYMAN KITTREDGE
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Daines Barrington points with pride to this early abolition of penalties:—“It is greatly to the honour of this country, to have repealed all the statutes against this supposed crime so long ago as the year 1736, when laws of the same sort continue in full force against these miserable and aged objects of compassion, in every other part of Europe” (Observations on the More Ancient Statutes, 3d ed., 1769, p. 367. on 20 Henr. VI.).