Note 101 — Chapter I · PENAL METHODS OF THE MIDDLE AGES
Reading edition
In 1295 a law was passed by which a man should no longer suffer death or mutilation for prison-breaking alone, unless his crime would have been so punished upon conviction. See statute, De Fragentibus Prisonam, 23 Edward I., Record Commission. Statutes of the Realm, vol. i. London, 1810.