Note 66 — Chapter I · PENAL METHODS OF THE MIDDLE AGES
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“Imprisonment,” say Pollock and Maitland, “would have been regarded in those old times as a useless punishment; it does not” (as it was then employed and understood) “satisfy revenge, it keeps the criminal idle, and do what we may it is costly.”—Hist. Eng. Law, ed. of 1895, vol. ii. p. 514.