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Vocabulary
Beggars with S
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This was like the stocks, with holes for offenders to place their heads and arms in, and
was used for offences such as blasphemy, card-cheating, fortune-telling, bestiality
and homosexual offences. The difference with the stocks was that members of the
public were encouraged to throw stones or any other projectiles at the criminal,
who would often die from head injuries as a result. For less “serious” crimes,
people could be punished by branding with a hot iron on the hand or the cheek.
Vagrants could be branded with V, beggars with S for slave, while people who
started fights could be branded with F as well as having their ears cut off.
--- I'm wondering why "S" for beggars??? There is "V" for vagrants and "F" for those who started fights, but "S" for beggars??
This was like the stocks, with holes for offenders to place their heads and arms in, and
was used for offences such as blasphemy, card-cheating, fortune-telling, bestiality
and homosexual offences. The difference with the stocks was that members of the
public were encouraged to throw stones or any other projectiles at the criminal,
who would often die from head injuries as a result. For less “serious” crimes,
people could be punished by branding with a hot iron on the hand or the cheek.
Vagrants could be branded with V, beggars with S for slave, while people who
started fights could be branded with F as well as having their ears cut off.
--- I'm wondering why "S" for beggars??? There is "V" for vagrants and "F" for those who started fights, but "S" for beggars??
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Hi, I think that in earlier times, 'slave' was sometimes used to refer to someone who was greatly inferior and servile to other people. ' Best wishes, Clive
- Hi, I think that in earlier times, 'slave' was sometimes used to refer to someone who was greatly inferior and servile to other people.
- ' Best wishes, Clive
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Hi,
I think that in earlier times, 'slave' was sometimes used to refer to someone who was greatly inferior and servile to other people.
Hamlet says 'O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!'
Best wishes, Clive
I think that in earlier times, 'slave' was sometimes used to refer to someone who was greatly inferior and servile to other people.
Hamlet says 'O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!'
Best wishes, Clive
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