... and the Officers proportionally, which ordinarly amounts to 2 500 lib. a Year for the Officers of each Regiment. All the Crimes and Diforders of Soldiers in Time of Peace are punifhable by the Civil Magi- ftrate, who has the fame Power over them, that ...

... about his Neck, and a Torch in his Hand, with a Paper on his Breaft and another on his Back, fetting forth the Nature of the Crime for which he undergoes that Punifhmenr. After which he is to ftand in the Pillory for 3 Days fucceffively, 3 Hours each Day ...

... Monk a Confeff- or, and Preacher, was degraded, given over to the Secular Power, and then (..angled, and brunt, for the fame Crime. Lisbon, Auguft 6. The 51ft ult, arrived the Brafil Fleet of 24 Sail. the Cargo confifts 45909 Gold Outdoes in fpelce, and ...

... condem- ned, and feveral o. them executed on that Account; notwithifanding the Adv.css from thence allure, that all their Crime coniiiled in arfembiing together for Divine Service, that a Report was fpread of fome Commotions in Languedcc, and the Sevennes ...

... and Authority of Parliament, in Manner as has been accuf- tomed in other Cafes of granting Taxes. That it ihall be an High Crime and Mifdemeannour, for any Perfon to Refufe, Difcounf , or Difcountenance by an Overt- Act, the Currency or Va- lue of this ...

... or thofe of Religion, on pain of being difplaced and put to Death as well as of other Punifhments proportionable to their Crimes. To prevent which,they are ftri&ly prohibited to have the leaft Intercourle with any Perfon whatfomever, either verbally or ...

... giving Judgment in Cafes paralel to that before them, and that fuch of the Servants of the Directors as were acceffory to the Crimes in Queftion ought likewife tc be puniftied ; touching the Refolution of the Committee of Lords, who (as we lately mentioned ...

... great Villains, are within Reach of Law ; and, though Law givers have fometimes mac ' no Provifion againft monftrous enormous Crimes, as thinking it impoffible for Man to be guilty 0 f them, That furely was never any Reafon for letting fuch Offenders efcape ...

... him who are alfo Parties concerned with him. Thofe in any Country who have fome of rj^^reat Ones for their Partners in the Crimes laid to their Charge* have a good Foundation to depend upon being proceeded againd with Tempe/ and Moderation. The above Letter ...

... difcern it -, for tho' you may fancy your felf innocent, y& no doubt but your Sentence may be juft; there being Crimes of Ignorance as well as Crimes of Malice: And my Lord Coke fays, Ignorantiam no* excufant Leges, The Law excufes no Man's Ignorance. And if ...

... forthe publick Defence, and to draw into the per- petration of their Crimes thofe very Men, from whom the betrayed People expecl the Redrefs of their Grievances, and Puniiliment of thofe Crimes, And when they have thus made the Reprefentatives ; then they wiil ...

... plead for Crimes, but wbat may be expected will, by all honeft Britains, be judg'd due to thofe Betrayers of their Country, who, in the midft of the greateft Affluence, force Nature's Confent to the blackeft Crimes, and then commit thofe Crimes in Defiance ...