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Show WAS PUNISHED. FOR SLANDEfS. How ihe Laws Were Vindicated In England in 1364.' In the year 1364 John de Hakford was convicted of bringing a false charge of conspiracy against the "chief men" of London. The sentence of the court was that 'the said John shall remain in prison for one , whole year and a day. Arid the said , John within such year shall four times have the punishment of the pillory that .is to say, one day in eacn quarter of the year, and in this manner: The said John shall come out of Newgate without with-out hood or girdle,, barefoot and unshod, un-shod, with a whetstone hung by a chain from his neck, and lying on his breast, " if being marked with the words, 'A false liar.' And there tfiall be a pair of trumpets trumpeting before be-fore him on his way to the pillory, and there the cause of his punishments punish-ments shall be solemnly proclaimed. And the said John shall remain on the pillory for three hours of the day, and from thence shall be taken back to Newgate in the same manner, there to remain until his punishment shall be completed." |