 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1775 - 446 pages
...lived by theft and rapine ; and who fometimes met in troops to the number of fixty and committed fpoil on the inhabitants : That if all the felons of this kind were affembled, they would be able, if reduced to good fuhjection, to give the greateft enemy her majefty... | |
 | 1814 - 556 pages
...there were, at least,, three or four hundred able bodied vagabonds in every county, who lived by theft and rapine ; and who sometimes met in troops to the...the magistrates were awed, by the associations and threats of confederate^ from executing justice oa the offenders. ' * Both these descriptions may possibly... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1807 - 552 pages
...there were at least three or four hundred able-bodied vagabonds in every county who lived by theft and rapine ; and who sometimes met in troops to the...inhabitants: That if all the felons of this kind were assembled, they would be able, if reduced to good subjection, to give the greatest enemy her majesty... | |
 | Dennis Taaffe - Ireland - 1809 - 588 pages
...there were at least three or four hundred able bodied vagabonds in every county, who lived by theft and rapine; and who sometimes met in troops to the...inhabitants: that if all the felons of this kind were assembled, they would be able, if reduced to a good subjection, to give the greatest enemy her majesty... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1812 - 550 pages
...there were at least three or four hundred able-bodied vagabonds in every county who lived by theft and rapine ; and who sometimes met in troops to the...inhabitants : That if all the felons of this kind were assembled, they would be able, if reduced to good subjection, to give the greatest enemy Her Majesty... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1813 - 540 pages
...who sometimes met in troops to the number of sixty, and committed spoil on the inhabitants. It adds, that if all the felons of this kind were reduced to...strong army ; and that the magistrates were awed by their association and threats, from enforcing the laws against them. But in Scotland, a century later,... | |
 | 1813 - 550 pages
...there were at least three or four hundred able bodied vagabonds in every county, who lived by theft and rapine, and who sometimes met in troops to the...of sixty, and committed spoil on the inhabitants. It adds that if all the felons of this kind were reduced to good subjection, they would form a strong... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1813 - 544 pages
...Remedy. were at least three or four hundred able bodied vagabonds in every county, who lived by theft and rapine, and who sometimes met in troops to the...of sixty, and committed spoil on the inhabitants. It adds, that if all the felons of this kind were reduced to good subjection, they would form a strong... | |
 | 1813 - 552 pages
...there were at least three or four hundred able-bodied vagabonds in every county, who lived by theft and rapine, and who sometimes met in troops to the...of sixty, and committed spoil on the inhabitants. It adds that if all the felons of this kind were reduced to good subjection, they would form a strong... | |
 | William Dawson - Corn laws (Great Britain) - 1814 - 352 pages
...were «* at least three or four hundred able-bodied vaga" bonds, in every county, who lived by theft and " rapine, and who sometimes met in troops, to '* the number of fifty or sixty, and committed ** spoil on the inhabitants, and that the magis" trates were awed, by... | |
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Somersetshire, and many of them were even in a worse : that there were at least three or four hundred able-bodied vagabonds in every county who lived by theft and rapine, and who sometimes met in troops to the number of sixty, and committed spoil on the... 
