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Burglary, or House Breaking in the night time, _See page_ 57.
Highway Robbery
House Breaking in the day time, _See page_ 54, 55.
Privately Stealing or Picking Pockets above one s.h.i.+lling
Shop Lifting above Five s.h.i.+llings, _See page_ 55.
Stealing Bonds, Bills, or Bank Notes
Stealing Bank Notes, or Bills from Letters
Stealing above 40_s._ in any House, _See page_ 55.
Stealing above 40_s._ on a River
Stealing Linen, &c. from Bleaching Grounds, &c. or destroying Linen therein
Maiming or Killing Cattle maliciously. _See_ the Black Act, 9 Geo. I. cap. 22.
Stealing Horses, Cattle or Sheep
Shooting at a Revenue Officer; or at any other person, _See_ the Black Act
Pulling down Houses, Churches, &c.
Breaking down the head of a Fish-Pond, whereby Fish may be lost, (_Black Act_)[131]
[Footnote 131: The unwillingness which it must be expected a Jury would have to convict a man capitally for _this offence_, might be adduced among many other instances, to show to what extent public justice is defeated, merely from the severity of the laws, and the want of a Scale of punishments proportioned to the offences.]
Cutting down Trees in an Avenue, Garden, &c.
Cutting down River or Sea Banks.
Cutting Hop Binds
Setting fire to coal mines
Taking a Reward for helping another to Stolen Goods, in certain cases, _See page_ 295
Returning from Transportation; or being at large in the Kingdom after Sentence
Stabbing a Person unarmed, or not having a weapon drawn, if he die in six months
Concealing the death of a b.a.s.t.a.r.d Child
Maliciously maiming or disfiguring any person, &c. lying in wait for the purpose, _See page_ 50.
Sending Threatening Letters (Black Act)
Riots by twelve or more, and not dispersing in an hour after proclamation
Being accessaries to Felonies deemed capital
Stealing Woollen Cloth from Tenter Grounds
Stealing from a s.h.i.+p in Distress
Government Stores, embezzling, burning or destroying in Dock-Yards; in certain cases, _See pages_ 261-263
Challenging Jurors above 20 in capital felonies; or standing mute
Cottons selling with forged Stamps
Deer-Stealing, second offence; or even first offence, under Black Act, not usually enforced
Uttering counterfeit Money, third offence
Prisoners under Insolvent Acts guilty of perjury
Destroying Silk or Velvet in the loom; or the Tools for manufacturing thereof; or destroying Woollen Goods, Racks or Tools, or entering a House for that purpose
Servants purloining their Masters' Goods, value 40_s._
Personating Bail; or acknowledging fines or judgments in another's name
Escape by breaking Prison, in certain cases
Attempting to kill Privy Counsellors, &c.
Sacrilege
Smuggling by persons armed; or a.s.sembling armed for that purpose
Robbery of the Mail
Destroying Turnpikes or Bridges, Gates, Weighing Engines, Locks, Sluices, Engines for Draining Marshes, &c.
Mutiny, Desertion, &c. by the Martial and Statute Law
Soldiers or Sailors enlisting into Foreign Service
2. CRIMES _denominated_ Single Felonies; _punishable by Transportation, Whipping, Imprisonment, the Pillory, and Hard Labour in Houses of Correction, according to the Nature of the offence._
_The princ.i.p.al of which are the following:_
