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in the chirurgeon s hands, upon cutting or otherwise: 

 for these cases the law doth privilege, because of the 

 necessity, and because of the innocency of the in 

 tention. 



Thus much for the death of man, of which cases 

 you are to inquire; together with the accessories 

 before and after the fact. 



For the second kind, which concerns the honour 

 and chasteness of persons and families ; you are to 

 inquire of the ravishment of women, of the taking of 

 women out of the possession of their parents or 

 guardians against their will, or marrying them, or 

 abusing them ; of double marriages, where there 

 was not first seven years absence, and no notice that 

 the party so absent was alive, and other felonies 

 against the honesty of life. 



For the third kind, which concerneth men s sub- 

 stance, you shall inquire of burglaries, robberies, cut 

 ting of purses, and taking of any thing from the 

 person : and generally other stealths, as well such 

 as are plain, as those that are disguised, whereof I 

 will by and by speak : but first I must require you 

 to use diligence in presenting especially those pur- 

 loinings and embezzlements, which are of plate, 

 vessel, or whatsoever within the king s house. The 

 king s house is an open place ; it ought to be kept 

 safe by law, and not by lock, and therefore needeth 

 the more severity. 



Now for coloured and disguised robberies ; I will 

 name two or three of them : the purveyor that takes 

 without warrant, is no better than a thief, and it is 



