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Usher and so to Mr. White's house for relefe, but had none at all." 

 He was promptly sent back to Oxford, his birthplace. This 

 University vagrant was not unique. On May 23rd, 1634, Israel 

 Smith says he was of Magdalen College, Cambridge, which he left 

 "without a passe from the house," went to Paris, Flushing, and 

 thence to " Brighthemson." He asserts that he is a baronet's son of 

 Xosley, in Herefordshire. All this did not save him from being 

 " punished and sent away by passe to Xosley." " Punished" 

 means whipt, I think, for on March 27th, 1636, J. Guest, 

 " glasseman .... grey haired, of the age of Threescore 

 yeares," was whipped and sent from parish to parish to " Paternc 

 (Pottern) neere the Devizes." I do not see what was the fate of 

 another wanderer in March, 1637. This was Gulielmo Clarvillo, 

 a Florentine, professing to be an M.D. of Trinity College, 

 Cambridge, and also a member of the University of Padua. 

 The severest punishment for vagrancy noticed by me was on 

 January 1st, 1629-30, when a woman convicted of being a 

 " vagarant roague" was " burnt with R" on the left shoulder. 



4. Punishments, a subject somewhat forestalled in Section 3. 

 Unceasing efforts were made against drunkenness. It almost seems 

 that to give a mug of beer to a friend, either in an alehouse or 

 even at home, made you indictable for " tippling." On September 

 18th, 1629, Nicholas Maunders, "for typling in his own howse" 

 with two widows, is " to be distrayned for 3s. 4d." On May 19th, 

 1630, Anthony Xew, ordering one cup of beer in an alehouse, 

 intending to give it there to H. King, they are fined 3s. 4d. each, 

 " or els to sit by the heeles." And note that the two fines would 

 then buy half a hogshead of best beer. Then, as to drunkenness 

 itself. On June 26th, 1632, Robert Foot, for being u severall 

 tymes drunke and wishing that fire and brimstone Avould fall on 

 this towne, it being sufficiently proud," was ordered to prison " to 

 be sett close to worke w'th out liberty of coming into the towue." 

 From this and another expression imprisonment seems usually 

 to have been alleviated by occasional outings. Again, on March 

 16th, 1631-2, Alice Cox, convicted of drunkenness, "forborne for 



