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convicts'for, efcapirig, breaking prifon, or returning from 
tranfpfprtation.— Pick pocket, of above twelvepence value. 
— Piracy-, under which is included failors hindering the 
captain of a fltip from fighting, by forcible reftr&iut.— 
Peifaning, of malice prepenfett.— P.opifh rccufants, priefts 
and je'fuits in certain cafes. — Prifoncrs forfwearing thent- 
felves under infolvent adts ; refufing to deliver up, or con¬ 
cealing, their effects efcaping.from confinement to hard 
labour, fecond offence.— Privy councillors, attempting to 
kill.— Ouarcntine, neglecting the regulations for perform¬ 
ing.— Rape, ol child under ten years old.— Refilling convitts 
from tranfportation, or murderers.— Re mis, returning from 
tranfportation, their aiders and correfpondents.— Recogni¬ 
zance or recovery, acknowledging in another’s name.— 
Riots, and deftroying buildings.— Robbery, of churches; on 
the highway ; in booths in fairs; dwelling-fioufes, ft)ops, 
wape-houfes, coaeh-houfes, or (tables; on-board veffels; in 
wharfs; in lodgings if above twelve-pence value ; (deal¬ 
ing exchequer orders, bank-notes, navy-bills, promiffory 
notes, &c.— Sea, treafons, robberies, murders, &c. upon. 
— Seamen, perfonating, to receive their pay.— Skips, of war, 
and others, wilfully deftroying,.— Shooting at another.— 
Silk ; deftroying any (ilk or velvet in the loom, cr the tools, 
for manufacturing tbereof.— Smuggling, and affembling 
armed for that pitrpofe.— Soldiers ; deferring, wandering 
without teftimonials, inlifting in foreign fervice or feduc- 
ing others (o to do.— South-J'ea company \ fervants embez¬ 
zling their efteCts.— Stamps, counterfeiting.— Stolen goods , 
helping.to a reward in certain cafes.— Stores, government, 
embezzling, or burning, or deftroying in dock yards.— 
Tranfportation, returning front, or being at large in the 
kingdom after fentence.— Turnpikes, gates, weighing en¬ 
gines, locks, Unices, &c. deftroying.— Wool-, deftroying 
woollen goods,.racks, or tools, or forcibly entering a houfe 
for that purpofe.— Women,: dealing, and marrying.— 
Wreck of (hips, caufing by ftealing pumps, &c. ftealing 
fh ip wrecked goods, or killing fit ip wrecked perfons, 
Before, the reign of Henry I. felonies were punifhed 
with pecuniary fines ; for he was the firft who ordered fe¬ 
lons to be hanged, about the year 110S. The judgment 
againft a man for felony hath been the fame (luce the 
reign of that king, i. e. that he be hanged by the neck 
till dead: which is entered Jujpendatur per collum, &c. 
\bfl. 124. Felony was anciently every capital crime 
perpetrated with an evil intention. All capital offences 
by the common law came generally under the title of fe¬ 
lony, and could.not be exprelfed by any word but felonice ; 
wh-ich muff of necelTity be laid in an indictment of fe¬ 
lony. Co. Lit. 391. It is, always accompaniedwith an 
evil intention ; and therefore felony cannot be imputed 
to any other motive. But the bare intention to commit 
a felony is fo very criminal, that at the common-law it 
was punifliable as felony, where it miffed of its effett 
through fonie accident; and now thepartymay.be fe- 
verely fined for fueh an intention. 1 Hawk. P. C. c. 25,. 
The puniihment of a p.erfon for felony is, Firft, To lole 
his life. Secondly, To lofe hit, blood, as. to hisanceftry, 
and fo as to have neither heir nor pofterity. Thirdly, To 
lofe his goods. Fourthly, To lofe his lands ; and the 
king (hall have annum, diem, & vajlum, to the intent that 
his wife and children be caff out of the houfe, his houfe 
pulled down, and all that he Jiad for his comfort or de¬ 
light deftroyed. yRep. 124. A felony by ftattite inci¬ 
dentally implies, that the offender (hall be fubjedt to the 
like attainder and forfeiture, &c. as is incident to a felon 
at common law. 3 Injl. 47. Private perfons may arreft 
felons by their own authority, or by warrant from a juf- 
tice of peace : and every private perfon is bound to affiff 
an officer to take felons, &c. 2 Hawk. P. C. 
But one ought not to-be arrefted upon fufpicion of fe¬ 
lony, except there be probabilis caufa fhewed for the 
ground of the fufpicion. 1 Lil.Abr.602. If a felony is 
not done by a man, but feme .perfon e.l fe, if another hath 
probable cattle to fufpedi hefts th.e felon, 'and accordingly 
doth arreft him, this is lawful, and muy be juftified : but 
there Ought to be a reafotiable caufe to' fnfpe’Ct him, 
otherwife the arreft will be illegal. Officers may -break - 
open a houfe to take a felon, or any perfon juftly fufpeCted 
of felony ; and if an officer hath a warrant to take a felon, 
who is killed in refilling, it is not. felony in the officer; 
but if the officer is killed, it is otherwife. Balt. 289. 
Where a manned woman commits felony, in company 
with her hufbund, it (hall be prefumed to be done by his 
command, and (he fhall be excufed. 3 Injl. 310. Steal¬ 
ing of tame turkeys, peacocks, &c. is felony; fo of he¬ 
rons and young; hawks in their hejls. It is otherwife of 
pheafants, partridges, conies, See. although they be fo 
kept that they cannot efcape ; unlefs they be reclaimed, 
and known. Jenk. Cent. 204. As to cats, dogs, monkeys, 
and the like, though it be not felony to take them, tref- 
pafs lies for them. 
FE'LOOPS, a wild and unfociable race of people, in 
Africa, whofe principal town is Vintain. Their country, 
which opens from the mouth of the Gambia, and of con- 
fiderable extent, aboundsin rice; and the natives fupply 
the traders, both on the Gambia and Caffamanfa rivers, 
with that article, and aifo with goats and poultry, on 
very reafonable terms. The honey which they collect 
is chiefly ufed by themfelves in making a ftrong intoxi¬ 
cating liquor, fimilar to the mead which is produced from 
honey in Great Britain. In their traffic with Europeans, 
they generally employ a faiftor, or agent, of the Mandingo 
nation, who (peaks.- a little Englifti, and is 1 acquainted 
with the trade of the river. The Feloops are of a gloomy 
difpofition, and are fuppofed never to forgive an injury. 
They are even (aid to tranfmit their quarrels as deadly 
feuds to their pofterity ; infonnich, that a fon' confiders 
it as incumbent on him, from a fenfe of filial obligation, 
to become the avenger of his deceased father’s wrongs. 
If a man lotes his life in one of. thole fudden quarrels 
which perpetually occur at their feafts, when the whole 
party is intoxicated with mead, his fon, or the eldeft of 
liis (ons, if he has more than one, endeavours to procure 
his father’s fandals, which he wears only once a-year, on 
the anniverfary of his father’s death, until a fit opportu- 
nity offers of revenging, his fate, when the objedi of his 
refehtment feldom efcapes his purfuit. This fierce and 
unrelenting difpofition is, however, counterbalanced by 
many good qualities.: they difplay the utmoft (gratitude 
and affedtion towards their benefadtors; and the fidelity 
with which they preferve whatever is intruded to them 
is,remarkable. During the French revolutionary war, 
they more titan once took up arms to defend our mer¬ 
chant velfels from French privateers ; and Englifti pro¬ 
perty, of confideratrle value, has frequently been left 
at Vintain, for a long time, entirely under the direction 
of the l'cloops, who have uniformly manifelled on fitch 
occafioits the ftridteft honefty and pundltialify. How 
greatly is it to. be widled that the minds of a people, fo 
det rmiited and faithful, could be foftened and civilized 
by the'mild and benevolent fpirif of Christianity ! 
FELS'BERG, a town of Germany, in the circle of the 
Upper Rhine, and principality of Ueffe Calfel, with an 
ancient cable on a rock: twelve miles fouth of Caffe), 
and fixteen fouth-eaft of Naumburg. 
FEL'STRIN, or Felestrin, a town of Poland, in the 
palatinate of Lemberg : forty miles feu th-weft of Lemberg, 
FELT, the preterite of Feel: which fee. 
FELT, f. [pelt:, Sax.] Cloth made of wool or hair 
united without weaving : 
It‘were a delicate ftratagem to fltoe 
A troop of horfe with felt. Shalefpcare. 
A hide .or (kin.—To know whether ftteep are found or 
not, fee that the fell be loofe. Mortimer. —.Wool ufed in 
making of hats, See. alfo a hat made of fitch (luff’. 
To FELT, v. a. To unite without weaving.—The fame 
wool one man felts into a hat, another weaves it Into 
cloth, another into kerfey. Hale. 
To FEL'IER, v, a. To clot together like felt : 
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