The North French Hebrew Miscellany (British Library Add. MS 11639): An Illuminated Manuscript from Thirteenth-century France in Facsimile

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 edition. Excerpt: ...eight years, one for ten years, one for fourteen years and one for life. Fifty-four of them are unmarried, twenty-nine married, and three of them are widowers. Thirty-seven of them have been sent for larceny, one for burglary and intent to murder, one for stabbing, one for stealing, one for larceny in a church, one for larceny and felony, two for manslaughter, one for receiving stolen goods, two for stealing a mare, one for stealing a gelding, five for arson, three for robbery, two for stealing from the person, one for horse stealing, one for attempting to commit rape, one for wounding, one for forgery, two for stealing with intent to commit grievous bodily harm, one for aiding and abetting to do grievous bodily harm, one for stealing from a shop, one for breaking into a shop and stealing therefrom, one for sheep stealing, one for prison breaking, one for obtaining goods under false pretences, one for felony, one for bigamy, one for wilfully inflicting bodily harm, two for larceny from a -hop, two for feloniously wounding, two for feloniously receiving stolen goods, one for larceny from his master, one for being found at night in a shop 'with intent to commit felony, two for feloniously stealing, two for larceny from the person, and one for murder. Twenty-three of them are under twenty years of age, fortynine between twenty and forty, and fourteen between forty and sixty. I remain, Gentlemen, Your most obedient and humble servant, (Signed, ) ANGUS MACDONELL, V. G. Catholic Chaplain, P. P. Provincial Penitentiary, 31st December, 1861. ACTING SURGEON'S REPORT FOR 1861. To the Board of Inspectors of Asylum, Prison, &c. Gentlemen: --The death, early in November last, of the late lamented Dr. Sampson, who for more than a quarter of a.