August ; and upon every 2nd of September he was to do the same at the Royal Exchange. All this he was to do every year during his life, and be committed a close prisoner as long as he lived. After pronouncing this sentence, Jefferies added, that, if it had been in his power, Oates should have been condemned to die.
It must be observed that standing in the Pillory, which in other countries only exposes to shame, is in England something more ; for it is permitted to pelt those that stand there with dirt and all sorts of nastiness ; and it often happens that the mob abuse the
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liberty, and throw rotten eggs, and even stones, at the prisoner. What was considered most barbarous in this sentence was the ordering a man to be whipped twice in three days. Some charitable persons used their endeavours to beg off part of this wretched man's punishment and made application to the Queen, entreating her to intercede for him, at least with the second scourging. But all intercession was in vain, the sentence was executed with all imaginable rigour and barbarity. In a word, his escaping with life was looked upon as something miraculous." Note. Moss's History of Hastings, 1824, says : " That Oates might have dwelt in the town seems highly probable, from the -
