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" ... theyr Cheife Officers shall think fitt, and every Officer to pay twelvepence for the like offence unto the mustermaster for the souldiers use that come to church diligently. Swearing. That whosoever shall sweare for the first offence shall forfeit... "
Burton-on-Trent: Its History, Its Waters, and Its Breweries - Page 72
by William Molyneux (F.G.S.) - 1869
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Burton and Its Bitter Beer

John Stevenson Bushnan - Burton upon Trent (England) - 1853 - 188 pages
...swearing : — That whoever shall swear, for the first offence, shall forfeit 4d. ; for the second, ride the horse with a paper on his backe declaring...casheard, according to the Lord General's order; and the officers to pay 12d. for an oath; that whosoever shall be drunke shall forthwith be committed,...
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Romance of Staffordshire, a ser. of sketches, Volume 3

Henry Carlos Wedgwood - 1878 - 132 pages
...were thus stated : " That whosoever shall swear, — for the first offence, shall forfeit fourpence ; for the second offence, to ride the horse, with a paper on his back, declaring his offence ; and for the third, to be bored through the tongue and cashiered, according...
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