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Compare 1577 edition: 1 4 Fourthlie, if he gaue but a blowe with his fist without bloudshedding, he should be plunged three seuerall times ouer head and eares in the water.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 5 Fiftlie, if any man reuiled another, he should for euerie time so misusing himselfe,Reuilers. forfeit an ounce of siluer.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Theft and pickerie.6 Sixtlie, that if any man were taken with theft or pickerie, and thereof conuicted, he should haue his head polled, and hot pitch powred vpon his pate, and vpon that, the feathers of some pillow or cushion shaken aloft, that he might thereby be knowne for a theefe, and at the next arriuall of the ships to any land, be put foorth of the companie to seeke his aduen|ture, without all hope of returne vnto his fellowes.

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