Punishment For Stealing Meal

Punishment For Stealing Meal

1 Feb 1766

Dennis Sullivan was whipped from the Cross Poddle to Harold’s Cross for [s]tealing Meal. Mr. Justice Drury attended, who caused a Bag of Meal to be tied round the Delinquent’s neck, and the Sentence properly executed.

— Faulkner’s Dublin Journal, February 1, 1766.

 

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