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Map of Antangil
Cities & Towns of Antangil
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ox hide with wooden handle. If to the galleys, or to the mines, he is reserved for the prisons. If to death, he is returned to the place of the crime passing through the middle of the city, the rope around the neck & shackles on the feet, in order to put more fear & terror into the wicked. If he has some property, he pays the expenses to the Centurion who collects it, if not, it is the community of the parish. But there are always very few expenses. For each Centenir, from parish to parish, is obliged to provide an escort of soldiers to the one who leads it, either on the way there or on the return: So that in that country, one is hanged very cheaply. The bodies of the criminals are buried 24 hours after the execution, considering amongst themselves it a dishonest and inhuman thing to see such frightful carrion in the air, conforming in this in this to the divine Law, which commands to give burial to those who have been held to justice, and what is still more humane in these people, is that they only have two strong punishments, namely the rope & the sword. For, as for the cruel tortures, they are forbidden, having not considered that the confession through force & extorted by the violence of the torments, is sufficient proof to verify the crimes. For the innocent & timid who D 3 |