This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ... years'." The question of duelling having been disposed of, the statutes proceed to provide against the nuisance to respectable householders of midnight revellers disturbing their households. The following statute proves that fast young men in the middle ages committed very nearly the same follies as in the present day ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ... years'." The question of duelling having been disposed of, the statutes proceed to provide against the nuisance to respectable householders of midnight revellers disturbing their households. The following statute proves that fast young men in the middle ages committed very nearly the same follies as in the present day: "Whoever shall enter into the house of a citizen without being invited, and against the wish of the head of the family, or who shall disturb the social gatherings of the people during their festivals, dances, weddings, or other similar occasions, shall lose two years of seniority, without hope of pardon. And if, either by day or by night, they do any damage to the doors or windows of the people, then, in addition to the above-named penalties, they shall suffer a rigid imprisonment, such as may be decreed by the Grand-Master and council. Any member of the Order joining in masquerades or ballets, shall suffer loss of seniority." This statute was still further defined by an addition made by the Grand-Master Claude de la Sengle: --" If any one shall be so bold as to damage doors or windows by night, or who shall stop them up with plaster, or stain them with dirt, or who shall throw stones at them, shall lose three years of seniority, leaving it to the discretion of the GrandMaster and council to decree a severer punishment." The original profession of a Knight of the Order of St. John having included the three vows of obedience, poverty, and chastity, the statutes, after having decreed such penalties as were necessary to check all transgressions of the two first of these vows, proceeded to deal with the last. The question of chastity was one not easily encountered in an Order constituted like that of the Hospital. On the ...
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