Oriental customs: or an illustration of the sacred Scriptures, by an explanatory application of the customs and manners of the Eastern nations, and especially the Jews. Therein alluded to, together with observations on many difficult and obscure texts, collected from the most celebrated travellers, and the most eminent critics / by Samuel Burder.

  • Samuel Burder
Date:
1802
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Credit: Oriental customs: or an illustration of the sacred Scriptures, by an explanatory application of the customs and manners of the Eastern nations, and especially the Jews. Therein alluded to, together with observations on many difficult and obscure texts, collected from the most celebrated travellers, and the most eminent critics / by Samuel Burder. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ino-, upon which he lets them know that he will commit the cognisance of the affair to such or such an one. In consequence of this justice is usually done them. Harmer, vol. iv. p. 203. No. 504.—xxii. 24. The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging.] To put one to the questions was a punishment among the Romans. They put cri- minals to the question, or endeavoured to extort confes- sion from them by scourging them. Some think that the offender was stripped to his waist, and that his hands were tied to a pillar, that his back might be stretched out to receive the blows. Others are of opinion, that his hands were fastened to a stake driven into the ground of a foot and a half or two feet high, so that the cri- minal stooping with his face towards the ground might present his naked back to such as were appointed to scourge him. No. 505.—xxv. 11. I appeal to C<esar.~\ This way of appealing was frequent among the Romans, intro- duced to defend and secure the lives and fortunes of the populace from the unjust encroachments and over- vigorous severities of the magistrates. In cases of op- pression, it was lawful to appeal for redress and rescue. This practice was more than once sanctioned by the Valerian laws. These appeals were generally made in writing, by appellatory libels given into the court, and containing an account of the appellant, the person against whom, and from whose sentence he appealed ; but where it was done in open court, it was enough for the criminal verbally to declare that he did appeal. In great and weighty cases, the appeal was made to the prince himself, whereupon, not only at Rome, but in all the provinces of the empire, every proconsul and gover-