ABSTRACT
The punishment of flogging was not only awarded to vagrants and rogues, male and female, as the municipal accounts shew, but in the time of the persecutions directed against heretics it was sometimes applied to convert, or at any rate to punish, the obstinate. Owen Hopton, a lieutenant of the Tower of London, caused one of his prisoners, a young lady of respectable family, to be severely scourged, because he could not prevail on her to attend the public service of a church which she deemed heretical.
