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Raise the hue and cry1/9/2023 ![]() ![]() My selfe am partly of his opinion, that (indeed) to weepe Irish, is to weepe at pleasure, without either cause or greefe, when it is an vsuall matter amongst them, vpon the buriall of their dead, to hire a company of women, that for some small recompence giuen them, they will follow the corps, and furnish out the cry (as Master Stanhurst hath said) with such howling and barbarous outcries, that hee that should but heare them, and did not know the ceremony, would ra∣ther thinke they did sing then weep. This Stanhurst in his historie of Ireland, maketh this report of his Countrey-men: They fol∣low the dead corps to the ground, with howling and barba∣rous out-cries, * pittifull in appearance, whereof (as he suppo∣seth) grew this Prouerb, To weep Irish. And there is not a people vnder the face of heauen, that will soo∣ner deride and mocke at any thing that is not in vse and cu∣stome among themselues, then the Irish will doe.Īnd as the Irish are thus pleasantly conceited, to iest and to scoffe when they finde occasion, so they haue as great fa∣cilitie in weeping, as Stanhurst a famous man amongst them, for his excellent learning for first he was a Chonicler, then a Poet, and after that he professed Alchymie, and now he is become a massing Priest. ![]() Hubbubs againe in matters of sport and merriment. Of these Alarmes and Outcries, we haue sometimes three or foure in a weeke, and that in Dublin it selfe, among the base and rascall sort of people, and as these Hubbubs are thus raised in cases of anger and discontent, so they vse to giue the If a Master or Mistresse do but beat a seruant that hath well deserued it, they will raise the Hubbub. If a man being drunk, or howsoeuer otherwise distempered, doth for∣tune to strike his wife. If a couple of drunkards doe chance to fall together by the eares. ![]() This was the first institution of it, but they will now raise the Hubbub vpon other sleight occasions. The intent of it was at the first, that when any Rebels or Theeues came to doe any robbery in the Countrey, they should then raise the Crie (which they call the Hubbub) therby to giue notice to the Inhabitants round about, that they might combine and gather themselues together in a maine strength, either to rerouer any prey that the theeues or Rebells had taken, * or at the least to make resistance in their owne defence, and as much as in them did lie, to saue the Countrey from any fur∣ther spoile. THAT which in England we doe call the Hue and Crie, in Ireland, they doe call the Hubbub. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.THE IRISH HVBBVB OR, The English Hue and Crie. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. 2 Blackstone upheld the myth that the common law was handed down from time immemorial: a judge (or commentator) could never be declared to have ‘defined’ some part of it at best he could be said to describe or discover it. When William Blackstone described the offense of murder, he did not draw upon a positive statute, but upon a description given by Sir Edward Coke, Lord Chief Justice during the reign of James VI/I. The common law specified certain broad categories of offenses, such as murder and larceny. 1 English legal expectations were shaped by the common law, an uncodified tradition refined over the centuries by the interpretation of the judges. Passed in 1723, the ‘Black Act’ originally outlawed poaching in disguise or in ‘blacked’ face, but judicial interpretations soon divorced its various provisions from their original context, leading to a list of fifty or more crimes punishable by death. Sometimes a single act generated a number of crimes, as in the case of the Waltham Black Act. The great majority of these crimes related to the taking or damaging of property. The very structure and assumptions of English criminal law seemed to encourage the proliferation of capital statutes in the eighteenth century. ![]()
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