Burglaries, etc. Act 1706
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1706 c. 6 |
| Year | 1706 |
(6 Ann.) C A P. VI.
'W H E R E A S by an Act made in the tenth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King William the Third, intituled,An Act for the better apprehending, prosecuting, and punishing Felons that commit Burglaries, House-breaking, or Robbery in Shops, Warehouses, Coach-houses, or Stables, or that steal Horses ; it is (amongst other Things) enacted, That from and after the twentieth Day of May one thousand six hundred ninety-nine, all and every Person and Persons, who should be convicted of or for any Theft or Larceny, and should have the Benefit of the Clergy allowed thereupon, or ought to be burnt in the Hand for such Offence, instead of being burnt in the Hand, should be burnt in the most visible Part of the left Cheek nearest the Nose: And whereas it hath been found by Experience, that the said Punishment hath not had its desired Effect, by deterring such Offenders from the further committing such Crimes and Offences, but on the contrary, such Offenders being rendered thereby unfit to be intrusted in any Service or Employment to get their Livelihood in any honest and lawful Way, become the more desperate;' Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consentof the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the fourteenth Day ofFebruary which shall be in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and six, so much of the said Act as inflicts or concerns the inflicting the said Punishment of burning in the Cheek, shall be and is hereby repealed.
II Offenders to be burnt in the Hand as formerly:
II. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That in all Cases where any Person or Persons shall, from and after the said fourteenth Day ofFebruary , be convicted of any Theft or Larceny, and shall have the Benefit of this Act allowed thereupon, or ought by the Laws in Force before the making the said Act, to be burned in the Hand for such Offence, shall be burnt in the Hand, as formerly they should or ought to have been before the making of the said Act; and the Judge or...
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