CHAP. 4.  Brandy.
    CHAP. 5.  An act for taking away the benefit
of clergy from such as steal cloth from the reck,
and from such as shall steal or embezzle his majesty's
ammunition and stores.
    CHAP. 6.  An act for advancing the sale of fee-farm
rents and other rents.
    CHAP. 8.  An act for ascertaining the measures
of corn and salt.
    CHAP. 11.  London.
    CHAP. 12.  Highways.
    CHAP. 13.  Cattle.--Corn.

    CHAP. 1.  An act to prevent malicious maiming
and wounding.

    CHAP. 1.  The occasion of making this statute,
usually called the Conventry act, is recited in the
preamble, and is stated in 4 Bl. Com. 207.  There
is no record of any prosecution under this statute,
and it may safely be pronounced that it never
did extend to the province; and it may be observed
that those offences which were made felonies
by act of parliament were generally of a local
nature, and were seldom adopted in the province.
The act of 1642, ordaining punishment
for less capital offences, enumerated among others,
that of cutting or plucking out another's eyes or
tongue, the punishment of which must be inferred
from the several kinds prescribed therein.  It is
to be observed also, that in the session of 1793,
when it may be presumed that the legislature took
a full view of the subject in passing the act
respecting the punishment of criminals, they
adopted the literal expressions used in the Coventry
act as to the description of the crime, except