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TARRING AND FEATHERING , a method of punishment at least as old as the Crusades. The head of the culprit was shaved and hot tar poured over it, a bag of feathers being after-wards shaken over him. The earliest mention of the punishment occurs in the orders of Richard Coeur de Lion. issued to his navy on starting for the Holy Land in 1191. " Concerning the lawes and ordinances appointed by King Richard for his navie the forme thereof was this . . . item, a thiefe or felon that hath stolen, being lawfully convicted, shal have his head shorne, and boyling pitch poured upon his head, and feathers or downe strawed upon the same whereby he may be knowen, and so at the first landing-place they shall come to, there to be cast up " (trans. of original
statute
series 4, vol. V.), which quotes one James Howell writing from Madrid, in 1623, of the " boisterous Bishop of Halverstadt," who, " having taken a place where there were . two monasteries of nuns and friars, he caused divers featherbeds to be ripped, and all the feathers thrown into a great
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