clergyable

Women in the reign of William and Mary were admitted to the privileges of men in clergyable felonies, on praying the benefit of the statute (3 and 4 Will. and M.c. ix, x 5).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

It was expressly stated that there must be a presentment by the grand jury; that the owner must be notified; that the hearing might be removed to another county on affidavit of owner; that an offense clergyable for freemen was to be clergyable for slaves; and that the slave with the advice of his master might challenge the jury for cause.

Slavery in the State of North Carolina 1899

At that period an actor, unless protected by the licence of a nobleman or gentleman, was virtually a vagrant before the law, while felonies committed by scholars were still clergyable.

Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897

And, during the reign of George I., statutes were passed "authorizing transportation as a commutation punishment for clergyable felonies."

History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens George W. Williams 1870

It should be added, however, that though the penalty for each of these seventy-one crimes is 'death,' yet a majority of them are, in the words of the law, 'death within clergy;' and in Virginia, clergyable offences, though technically capital, are not so in fact.

American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses 1839

Fir/l, From what time a felon convifted of a clergyable felony, is entitled to the benefit of the ftatute pardon of

Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, and of Some Special Cases ... William Peere Williams 1793

Peers exempted from being burnt in the hand in the case of clergyable felonies.

Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery, and of some special cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench [1695-1735] 1790

A slave convicted of a clergyable offence, shall be entitled to the benefit of clergy, in like manner with a freeman, and when he shall pray for the same, the court shall have power to direct and adjudge such corporal punishment short of death or dismemberment as to the court shall seem right, under all the circumstances of the case; and the entry of such judgment shall have the same legal effects and consequences, as if the slave or slaves were burned in the hand, as in the case of a freeman convicted of a similar offence.

Slaves and Free Persons of Color. An Act Concerning Slaves and Free Persons of Color North Carolina. 1831

'death within clergy;' and in Virginia, _clergyable_ offences, though

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

'death within clergy;' and in Virginia, _clergyable_ offences, though

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society