e avera toilet a home ses membres, en tiei cas perdra la
femmela une meyn par jugement, come le membre dount ele
avera trespasse.' Britton, c 25. Flela, B 1. c. 40; LI.
AElfr. 19. 40.

Whosoever shall counterfeit* any coin, current by law within this
Commonwealth, or any paper bills issued in the nature of money, or of
certificates of loan on the credit of this Commonwealth, or of all
or any of the United States of America, or any Inspectors' notes for
tobacco, or shall pass any such counterfeited coin, paper, bills, or
notes, knowing them to be counterfeit; or, for the sake of lucre shall
diminish,** case, or wash any such coin, shall be condemned to hard
labor six years in the public works, and shall forfeit all his lands and
goods to the Commonwealth.

* 25E.3. st 5. c. 2; 5 El c. 11; 18 El. c. 1; 8 and 9 W. 3.
c. 26; 15. and 16 G 2. c. 28; 7 Ann. q. 25. By the laws of
AEthelstan and Canute, this was punished by cutting off the
hand. 'Gifse mynetereful wurthe sleaman tha hand of, the he
that fil mid worthe and sette iippon tha rnynet smithlhan.'
In English characters and words 'if the minler foul
[Criminal] wert, slay the hand off, that he the foul [crime]
with wrought, and set upon the mint-smithery.' LI,iEthelst.
14. 'And selhe ofer this false wyrce, tholige thaera handa
the he thaet false mid worhte.' 'Et si quis prater hanc,
falsam fecerit, perdat manum quacum falsam confecit.' LI.
Cnuti, 8. It had been death by the LI. AEihelredi, sub fine.
By those of H. 1. 'Si quis cum falso deuario inventus
fueril--fiat justitia mea, saltern de dextro pugno et de
testiculis.' Anno 1108. 'Opera prelium vero est audire quam
severus rex fuerit in pravos. Monetarios enim fere omnes
totius Angliee fecit ementulari, et manus dextras abscindi,
quia monetam furtive corruperant.' Wilkins ib. et anno 1125.
When the Common law became settled, it appears to have been
punishable by death. 'Est aliud genus crirninis quod sub
nomine falsi continetur, et tangit coronam domini regis, et
nlfimum indncit supplicium, sicut de illis qui falsam
fabricant monetasn, et qui de re non reproba, faciunt
reprobam; sicut sunt retonsores deriarinruno' Bract. L. 3. c
3. Sec. 2. Fleta, L. 1. c. 22 Sec. 4 Lord Hale thinks it was
deemed petty treason at common law. 1 H. P. C. 220, 224. The
bringing in false m