including some of her own children, in order to profit by their life insurance.  Such instances help to explain the prolonged vitality of “Judge Lynch,” and sometimes almost make one regret the days in old England when William Probert, after escaping in 1824 as “king’s evidence,” from the Thurtell affair, got caught and hanged within a twelvemonth for horse-stealing.  Any one who wishes to study the results of allowing criminality to survive and propagate itself should read Dugdale’s The Jukes; Hereditary Crime, New York, 1877.

[35] Weeden, Indian Money as a Factor in New England Civilization, Johns Hopkins University Studies, II. viii., ix. p. 30.

[36] Doyle, ii. 253.

[37] Doyle, Puritan Colonies, ii. 254.

[38] The quotation is from an unpublished letter of Rev. Robert Ratcliffe to the Bishop of London, cited in an able article in the Boston Herald, January 4, 1888.  I have not seen the letter.

[39] Doyle, Puritan Colonies, ii. 379, 380.