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Death for Trifling Larcenies.

When Connecticut and New Haven were framing their first codes, larceny above the value of twelve pence was a capital crime in England – as it had been since the time of Henry I.

Dr. J. Hammond Trumbull’s “Blue Laws, True and False,” p. 17.

The curious old book called The English Rogue makes the limit thirteen pence ha’penny: death being the portion of any who steal a thing “above the value of thirteen pence ha’penny.”