MINOR QUERIES.

_Papers of Perjury._--In Leicester's _Commonwealth_ occurs the following

passage:--

"The gentlemen were all taken and cast into prison, and

afterwards were sent down to Ludlow, there to wear _papers of

perjury_."

Can any of your readers refer me to a _graphic_ account of the custom of

perjurers wearing papers denoting their crime, to which I suppose this

passage alludes?

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