MIGHT HAVE BEEN WORSE.
The London trader who was convicted of exposing bad eggs for sale, and had a notice of his crime exhibited outeide his shop by order of the Court, might, in other times, have had to endure an even less pleasant punishment. A former Lord Mayor of London, for example, believed that in such cases the punishment should fit the crime. Consequently, he condemned the owner of a tavern in Eastcheap who was convicted of selling adulterated wine to swallow a huge draught of the liquor and have the rest of hie stock poured over his head.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 128, 2 June 1938, Page 19
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