In England! until 1861 bankrupts were treated with almost as much severity as criminals. So degrading was the position of a bankrupt esteemed that periodicals with pretensions to refinement declined to print the -word bankrupt in full. Until loss than a hundred years ago the monthly list published by tho "Gentloman'6 Magazine" of the unhappy creditors driven to filo their petition was always headed "B-kr-pts." I'ho old-timo -bankrupt in Scotland had to submit to treatment that'would hare ■done something to saiTsfy evon Charles Lamb, who maintained that bankrupts should bo hanged. Ho was compelled to wear a hideous parti-coloured dress, half yellow and half brown, until such timo as he had paid his debts in full. This was intended merely as! a friendly warning to those who might- have dealings with lum. As a punishment tho bankrupt was pubiicly exhibited in the market fllaoe*
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2612, 6 November 1915, Page 6
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144Untitled Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2612, 6 November 1915, Page 6
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