Usually the penalty was to be determined
by the courts-martial, but sometimes death was decreed.
In the American colonies, judges were still appointed by the royal
governors and paid by the local legislatures. They still served at
the pleasure of the king.
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- Times: 1702-1776 -
Dress was plainer than before. Gentlemen wore white linen shirts;
waistcoats fitted at the waist and covering the trunk at least;
long lawn ties wound around the throat and tied in front with the
tails tucked in, knee-length coats that were wide in the skirts
and in the sleeve cuffs and having large gold, silver, or bronze
buttons which didn't reach to the buttonholes on the other side of
the coat; knee breeches of cloth, knitted wool, thread, and silk;
and silk stockings rolled up at the knee. Some shoes had metal
buckles. Gold fobs with watches or seals hung from the breeches
pocket. The clothes were made of silk, satin, or velvet and often
in colors such as yellow, orange, scarlet, blue, violet, pink, and
dull slate, and decorated with gold and silver trimmings. A
slender sword was worn on the side. Short wigs, often powdered
with heavily scented white or gray wheat flour, with rolls over
the ears with hair tied at the back, were worn for formal
occasions. Wigs were made of human, horse, goat, or cow hair, or
mohair, worsted, silk, or wire.
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