He was again prosecuted, and was sentenced to lose WHAT REMAINED OF HIS EARS, to pay a fine of 5,000 pounds, to be BRANDED ON BOTH HIS CHEEKS with the letters S.L.( for Seditious Libeller), and to remain in prison for life.

The severity of this sentence was equalled by the savage rigour of its execution .-- Ibid.

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NOTES to Chapter XXXIII.
Christ's Hospital, or Bluecoat School, 'the noblest institution in the world.' The ground on which the Priory of the Grey Friars stood was conferred by Henry VIII.

on the Corporation of London (who caused the institution there of a home for poor boys and girls).