She was still angry with Alex, and she was punishing him.
There was nothing that would stop him from punishing the man who left his mother to die alone.
They were also charged with the maintenance of order in the mir and the family, punishing infractions of the religious law, husbands who beat their wives, and parents who ill-treated their children.
In both 1715 and 1745 Dumfries remained apathetic. Prince Charles Edward indeed occupied the town, holding his court in a building afterwards known as the Commercial Hotel, levying £2000 tribute money and requisitioning 1000 pairs of shoes for his Highlanders, by way of punishing its contumacy.
But in a statute punishing with death robbery on the highway, railways were held not to be included in the term.
