banditto

— Any one bringing a banditto to juſtice, who either will not, or cannot take the benefit of the pardon, receives, in lieu thereof, a certain ſum of money out of the king’s treaſury. At firſt the extirpation of the banditti was a difficult work, the principal nobility making uſe of theſe bravos as aſſaſſins for their private revenge, and affording them all poſſible protection.