Jericho was long before 2011 <| sep |> Randyll doesn ' t even have the right to make new rules like thatI don ' t think Randyll made up any new rules . I think the poor lady giving his men the clap is considered a crime . A lot of what we see from Randyll is punishment for things that only Randyll sees as worthy of punishment . It ' s the type of thing that would come up at Danys court , if a bunch of soldiers showed up and said they all got sick after visiting the same brothel , that brothel keeper would be fined or something , something would happen , that ' s the type of thing we see in every other Dany chapter when she holds court , she comes up with punishments for crimes on the fly because there ' s no written law or precedent for some crimes and injustices . And as far as raising his son goes , I ' m sure a lord is allowed to raise his son however he sees fit according to the laws . He wanted Sam to take the black so he said what he had to say to get him to do that . And to be fair , Sam would not have made a great lord of horn hill . I don ' t think Randyll is technically guilty of anything other than being a dick . Neds not a dick , on that we also agree . He hates the idea of loose , promicuous women so much that he ' s willing to inflict awful burns and the potential of possiblydeadly infection to teach not just her but the whole town a lesson about what happens to them . And again , I disagree . If he were going to kill her , he would have hanged her . He just wanted them to wash out her infected giney so that she wouldn ' t spread the clap to anymore of his soldiers . I wouldn ' t be surprised if that was the maesters treatment for that sort of thing , medieval medicine and whatnot .