Leading criminologists were inferring criminal tendencies from eyebrow type well into the late 19th century in Europe.
Specifically, Cesare Lombroso's[1] theory of Anthropological Criminology listed, amongst a number of other characteristics such as large ears and (if I remember my criminology class) supernumerary nipples:
"bushy eyebrows, tending to meet across nose"[2]
as a physiognomic feature useful in identifying "criminal man."
Even as someone with a good deal of experience reading Middle and Early Modern English, the spelling still sometimes gets me. “Desceuynges” = “deceivings”.
Specifically, Cesare Lombroso's[1] theory of Anthropological Criminology listed, amongst a number of other characteristics such as large ears and (if I remember my criminology class) supernumerary nipples:
as a physiognomic feature useful in identifying "criminal man."