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Among the indefinite multitude
of punishments of this kind that might be
imagined and described, it will answer every
purpose if we mention such of them as some of those which have
names been in use in this and other Countries.

The most obvious method of
inflicting this species of punishment and which
has been most commonly used is consists in exposing
the Body to blows or stripes. When these are
inflicted with a flexible instrument the operation
is called whipping. – When a less flexible
instrument is employed the effects are different
but the operation is hardly seldom distinguished by another
name.

In Italy and particularly
in Naples, there is a method not uncommon of punishing
pickpockets, called the Strappada. It is
performed by consists in raising the offender by his arms
by means of an engine like a crane, to a
certain height and then suddenlyletting him fall
toward towar to but suddenly stopping his descent
before he reaches the ground. The momentum
which his body has acquired in the descent
is thus made to bear upon his arms and the
consequence generally is that they are dislocated at
the Shoulder; to prevent the permanent evil consequences
a surgeon is then employed to reset them.

There were formerly in England two
kinds of a punishment of this class, discarded now even
from the Military Code in which they were longest retained.
The one called Picketing which consisted in suspending
the offender in such manner that the weight of his body rested was supported
principally by a spike on which he was made to stand
with one foot: the other, the Wooden Horse as it was called
was a narrow ledge or board on which the individual was
made to sit astride – and the inconvenience of which was
increased by suspending weights to his legs.

Identifier: | JB/141/045/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 141.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	141	Main Headings	rationale of punishment
Folio number	045	Info in main headings field	book ii of corporal punishment chap. 1 simple afflictive punishments
Image	003	Titles	note
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f2 / f17 / / f18
Penner	richard smith	Watermarks	[[watermarks::dusautoy & rump 1809 [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	edward collins
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1809
Notes public		ID Number	48262
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