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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
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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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