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C
Punishments
Pickeering
The punishment of Pickeering is thus performed to be thus executed.
The offender is to be tied to suspended by one hand
to the pillar of disgrace
2. Under one foot is to be placed an iron
spike, on which his foot is to rest, and
by which alone is to be supported underneath
3. His other foot is to be tied up, or kept
from assisting it's fellow, by being connected
with it and separated from it by an inflexible
iron bar.
This is the afflictive punishment for
Footpads: to wit robbers, when they go out to rob on
foot.
Riding the wooden iron
horse.
The punishment of riding the iron horse
is to be thus executed.
1 An instrument of the figure of a horse is
to be provided but as thin in the body part
as thin as it can be without so as to support
the weight of a man.
2. On this instrument the offender is to be set
astride; his hands being tied behind him in
such manner that no part of the weight of
his body can be supported by them.
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