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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.



Identifier: | JB/143/019/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 143.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

not numbered

Box

143

Main Headings

punishment

Folio number

019

Info in main headings field

punishments

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f17 / f18 / f19 / f20

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown motif]]]

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

caroline fox

Corrections

jeremy bentham

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

48652

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