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C
Punishments.
The artificial precipice shall be thus made. An iron
rod shall be prepared about the thickness of a man's wrist: it shall
be fastened horizontally between two perpendicular beams. This
machine being placed on a Stone pavement, the rod shall be
raised at least twice as high above the pavement as the criminal
is tall. He shall there be blindfolded and seated on
the rod; his hands being confined in such manner that they
cannot touch either the rod or any thing else whereby he
may support himself: and in that manner he shall be
left for a time to be limited in his sentence or until he
falls upon the pavement. But expedients may be employed
to save his head from the violence of the fall.
Identifier: | JB/143/028/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 143.
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143 |
punishment |
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028 |
punishments |
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001 |
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copy/fair copy sheet |
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recto |
f29 / f30 |
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[[watermarks::[britannia with shield emblem]]] |
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