JB/159/157/002

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kinds of motion and imperfectly with respect to
many more. The disablement is more or less perfect
according to the shortness, and inflexibility of the connecting part, the weight of the whole instrument, and the position in which the members are placed previously to its being before applied.

Fetters Fetters are rings connected in the same manner
and made to embrace the small of the leg:
the effect of these instruments is to disable the
patient with respect to the faculty of loco-motion:
but imperfectly, so long as they are not
so heavy as to be immoveable.

Chaining to the Floor. Fetters and Manacles are sometimes connected
together: at other times each hand and each
leg is connected separately with a ring fixed
in some immoveable substance: for instance the
floor. By this latter means the whole body
is disabled perfectly with respect to loco-motion.

These methods of disablement are almost in universal use. They are imploy'd in general not so
much for the purpose of punishment, as of
preventing escape during the continuance of some punishment
of the another kind, or which the patient
is confined before trial in order to be forthcoming if found
guilty for some other punishment to be inflicted
on him in case of his being found guilty.
The power of applying them at discretion
is usually looked upon as incident of
course to the office of a Gaoler.

The Pillory. The Pillory is an Engine by in which the
Head and Hands are confined at once; the
whole body being at the disabled in a perfectly degree with
respect to the faculty of loco-motion. A long board not

Identifier: | JB/159/157/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 159.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	159	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	157	Info in main headings field	disablement
Image	002	Titles	gagging / note / fetters / chaining to the floor / the pillory / the carcass / the stocks
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / f10 / f11 / f12
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	53980
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