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Simple Modes – Capital Afflictive Deaths.

Pulling to pieces by only Horses is has been the concluding
one article of a long list of [excruciative torments punishments]
with which the French have punished
attacks made upon the lives of their kings.

The torment continues as long as the horses continue
pulling. It for that time resembles the
punishment torment of the rack. The immediate cause
of death is the effusion of blood which takes
place immediately as soon as any limb is separated
from the Trunk, by the rupture of a
great artery.

Exposure to wild beasts is a punishment in
use among the antient Romans. The mode punishment
is naturally as to the in in those above is obviously rather of
an uncertain nature; but at any rate the death
is speedy. The immediate cause of death is either
the effusion of blood, or the affection of a
vital part, according to the manner in which the
beast happens to proceed in the destruction of his
prey.

6. Burning Ch. 7. Boiling Ch.
Boiling to death is a punishment that was
formerly in use among us, being appointed in a
particular case by a Statute, which however
was soon repealed. It would differ greatly in
its nature according as the sufferer was put in
head foremost or feet foremost, and as according
as to the water was cold or hot as when he was put in.
The immediate cause of death might be either a stop
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Identifier: | JB/159/229/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 159.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

159

Main Headings

punishment

Folio number

229

Info in main headings field

afflictive deaths

Image

001

Titles

pulling to pieces / laceration to wild beasts / burning / boiling / embowelling

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

caroline vernon

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

54052

Box Contents

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