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Another species of punishment was formerly practised in this Country though now
rarely used consisted in subjecting the patient to frequent immersions in water, called Ducking –
the individual – was fastened to a chair or a stool, called the Ducking
Stool, and plunged repeatedly under water. In
this case the punishment was not of the acute
but of the uneasy kind. The physical
uneasiness arose partly from the cold, partly
from the temporary stoppage of respiration.
This species of punishment which had something
ludicrous in it, was applied to such persons, especially
of the female sex, who had been guilty
of the offence of scolding – communis vixatum.
It will readily be seen that this is This mode of punishment is obviously a relict
of antient simplicity & The common people It is still occasionally resorted
strongly attached to antient usage, especially while to+ when the people take the administration into their own hands. In for the purposes of justice, necessarily summary
administered by the people. In their fairs for example
readily serve applicable to present purposes
occasionally employ this summary species it is no un-exercisecommon fate of a detected
of justice upon pickpockets taking taken in pickpocket to be detected by the mob. the main as in popular assemblages of the people at fairs it

The power of inventions in devising instruments
of Torture punishment for producing pain has more
particula particularly distinguished itself in
that one branch of logic, in that logic of the
tribun Courts of justice which was called the
la question. Instruments were contrived for
applying punishment to each separate part of
the for body ampt according to the effect desired
to be produced was extension, compression or dislocation. The thumb Torture through the medium of the thumbs consti
was performed by bending them with cords –
that of the strait boots, by placing the leg in the a boot
and driving in wedges between the boot and
the leg. In the case of torture properly so called,
the patient was placed upon a board and
bound with cords which were which received to which a screw gave
the requisite tension by means of a screw, so
as to so as to produce whatever degree of
pain was desired.

Identifier: | JB/141/046/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 141.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	141	Main Headings	rationale of punishment
Folio number	046	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f6 /
Penner	richard smith	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[britannia with shield emblem]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	48263
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