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Punishments
3. His feet at the same time shall be inclosed
in a pair of iron boots, made to open so as to receive
them, and kept connected and separated by
an iron bar going across from heel to heel
4. To each boot may be fastened weights
heavier or lighter according to the discretion of
the Judge.
This is the afflicitive punishment for Highwayman/
that is to say, Robbers, when they go out to rob
on horseback or in a carriage.
Note
The punishment of Pickeering and Riding the wooden horse have sometimes been employed
in England among the soldiery for military
offences. In account of its their severity they
have not been much in use of late. In their account
as well as that of analogy they seem
better adapted to the purposes to which they
are have proposed to be applied. Punishments
which are at once of so exemplary
and so characteristic a nature, should not be
upon slight occasions.
Part bound in misery and iron.
As to The wooden horse I have changed it into
an iron one. The sound of Iron is more terrible
than wood. The notion of a wooden horse seemto border upon the ridiculous:
and is therefore better suited to the purposes of
mere ignominy than terror. Wooden Horses are play-thing,
owned by children.
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