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قراءة كتاب The Olden Time Series, Vol. 5: Some Strange and Curious Punishments Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts

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The Olden Time Series, Vol. 5: Some Strange and Curious Punishments Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts

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THE OLDEN TIME SERIES.

GLEANINGS CHIEFLY FROM OLD NEWSPAPERS OF BOSTON AND SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS

SELECTED AND ARRANGED, WITH BRIEF COMMENTS

BY

HENRY M. BROOKS

Some Strange and Curious
Puniſhments

"Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote."—Emerson

BOSTON
TICKNOR AND COMPANY
1886

Copyright, 1886,
By Ticknor and Company.

All rights reserved.

University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.

 

Gleanings chiefly from old newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts

Titles of quaint and curious reminiscenses of Ye Olden Times

THE OLDEN TIME SERIES

SOME STRANGE AND CURIOUS PUNISHMENTS

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow

For others' good, and melt at others' woe.

Pope: Odyssey.

But hushed be every thought that springs

From out the bitterness of things.

Wordsworth.

PUNISHMENTS MENTIONED.

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  • Arrest of the dead 86
  • Back "dress'd" 63
  • Banished 10
  • Books burned15, 16
  • Bound and chained 8
  • Branded with a hot iron 2, 3, 43
  • Burned 83
  • Cleft stick put on tongue 8
  • Confined at Castle Island 5, 48
  • Ears cropped 3, 10, 24
  • Eating one's own words 67
  • Executed (of frequent mention).
  • Fine and imprisonment (of frequent mention).
  • Gagged and dipped or ducked (of frequent mention).
  • Imprisonment for debt 70, 71
  • In the bilboes 35
  • In the pillory (of frequent mention).
  • In the stocks 35
  • In the stocks on lecture-day 8
  • "Kissing the Yſſrow" 44

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