Bygone Punishments
by William Andrews
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About this eBook
- Author
- Andrews, William, 1848-1908
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Eric Hutton, Stephen Blundell, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- HV: Social sciences: Social pathology, Social and Public Welfare
- Subject
- Punishment
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 29117
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29117
- Release Date
- June 14, 2009
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.BYGONE PUNISHMENTS. — Bygone ... Punishments.
- 2.By William Andrews....
- 3.Contents.
- 4.Preface. — Bygone Punishments.
- 5.Hanging. — Gallows Customs. — Curiosities of the Gallows. — Horrors of the Gallows. — FOOTNOTES:
- 6.Hanging in Chains. — Hanging Alive in Chains. — FOOTNOTES:
- 7.Hanging, Drawing, and Quartering. — FOOTNOTES:
- 8.Pressing to Death.
- 9.Drowning. — FOOTNOTES:
- 10.Burning to Death. — FOOTNOTES:
- 11.Boiling to Death.
- 12.Beheading. — FOOTNOTES:
- 13.The Halifax Gibbet.
- 14.The Scottish Maiden. — FOOTNOTES:
- 15.Mutilation. — FOOTNOTES:
- 16.Branding. — FOOTNOTES:
- 17.The Pillory. — FOOTNOTES:
- 18.Punishing Authors and Burning Books.
- 19.Finger Pillory.
- 20.The Jougs. — FOOTNOTES:
- 21.The Stocks. — FOOTNOTES:
- 22.The Drunkard's Cloak.
- 23.Whipping and Whipping-Posts.
- 24.Public Penance. — FOOTNOTES:
- 25.The Repentance Stool.
- 26.The Ducking-Stool. — FOOTNOTES:
- 27.The Brank, or Scold's Bridle. — FOOTNOTES:
- 28.Riding the Stang.
- 29.Index.
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