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Brooks, Henry M. (Henry Mason), 1822-1898

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

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.


PUNISHMENTS MENTIONED.
PAGE
ARREST of the dead 86

BACK "dress'd" 63
Banished 10
Books burned 15, 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).


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