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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"



HUNG in chains 14, 15

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

LIMITS of the jail 70, 71

PAPER on the breast with the word _Cheat_ 33
Prisoners sold 21, 22, 47, 48, 49
Prosecution against animals 78

SENT back to England 51
Sent to Castle Island to make nails 65
Sewed up in bed-clothes and thrashed 68

TIED neck and heels and thrown into a pond 28
Tied to a gun and whipped 20
Tied to a tree and chastised 81
Tongue bored with a hot iron 20
Tread-mill 71 to 76

UPON the gallows with rope about the neck (of frequent mention).


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