item: #1 of 9 id: 16419 author: Brooks, Henry M. (Henry Mason) title: The Olden Time Series, Vol. 5: Some Strange and Curious Punishments Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts date: None words: 18709 flesch: 67 summary: _Thomas Atwood_ & _John Ransum_, for breaking open the store of Knott Pedrick, and stealing dry fish, were each sentenced to pay said Pedrick £40-5-0, to sit one hour on the gallows, be whipped 36 stripes, and confined to labour on Castle-island 3 years. an attorney of said Court. keywords: boston; country; court; crime; day; days; death; england; execution; following; gazette; good; hour; house; john; law; man; massachusetts; new; pay; people; place; pounds; punishment; salem; sentence; stealing; stripes; thomas; time; town; years cache: 16419.txt plain text: 16419.txt item: #2 of 9 id: 29117 author: Andrews, William title: Bygone Punishments date: None words: 61703 flesch: 69 summary: The two performers are sometimes in a cart, at other times on a donkey; one personating the wife, the other the husband. He, this deponent, further affirms, that he hath seen men drove up and down the streets, with a great tub or barrel opened in the sides, with a hole in one end to put through their heads, and so cover their shoulders and bodies, down to the small of their legs, and then close the same, called the new-fashioned cloak, and so make them march to the view of all beholders; and this is their punishment for drunkards and the like. keywords: account; andrews; body; book; brank; bygone; case; chains; church; country; court; crime; custom; day; days; death; ducking; end; england; execution; following; gallows; gibbet; good; guilty; hand; hanging; head; henry; history; house; illustration; iron; john; jougs; law; life; london; lord; man; manner; market; means; murder; night; notes; order; parish; penance; people; period; persons; pillory; place; post; present; prison; public; punishment; scotland; sentence; sir; stocks; stool; subject; time; town; water; way; whipping; wife; william; woman; work; year cache: 29117.txt plain text: 29117.txt item: #3 of 9 id: 34005 author: Earle, Alice Morse title: Curious Punishments of Bygone Days date: None words: 27095 flesch: 65 summary: Lecture-day, as affording in New England, in the pious community, the largest gathering of reproving spectators, was the day chosen in preference for the performance of public punishment by the pillory. Many Boston men were similarly punished. keywords: army; bilboes; book; boston; church; court; day; days; ducking; end; england; english; great; head; horse; iron; john; law; letter; magistrates; man; new; offense; paper; pillory; place; post; public; punishment; puritan; sentence; stand; stocks; stool; time; tongue; town; use; virginia; whipping; wife; women; year cache: 34005.txt plain text: 34005.txt item: #4 of 9 id: 37650 author: Mandeville, Bernard title: An Enquiry into the Causes of the Frequent Executions at Tyburn (1725) date: None words: 17419 flesch: 58 summary: Those that are forced to stay, do very little Service themselves, and spoil the other Slaves, teaching the _Africans_ more Villany and Mischief than ever they could have learn'd without the Examples and Instructions of such _Europeans_. THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY BERNARD MANDEVILLE, _AN ENQUIRY_ INTO THE CAUSES OF THE FREQUENT EXECUTIONS AT _TYBURN_. keywords: act; california; death; executions; felons; good; law; man; mandeville; manner; men; mob; people; publick; punishment; purpose; rogues; society; thief; thing; time; tyburn; university; use; way; wild cache: 37650.txt plain text: 37650.txt item: #5 of 9 id: 43986 author: Devon, James title: The Criminal & the Community date: None words: 110106 flesch: 62 summary: There are many men out of work who are far from anxious to get it; indeed, and for that matter, most people are quite content to do no more than they need; and in spite of all that has been said of the blessedness of labour, there are few of the most earnest preachers against the idleness of others who would prefer to work longer hours for less pay rather than shorter hours for more. The desire to shine among others is at the root of much of the foolish and criminal conduct of many men and women. keywords: boy; case; character; conditions; conduct; court; crime; criminal; deal; drink; fact; family; good; help; home; interest; know; knowledge; law; life; living; man; matter; means; men; money; need; offences; offenders; outside; people; person; place; police; position; present; prison; prisoners; public; result; set; state; things; time; treatment; way; women; work; years cache: 43986.txt plain text: 43986.txt item: #6 of 9 id: 46746 author: Griffiths, Arthur title: The Chronicles of Newgate, vol. 2/2 date: None words: 144513 flesch: 63 summary: All three were tried at the Central Criminal Court, and sentenced to fourteen years' transportation, passing some time in Newgate _en route_. _ i. 220. keywords: account; act; attempt; bailey; bank; body; business; capital; captain; case; cells; century; chapel; city; committee; common; condition; court; crime; criminal; crowd; day; days; death; debtors; discipline; england; escape; evidence; execution; feet; female; forgery; friends; fry; gallows; gaol; general; george; gold; good; governor; guilty; half; house; inmates; inspectors; james; john; king; law; left; life; london; lord; man; means; miss; money; morning; mrs; murder; newgate; night; notes; number; officers; persons; place; police; present; press; prison; prisoners; public; punishment; report; robbery; room; second; sentence; set; sheriffs; sir; society; state; street; system; time; trial; wakefield; ward; way; wife; william; woman; work; yard; years; young cache: 46746.txt plain text: 46746.txt item: #7 of 9 id: 50520 author: Griffiths, Arthur title: Early French Prisons Le Grand and Le Petit Châtelets; Vincennes; The Bastile; Loches; The Galleys; Revolutionary Prisons date: None words: 76221 flesch: 67 summary: It was the favorite residence of that duke who became King Louis XII of France, and his second queen, Anne of Brittany. Anne's brother-in-law, the Duc d'Orleans, afterwards King Louis XII, had expected the regency and rebelled, but she put him down with a strong hand, destroyed the insurgent forces that he gathered around him, and made him a close prisoner in the great tower of Bourges, where he endured the usual penalties,--confinement in a narrow, low-roofed cell by day and removal to the conventional iron cage at night. keywords: arrest; authority; bastile; cardinal; castle; character; charles; châtelet; country; court; day; days; death; duc de; duke; end; english; escape; feet; fortress; fouquet; france; french; galleys; general; good; governor; great; hand; head; henry; history; house; imprisonment; iron; king; left; life; louis; man; mars; mazarin; minister; new; number; order; paris; people; person; place; power; prince; prison; prisoners; public; queen; release; richelieu; room; royal; second; sentence; slaves; state; time; trial; vincennes; war; xiv; years; young cache: 50520.txt plain text: 50520.txt item: #8 of 9 id: 57689 author: Adler, Felix title: The Punishment of Children date: None words: 12635 flesch: 67 summary: See https://books.google.com/books?id=pV9HAQAAMAAJ&hl=en American Home Series Norman E. Richardson, Editor THE PUNISHMENT OF CHILDREN by FELIX ADLER Printed in the United States of America First Edition Printed April, 1920 Reprinted July, 1920; March, 1922 THE PUNISHMENT OF CHILDREN keywords: case; character; child; children; fault; life; means; method; nature; order; parents; punishment; time cache: 57689.txt plain text: 57689.txt item: #9 of 9 id: 59287 author: Walton, Bryce title: Freeway date: None words: 5235 flesch: 92 summary: Stan swung at it again. * * * Stan wanted to scream at the big sixteen-cylinder Special to go faster. keywords: anna; doctor; freeway; man; road; special; stan cache: 59287.txt plain text: 59287.txt