POPE: Odyssey.

_But hushed be every thought that springs
From out the bitterness of things._

WORDSWORTH.

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.

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).

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