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punishments: a device or procedure used to discourage criminals (see also torture).

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Tortured with feet to the fire

Anglo-Saxon Punishments

1733.—The Whirligig

1734.—Man and Woman in Stocks.

1735.—The Brank

Taunting Persons in the Stocks.

A Reluctant Tax-Payer

detail: swinging corpse

detail: swinging corpse: silhouette

Waltham Abbey Whipping-Posts and Stocks.

The Sacrifice to the Nile.

Stocks and Whipping Post, Aldbury

Cain and Abel.

John Bunyan at Bedford Gaol.

John Bunyan’s chained leg in prison

Christians Flung To The Wild Beasts

Sir Thomas More

One of the dark cells

King Henry II whipped by the Pope’s Order

Queen Bohemia swallowed up alive

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Places Shown

Aldbury; Hertfordshire; England

Bedford; Bedfordshire; England

Canterbury; Kent; England

Prague; Bohemia

Vincelles; Jura; France

Waltham; Essex; England