[486]. William Andrews, Old-Time Punishments, p. 153.
[487]. Dictionary of National Biography. There was an Act of Henry VIII. which has been called the whip with six strings, which may have some reference to the hangman’s usual weapon.
[488]. On the old convict ship Success.
[489]. See Murray, Dictionary, vol. iv.
[490]. “Hangman, I charge you to pay particular attention to this lady. Scourge her soundly, man; scourge her till the blood runs down. It is Christmas—a cold time for madam to strip. See that you warm her shoulders thoroughly.”—Mr. Justice Jeffreys, quoted in Andrews, Old-Time Punishments, p. 154.
[491]. 57 Geo. III. c. 75.
[492]. See Statute of Labourers, 25 Ed. III. c. 2.
[493]. L. Jewitt, “The Pillory and who they put in it,” The Reliquary, i. p. 210, April 1861.
[494]. Besant, Tudors, p. 381.
[495]. Andrews, Old-Time Punishments, p. 68.