Penal Methods of the Middle Ages: Criminals, Witches, Lunatics

by George Burnham Ives

[506]. Pike, Hist. i. p. 237.

[507]. Barrington, Ancient Statutes, p. 422.

[508]. Andrews, Old-Time Punishments, p. 152.

[509]. Ibid. p. 140.

[510]. Jewitt, “Scolds and how they cured them,” Reliquary, October 1860.

[511]. Andrews, Old-Time Punishments, p. 45.

[512]. See Jewitt, “A few Notes on Ducking Stools,” Reliquary, January 1861.

[513]. Andrews, Old-Time Punishments, etc., etc.

[514]. Holdsworth, Hist. ii. p. 327.

[515]. At some of the American lynchings the injured woman applies a match to the wood upon which the offending negro is to be burned to death.