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Judicial corporal punishment in a women's prison, USA (ca. 1890) American colonies judicially punished in a variety of forms, including whipping, stocks, the pillory and the ducking stool. [66] In the 17th and 18th centuries, whipping posts were considered indispensable in American and English towns. [67]
Birching in a women's prison, US (c. 1890) 1839 caricature by George Cruikshank of a school flogging Edmund Bonner punishing a heretic in Foxe's Book of Martyrs (1563) It was the most common school and judicial punishment in Europe up to the mid-19th century, when caning gained increasing popularity.
Foot whipping, falanga/falaka or bastinado is a method of inflicting pain and humiliation by administering a beating on the soles of a person's bare feet. Unlike most types of flogging, it is meant more to be painful than to cause actual injury to the victim. Blows are generally delivered with a light rod, knotted cord, or lash. [1]
Theresa Berkley ran a high-class flagellation brothel at 28 Charlotte Street [1] (which is today's 84–94 Hallam Street). [2] She was a " governess ", meaning she specialised in chastisement, whipping, flagellation, and the like. [ 3 ]
The accusations against her were from: (1) the Bishop's Chancellor Edmund Bonner, who claimed that women were not allowed to speak the Scriptures, and (2) the Bishop of Winchester Stephen Gardiner, because she would not profess that the sacraments were the literal flesh, blood and bone of Christ; this despite the fact that the English ...
Caning can also be applied to the soles of the feet (foot whipping or bastinado). The size and flexibility of the cane and the mode of application, as well as the number of the strokes, may vary. Flagellation as punishment was so common in England that caning, along with spanking and whipping, were called "le vice anglais" or "the English vice ...
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The 19th-century British naval cat was made out of a piece of rope, thicker than a man's wrist (about 6 centimetres or 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches), 1.5 metres (5 ft) in length. The first ninety centimetres (3 ft) were stiff and solid, and the remaining sixty centimetres (2 ft) unraveled into hard twisted and knotted ends.