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 20 Tread-mill 71 to 76 UPON the gallows with rope about the neck (of frequent mention). WHIPPED at the cart's tail 1, 9 Whipping-post (of frequent mention). SOME STRANGE AND CURIOUS PUNISHMENTS. ------------------------- In the month of January, 1761, "Joseph Bennett, John Jenkins, Owen McCarty, and John Wright were publickly whipt at the Cart's Tail thro' the City of New York for petty Larceny,"--so the newspaper account states,--"pursuant to Sentence inflicted on them by the Court of Quarter Sessions held last Week for the Trial of Robbers," etc. In March the same year "One Andrew Cayto received 49 Stripes at the public Whipping Post" in Boston "for House-robbing; viz., 39 for robbing one House, and 10 for robbing another." In 1762 "Jeremiah Dexter, of Walpole, pursuant to Sentence, stood in the Pillory in that Town the space of one Hour for uttering two Counterfeit Mill'd Dollars, knowing them to be such." At Ipswich, Mass., June 16, 1763, "one Francis Brown, for stealing a large quantity of Goods, was found Guilty, and it being the second Conviction, he was sentenced by the Court to sit on the Gallows an Hour with a Rope about his Neck, to be whipt 30 Stripes, and pay treble Damages. He says he was born in Lisbon, and has been a great Thief." We extract the following from the "Boston Chronicle," Nov. 20, 1769:-- We hear from Worcester that on the eighth instant one Lindsay stood in the Pillory there one hour, after which he received 30 stripes at the public whipping post, and was then branded in the hand; his crime was forgery. Lindsay was probably branded with the letter F, by means of a hot iron, on the palm of his right hand; this was the custom in such cases.