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Judicial Corporal Punishment Of Women: Illustrations
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The sins of the fathers---?
Harsh Martinet
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Public humiliation face to face astride the wooden horse would certainly seem appropriate in this case.
Harsh Martinet
Consul
No worries Barb! You'd be busied with your own predicament, in front of the town gaol, locked in the pillory or tied to the whipping post, being punished for your own numerous misdeeds.
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She can hear the eager crowd gathering in the courtyard. She has already stripped to her waist, not allowing the henchmen this pleasure. It is nearly that time, when she shall be secured to the public whipping post and receive her sentence of forty lashes, well laid on, for the crime of fornication
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Harsh Martinet
Consul
In a few minutes milady must endure the agony and utter humiliation of being mounted astride the wooden horse that sits atop the platform erected in the main square.
Her husband the duke has chosen this punishment for her crime of adultery. She'll be displayed until sunset and receive one hundred lashes in increments of ten, spaced through out her ride.
Her husband the duke has chosen this punishment for her crime of adultery. She'll be displayed until sunset and receive one hundred lashes in increments of ten, spaced through out her ride.
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The Beast
Governor
Perfect legs. She should be spread-eagled during flogging.
Harsh Martinet
Consul
Which one?
Harsh Martinet
Consul
I think I'd choose them for you Kathy in this exact order, the first and second ones especially appealing.
Ennie10
Executioner
In the picture on the right, "At the Whipping Post," the woman in the pillory at the right looks like she might be middle- or upper-class, judging from the way she is dressed However, her clothing has been ripped, exposing her right arm and shoulder. Perhaps she is about to be branded on the shoulder with hot iron.
Ennie10
Executioner
Here is a fine example of judicial corporal punishment. I wish I could post an illustration, but none is available.
Abigail White is famed as the last woman whipped in Vermont, on August 10, 1808 at five o'clock in the afternoon. After she was convicted for being part of a counterfeiting ring, Judge Royall Tyler had sentenced her to thirty-nine stripes with the cat o' nine tails, a stiff fine and court costs.
Abigail White was an English Canadian woman described as being "about six feet high, very straight, and very pleasing in her conversations and manners, light complexion," and "very genteely dressed," with an affinity for laced boots.
A great crowd witnessed Abigail stripped to the waist, her bare arms bound to the post with its crossbar near the top. The High Sheriff of Windham County, Mark Richards, and seven deputies set to, some delivering the lashes with force.
Deputy Lemuel Whitney gave two lashes as lightly as possible, but let his third lash fall as a gentle reminder that women were, by law, entitled to "their thirds"---his reference to the widow's share in one-third of her husband's estate.
According to eyewitness Charles K. Field, who was four years old then, "Near the close of the whipping her back became raw, and she suffered excessive pain and she shrieked and screamed terribly in her agony."
Abigail White is famed as the last woman whipped in Vermont, on August 10, 1808 at five o'clock in the afternoon. After she was convicted for being part of a counterfeiting ring, Judge Royall Tyler had sentenced her to thirty-nine stripes with the cat o' nine tails, a stiff fine and court costs.
Abigail White was an English Canadian woman described as being "about six feet high, very straight, and very pleasing in her conversations and manners, light complexion," and "very genteely dressed," with an affinity for laced boots.
A great crowd witnessed Abigail stripped to the waist, her bare arms bound to the post with its crossbar near the top. The High Sheriff of Windham County, Mark Richards, and seven deputies set to, some delivering the lashes with force.
Deputy Lemuel Whitney gave two lashes as lightly as possible, but let his third lash fall as a gentle reminder that women were, by law, entitled to "their thirds"---his reference to the widow's share in one-third of her husband's estate.
According to eyewitness Charles K. Field, who was four years old then, "Near the close of the whipping her back became raw, and she suffered excessive pain and she shrieked and screamed terribly in her agony."
Nightman
Executioner
Thanks for the story of Abigail White. No drawings exist the scene must have been something like this (although Abigail was only stripped to the waist).
Had she been tied differently it might have been something like this.
