 | William Cobbett - Catholic emancipation - 1824 - 394 pages
...made to kneel on the pavement and to " contract himself into as small a compass as he could. " Then the executioner, kneeling on his shoulders, and " having introduced the hoop under his legs, compress" ed the victim close together, till he was able to fasten " the feet and hands together over... | |
 | John Lingard - Great Britain - 1825 - 572 pages
...was made to kneel on the pavement, and to contract himself into as small a compass as he could. Then the executioner, kneeling on his shoulders, and having...kind of torture was an hour and a half, during which time it commonly happened that from excess of compression the blood started from the notrils; sometimes,... | |
 | William Eusebius Andrews - 1826 - 446 pages
...victim c/«s« together, tiU h» uni uWf to fasten the extremities over the small of the bark. , Th« time allotted to this kind of torture was an hour and a half, during ichich lime it torn* manly happened that front excels of compression, the Wood started fi*1* '** tU4tril»... | |
 | William Eusebius Andrews - 1826 - 554 pages
...was made to kneel on the pavement, and to contract himself into as small a compass as he could. Then the executioner kneeling on his shoulders, and having introduced the hoop under }ib legs, compressed the victim close together, lili he was able to fasten the extremities over the... | |
 | 1828 - 332 pages
...contract himself into as small a compass as he could. Then the executioner, kneeling on his shoulder, and having introduced the hoop under his legs, compressed...kind of torture was an hour and a half, during which time it commonly happened that from excess of compression the blood started from the nostrils,—sometimes... | |
 | Jean François M. Le Pappe de Trévern (bp. of Strassburg.) - 1828 - 490 pages
...was made to kneel on the pavement, and to contract himself into as small a compass as he could. Then the executioner, kneeling on his shoulders, and having...small of the back. The time allotted to this kind of tortuie was an hour and a half, during which time it commonly happened that from excess of compression... | |
 | William Cobbett - Reformation - 1829 - 538 pages
...made to kneel on the pavement " and to contract himself into as small a compass " as he could. Then the executioner, kneeling " on his shoulders, and...victim close "together, till. he was able to fasten the feet and " hands together over the small of the back. " The time allotted to this tind of torture was... | |
 | C. St. George - 1830 - 600 pages
...was made to kneel on the pavement, and to contract himself into as small a compass as he could. Then the executioner, kneeling on his shoulders, and having...kind of torture was an hour and a half, during which time it commonly happened that, from excess of compression, the blood started from the nostrils ; sometimes,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1832 - 620 pages
...directions, till the body rose to a level with the frame ; questions were then put, and, if the answers were not satisfactory, the sufferer was gradually stretched,...shoulders, and having introduced the hoop under his legs, compresse, 1 the victim close together, till he was able to fasten the extremities over the small of... | |
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... 2. The scavenger's daughter was a broad hoop of iron, so called, consisting of two parts, fastened to each other by a hinge. The prisoner was made to kneel on the pavement, and to contract himself into as small a compass as he could. Then the executioner,... 
