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Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Alice Morse Earle

Curious Punishments of Bygone Days

Alice Morse Earle

72 pages first pub 1896 (editions)

nonfiction crime history informative medium-paced
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Book Excerpt: ...ay be indicted, and if convicted shall be sentenced to be placed in a certain engine of correction called the trebucket, castigatory, or ducking-stool."The trebuchet, or trebucket, was a stationary and simple form of a ducking mac...

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