| John Lingard - 1825 - 572 pages
...more and more till the bones started from their sockets. 2°. The scavenger's daughter was a broad hoop of iron, so called, consisting of two parts, fastened to each other by a binge. The prisoner was made to kneel on the pavement, and to contract himself into as small a compass... | |
| William Eusebius Andrews - 1826 - 554 pages
...in England, and the first she pope or head of it. The scavenger's daughter •was a broad iron hoop, consisting of two parts, fastened to each other by...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
...from their sockets.—2. The Scavenger's Daughter, also used in the Tower, was a broad hoop of iron, consisting of two parts, fastened to each other by...as he could. Then the executioner, kneeling on his shoulder, and having introduced the hoop under his legs, compressed the victim close together, till... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1832 - 624 pages
...daughter. The scavenger1} daughter is a broad hoop of iron, consisting of two parts, fastened together, by a hinge. The prisoner was made to kneel on the pavement, and contract himself into as small a compass as possible. The executioner, kneeling on his shoulders, and... | |
| David Jardine, Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1832 - 540 pages
...stretched more and more till the bones started from their sockets. 2d. The scavenger's daughter was a broad hoop of iron, so called, consisting of two parts,...shoulders, and having introduced the hoop under his leg*, compressed the victim close together, till he was able to fasten the extremities over the small... | |
| William Cobbett - 1832 - 396 pages
..."the Scavenger's Daughter, was a broad hoop of iron, consisting of two parts, fastened by a binge. The prisoner was made to kneel on the pavement and...shoulders', and having introduced the hoop under his lees, compressed the victim close together, till he was able to fasten the feel and hands together... | |
| William Cobbett - 1832 - 270 pages
...was called, " the Scavenger's Daughter, was a broad hoop of iron, consisting of two parts, fastened by a hinge. The prisoner was made to kneel on the...executioner, kneeling on his shoulders', and having introi fhc hoop under his legs, compressed the victim (lose together, till he was uhle In fatten Ike... | |
| 1832 - 406 pages
...stretched more and more till the bones started from their sockets. 2d. The scavenger's daughter was a broad hoop of iron, so called, consisting of two parts,...each other by a hinge. The prisoner was made to kneel ou the pavement, and to contract himself into as small a compass as he could. Then the executioner,... | |
| Encyclopaedia Americana - 1832 - 620 pages
...daughter. The scavenger's daughter is a broad hoop of iron, consisting of two parts, fastened together by a hinge. The prisoner was made to kneel on the pavement, and contract himself into as small a compass as possible. The executioner, kneeling on his shoulders, and... | |
| David Jardine - 1835 - 534 pages
...stretched more and more till the bones started from their sockets. 2d. The scavenger's daughter was a broad hoop of iron, so called, consisting of two parts,...by a hinge. The prisoner was made to kneel on the pa'ement, and to contract himself into as small a compass as he could. Then the executioner, kneeling... | |
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