 | John Lingard - 1825 - 572 pages
...able to fasten the extremities over the small of the back. The time allotted to this kind of torture was an hour and a half, during which time it commonly...from excess of compression the blood started from the notrils; sometimes, it was believed, from the extremities of the hands and feet. See Bartoli, 250.... | |
 | William Eusebius Andrews - 1826 - 554 pages
...able to fasten the extremities over the small of the back. The time allotted to this kind of torture was an hour and a half, during which time it commonly...compression, the blood started from the nostrils, and sometimes, it is said, from the extremities of the hands and feet. Mr. Cottam, who suffered with... | |
 | 1828 - 332 pages
...able to fasten the extremities over the small of the back. The time allotted to this kind of torture was an hour and a half, during which time it commonly...from excess of compression the blood started from the nostrils,—sometimes it was believed, from the extremities of the hands and feet.— 3. Iron Gauntlets,... | |
 | C. St. George - 1830 - 600 pages
...able to fasten the extremities over the small of the back. The time allotted to this kind of torture was an hour and a half, during which time it commonly...believed, from the extremities of the hands and feet. " 3. Iron gauntlets, which could be contracted by the aid of a screw. They served to compress the wrists,... | |
 | David Jardine, Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1832 - 540 pages
...able to fasten the extremities over the small of the back. The time allotted to this kind of torture was an hour and a half, during which time it commonly...believed, from the extremities of the hands and feet. 3d. Iron gauntlets, which could be contracted by the aid of a screw. They served to compress the wrists,... | |
 | 1832 - 406 pages
...able to fasten the extremities over the small of the back. The time allotted to this kind of torture was an hour and a half, during which time it commonly...believed, from the extremities of the hands and feet. 3d. Iron gauntlets, which could be contracted by the aid of a screw. These were also called Manacles.... | |
 | Eneas Mackenzie - 1834 - 502 pages
...the small of the back. The time allotted to this kind of torture was an hour and a half, during which it commonly happened that, from excess of compression, the blood started from the nostrils, and sometimes, it Is said, from the extremities of the hands and feet. Mr. Kirby received sentence... | |
 | David Jardine - 1835 - 534 pages
...able to fasten the extremities over the small of the back. The time allotted to this kind of torture was an hour and a half, during which time it commonly...believed, from the extremities of the hands and feet. 3d. Iron gauntlets, which could be contracted by the aid of a screw. They served to compress the wrists,... | |
 | John Lingard - 1840 - 406 pages
...able to fasten the extremities over the small of the back. The time allotted to this kind of torture was an hour and a half, during which time it commonly...250. 3". Iron gauntlets, which could be contracted by theaidofascrew. They served to compress the wrist, and to suspend the prisoner in the air, from two... | |
 | Henry Marshall - 1846 - 408 pages
...small of the back. The time allotted for this kind of torture, was an hour and a half, during which it commonly happened that, from excess of compression, the blood started from the nostrils, and sometimes, it was believed, from the extremities of the hands and feet. This compressing instrument... | |
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... 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, compressed the victim close together till he was able to fasten the extremities over the small of... 
