|
TARRING AND FEATHERING , a method of See also:punishment at least as old as the See also:Crusades. The See also:head of the See also:culprit was shaved and hot See also:tar poured over it, a bag of feathers being after-wards shaken over him. The earliest mention of the punishment occurs in the orders of See also:Richard Coeur de See also:Lion. issued to his See also:navy on starting for the See also:Holy See also:Land in 1191. " Concerning the See also:lawes and ordinances appointed by See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King Richard for his navie the forme thereof was this . . . See also:item, a thiefe or felon that hath stolen, being lawfully convicted, shal have his head shorne, and boyling See also:pitch poured upon his head, and feathers or downe strawed upon the same whereby he may be knowen, and so at the first landing-See also:place they shall come to, there to be See also:cast up " (trans. of See also:original See also:statute in See also:Hakluyt's Voyages, ii. 21). A later instance of this See also:penalty being inflicted is given in Notes and Queries (See also:series 4, vol. V.), which quotes one See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Howell See also:writing from See also:Madrid, in 1623, of the " boisterous See also:Bishop of Halverstadt," who, " having taken a place where there were . two monasteries of nuns and friars, he caused See also:divers See also:feather
beds to be ripped, and all the feathers thrown into a See also:great See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall, whither the nuns and friars were thrust naked with their bodies oiled and pitched and to tumble among these feathers, which makes them here (Madrid) presage him an See also:ill-See also:death." In 1696 a See also:London See also:bailiff, who attempted to serve See also:process on a debtor who had taken See also:refuge within the precincts of the See also:Savoy, was tarred and feathered and taken in a wheelbarrow to the Strand, where he was tied to the Maypole which stood by what is now See also:Somerset See also:House. It is probable that the punishment was never regarded as legalized, but was always a type of See also:mob vengeance.
End of Article: TARRING AND FEATHERING
Additional information and Comments
There are no comments yet for this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click, and select "copy." Then paste it into your website, email, or other HTML.
Site content, images, and layout Copyright © 2006 - Net Industries, worldwide.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.
Links to articles and home page are always encouraged.
|
del.icio.us it!