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See also:WHIPPING, or FLOGGING , a method of See also:corporal See also:punishment which in one See also:form or another has been used in all ages and all lands (see See also:BASTINADO, See also:KNOUT, See also:CAT-O'-NINE-TAILS). In See also:ancient See also:Rome a See also:citizen could not be scourged, it being considered an infamous punishment. Slaves were beaten with rods. Similarly in See also:early See also:medieval See also:England the See also:whip could not be used on the See also:freeman, but was reserved for the villein. The Anglo-See also:Saxons whipped prisoners with a three-corded knotted lash. It was not uncommon for mistresses to whip or have their servants whipped to See also:death. See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William of See also:Malmesbury relates that as a See also:child 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 'See also:Ethelred was flogged with candles by his See also:mother, who had no handier weapon, until he was insensible with See also:pain. During the Saxon See also:period whipping was the See also:ordinary punishment for offences, See also:great or small. Payments for whipping figure largely in.municipal and See also:parish accounts from an early date. The abolition of the monasteries, where the poor had been sure of See also:free meals, led during the 16th See also:century to an increase of See also:vagrancy, at which the See also:Statute of Labourers (1350) and its provisions as to whipping had been early aimed. In the reign of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry VIII, was passed (1J30) the famous Whipping See also:Act, directing vagrants to be carried to some See also:market See also:town or other See also:place" and there tied to the end of a See also:cart naked and beaten with whips throughout such market town till the See also:body shall be bloody." In the 39th See also:year of See also:Elizabeth a new act was passed by which the offender was to be stripped to the See also:waist, not quite naked. It was under this statute that whipping-posts were substituted for the cart. Many of these posts were combined with See also:stocks, as that at See also:Waltham See also:Abbey, which bears date " 1598." It is of See also:oak, 5 It. 9 in. high, with See also:iron clasps for the hands when used for whipping, and for the feet when used as stocks. Fourpence was the old See also:charge for whipping male and See also:female rogues. At See also:quarter-sessions in See also:Devonshire at See also:Easter 1598 it was ordered that the mothers of See also:bastard See also:children should be whipped; the reputed fathers suffering a like punishment. In the See also:west of England in 1684, " certain Scotch pedlars and See also:petty chapmen being in the See also:habit of selling their goods to the greate damage and hindrance
of shoppe-keepers," the See also:court ordered them to be stripped naked and whipped. The flogging of See also:women was See also:common. See also:Judge See also:Jeffreys, in so sentencing a female prisoner, is reported to have exclaimed, " Hangman, I charge you to pay particular See also:attention to this See also:lady. See also:Scourge her soundly, See also:man: scourge her till her See also:blood runs down! It is See also:Christmas: a See also:cold See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time for madam to See also:strip. See that you warm her shoulders." Lunatics; too, were whipped, for in the See also:- CONSTABLE (0. Fr. connestable, Fr. connetable, Med. Lat. comestabilis, conestabilis, constabularius, from the Lat. comes stabuli, count of the stable)
- CONSTABLE, ARCHIBALD (1774-1827)
- CONSTABLE, HENRY (1562-1613)
- CONSTABLE, JOHN (1776-1837)
- CONSTABLE, SIR MARMADUKE (c. 1455-1518)
Constable's Accounts of Great Staughton, Hunts, occurs the entry, " 169o-t, Paid in charges taking up a distracted woman, watching her and whipping her next See also:day—8/6d." A still more remarkable entry is " 1710–1, Pd. See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Hawkins for whipping two See also:people yt had smallpox—8d." In 1764 the Public See also:Ledger states that a woman who is described as " an old offender " was taken from the See also:Clerkenwell See also:Bridewell to See also:Enfield and there publicly whipped at the cart's tail by the common hangman for cutting See also:wood in Enfield See also:Chase. A statute of 1791 abolished the whipping of See also:females.
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