Re: more questions (fwd)

[James Gilly / Alasdair mac Iain <alasdair.maciain@snet.net>]

Poster: James Gilly / Alasdair mac Iain <alasdair.maciain@snet.net>

At 14:30 16-12-98 -0600, Pedro wrote:
> Here are some other questions I have if anyone has answers :)
>> 1)  Other than stocks, pillories,  hangings and decapitation, what other
>> tortures were publically used
>> during the reign of Henry VII through Eliz I?
>
>In England, or in other places? England's not exactly a
>torture-prone kingdom. On the other hand, England had trial by
>jury-but you had to _want_ it. If you didn't consent to trial by
>jury, you could be "convinced" by a treatment known as peine
>forte et dure. This was not exactly done in public. Essentially,
>they made the accused lie on a table, put a board on top of him,
>and piled weights on him until he agreed that trial by jury was a
>good idea.

Slightly outside our period, but the one victim of the Salem witch trials
who was not hanged was executed by "pressing."


Alasdair mac Iain



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