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Sep 16: HOLINSHED'S CHRONICLES Penalty for Silence
"Such felons as stand mute [do not confess] are pressed to death by huge weights laid upon a board that lieth over their breast and a sharp stone under their backs." Old English punishments, recorded by Holinshed, make startling reading. Read from HOLINSHED'S CHRONICLES .............. Vol. 35, pp. 363-370 |