| John Lingard - 1825 - Страниц: 572
...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 - Страниц: 554
...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 - Страниц: 332
...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 - Страниц: 600
...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 - Страниц: 540
...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 - Страниц: 406
...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 - Страниц: 502
...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 - Страниц: 534
...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 - Страниц: 406
...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 - Страниц: 408
...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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