Curious Punishments of bygone Days
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Curious Punishments of bygone Days
Language
eng
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non fiction
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Curious Punishments of bygone Days
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electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Summary
In Curious Punishments of Bygone Days, the punishment did not always fit the crime, as this fine old illustrated history of wrath and righteousness shows. One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first public building was a meeting house, but often before any house of God was built, the devil got his restraining engine. And who were the heinous criminals that the righteous put in the stocks? The punishment generally, in England and America both, was for petty thieves, unruly servants, Sabbath-breakers, revilers, gamblers, drunkards, ballad-singers, fortunetellers, traveling musicians, and a variety of other offenders
Target audience
adult
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