 | Robert Pitcairn - 1831 - 220 pages
...suspected to be implicated. The boots, or bootikins, were chiefly made use of in extreme cases, auch as High Treason, Witchcraft, &c. This horrid instrument...crushed and lacerated in a shocking manner before con* fession was made. Fian endured these tortures with almost incredible firmness. See the Trial of... | |
 | 1833 - 302 pages
...inform against or to criminate others, strongly suspected to be implicated. The boots, or booliAins, were chiefly made use of in extreme cases, such as...firmness. See the Trial of John Master of Orkney, Jan. 24, 1596, &c. for them fuch matters as the Divell flill pleafed to commaund him. ITEM, Hee confefled, that... | |
 | John R. Tudor - 1883 - 780 pages
...straikis ; and the dochter being sewin yeir auld, put in the pinnywinkis." The boots, or bootikins? " extended from the ankles to the knee, and at each...in a shocking manner before confession was made." The 4 " pilnie1 Douglas's Peerage. - Pitcairn's Criminal Trials, vol. ip 3 Ibidem, p. 219. 4 Ibidem,... | |
 | University of Pennsylvania. Department of History - 1897 - 174 pages
...on this passage, "were chiefly made use of in extreme cases, such as High Treason, Witchcraft, etc. This horrid instrument extended from the ankles to the knee, and at each stroke of a arge hammer (which forced the wedges closer), the question was repeated. In many instances, the bones... | |
 | Dana Carleton Munro - 1907 - 218 pages
...on this passage, "were chiefly made use of in extreme cases, such as High Treason, Witchcraft, etc. This horrid instrument extended from the ankles to...in a shocking manner before confession was made." 2 The personal interest taken in these trials by King James is explained by the fact that one of the... | |
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This horrid instrument extended from the ankles to the knee, and at each, stroke of a large hammer, (which forced the wedges closer,) the question was repeated. In many instances, the bones and flesh of the leg were crushed and lacerated in a shocking... 