22. English by birth, but married to a Spaniard, the Senora was whipped by the Inquisition, and burned in several places on her body. And why not? The English were ALL heretics, weren't they?
It was a surprise to Ms Vasconcellos. As the saying goes: "Nobody expects..."
Real Punishments - 1704 Maria Pritchard
23. In the records of Bristol, England:
"Maria Pritchard, for a cheat, in taking three yards of dowel from Mr. Rishton in the name of Alderman Swymmer, to be stripped naked to the waist on Friday morning next, and whipped from the Toizey, down one side of High Street and up the other, between the hours of 12 and 1 o’clock".
This time the horse's asses form book-ends in the picture. BTW there's no dictionary definition of Toizey, so it must have been a named place in Bristol, like this town square.
Real Punishments - 1729 Catherine Cadiere
24. Catherine Cadiere was chastised naked twice a week as a teenager by her confessor, Father Jean-Batiste Gerard. She was made a ward of Ollioules convent in 1729, at age 20. The Abbess, rightly suspicious, wouldn't let Fr Gerard see her except in the confessional. He convinced Catherine to present her bare bottom at the grill for punishment.
The nuns found out and banned him from the convent but nothing happened to him, of course.
