Curious Punishments of Bygone Days

Curious Punishments of Bygone Days is a history book published in 1896.

It was written by Alice Morse Earle and printed by Herbert S. Stone & Company.

Earle was a historian of Colonial America, and she writes in her introduction: In ransacking old court records, newspapers, diaries and letters for the historic foundation of the books which I have written on colonial history, I have found and noted much of interest that has not been used or referred to in any of those books.

An accumulation of notes on old-time laws, punishments and penalties has evoked this volume.

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