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Close confinement

Close confinement.jpg A Soldier with his MatchlockThumbnailsHamstringing a MalefactorA Soldier with his MatchlockThumbnailsHamstringing a MalefactorA Soldier with his MatchlockThumbnailsHamstringing a MalefactorA Soldier with his MatchlockThumbnailsHamstringing a MalefactorA Soldier with his MatchlockThumbnailsHamstringing a MalefactorA Soldier with his MatchlockThumbnailsHamstringing a Malefactor

This criminal is fastened , at full length, upon a sort of bedstead, a
chump of wood serving for a pillow. His hands and his feet are loaded
with iron manacles and fetters ; his neck is chained to a post, and
fastened by two padlocks.