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CG-NL.769.039
2 Jun 1769:11 (290)
Boston, April 11. There was very severe whippings the day
before yesterday; a grenadier having received about two
hundred lashes, in part of a court marshal's sentence, the
doctor as it is said, advised to his being loosed from the
halberts it being his opinion, that a greater number might
endanger life. He was accordingly unloosed, when he fell
upon the ground senseless, but upon pouring some water down
his throat, he soon came to himself; this encouraged the
humane officer, to order his being again tied to the
halberts, and that the drummers should proceed in executing
the sentence; he accordingly received about fifty more
lashes, as seemingly insensible of the strokes as would have
been a statute of marble: He was then taken down and
conveyed away to the hospital, a seeming corpse.
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