The bilboes were the first engine of punishment in Boston, and were used until 1639, and perhaps much later.
The stocks soon superseded the bilboes and were near neighbors and amusement purveyors to the tavern.
The bilboes were not greatly in use in the colonies and they were soon superseded by the stocks and the pillory.
So the Caliph bade lay him in bilboes and write thereon, "Appointed to remain here until death and not to be loosed but on the corpse washer's bench;" and they cast him fettered into limbo.
William James, for incontinency, was sentenced to be set in the bilboes at Boston and Salem, and bound in 20l.
And yet this is my old friend, Captain Goldsmith, As sure as I stand in thebilboes here.
My ankles had been freed from the bilboes before I was brought up, but when I was ordered to stand, I could not readily obey because of the continued numbness of my limbs.
But we’ll send a hand over and ask the woman for a taste, for I’m so jammed in these here bilboes that I begin to want summat to lighten my upper works.
I’ve got the bridge right ahead, and the bilboes dead aft: I calls that good steerage, boy.
The decade of life of the Boston bilboes was soon to end, it was to be "laid flat," as Sir Matthew Hale would say; a rival entered the field.
Sometimes a chain at one end of the bilboes attached both bilboes and prisoner to the floor or wall; but this was superfluous, as the iron bar prevented locomotion.
It is alleged that bilboes were manufactured there and shipped on board the Spanish Armada in large numbers to shackle the English prisoners so confidently expected to be captured.
I would not be over-severe upon the bilboes in their special use in those early colonial settlements.
Soon another colonist felt the bilboesfor "selling peeces and powder and shott to the Indians," ever a bitterly-abhorred and fiercely-punished crime.
He also suffered in the bilboesfor cursing, for "prophane saying dam ye come.
Within a year we find offenders being punished in two places for the same offence, thus degrading them far and wide; and when in Salem they were "sett in the stockes," we find always in Boston that the bilboes claimed its own.
The next year another Newe-towne man, being penitent, Henry Bright, was set in the bilboes for "swearynge.
The Massachusetts magistrates brought bilboes from England as a means of punishing refractory or sinning colonists, and they were soon in constant use.
Whether the Spanish Armada story is true or not, bilboes were certainly much used on board ship.
He could not communicate with Greenacre, having no idea' where the man lived or where he was to be heard of; an inquiry at the Bilboes proved that he was not known there.
At the end of a fortnight he wrote to Greenacre at the Bilboes pressing for information.
Who knows but some day we may ourselves sit in the bilboes and yonder ballad-maker may take his fill of pleasure at our misfortune.
In the meantime I'll free you o' your bilboes awhile, though I must lock you up again that you may be found snug and secure in the morning.
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