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Originally he was dragged by the heels at the.

Horses tail over the rough and filthy ground, which sometimes killed the victim.

Sometimes, as in the case of William Longbeard in 1196, rough stones were placed in the road to make the transit more painful.

But humanity was not wholly dead, and we find sometimes an ox-hide, some- times a hurdle spread under the sufferer by friars or others.

Mr Justice Shaw in 1340 forbade this in a peculiarly atrocious case of a servant killing his former master.