Joh. Amos Commenii Orbis sensualium pictus, hoc est, Omnium fundamentalium in mundo rerum, & in vita actionum, pictura & nomenclatura Joh. Amos Commenius's Visible world, or, A picture and nomenclature of all the chief things that are in the world, and of mens employments therein / a work newly written by the author in Latine and High-Dutch ... ; & translated into English by Charles Hoole ... for the use of young Latine-scholars.

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Joh. Amos Commenii Orbis sensualium pictus, hoc est, Omnium fundamentalium in mundo rerum, & in vita actionum, pictura & nomenclatura Joh. Amos Commenius's Visible world, or, A picture and nomenclature of all the chief things that are in the world, and of mens employments therein / a work newly written by the author in Latine and High-Dutch ... ; & translated into English by Charles Hoole ... for the use of young Latine-scholars.
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Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670.
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London :: Printed for J. Kirton ...,
1659.
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"Joh. Amos Commenii Orbis sensualium pictus, hoc est, Omnium fundamentalium in mundo rerum, & in vita actionum, pictura & nomenclatura Joh. Amos Commenius's Visible world, or, A picture and nomenclature of all the chief things that are in the world, and of mens employments therein / a work newly written by the author in Latine and High-Dutch ... ; & translated into English by Charles Hoole ... for the use of young Latine-scholars." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34111.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.

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CXXV.

[illustration]
125

Supplicia Male∣ficorum.

Malefici 1. per Lictores, 2. è Carcere 3. (ubi torqueri solent) producuntur, vel equo raptantur, 15. ad locum Supplicii.

Fures 4. in Patibulo 5 suspenduntur à Carnifice; 6.

Moechi decollantur;

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Homicidae (Sicarii) ac Latroues (Piratae) vel crurifragio plexi Rotae imponuntur, 8. vel Palo infiguntur; 9.

Striges (Lamiae) super Rogum 10 cremantur.

Quidam antequam supplicio af∣ficiantur, elinguantur, 11. aut super Cippum 12. Manu plectuntur, 13. aut Forcipibus 14. uruntur.

Vitâ donati, Numellis constringun∣tur, 16. luxantur, 17. Equuleo imponun∣tur, 18. Auribus truncantur, 19. Virgis caeduntur, 20. Stigmate notantur, relegantur, damnantur ad triremes, vel ad Carcerem per∣petuum.

Perduelles quadrigis discerpuntur.

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The tormenting of Malefactors.

Malefactors 1. are brought from the Prison, 3. (where they are wōt to be tortured) by Sergeants, 2. or dragd with a horse, 15 to place of Execution.

Theeves 4. are hanged by the Hangman, 6. on a Gallows; 5.

Whore-masters are beheaded; 7.

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Murtherers and Robbers are either laid upon a Wheel, 8. having their legs bro∣ken, or fastned upō a stake. 9

Witches are burnt in a great Fire. 10.

Some before they be executed have their tongues cut out, 11. or have their Hand 13. cut off upon a Block, 12 or are burnt with Pincers. 14.

They that have their life given them, are seton the Pillory, 16 are strapadoed, 17. are set upon a wooden-horse, 18. haue their ears cut off, 19. are whipped, 20. are branded, are banished, are condenned to the galleys, or to perpetual impri∣sonmēt.

Traytors are pulled in pieces with 4 horses.

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