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Schools were harsh and austere places in puritan times (17th century) with severe corporal punishments for misbehaviour or failure to learn lessons. Corporal punishment usually took the form of birching (i.e. flogging with a birch rod) on the bare buttocks. A child to be punished would be placed over a 'flogging block' or 'birching horse', or sometimes 'horsed' (mounted 'piggy back' style astride the back of a fellow pupil). The child would then be birched until his or her buttocks were a mass of raw wealed, and bloodied flesh. The puritan's belief in frequent corporal punishment for children had its roots in The Bible Old Testament and that to 'spare the rod' was to spoil the child.

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