{"date":"September 16","id":"09-16","intro":["“Such felons as stand mute [do not confess] are pressed to death by huge weights laid upon a board that lieth over their breast and a sharp stone under their backs.” Old English punishments, recorded by Holinshed, make startling reading."],"minutes":16,"readings":[{"author":"Raphael Holinshed","end":370,"start":363,"volume":35,"work":"Chronicles"}],"slug":"september-16","status":"proofread","title":"Penalty for Silence","url":"/harvard-classics/september-16/","words":3283}