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The 1500s is the Tudor period. School punishments consisted of severe birching (whipping with the birch rod, i.e. a thick heavy bundle of birch twigs tied on the end of a stick). Birching was administered to the bare buttocks, with the pupil kneeling and bent over a school 'flogging block', and could be as many as 50 strokes. As the punishment progressed, the pupil's bottom and upper thighs, including the exposed anoperineal region, would be whipped until the whole area became a mass of raw flesh and ran with blood.

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