bilboes

The Spanish used to secure prisoners in bilboes, shackles round the ankles secured by a long bar of iron.

One of the earliest of these instruments of punishment was the bilboes.

The next year another Newe-towne man, being penitent, Henry Bright, was set in the bilboes for “swearynge.”

I would not be over-severe upon the bilboes in their special use in those early colonial settlements.