Note 100 — Chapter X · Ancient Punishments.
Reading edition
21 Victoria, c. 9, sec. 35.
Branding was used by the American Colonists and in New England was a common punishment for Quakers, who were branded with red hot iron, on the shoulder, with a letter “H” for Heretic. (Alice Morse Earle’s “Curious Punishments of By-Gone Days,” pp. 138, 148.)