How were children punished in Elizabethan England?

Punishments in medieval schools consisted almost exclusively of birching (flogging with a birch 'rod', i.e. a heavy bundle of birch twigs) applied to thenaked buttocks. Pupils would have to kneel and bend over a 'flogging block' to receive the punishment. Floggings were severe and cruel, consisting of up to 50 strokes of the birch, leaving the whole of the victim's buttocks and upper thighs(including the anoperineal sphere) a mass of raw, bloody and lacerated flesh.