CP was probably moderated somewhat after this time into the Victorian era.
But the 1700s seem to have been an era of total unashamed
licentiousness with animal fighting gambling and whoring
galore a la Hellfire Club.
Aristocrats and Governesses of all sorts would not have regarded an amusing severe bare bottom flogging of women servants children
as any big deal-quite the norm in fact.
There appear to have been no restraints or rules of modus Operandi whatsoever anywhere with even a few fatalities
in the 16th and 17th Centuries recorded.
Cartoons of the era illustrate the baring of big fat Georgian buttocks in many situations as a normal part of everyday life.
It definitely seems to have been a quite different era