Definition of "bracelets"

Of thirty bare yeares haue Itwice twenty bin enraged,& of forty bin three tymes fifteenein durance soundlie caged,On yͤ lordlie loftes of Bedlamwith stubble softe & dainty,braue braceletts Strong, sweet whips ding dongwith wholesome hunger plenty

c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665)

"Sergeant," said Inspector Gilder, eyeing the black hands with wrath, "aren't you putting the bracelets on this fellow; he looks pretty dangerous."

1911, G. K. Chesterton, The Three Tools of Death