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A History of the County of Oxford
… marking irons, measures, toll books, a cucking stool, a pillory, and a tumbrell, 70 exemplifies the corporation's … lords, 248 which was still in use in 1829, and stocks, a pillory, and a cucking stool, mentioned in 15545; the stocks …
A History of the County of Hertford
… a loft or room above. In the front of it were the stocks, pillory, and whippingpost. It was burnt down in 1854, it is …
A History of the County of Sussex
… modern. In the tower are preserved the former stocks and pillory. Next to the north porch in the churchyard is a …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… to suppress conventicles and the beadle was set in the pillory. 4 The same beadle in 1690 was given the existing …
Old and New London
… repress the cruelties of the mob to poor wretches in the pillory. He was a steady friend of Alderman Waithman, and was … people, and it has been asserted that he stood in the pillory in 1790 for a libel against the Duke of York. This is …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… iron reinforcement and three hasps, 17th-century, (vi) Pillory, in the Shambles, wooden cross-piece with apertures …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… from the circumstance of his possessing a gallows and a pillory, had evidently the power of inflicting capital …
A New History of London
… Ward was indicted for perjury, and condemned to the pillory! The oppression and cruelty exercised by kings and …
A New History of London
A New History of London
… a severe reprimand. Parsons was sentenced to stand in the pillory three times in one month, and to be imprisoned two …
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