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A History of the County of Middlesex
… of outlawry and the right of free warren. 7 There was a pillory in High Road in 1455-6 8 but by 1526 Tottenham had neither stocks, a cucking stool nor a pillory, and also lacked weights and measures for the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… on the Saturday after August Bank Holiday. The dungeon, 12 pillory, 13 and town cross 14 have disappeared. The ghosts or …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… brought to trial in 1612, was sentenced to stand in the pillory at Clitheroe and other towns. The county lay of 1624, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… in the town. The market cross was removed in 1786. The pillory was last used in 1818. 25 A printing press is said to … Notes, iii, 115, from the Universal Gazetteer. For the pillory see ibid, iii, 100. Local Gleanings Lancs, and Ches. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… there. The burgesses were to have a gild, with gaol, pillory and cuck-stool and other means of punishing …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… they had a free borough, assize of bread and beer, pillory, cuckingstool, infangenthef and gallows, a weekly … or brawling a man was to be placed in the gibbet or pillory and a woman in the cuckstool. The author of a 'brawl …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… the expenses of wedding-feasts 39; for stocks, dungeon, pillory and cucking stools 40; also for the public waits, 41 … peace-breach, &c., those of the gallows, pit, pillory, and tumbril; ibid. iii, 449. Among the lands of … of bread and ale, infangenthief, peace-breach, gallows, pillory, and tumbril, market and fair, free warren, and other …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… the Mere Brook, but was removed in 1780. The dungeon and pillory were in the same street. The stocks were kept in the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… been suppressed. 20 The old-time punishments of cuckstool, pillory and stocks have likewise ceased. 21 Archery used to … rolling in 1882 is spoken of in Pal. Note-bk. ii, 108. The pillory was last used at Preston in 1814; Hewitson, Preston, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… lord for three offences, but on a fourth he was put in the pillory ( facet assisam ville). A debtor who failed to appear …