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Town Cross, Stocks and Whipping-Post, RippleIn Unfamiliar England (1910)

“Near the cross, relics of days when there were rogues in Ripple—sureley there are none now—are the oaken stocks and weather-beaten whipping-post.” (p. 132) Stocks were sometimes used to hold people b [...]

Keywords: punishments, stocks, buildings, greyscale

Places shown: Ripple; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2006-06-16

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Anglo-Saxon PunishmentsBygone Punishments (1931)

“Stocks were used, at an early period, as a means of punishing breakers of the law. The precise date when they were first emplyed in this country is not known, but we may infer from early mediaeval il [...]

Keywords: stocks, punishments, bare feet, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-01-08

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1734.—Man and Woman in Stocks.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“A stockes to staye sure and safely detayne Lazy, lewd leu[?]terers that lawes do offend.”(Harman’s ‘Caveat,’ &c.) “The stocks are still, we believe, occasionally used [1845], though the sooner they t [...]

Keywords: punishments, people, bare feet, beer, stocks, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-01-18

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Taunting Persons in the Stocks.Bygone Punishments (1931)

“The “Cambridge Trinity College Psalter”—an illuminated manuscript—presents some curious illustrations of the manners of the earlier half of the twelth century. We give a reproduction of one of its q [...]

Keywords: punishments, people, bare feet, stocks, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-01-08

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Waltham Abbey Whipping-Posts and Stocks.Bygone Punishments (1931)

The Anglo-Saxons whipped prisoners with a whip of three cords, knotted at the end. It was not an uncommon practice for mistresses to whip, or have their servants whipped, to death. William of Malmesbu [...]

Keywords: stocks, punishments, greyscale

Places shown: Waltham; Essex; England

Added: 2006-01-08

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Stocks and Whipping Post, AldburyBygone Punishments (1931)

Stocks and whiping-post, Aldbury, from a photo by A. Whitford Anderson, Esq., Watford. A half-timbered house, probably Tudor, beside a pond; in the foreground are wooden stocks, with the somewhat unev [...]

Keywords: stocks, punishments, houses, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Aldbury; Hertfordshire; England

Added: 2006-01-30

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Stocks at Stanton HarcourtThe British Isles (1905)

“Stanton Harcourt still preserves the stocks in which petty offenders were held in ludicrous durance. (p. 120)” People were forced to sit with their ankles locked into the wooden holes so that their f [...]

Keywords: punishments, stocks, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Stanton Harcourt; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2005-12-31

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Stocks at Stanton Harcourt (Sepia-Tinted Edition)The British Isles (1905)

A “sepia-tinted photograph” version of The Stocks at Stanton Harcourt.

Keywords: colour, punishments, stocks, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Stanton Harcourt; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2005-12-31

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