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142x200, 1750x2472, 531x750, 875x1236 | The Stocks. MonktonEngland’s Outpost (1930) Outside the wall of the churchyard, the village stocks still stand in their original position, which duly exposed its unfortunate occupants to the notice of the traffic on the village road. (p. 80) We [...] Keywords: stocks, punishments, churches, drawings, pillories, towers, greyscale Places shown: Monkton; Kent; England Added: 2025-07-15 + S K L R N |
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1270x884, 2540x1767, 287x200, 750x522 | Tortured with feet to the firePeter Parley’s Annual (1856) [...] the first stranger reappeared, and beckoning with his finger, the party passed through the door to a little vestibule, the further end of which was closed by a heavy dark-red curtain; upon this [...] Keywords: torture, stocks, people, men, prisons, interiors, medieval, bare feet, punishments, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2025-07-04 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | 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 + S K L |
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| 1219x716, 1625x955, 340x200, 914x537 | 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 + S K L |
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1200x440, 1600x586, 546x200, 900x330 | 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 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1098x1662, 132x200, 463x701, 549x831 | 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 + S K L R N |
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1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | 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 + S K L R N |
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