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Front cover, Bygone Punishments
Bygone Punishments (1931)
A plain dark blue book cover. But people don’t often scan the plain covers, so here it is.
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colour, book covers
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none
Added: 2006-08-21
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Anglo-Saxon Punishments
Bygone 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 [...]
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stocks, punishments, bare feet, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale
Places shown:
England
Added: 2006-01-08
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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 reproductionof one of its qua [...]
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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 [...]
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stocks, punishments, greyscale
Places shown:
Waltham; Essex; England
Added: 2006-01-08
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Stocks and Whipping Post, Aldbury
Bygone 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 uneve [...]
Keywords:
stocks, punishments, houses, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale
Places shown:
Aldbury; Hertfordshire; England
Added: 2006-01-30
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