In France it was called the pillorie. It was well established as a use of punishment after the Conquest. It was considered to be a degrading punishment with offenders standing in the pillory for several hours to be abused by fellow citizens, sometimes being pelted with all manner of organic material such as rotten eggs, mud and filth.
If that was not enough, sometimes the offender was drawn to the pillory on a hurdle, accompanied by minstrels and a paper sign hung around his or her head displaying the offence committed. Afterward the ear was cut off leaving it on the pillory. Most pillories stood in market squares or another prominent area of towns, sometimes raised on platforms.
They are opposite the building, which was used as the court in medieval times. Town bids to reinstate medieval stocks. Image source, Andrew Curtis. Is there anything quite as chillingly middle-English as a head swinging mournfully from a set of gallows, silhouetted over some rugged and desolate moorland? Image source, Steve Daniels. The appropriately named Oxfordshire town of Woodstock has wooden stocks - oddly with five leg holes.
Image source, Sue Adair. The original wooden stocks in West Derby rotted and were replaced with iron ones. Nantwich in Cheshire still has a pillory in the centre, while the village sign in Thorpe Morieux, Suffolk, doubled up as a pillory you can see the wrist restraints.
The sign outside the Stocks Inn in Furzehill, Dorset actually depicts a pillory. Image source, Phil Thirkell. Winters Gibbet in Northumberland is a grisly reminder of a brutal murder.
Image source, Keith Evans. Less impressive visually than Winters Gibbet, the Potsford Gibbet was last used to hang a man who bludgeoned a man and his son to death. Image source, Paul Glazzard. Image source, Malcolm Bull. A casting of the original Halifax head-chopper-offer is on display at a local museum. Ducking stools and cucking stools. Image source, Jeremy Bolwell. Image source, Richard Webb. Leominster folk are so pleased about their ducking stool they had it portrayed on the town clock - although originally the apparatus wasn't operated by giant lions.
An original ducking chair remains on the river in Canterbury. Image source, Gillian Thomas. It looks like a nice peaceful place to rest, but beware Whipping posts. Image source, Richard Cross. The irons on a whipping post in Stow have a maker's stamp mark dated The unfortunate men were generally exhausted before the expiration of the hour they were doomed to walk on the pillory, and in one case it became necessary to abridge the time to save the lives of the criminals.
There is a clock outside the house of Mr Rigby the watchmaker between the windows of the first floor, the room was usually let to the Sheriff who sat at these windows, and on the occasion adverted? By using this site, you agree we can set and use cookies.
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