- The
pillory at
Charing Cross in London, c. 1808 Eighteenth-century
illustration of
perjurer John Waller, who was
killed while being pilloried in London...
- A
finger pillory is a
style of
restraint where the
fingers are held in a
wooden block,
using an L-shaped hole to keep the
knuckle bent
inside the block...
- and his
Parliament who had the
statue erected here in 1675. A
prominent pillory,
where malefactors were
publicly flogged,
stood alongside for centuries...
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including the
first Carthusian Martyrs, were
executed and many more
pilloried. The most
prominent resisters included John Fisher,
Bishop of Rochester...
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suitably attired, the
miscreant was
paraded through the town,
effectively pilloried.
Drunkenness was
first made a
civil offence in
England by the Ale Houses...
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Pillory Street is a
large curved corner block in Nantwich, Cheshire, England, in the
French Baroque style of the late 17th century,
which is listed...
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Spanish technique of
torture for
crushing the toes and
fingers by
means of
pillories and wedges.[better source needed] The only
writer to
comment in detail...
- ears as an act of
physical punishment. It was
performed along with the
pillorying or
immobilisation in the stocks, and
sometimes alongside punishments such...
- term and
pillory in 1732
after giving false information to the courts, from
which he
benefited financially. He was
killed while in the
pillory by Edward...
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still extant sodomy laws
promulgated by
Henry VIII in 1534) and six were
pilloried for this offence.
Along with
Oscar Wilde's
imprisonment for a similar...
