- 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...
- The
Pillory of
Lisbon (Portuguese:
Pelourinho de Lisboa) is a
pillory situated in the muni****l
square of the
Portuguese capital (in the
civil parish...
-
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...
-
suitably attired, the
miscreant was
paraded through the town,
effectively pilloried.
Drunkenness was
first made a
civil offence in
England by the Ale Houses...
- a
breath of
fresh air for the
Royal Family — so why is she now
being pilloried?... But then,
after about seven minutes,
everyone suddenly decided she's...
- ears as an act of
physical punishment. It was
performed along with the
pillorying or
immobilisation in the stocks, and
sometimes alongside punishments such...
- example, in 1637
William Prynne,
Henry Burton and John
Bastwick were
pilloried,
whipped and
mutilated by
cropping and
imprisoned indefinitely for publishing...
- to two w****s' imprisonment,
fined twenty pounds, and on two days was
pilloried for
several hours in
Aylesbury and Winslow. In 1668,
Keach moved to London...
