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The 17th-century perjurer Titus Oates in a pillory. The pillory is a device made of a wooden or metal framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, used during the medieval and renaissance periods for punishment by public humiliation and often further physical abuse. [1] The pillory is related to the stocks.
This punishment (also given to John Bastwick 100 years later [7]) involved nailing Barrie's ears to the pillory's frame on either side of the head hole. [8] At the end of the trading day, he was released from the pillory by cutting off his ears. [1] Barrie is said to have died of shock following his punishment.
Stocks, unlike the pillory or pranger, restrain only the feet. Stocks are feet restraining devices that were used as a form of corporal punishment and public humiliation. The use of stocks is seen as early as Ancient Greece, where they are described as being in use in Solon 's law code. The law describing its use is cited by the orator Lysias ...
Salle des Martyrs at the Paris Foreign Missions Society.The ladder-like apparatus in the middle is the cangue that was worn by Pierre Borie in captivity.. A cangue (/ k æ ŋ / KANG), in Chinese referred to as a jia or tcha (Chinese: 枷) is a device that was used for public humiliation and corporal punishment in East Asia [1] and some other parts of Southeast Asia until the early years of the ...
The Scold's Bridle is the title of a novel by Minette Walters, where a scold's bridle is a key element in the plot. In Brimstone (2016) actress Carice van Houten is wearing a scold's bridle in some scenes. In Three Men in a Boat (1889), the iron scold's bridle at Walton Church in Walton on Thames, Surrey, is mentioned as a local item of interest.
Drunkenness was first made a civil offence in England by the Ale Houses Act 1551, or "An Act for Keepers of Ale-houses to be bound by Recognisances". [nb 1] According to Ian Hornsey, the drunkard's cloak, sometimes called the "Newcastle cloak", [3] became a common method of punishing recidivists, [1] especially during the Commonwealth of England.
The bankruptcy barrel is similar to a drunkard's cloak, an actual punishment seen from medieval times forward (but now obsolete) as a sort of pillory to punish drunkards and other offenders. Depictions of the drunkard's cloak usually show a barrel with a hole cut into the top for the head to pass through at the neck and two small holes cut in ...
Stocks or pillories were similarly used for the punishment of men or women by humiliation. The term "cucking-stool" is older, with written records dating back to the 13th and 14th centuries. Written records for the name "ducking stool" appear from 1597, and a statement in 1769 relates that "ducking-stool" is a corruption of the term "cucking ...