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Pillory
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An obsolete instrument of punishment for centuries in use all over Europe, consisted of a platform, an upright pole, and at a convenient height cross-boards with holes, in which the culprit's neck and wrists were placed and fastened; so fixed he was exposed in some public place to the insults and noxious missiles of the mob. Formerly in England the penalty of forgery, perjury, &c., it became after the Commonwealth a favourite punishment for seditious libellers. It was last inflicted in London in 1830, and was abolished by law in 1837.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Pillory'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/p/pillory.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Pillory'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/p/pillory.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
