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Pillory (2175 bytes)
1: ...nknown Artist of 1670.png|right|thumb|View of the Pillory in the Market-place of Paris in the Sixteenth Cen...
3: The '''pillory''' was a device used in [[punishment]] by [[publi...
5: ...illory was more dangerous than in the stocks. The pillory used hinged boards, raised on a post, to clamp ar...
7: ... be subjected to further punishments while in the pillory, such as branding or having an ear cut off.
9: When [[Daniel Defoe]] was placed in the pillory at [[Charing Cross]] as a punishment for writing ...

Finger pillory (298 bytes)
1: ...t inside the block. The name is taken from the [[pillory]], a much larger device used to secure the head a...

Stocks (1574 bytes)
5: ...erms can be confused and many people refer to the pillory as '''the stocks'''.
14: *[[pillory]]

Public humiliation (1394 bytes)
3: ...arah.jpg|thumb|225px|right|Historic Recreation of Pillory-Stocks Display]]
5: ...m of public humiliation were the [[stocks]] and [[pillory]]. Nearly every sizable town had such instrument...

John R. Moore (238 bytes)
2: *''Defoe in the Pillory''; 1939.

Pranger (515 bytes)
2: ... in [[Germany]]. Similar to the [[stocks]] and [[pillory]], the Pranger was connected from the neck, via a...

1703 in literature (712 bytes)
9: *''Hymn to the Pillory'' by Daniel Defoe

Braine-le-Château (838 bytes)
7: Among them are the pillory (1521), the village mill (ca. 1200), the " Maison...

Place de Grève (1032 bytes)
5: ...executions]] in Paris. The [[gallows]] and the [[pillory]] stood there.

1700s in literature (1126 bytes)
10: * [[1703]] : ''Hymn to the Pillory'' by [[Daniel Defoe]]

Erotic furniture (1100 bytes)
8: ...ment|Bondage equipment]] such as [[stocks]] and [[pillory|pillories]]

List of bondage equipment (1127 bytes)
40: * [[stocks]] and [[pillory|pillories]]

Jacob Gaón (1443 bytes)
5: ..., cut his head off and hung it up on the top of a pillory, as a punishment for having put Tolosa up on the ...

Thomas Dangerfield (1731 bytes)
7: ...20]], 1685 he received sentence to stand in the [[pillory]] on two consecutive days, be whipped from [[Aldg...

Robert Jenkins (1736 bytes)
1: ...uggested that he might have lost the ear in the [[pillory]].)

Margaret Clap (2062 bytes)
5: ...1726 and she was sentenced to spend time in the [[pillory|stocks]]. Public feeling against acts of [[sodom...

Edmund Curll (2037 bytes)
3: ... John Ker of Kersland'' cost him an hour in the [[pillory]].

John Walter (2217 bytes)
9: ... in [[Newgate Prison|Newgate]], to stand in the [[pillory]] for an hour and to give surety for good behavio...

Humiliation (2778 bytes)
10: ...e humiliating, e.g. [[tarring and feathering]], [[pillory]], [[mark of infamy]] ([[stigma]]).

1703 (2804 bytes)
25: ...[July 31|31]] - [[Daniel Defoe]] is placed in a [[pillory]] for the crime of seditious [[libel]] after publ...

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