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    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...
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    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...
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  • Pillory (foaled 1919 in Kentucky) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. Pillory was a chestnut horse bred and raced by the co-owner and president of...
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    The Pillory of Braga (Portuguese: Pelourinho de Braga) is a 15th-century sculpted stone column with symbolic political, administrative and judicial significance...
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    The Pillory of Lisbon (Portuguese: Pelourinho de Lisboa) is a pillory situated in the municipal square of the Portuguese capital (in the civil parish...
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    The Pillory of Bragança (Portuguese: Pelourinho de Bragança) is a 15th-century sculpted stone column with symbolic political, administrative and judicial...
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    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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    A drunkard's cloak was a type of pillory used in various jurisdictions to punish miscreants. The drunkard's cloak was actually a barrel, into the top...
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    ears as an act of physical punishment. It was performed along with the pillorying or immobilisation in the stocks, and sometimes alongside punishments such...
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  • evidence to prove that multiple copies were produced and distributed. — The Pillory 1991 2013 A satire magazine and only publishes one issue per semester....
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    1–5 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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    The Pelourinho (Portuguese for "pillory") is an important monument in the city of Cidade Velha in the south of Santiago, Cape Verde. The historic centre...
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    pamphleteering and political activities resulted in his arrest and placement in a pillory on 31 July 1703, principally on account of his December 1702 pamphlet entitled...
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    A shrew's fiddle or neck violin is a variation of the yoke, pillory or rigid irons whereby the wrists are locked in front of the bound person by a hinged...
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    The Pillory of Aguiar da Beira (Portuguese: Pelourinho de Aguiar da Beira) is a pillory located in the civil parish of Aguiar da Beira e Coruche, in the...
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    Middle Ages. Among them are the pillory (1521), the village mill (c. 1200) and the Maison du Bailli (c. 1535). The pillory and the Bailli House Moulin banal...
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    what we now call 'confinement in the wood'" (Lys. 10.16). The stocks, pillory, and pranger each consist of large wooden boards with hinges; however,...
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    Astronomical Observatory Lisbon Oceanarium Lisbon Zoo Mercado de Campo de Ourique Pillory of Lisbon Prazeres Cemetery Rossio Train Station Rua Augusta Arch Santa...
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  • the three strangers, they are arrested by Master Kent and chained to the pillory for the week. The woman travelling with them is shaved of her hair, and...
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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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    religious doctrine in public places. Jougs were similar in their effect to a pillory, but did not restrain the sufferer from speaking. They were generally used...
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    Germans are said to have been led from the Royal Palace to the pillory. Originally, the pillory was placed atop a bricked prison, where the despised executioner...
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    The Pillory of Arcos de Valdevez (Portuguese: Pelourinho de Arcos de Valdevez) is a 15th-century sculpted stone column with symbolic political, administrative...
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    of shame"), the kaak or schandpaal ("pole of shame", a simple type of pillory), the draaikooi were customary for adulteresses, and the schopstoel, a...
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  • sealed her fate, and she died of starvation after being condemned to the pillory that she carries with her as a ghost; her skin is badly damaged. The Great...
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    example, in 1637 William Prynne, Henry Burton and John Bastwick were pilloried, whipped and mutilated by cropping and imprisoned indefinitely for publishing...
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    deliberately designed to be humiliating, e.g. tarring and feathering lawbreakers, pillory, "mark of shame" (stigma) as a means of "making an example" of a person...
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    Astronomical Observatory Lisbon Oceanarium Lisbon Zoo Mercado de Campo de Ourique Pillory of Lisbon Prazeres Cemetery Rossio Train Station Rua Augusta Arch Santa...
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    several previous attempts, leaving a note, "Don't blame anyone". She was pilloried by the press at that time, a period which one journalist termed as "the...
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    angled blade suspended at the top. The condemned person is secured with a pillory at the bottom of the frame, holding the position of the neck directly below...
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