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Pillory, the Glossary

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]

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Birching

Birching is a form of corporal punishment with a birch rod, typically used to strike the recipient's bare buttocks, although occasionally the back and/or shoulders.

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Cangue

A cangue, in Chinese referred to as a jia or tcha is a device that was used for public humiliation and corporal punishment in East AsiaJamyang Norbu,, site Phayul.com, May 19, 2009.

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Cidade Velha

Cidade Velha (Portuguese for "old city", also: Santiago de Cabo Verde) is a city, Instituto Nacional de Estatística, p. 32-33 in the southern part of the island of Santiago, Cape Verde.

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Corporal punishment

A corporal punishment or a physical punishment is a punishment which is intended to cause physical pain to a person.

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Cropping (punishment)

Cropping is the removal of a person's ears as an act of physical punishment.

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Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe (born Daniel Foe; 1660 – 24 April 1731) was an English novelist, journalist, merchant, pamphleteer and spy.

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Delaware

Delaware is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern region of the United States.

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Drunkard's cloak

A drunkard's cloak was a type of pillory used in various jurisdictions to punish miscreants. Pillory and drunkard's cloak are medieval instruments of torture and punishment.

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Elizabeth Needham

Elizabeth Needham (died 3 May 1731), also known as Mother Needham, was an English procuress and brothel-keeper of 18th-century London, who has been identified as the bawd greeting Moll Hackabout in the first plate of William Hogarth's series of satirical etchings, A Harlot's Progress.

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Flagellation

Flagellation (Latin, 'whip'), flogging or whipping is the act of beating the human body with special implements such as whips, rods, switches, the cat o' nine tails, the sjambok, the knout, etc.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Gallows

A gallows (or less precisely scaffold) is a frame or elevated beam, typically wooden, from which objects can be suspended or "weighed".

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High, middle and low justice

High, middle and low justices are notions dating from Western feudalism to indicate descending degrees of judicial power to administer justice by the maximal punishment the holders could inflict upon their subjects and other dependents.

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Historic Center of Salvador

The Historic Center (US) or Centre (UK) (Centro Histórico) of Salvador de Bahia in Brazil, also known as the italic (Portuguese for "Pillory") or Pelo, is a historic neighborhood in western Salvador, Bahia.

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Human branding

Human branding or stigmatizing is the process by which a mark, usually a symbol or ornamental pattern, is burned into the skin of a living person, with the intention of the resulting scar making it permanent.

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James Nayler

James Nayler (or Naylor; 1618–1660) was an English Quaker leader.

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John Bastwick

John Bastwick (1593–1654) was an English Puritan physician and controversial writer.

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John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, (18 August 1792 – 28 May 1878), known by his courtesy title Lord John Russell before 1861, was a British Whig and Liberal statesman who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1846 to 1852 and again from 1865 to 1866.

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Jougs

The jougs, juggs, or joggs (joug, from Latin iugum, a yoke) is a metal collar formerly used as an instrument of punishment in Scotland, the Netherlands and other countries. Pillory and jougs are Modern instruments of torture.

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Judicial corporal punishment

Judicial corporal punishment is the infliction of corporal punishment as a result of a sentence imposed on an offender by a court of law, including flagellation (also called flogging or whipping), forced amputations, caning, bastinado, birching, or strapping.

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Massachusetts Bay Colony

The Massachusetts Bay Colony (1628–1691), more formally the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, was an English settlement on the east coast of North America around the Massachusetts Bay, one of the several colonies later reorganized as the Province of Massachusetts Bay.

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Medieval Latin

Medieval Latin was the form of Literary Latin used in Roman Catholic Western Europe during the Middle Ages.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Nelas

Nelas is a municipality located in the Centro Region of continental Portugal.

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Old French

Old French (franceis, françois, romanz; ancien français) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France approximately between the late 8th and the mid-14th century.

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Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house.

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Patibular fork

A patibular fork was a gallows that consisted of two or more columns of stone, with an horizontal beam of wood resting on top.

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Penal transportation

Penal transportation was the relocation of convicted criminals, or other persons regarded as undesirable, to a distant place, often a colony, for a specified term; later, specifically established penal colonies became their destination.

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Perjury

Perjury (also known as foreswearing) is the intentional act of swearing a false oath or falsifying an affirmation to tell the truth, whether spoken or in writing, concerning matters material to an official proceeding.

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Peter Annet

Peter Annet (169318 January 1769) was an English deist and early freethinker.

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Portugal

Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira.

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Preston Lea

Preston Lea (November 12, 1841 – December 4, 1916) was an American businessman and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware.

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Protestant culture

Protestant culture refers to the cultural practices that have developed within Protestantism.

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Public humiliation

Public humiliation or public shaming is a form of punishment whose main feature is dishonoring or disgracing a person, usually an offender or a prisoner, especially in a public place.

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Punishment

Punishment, commonly, is the imposition of an undesirable or unpleasant outcome upon a group or individual, meted out by an authority—in contexts ranging from child discipline to criminal law—as a response and deterrent to a particular action or behavior that is deemed undesirable or unacceptable.

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Puritans

The Puritans were English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to rid the Church of England of what they considered to be Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England had not been fully reformed and should become more Protestant.

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Renaissance

The Renaissance is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.

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Richard Bentley

Richard Bentley FRS (27 January 1662 – 14 July 1742) was an English classical scholar, critic, and theologian.

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Salvador, Bahia

Salvador is a Brazilian municipality and capital city of the state of Bahia.

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Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a subregion of Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples.

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Scold's bridle

A scold's bridle, sometimes called a witch's bridle, a gossip's bridle, a brank's bridle, or simply branks, was an instrument of punishment, as a form of public humiliation. Pillory and scold's bridle are European instruments of torture and Modern instruments of torture.

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Seditious libel

Seditious libel is a criminal offence under common law of printing written material with seditious purposethat is, the purpose of bringing contempt upon a political authority.

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Shrew's fiddle

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 board or steel bar. Pillory and shrew's fiddle are European instruments of torture and medieval instruments of torture.

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Stocks

Stocks are feet restraining devices that were used as a form of corporal punishment and public humiliation. Pillory and Stocks are European instruments of torture, medieval instruments of torture and Modern instruments of torture.

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Subornation of perjury

In American law, Scots law, and under the laws of some English-speaking Commonwealth nations, subornation of perjury is the crime of persuading or permitting a person to commit perjury, which is the swearing of a false oath to tell the truth in a legal proceeding, whether spoken or written.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillory

Also known as Barrel pillory, Barrel pilory, Barrel-shirt, Pillary, Pilloried, Pillories, Pranger, Red Hannah, The pillory, Whipping Post, Whipping-post.

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European instruments of torture

Medieval instruments of torture

Modern instruments of torture

Pillories

Punishment

References