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Stocks (Punishment)

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  • Perkin Warbeck imprisoned in the stocks and reading his confession before a crowd of spectators. Tinted lithograph after R. Doyle.
  • Jeremiah is released from the stocks. Etching by J. Barlow, 1812, after W.M. Craig.
  • A village barber-surgeon standing in front of his shop, holding a razor and a lancet; in the distance are the village stocks. Coloured etching by J. Bretherton after H.W. Bunbury.
  • Mitchel Troy, Wales: lich-gate and stocks outside the church. Photograph, ca. 1890.
  • Lord Cochrane and Captain de Beranger, collaborators in a fraudulent manipulation of the Stock Exchange, playing dice while in the stocks. Coloured etching by George Cruikshank, 1814.
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    Bridewell Hospital: an aerial view.

    | Date: 1755 | Reference: 21467i
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    A scene showing alms-giving of food, water, clothes and money; in the midst of this Charity is seen with a Pelican on her head holding a Sacred Heart. Line engraving by H. Cock after P. Bruegel, 1559.

    Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569. | Date: 1559 | Reference: 17566i
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    Almondbury, near Huddersfield, Yorkshire: the stocks. Photograph by Fred H. Crossley, ca. 19--.

    Crossley, Frederick Herbert, 1868-1955. | Date: [between 1900 and 1999] | Reference: 663409i
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    Bridewell Hospital: an aerial view. Engraving by W. H. Toms, 1739.

    Kip, Johannes, 1653-1722. | Date: 1739 | Reference: 21468i
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    Mitchel Troy, Wales: lich-gate and stocks outside the church. Photograph, ca. 1890.

    | Date: 1890 | Reference: 663406i
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