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29117	Andrews, William	Bygone Punishments			.txt	text/plain	61703	3286	74	those "good old times" little regard was paid for human life. At Nottingham in the olden time the culprits were usually taken to St. Mary's Church, where the officiating clergyman preached their funeral "The habit of gibbeting or hanging in chains the body of the executed rare book: "Halifax and its Gibbet Law placed in a True Light." It was [Illustration: PILLORY, WHIPPING-POST, AND STOCKS, WALLINGFORD.] In the middle ages frequently a pillory, whipping-post, and stocks were illustration of one of these old-time finger-pillories. This old-time instrument of punishment was more generally used in North common law might place persons in the stocks to keep them in hold, but remain the old parish stocks near to the church, and bear the date of Notices of whipping sometimes appear in old church books. attention to the old-time punishments of the town, and the first or brank, formerly used with the ducking-stool, as a punishment for	./cache/29117.txt	./txt/29117.txt