Items matching punishments

Anglo-Saxon Punishments

“Stocks were used, at an early period, as a means of punishing breakers of the law. The precise date when they were first emplyed in this country is not known, but we may infer from early mediaeval il [...]

Keywords: stocks, punishments, bare feet, people, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-01-08

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Stocks and Whipping Post, Aldbury

Stocks and whiping-post, Aldbury, from a photo by A. Whitford Anderson, Esq., Watford. A half-timbered house, probably Tudor, beside a pond; in the foreground are wooden stocks, with the somewhat unev [...]

Keywords: stocks, punishments, houses, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Aldbury; Hertfordshire; England

Added: 2006-01-30

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Waltham Abbey Whipping-Posts and Stocks.

The Anglo-Saxons whipped prisoners with a whip of three cords, knotted at the end. It was not an uncommon practice for mistresses to whip, or have their servants whipped, to death. William of Malmesbu [...]

Keywords: stocks, punishments

Places shown: Waltham; Essex; England

Added: 2006-01-08

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Taunting Persons in the Stocks.

“The “Cambridge Trinity College Psalter”—an illuminated manuscript—presents some curious illustrations of the manners of the earlier half of the twelth century. We give a reproduction of one of its q [...]

Keywords: punishments, people, bare feet, stocks

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-01-08

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Sir Thomas More

A beautiful engraving showing Sir Thomas More in his prison cell; the gaoler [jailer] approaches, carring a heavy bundle of keys. Sir Thomas More (also Saint Thomas More) was executed by beheading whe [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, beards, prisons, punishments

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-06-24

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King Henry II whipped by the Pope’s Order

The text reads “K. Hen. 2. whipt by the Popes Order pa. 88” “henry the Second our King, was much vexed by this Pope [Alexander III] for the death of Thomas Becket, whom the Pope made St. Thomas for op [...]

Keywords: bare feet, punishments, religion, people, royalty

Places shown: Canterbury; Kent; England

Added: 2005-02-27

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Queen Bohemia swallowed up alive

The chapter heading is Chap IV. The Wicked Lives, and Woful Deaths of several Popes, and likewise of Apostates, and Desperate Persecutors, but the running heads on each page say The woful Deaths of Wi [...]

Keywords: punishments, religion, people, royalty, death

Places shown: Prague

Added: 2006-03-17

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Stocks at Stanton Harcourt

“Stanton Harcourt still preserves the stocks in which petty offenders were held in ludicrous durance. (p. 120)” People were forced to sit with their ankles locked into the wooden holes so that their f [...]

Keywords: punishments, stocks, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Stanton Harcourt; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2005-12-31

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Stocks at Stanton Harcourt (Sepia-Tinted Edition)

A “sepia-tinted photograph” version of The Stocks at Stanton Harcourt.

Keywords: colour, punishments, stocks, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Stanton Harcourt; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2005-12-31

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Cain and Abel.

A naked man lies dead in the background, his genitals conveniently hidden by a cloth. In the foreground, a man wearing only an animal-skin scurries barefoot away through the rocks. The biblical scene [...]

Keywords: punishments, bare feet, people, rocks, nudity, biblical scenes, death

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-06-17

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Title Page Detail: Angel With Whip

This vignette, or little scene, is on the title page. A winged angel stands amidst two groups of little children. One group, clad in white, have wreaths of flowers round their heads and are praying. [...]

Keywords: children, boys, angels, people, whips, punishments, bare feet

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-02-07

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Beating the boy

Mr.Choppart takes his son in one hand, and with his other hand the cane (used for loading a musket), made from flexible and supple whalebone. A colleague suggested, “Mr Choppart grabbed his son with [...]

Keywords: punishments, people, children, illustrations for children

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-02-13

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