A pillory, 1805. Artist: William Henry Pyne

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A pillory, 1805. Four men being punished in the pillory, being pelted with rubbish and jeered at by a crowd. By this date among crimes punishable by pillory were embezzlement of state property, perjury and swindling. From WH Pyne's Costume of England. (London, 1805).

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