Look at the foot of the pillory an hour from now and you'll find it.
The sun was now low, and the pines in the square and the upright of the pillory cast long shadows.
The runaway in the pillory was released, and went away homewards, staggering beside his master's stirrup.
But there are two of us, and rather let my head be thrown into the dust along with the head of my Michal than her name and mine should be written over the pillory to our eternal shame.
Thus he proposed to pillory for all time the blind guides who had done their best to lead the nation and the world into the ditch.
But if I am going to stand up here in the pillory as a representative of the inheriting class, there are others who ought to stand beside me.
In 1581 he became acquainted with Edward Kelly, an apothecary, who had been convicted of forgery and had lost both ears in the pillory at Lancaster.
The reply was invariable: "Can't take the risk of the whippin'-post and pillory for no nigger.
This free woman, Priscilla Hudson," cried the sheriff, "is to stand one hour in the pillory for the crime of lending her pass to a slave.
His repute was no doubt considerable, but these two cases proved disastrous; the parties accused had him arrested, and he was found guilty of deceit and defamation, stood in the pillory for an hour, and was then banished from the city.
Matthew Paris' Frontispiece 'A young novice of the priory' 10 Robert Berewold in the pillory 15 .
I'll have ye clapped i' the pillory for a black-visaged clapper-claw!
He hath restored our church weathercock an' all an' set up a fine, large and fair pillory on the green.
And now to begin my story, I must tell you that I had stood in this pillory from sunrise, a sport for all the cowards in the town.
I am Taken Out of the Pillory and Narrowly Escape going to the Whipping-Post II.
You cannot intend to place this fellow taken from the pillory next in position to your commander!
Since writing the above, I have heard that a colored woman was convicted of murder in the second degree last May, and on Saturday the 17th of that month received sixty lashes on her bare back, and stood in the pillory one hour.
The pillory is certainly a terrible and cruel punishment, and, while I heartily favor the whipping-post, I think this savage punishment should be abolished.
One man was fined and set in the pillory for engrossing corn, though he only kept what grew on his own land, asking more in a season of dearth than the overseers of the poor thought proper to give.
The said quart-pot was divided into two parts, of which one half was tied to the pillory in sight of the people, and the other half was kept in the Guildhall.
Not a case forpillory this: let him be imprisoned for a year and a day in Newgate.
And here are pillory and stocks, but," said Stow, "this pillory is for false dealing only.
The stocks were always in view; the pillory was constantly in use.
A surgeon attended on the pillory and instantly applied styptics to prevent the effusion of blood.
He had been condemned to pay a thousand marks fine, to be stripped of his gown, to be whipped from Newgate to Tyburn, from Aldgate to Newgate, and to stand in the pillory at the Royal Exchange and before Westminster Hall.
The rascal was set three times in thepillory and imprisoned for a year in the King's Bench.
A preface is too often a pillory made by an author, in which he exposes himself to a shower of the most unsavoury missiles.
He was condemned to stand for one hour in the pillory at Charing Cross.
Punch into England at, 208; Titus Oates, in thepillory at, ib.
In May 1685 that consummate scoundrel Titus Oates came to the pillory at Charing Cross.
Edmund Curll, the publisher of all the filth and slander of his age, stood in the pillory at Charing Cross for printing a vile work called Venus in a Cloyster.
Some men died in the pilloryof shame and distress.
A variation of the pillory was being dragged through the streets on a hurdle.
Standing in the pillory for even one hour was very humiliating, and by the end of the day, it was known throughout the city.
Devising or speaking seditious rumors are penalized by the pillory and loss of both ears for the first offense; and 200 pounds and six months imprisonment for the second offense.
He was sentenced to be fined, to spend two hours in the pillory in two successive weeks, and his book to be burned before his face.
Slandering the Queen is penalized by the pilloryand loss of one ear, or by [1,333s.
Slander and telling lies were punished by the pillory and wearing a whetstone around one's neck.
Forgery, fraud, was punishable by the placement in the pillory or stocks or by imprisonment.
Any person buying suspect venison or skin of deer shall produce the seller or be punished the same as a deer killer: 30 pounds or, if he couldn't pay, one year in prison without bail and one hour in the pilloryon market day.
Perjury was punished by confession from a high stool for the first offense, and the pillory for the second.
Using Frauds in playing The pillory and condemnation at Games allowed by Law.
Footnote 16: This punishment is different from the pillory in England.
In China, Theft is punished by the bastinadoe, excepting in cases of a very atrocious nature, and then the culprit is condemned to the knoutage--a contrivance not unlike the pillory in this country.
Writing or Preaching Pillory and Imprisonment, against the Christian Religion, from 1 day to a month, or to a and Catholick Faith, &c.
In case of foreigners, the pillory and banishment.
Delaware knows that there are no reasons sufficient to uphold Christianity, consequently these reasons are supplemented with the pilloryand the whipping-post.
In many of the States they have the same idiotic kind of laws as those found in Delaware--with the exception of those blessed institutions for the spread of the Gospel, known as the pillory and the whipping-post.
Are the pillory and the whipping-post to be used to prevent an excess of thought in the county of New Castle?
The whipping-post is considered one of God's arguments, and thepillory is a kind of moral suasion, the use of which fills heaven with a kind of holy and serene delight.
There are no stocks standing now on the village greens of Cumberland and Westmorland, but in Tullie House Museum, Carlisle, are local examples of both pillory and stocks.
This was later increased to 20 pounds for hunting deer and 30 pounds for wounding or killing deer, with the pillory for one hour on market day and gaol for a year without bail for those who couldn't pay.
Slandering the Queen is penalized by the pillory and loss of one ear, or by 100 marks and three months imprisonment, at the choice of the offender.
Others left their ears on the pillory at home, or carried them at the request of the Government to Botany Bay.
With the advancing light of civilization, the dungeon and the pillorywere substituted for the scaffold and the stake.
