The Oxfordshire town of Thame has announced it is considering bringing back stocks as a tourist attraction, but which other settlements have kept their instruments of medieval correction? Stocks date ...
Another article, from December 1931, says: "Those good old days when scolds and shrews were placed in the ducking stool, when the tongues of gossips were bridled by iron, and the theft of 13 pence ...
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