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Pillory
A frame of adjustable boards erected on a post and having holes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust so as to be exposed in front of it … A frame of adjustable boards erected on a post and having holes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust so as to be exposed in front
Sling
missile being lodged in a hole in the strap the ends of the string are taken in the hand and the whole whirled rapidly round until by loosing one end the missile is let fly with centrifugal
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Pillory
a frame erected on a pillar, and made with holes and moveable boards, through which the heads and hands of criminals were put. The punishment of the pillory, abolished by 56 Geo. 3, c. 138, except for … Pillory, a frame erected on a pillar, and made with holes and moveable boards, through which the heads and hands of criminals were put. The punishment of the pillory,
Tenure
said by some persons to be the relics of Saxon liberty, which were left untouched by the oppressive hand of the Norman. Included among free socage tenures were petit serjeanty tenure in burgage, and gavelkind. (1) Petit
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