These pictures are mostly of the Pillory, A medieval device where the head and the arms are sandwiched between two planks of wood.
Stocks are the device where you sit down and your legs are placed between the two planks.
The residents of your village would make fun of you and throw rotten food at you at best and the odd turd or two at the worst. The act of humiliation made you more likely not to commit a crime. That and a death sentence for so much as stealing a handkerchief.
Eventually the powers that be decided to populate Australia because George the Third and his armies had lost the American colonies.The death sentence was revoked for certain crimes and criminals were shipped down to Terra Australis the great southern land.
Australia, was a mathematical anomaly at the time unproved, but mathematicians thought had to be there to counteract the weight of the world and all the land mass in the northern hemisphere.
Here endeth the history lesson; so enjoy the bondage!
In next weeks lesson we will discuss the pear.
Emma
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