Lancashire Legends, Traditions, Pageants, Sports, &c./Part 4/Stocks, Whipping Post, &c.

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Lancashire Legends, Traditions, Pageants, Sports, &c. (1873)
edited by John Harland & T. T. Wilkinson

Stocks, Whipping Post, &c.

Stocks at Burnley

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Part IV: Punishments—Legal and Popular; Stocks, Whipping Post, &c.

3250148Lancashire Legends, Traditions, Pageants, Sports, &c. — Stocks, Whipping Post, &c.1873

STOCKS, WHIPPING-POSTS, &c.

There is, or was, at Walton-on-the-Hill, about three miles from the Liverpool Exchange, on the Preston road, an iron stocks. It stood close to the churchyard wall; and within at least two years (before January 1859) a person was confined there by order of the local magistrates of the district. I don't remember for what offence.—Notes and Queries, 2d series, vii. 39.