criminal punishment
They were used to punish lawbreakers. Stocks were a wooden device in which a person's arms and head and legs were held down in an awkward, uncomfortable position. The person would be displayed before the entire town in the stocks, so not only the physical discomfort would be a deterrent for further wrongdoing, but also the public mockery and embarrassment.
They were used to punish lawbreakers. Stocks were a wooden device in which a person's arms and head and legs were held down in an awkward, uncomfortable position. The person would be displayed before the entire town in the stocks, so not only the physical discomfort would be a deterrent for further wrongdoing, but also the public mockery and embarrassment.
To destroy the world!!
In the stocks.
I have know comment she needed and answer to a question.
I have know comment she needed and answer to a question.
I have know comment she needed and answer to a question.
to discuss the withdrawal of the New England states from the union
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to make and fix shoes i think
Percy Stocks has written: 'Sickness in the population of England and Wales in 1944-47'
It gave New Englanders a chance to speak their minds, and encouraged the growth of democratic ideas in New England