Pillory Collection

Social / Charing X Pillory
Two offenders stand in the pillory at Charing Cross, London, where a crowd - even some carriage folk - gather to see them exposed to public humiliation

America - The Stamp Act - Burning the Stamps
American Colonists burn papers bearing the Stamps required under The Stamp Act of March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists

Titus Oates in the pillory
Oates was convicted of sedition and later perjury for denouncing the King and his Catholic brother, the Duke of York. Date: 19th century

Titus Oates (1649 - 1705), convicted of fabricated the Popish Plot, a supposed Catholic conspiracy to kill King Charles II

Drunkards cloak
Man wearing a barrel with openings for head, arms and feet, covering his body, walked up and down the streets to punishment. Date: 15th century

SOCIAL / CHARING X PILLORY
A crowd gathers at the Pillory, Charing Cross Date: 1809

Cartoon, Siege de la Colonne de Pompee [Pompeys Pillar, a Roman triumphal column], Science in the Pillory, by James Gillray

Chester Pageant re-enactment
An exciting incident during the Chester Pageant of 1910. As King James I passes a pillory, a puritan shouts " clear your Court of Painted Jezebels"

James Nayler
JAMES NAYLER, Quaker, spends two hours in Westminster pillory, is whipped through the streets, his tongue is bored with a red-hot iron and he is branded B for blasphemer. Date: 1617? - 1660

William Prynne - 4
WILLIAM PRYNNE - puritan lawyer and pamphleteer whose writings led to the pillory and imprisonment in the Tower. Of Audland, in the upper picture, we know nothing Date: 1600 - 1669

Norman Rioters
Normans involved in Paris riots are punished in the pillory, which will not be destroyed until the Revolution

Perkin Warbeck Pilloried
Perkin Warbeck, claimant to the English crown, is placed in the pillory on the orders of Henry VII

John Lilburne at Pillory
JOHN LILBURNE Political agitator and English leader of the Levellers; here, he appeals to a crowd as he stands at a pillory

Defoe in Pillory
DANIEL DEFOE In 1703, he is pilloried at Temple Bar, London, for publishing The Shortest Way with the Dissenters but the crowd acclaim him

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