Stocks for the punishment of 'rouges and vagabonds' were placed in three areas of Portsmouth: In (Old) Portsmouth they were placed on the Common with the whipping post nearby; in Portsea the were in Ordnance Row where they stayed until as late as the 1860s, and in Kingston they stood outside the George and Dragon pub in Kingston Road.
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Sunday, 21 August 2011
Wednesday, 6 January 2010
Whipping
The punishments handed out by the courts of the past were considerably different to those today.
Whipping was an early mainstay and could be administered in several ways. One of the crueller varieties involved tying the unfortunate transgressor to the back of a cart and whipping them whilst they were dragged through the streets. Such a fate befell Fulham Law who, for stealing a cloth coat, was whipped between the gaol to the Point in October 1699.
The last public whipping in Portsmouth took place on 11 January 1816.
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