Ware Pillory

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Overview

Nation   England

County   Hertfordshire

Location   Magpye Corner,  Ware

Map location   in the vicinity

Year opened   Unknown

Year closed   Unknown

Century of Operation   1800-1899

Building Type   Pillory

Remarks   Magpye Corner does not appear on modern maps. Pillory may have been portable and moved between locations

Descriptions

'[11 January 1802] Elizabeth, wife of William Horton of Ware, labourer, [indicted] for assaulting and nearly starving to death her infant daughter-in-law, Alice Horton. To be "imprisoned in a Solitary Sell [sic]" in the bridewell for six months, and "to stand on the Pillory opposite her Dwelling House" for an hour on market day.'

Hertfordshire County Records. Calendar to the Sessions Books...1799-1833. Vol.IX. William Le Hardy and Geoffrey LL. Reckitt ed. Hertford: Elton Longmore, 1939, p.35

'Tuesday 18 [May 1802] To Ware on poney, Saw the woman Stand in the Pillery at Magpye Corner at Ware for almost Starving a girll about 7 years old to Death, it was her husbands Child'

W. Branch Johnson, ed., 'Memorandoms for...': The Diary Between 1798 and 1810 of John Carrington. London: Phillimore, 1973, p.73.

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SOURCES

    Hertfordshire County Records. Calendar to the Sessions Books...1799-1833. Vol.IX. William Le Hardy and Geoffrey LL. Reckitt ed. Hertford: Elton Longmore, 1939.
  • W. Branch Johnson, ed., 'Memorandoms for...': The Diary Between 1798 and 1810 of John Carrington. London: Phillimore, 1973.

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