Pillory

"Near by (to the Market Cross) stood for many centuries the wooden pillory, erected in the middle of the street, between the Cauld-stean and the Rose and Crown Inn Inn and which was sold at last by the Corporation for firewood in August 1840. In England, in bygone days, the pillory was a familiar object, and perhaps no engine of punishment was more generally employed. Where there was a market, the pillory was sure to be seen; for if the authorities neglected to have it ready for immediate use, for bakers offending in the assize of bread; for millers stealing of corn at the mill;for bawds, scolds, and other offenders, they ran the risk of forfeiting the right of holding a market, a most serious matter in those delightful days. In the year 1816 the pillory ceased to be employed for punishing people except in the cases of perjury, and for this purpose it was used so late as the year 1830, but it was abolished altogether by Act of Parliament in the year of our Queen's (Victoria's) accession to the throne."

"Kirkbie Kendall", John F Curwen, (1900)