l***@yahoo.com
2019-10-31 19:03:44 UTC
From "Curious Punishments of Bygone Days" (1896) by Alice Morse Earle:
"It would be impossible to enumerate the offences for which Englishmen were pilloried: among them were treason, sedition, arson, blasphemy,witch-craft, perjury, wife-beating, cheating, forestalling, forging, coin-clipping, tree-polling, gaming, dice-cogging, quarrelling, lying, libelling, slandering, threatening, conjuring, fortune-telling,'prigging,' drunkenness, impudence. One man was set in the pillory for delivering false dinner invitations; another for a rough practical joke."
I DID find out that "prigging" means picking a pocket.
But no luck on the other one.
Any idea?
Lenona.
"It would be impossible to enumerate the offences for which Englishmen were pilloried: among them were treason, sedition, arson, blasphemy,witch-craft, perjury, wife-beating, cheating, forestalling, forging, coin-clipping, tree-polling, gaming, dice-cogging, quarrelling, lying, libelling, slandering, threatening, conjuring, fortune-telling,'prigging,' drunkenness, impudence. One man was set in the pillory for delivering false dinner invitations; another for a rough practical joke."
I DID find out that "prigging" means picking a pocket.
But no luck on the other one.
Any idea?
Lenona.