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• An 1887 article entitled " England in Old Times " states " Gone, too, are the parish stocks, in which offenders against public morality formerly sat imprisoned, with their legs held fast beneath a heavy wooden yoke, while sundry small but fiendish boys improved the occasion by deliberately pulling off their shoes and tickling the soles of their defenseless feet ."
• As noted by the New York Times in an article dated November 13, 1887, " Gone, too, are the parish stocks, in which offenders against public morality formerly sat imprisoned, with their legs held fast beneath a heavy wooden yoke, while sundry small but fiendish boys improved the occasion by deliberately pulling off their shoes and tickling the soles of their defenseless feet ."
• Burial There was not be any ceremony at a burial because, it is stated, of the superstitions and abuses that have occurred . But it was in order for the minister to put the friends of the deceased in mind of their duty to improve the occasion, and'civil respects or deferences'at the burial,'appropriate to the rank and condition of the party deceased'were permitted.