Question

For lying about the Popish Plot, Titus Oates was tortured using this device and egged on the streets of London. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this device. Unlike the related stocks, which restrain the feet, this device places the head and hands of the punished on a board as a form of public humiliation.
ANSWER: pillory [or pillories]
[10e] The pillory was one of the favorite punishments used by this English dynasty’s court of the Star Chamber. Other punishments like being boiled alive and beheading were used by this dynasty’s Henry VIII.
ANSWER: Tudor dynasty
[10h] This man got his rival Charles Hitchen jailed and pilloried on sodomy charges, allowing him to become Thief-Taker General of London. This man’s downfall came following his arrest of the petty criminal Jack Sheppard.
ANSWER: Jonathan Wild
<Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford, European History>

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