{"id":1416,"date":"2011-01-03T05:12:34","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T05:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/history.onclick.co.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=1416"},"modified":"2011-01-03T05:12:34","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T05:12:34","slug":"the-stocks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/?page_id=1416","title":{"rendered":"The Stocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/media_library\/stocks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-931\" style=\"border: 12px solid #d8e9da; margin: 5px; padding: 5px;\" title=\"stocks\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/media_library\/stocks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"153\" \/><\/a>The village Stocks, pictured here with the motto &#8220;Drunk Again&#8221;, were  used to punish minor offences. They stood by the Court House where local  justice was meted out since the 1400s. As well as serving to restrain  and humiliate offenders, the Stocks may possibly have served as a  whipping post. Note the tall vertical post on the left of the photograph  that could be used for this purpose. The stocks were last used in the  1860s. There is an engraving of the Court House, dated 1882, where the  stocks can be dimly seen stored inside.<\/p>\n<p>In 1882 they were removed from their original position by the lord of  the manor, Mr E Hussey, who had them repositioned to St Michael&#8217;s and  All Angels Churchyard. They can be seen in this picture inside the  church gates with Church Hill behind. The photograph was taken with 2  local men posing as miscreants for a joke.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_930\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/media_library\/stocks2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-930\" class=\"size-full wp-image-930\" title=\"stocks2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/media_library\/stocks2.jpg\" alt=\"Posed photograph\" width=\"450\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/media_library\/stocks2.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/media_library\/stocks2-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-930\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Posed photograph<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Stocks now stand outside the Church to the west of the entrance porch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">They are no longer in use!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The village Stocks, pictured here with the motto &#8220;Drunk Again&#8221;, were used to punish minor offences. They stood by the Court House where local justice was meted out since the 1400s. As well as serving to restrain and humiliate offenders, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/?page_id=1416\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":24,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1416","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1418,"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1416\/revisions\/1418"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}